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Hey Draconus I wanted to give a HUGE shoutout and thank you. It worked. I finished the video and tested the fire ext test light in the F18 and when I toggled the switch in game my lef on the board lit up : ) . Now the fun starts in testing out what I can do. Man what a relief I never would have found that file you linked for me. Thank you again and have a great weekend. Tracer

Hi everyone, I am trying to get my arduino to work with dcs bios but when I get to the point in the video where he says to download bort, there is no exe (release) Did this stop being supported? ANd if so can someone tell me where I can get the control reference info? All I can see is the documentation where it says to open the web interface but I cant find the web interface. Sorry for the dumb question, I suffer from PTSD and when I follow instructions or a video and it doesnt work, the brain kind of locks up. Thanks for any help And I hope this isnt necro posting, the video is kind of new and if there is a problem I am trying to highlight it and find a solution for others. Tracer

Hey Sedenion, thanks so much for the fast reply and help. I just finished a download and installed it manually as you suggested. It failed about 8 times on me during the download but I was able to start it again and it started where it left off. What a stress reducer for someone like me on wireless. I hope this helps someone else in the same situation. Thank you again Tracer

I was hoping I could ask for some help here with Open Mod Manager. I used to run OVGME when I lived in the city with hi speed internet and it worked great, no issues. Then I moved to the country an hour away from the nearest city. I am running on a cell tower basically. And when I tried to use OVGME I would partially download the file and then it would fail. I would restart and it would start over from the beginning again. I would have to do this many many times to complete and sometimes I just gave up because it was taking way too long to do. I got a url to the files and downloaded to my pc and had no issue using that method. Now we are using this new version and I am getting the same issue, partial file error then have to restart from the beginning. Is there anyway that I can select something to restart from the point the download failed? Rather than at the beginning? And is there a way to manually update? I tried but was unable to see a method. Thanks for any help Tracer

No worries but great news. Annoying as hell. But thanks for the update appreciate it. Hopefully it comes with the clouds patch : ) . GG

Hey Atomic if you get a solution could you post it? I gave up trying to fix this.

I have the same problem as well. I made sure everything was in imperial but the map still gives me elev etc in meters. Its really annoying.

I found the same thing. Any attack from the rear is suicide unless you attack from a long distance and break away quick. I have been practicing attacking the JU88's but have to do it with their weapons at 0 otherwise I just see constant flashes from being hit then my hud goes dead and worse. I Know I am working on my accuracy but I can never take down a bomber in one pass, the plane is too unstable with my setup. Getting better getting hits but I couldn't imagine going up against one shooting back LOL. I watched them in slow motion a few times and they are deadly accurate, the top gunner and especially the bottom. At close range they do not miss. Still will keep practicing and ramp up the realism eventually.

I'm having wonky issues intermittently as well. Sometimes the AS indicator stays stuck at 250 knots when downwind. Altimeter sometimes does not work, it shows me as way way low when I should be at 1,000' and it looks about 200'. But I get it, its early still, over all very happy. Constantly trimming to be able to hit anything in the air : ) but thats pretty realistic, an untrimmed AC is a handful

Actually it will not work at all for me, I just checked. I mapped it to my hotas but no joy then I used the key commands and nothing. I can get the horizon bar to move up and down no problem , but am only able to cage uncage using the mouse and clicking. Just wanted to add

Same here. I am coming back off a break and sometimes I need to turn the FLIR off then on again in order to get it to slew after a cage uncage. I also have to press the right sensor switch twice after an uncage or it wont move at all. THen if I mess with the VVSLV btn is when it freezes and I need to turn off then on and it works again. But not like it used to, it used to be so easy to use now I have to keep pushing Sensor control sw right to cycle back to OPR Does anyone know if there is documentation explaining how the litening system is supposed to work now?

It would be nice that if you're in a flight that the flight leader makes the calls for the flight, unless you leave the flight and become a singleton. But you should still make the ball call as a single ship.

Love the log book idea.

I didn't see this posted so thought I would add it here. After I land and want to launch again I open the comms menu and call for groundcrew, F8 and have to choose to launch. I am unable to use the keyboard to do this, F7 I believe. Every time I hit F7 it does nothing but if I use the mouse to select the Launch in the comms menu it works. I am using the F18 module if that matters.

No, for someone like me I cannot see the ball until I am almost landing so I just never used it. I looked for other visual references. So for someone with poor vision and or a poor resolution monitor its a great aid. Its on the same side as the meatball so for me it lets me finally use the system as intended. GJ and much thanks

I Just wanted to add my support to this request as well. I was so disappointed with this map. I was expecting to fly missions over Iraq, not Iran. I hope they change the name of this map to Southern Persian Gulf and create a Northern one. What would be even better is if they could extend this one north to widen the battlefield. That would be amazing. Hopefully someone from ED is listening

With my eyes I am not able to fly the ball sadly. I just cant see it until I am almost over the stern of the ship. So I land the unrealistic way. I really hope someone can produce a mod where either the ball is larger or we can see a separate window.

I got it again 3 times in a row tonight from the front seat. Nothing helps, I go into a flat spin each time. I can be at high speed or low it doesnt matter. Can you guys please look into this? It really makes learning new things and using the active pause an effort in frustration.

I can't use the front radio, it seems only the RIO can tune a radio to connect with anyone. At least in my experience so far.

I get this regularly, if I spend any time learning new buttons etc in the rear seat. I turn off active pause go extreme nose high and flat spin. Only happens tho in the f-14.

I can confirm this as I have been trying to contact anyone using the Pilots Radio, I believe Radio 1, with no joy. Yet I can get Jester to tune it in then I can select radio 2 and am able to communicate. I checked the band and compared Jesters settings with the front and still no luck. I have been solely trying to connect to the CV in Single Player mode so far. Just flew a mission where I cold started, flew the mission and did a CAT1 landing but no comms.

Hey Guys, I'm finally working on learning the Countermeasure system on the F-14 but am noticing some odd behavour. I am thinking I'm doing something wrong before assuming it is a bug so wanted to ask on here. I did a search but came up with nothing so am posting this. In the mission editor I loaded 10 flare and 50 chaff. In the RIO seat I set L10 = F, R10= C, L20 = C, R20=C Set the counters to flare = 10 and chaff = 50. Fired off the 10 flares. I then set L20 to F for a test and was able to fire another 20 flares. I only loaded 10 but was able to fire 30. Can I ask did I do something wrong/ what is the proper way of loading chaff and flares? I looked at the manual but it just seemed vague to me. (and if I load the 10 flares into either L20 or R20, I then launch 20 flares even though it seems I have 10 loaded) Also another issue , I reset and selected the same 10 flare loadout and did the above test, then I went to outside view and fired off from the Pilots seat about 6 flares then all of a sudden it started dropping chaff all while I was still in the F2 outside view, no setting changes. Has anyone else had these kind of issues with the Countermeasure system.

I really hope they work on Nancy I mean Jester. He is so annoying. I turn her off when refuelling or landing. On landing I have to ask the way he IDs targets, "Dude why are you even in this job you sound so bored" Please give us a selective RIO only jettison button up front : ) . But ya I got the same jabbering the one time I tried him on refuelling and it was nuts, one after another, its like man shut I'm I'm trying to focus, don't need your smart ass remarks

I got this today for some reason. I had Jester do the fly now alignment and my hud was messed up with the pitch ladder at an angle. Not sure if it was the alignment or just some weird bug. Just passing it on.

I'm getting the same thing about 10% of the time. I need to restart the mission I am in and it works again for a while. My last flight of the night tonight the cable stayed in the arrestor hook.