ScottVal

Hello- I'm new to DCS, and somewhat overwhelmed by the complexity of it all. I had high hopes that this would be a cool thing and a good alternative to FSX. But at this point I'm just frustrated. I got through the first tutorial, you know, where you just taxi and take off. Pretty straightforward. I thought it was strange though, how you couldn't see the runway right in front of you, and all you see is a green field. If you hit F2, OK, then you see the runway. The second tutorial is too difficult. The gates are in too much of a zig-zag pattern, and you have to turn too sharp sometimes to get to the next gate and there isn't enough time to make the turn. Also, it's hard to see the next gate sometimes because the framework of the canopy gets in the way. I don't really care for this Russian plane, and I've never really been interested too much in Russian planes. I find the use of the Russian alphabet and Russian vocabulary to be confusing. I never studied Russian in school. Are most of the DCS customers Russian? -Scott

OK, I just assigned the side-to-side slider on my throttle to "cockpit camera move lateral." That seems like a reasonable choice. BTW, I'm just using the free DCS world (for now) with that Russian plane -- SU-25T. As for the rudder pedal brakes, I can't figure out how to assign them to the wheel brakes. If I click on the "axis assign" button at the bottom, "axis commands" comes up in the command category, and "wheel brake" isn't one of the choices. If I go to "all" commands, and click on the "wheel brake" / "Saitek rudder pedals" column and then "add," if I step on the brake pedals nothing happens, like it's not recognizing the pedals. The brake pedals work fine in FSX, even giving differential braking.

Hello- I am new to DCS and I have the following questions: 1. Is it possible to map my rudder pedal brakes to the actual "wheel brake" command? If so, how do you do it? 2. Can I map the slider on a throttle to a left/right slow view? I tried doing both of these things on the options/controls page to no avail. -Scott