Wyo

I am Not impressed with your condescending tone, I seriously doubt you would take that tack with me if we were face to face. Contrary to your position i am Far from in 'Crisis' I am irritated that a premium product is mapped so that throttle movement affects the rudder and not the engine. Why have it mapped at all? if you immediately have to dump everything from the get go. That's just poor. I was excited to be able to put together a computer and all the BS, finally after years of waiting and saving to get what i wanted just to hop in and do a quick circuit, only to find out I am still a ways away from that.... In the 70s and 80s I actually worked on 2 P51 restorations, On Chuck Doyles I actually got to run up the engine. It was a thrill, I never forgot it. I learned to fly in a 1947 North American Navion. No.Americans attempted entry into the civilian post war market, it was 4 place and trike geared but still retained the sliding canopy, for the most part they were Air Force observation Planes and few sold in the civilian market. There is much more to the story and not relevant for now but suffice to say after 2 tours in the USMC 20 years as a Vol Paramedic and Firefighter I have seen my fill of 'Crisis' Please don't cheapen the word. Wyo

Oh wow THANK-YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You posted whilst I was on a Rant, Been a long hard road to get to the point of actually getting this sim, I needed a good enough computer and Finaly got one but it was coruppted so I had to go though hell and high water to get it back up and running ... included a Bios reflash off of a thumbdrive and much more hate and discontent to get it up...... then I got 3 monitors but one died on the second day then the vid card failed..............so I bought a new one. I maybe would have gone n videa but the one that died was 1 day out of warranty when it failed and they would not do squat about it even after I had returned it to them they held it was out of warranty and would sell me a refurb card for more than Newegg would sell it to me for new. so I got a 7990 for 600.00. I hope it works out. I hope I can figure it out to make your map work! Any advice on getting the Ch pro pedals to work well? ( they are old from my previous FS days) Wyo

Well I am glad you have no problem with this Strut. If there ever was a pair of products that should be fully supported across all the platforms released it should be be the DCS/TMWH. It is insane that that the user should be force to remap a throttle for what if any of the brands should be a supported product. It has been years since I have done sims, obviously the whole platform has regressed in some respects and leaps forward in others. You accept the fact that BASIC flight controls are horribly mapped within the same platform of sims show a willingness to accept substandard performance from DCS. there is NO Reason the throttle should not be mapped to the Throttle on a sim with in the same platform. Esp with the flagship Hotas. I have been on some pretty damn complex projects over the years, and I know piss poor performance when I see it. Granted, computers are not my gig and obviously I have much more to learn, but with limited per day time I had hoped to spend my time learning the AC not the hardware implementation in the most basic of flight fundamentals.

Boy! I read though this whole thread, and I feel the EXACT SAME as the original poster here, and I am quite surprised by the reaction of some of the posters who followed. I too bought the Warthog Hotas and was shocked there is little to no readily available BASIC profiles Available either in the game or the forum here. (That's how I found this thread looking for same) I Too have little time right now and just wanted to do some Basic flying. as I have time in the winter later I can dive into the real specifics and map to my hearts content. and learn and tweak etc. In the meantime I have little desire to try to figure out the amazingly complex (for me) software for the hotas and the sim when I have maybe one hour at the end of the day to do some fun flying and relax with it a bit and a pre programed BASIC set up would allow me to do that and over time tweak this and that to make it more realistic. I did the exact same crash as the OP did as well . Not a fun 1st go at it. I am certain this will be much easier after I have done it a few times but it is DAUNTING to say the very least esp when you really don't understand all the specific terms and procedures you need to make all this work correctly and have little time to learn all you need to know just to integrate a pair of ch pedals and a warthhog hotas to do a pattern flight. I could seriously use a step by step Plain English tutorial to get the basic functions to work. I am not an idiot but Gee this really makes me feel very under qualified just getting the hardware set up. The worst part is, For many years I actually was a certified pilot and have had over 2000 hrs of flight time though I have not flown for real in many years I wanted and saved for a long time to get back into flying even though only a sim. I expected to not have to spend so much time just learning how to to make this computer work for it to be usable even if only in the most basic way. I honestly expected more hardware support than I have found to date. And yes, I did buy the TM Hotas because of DCS. Not trying to Whine, but clearly I did not expect this level of frustration just to get the basics working and I understand PERFECTLY the OP's position. Wyo.