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Is it just me or are the keystrokes/button mappings for the controls to the windshield wipers not working? Would be nice to map these with the rain starting and stopping. Thanks

For the F14 - I was away for a couple of months. Just updated everything. Was there a change that would cause this message: " RIO recipient is not available at this time." When I request "Startup". Thanks

OMG Thanks buddy for putting in the "new 2.5.3" by the new commands. Made updating my comm checklist soooo much easier. You are a coding god walking amongst us. Great app, great price, great support! Thanks

Great that you are training!

That's great vid Nimo, thanks for posting a link to it. Now I do not feel so bad about not instantly connecting to the basket every time!

Awesome !!! You are a total Superstar!! Just an FYI you missed a ' in Custom but no problem Notepad++ picked up on it. Fixed: {down=device_commands.WEAP_Emer_Jettison, up=device_commands.WEAP_Emer_Jettison, cockpit_device_id=devices.WEAPONS, value_down=1, value_up=0, name=_('EMERG STORES JETT Button'), category=_('Custom')}, -- *** CUSTOM PUSHBUTTON ***

Fubarbrickdust - The Radar Altimeter knob is awesome!! I totally understand HB not taking away from their development time to create keys. So getting important buttons like this from the community is awesome. Radar Alt is important because when you are flying low (esp. in the rain at night) letting go of the stick and grabbing a mouse to adjust the radar altimeter knob is a virtual death sentence. Another good one would be "Emergency Stores Jettison". Vital when one gets surprised. :juggle: So I just hope common sense buttons like these are the priority when HB gets time for the few to include. Thanks again - Fubarbrickdust and the amazing team at Heatblur!

Viacom Pro user here. Love it! Is the a single place to see the Changelogs? Reason is I created my own Checklist with the commands organized as I need them. However when you add commands I need to update my checklist without digging through forums to find new commands. Very happy with my purchase and now find Jester to be a fluid process.

Hello Radial, I am programming my panels for the Tomcat right now in GFKeys. I have 7 panels. The radio panels and MCP are not programmable but switches and buttons are. I do find the knobs do not work too well as they tend to not be very precise. Also if it helps I created a print out so I can keep up with what I have programmed. This is for the panels I have and not very universal but you are welcome to use them. They are made smaller for a pilots checklist book. PS I am on win7 but do not see why win 10 would not work.? Example: Link to the PDF w GFT8s x 2, GF P8, GF MESH, GF LGT ll, GF RP48: GoFlight PDF

Glad it helped Boyezee! Always happy to help one of the ACG guys (my old squadron = 5 JG26)

So I have not read through all of the other pages and normally would not join in to this due to I feel developers stays on top of things...but.... just so the squeaky wheels are not the only voices heard. :) I feel now we can see AC waaaay too far away. Like a F5 over 20NM out is not realistic. Unless you are Chuck Yeager. Lol At first I was like great easier for me to spot targets way beyond my radars capability but then you have to consider one of the very few advantages of the F5 is it's size and being hard to spot. Same for the MIG 21. I mean you minus well throw in a bright spot light on the ground underneath the airplane or something....Just having a laugh guys. Lol

After Xmas glue a stick up it's tailpipe and make a pilot briefing stick with it....saving $60 they charge for the same thing. :)

Great sounds like you are making progress. I tell you I have respect for someone learning the basics before trying to go out to fight! So reps to you. Yes for me anyways I have referenced lots of material in creating a brief before flying. Then on the flight I go up and check visually for landmarks (much as you are doing) and then see how they match up. After the flight I then adjust my waypoint on my map to reflect the "semi" exact location. A great resource is Google Earth Pro and then add the wonderful 476th plugin. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=154593 ED has really done a great job on the NTTR map. So much so that you can use real world imaginary as references. After many hours of just flying around (not fighting) and learning the map with a Circle sheet and using it to make notes on - I mostly just keep TACAN 18X dialed in and can tell from the terrain where I am at. Most of the time I am only flying the same areas so no need to learn the entire map. This could be another long thread in itself.... Here are a couple of real world pages for your planning. Circle Sheet: http://godsofthemachine.com/SPT-PDF/111-Circle-Sheet.pdf Cross Country: http://godsofthemachine.com/SPT-PDF/111-Cross-Country.pdf With the circle sheet - Dial in the TACAN - fly to the reference point you are briefed on. Then make notes on the circle sheet of what you see visually. You can then update that point on your map (in my case on my own map not the DCS maps) Note: update your map when you are on the ground and not fumbling around in the cockpit. So on the ground open Google Earth, find the point you noted on the circle sheet, update your map with the exact dcs/realworld data. Before long you can memorize/visualize the nav points along your most traveled routes. This may seem like a convoluted process but the more you train the less you have to think when the time comes to fight. Adversary pilots are known for being great navigators as it is necessary for the debriefs. Example of circle sheet marking: (red is what you wrote)