Archer7

If ED manage 2.0/EDGE, NTTR, SoH, Kurfürst and the others manage to get the Albatross, Hawk and Fagot out before the New Year's bell sounds I'd say DCS is only beginning to walk.

Cliffs is a bit of a mess. It contains a lot of missions such as training missions for everything from the A-10A to the Su-33 that’s not easily discoverable in-game and you have to install the individual modules to get the manuals and worse can’t have Cliffs installed if you want the music and wallpapers.

This doesn't work at all how you think it works.

Yeah and there's nothing much stopping us from changing that.

I believe you can map the Warthog HOTAS to do whatever you want using conventional third-party applications for mapping controllers. So if ED say it's impossible to improve the Warthog HOTAS support in DCS that's where I'll be turning to. What does certain level of knowledge have to do with it? What does binding manually have to do with it? I'm asking what's currently impossible unless you use extra software which is inconvenient. So what? The HOTAS works in the A-10C doesn’t it? All I’m asking is that they extend the same functionality to all other aircraft either by doing the same thing they did in the A-10C with the special control settings, or do what I described above to make the HOTAS universally compatible with any application which is really more of a TM thing to do but they’re not going to.

So circumvent DirectInput... or alternatively split up the controllers into the joystick, grip and quadrant since neither have <32 commands! Using TARGET is a pain in my butt since you can't have it start with Windows and minimize it among other such usability issues. I'm also avoiding the Cliffs aircraft because I haven't managed to set them up in an especially satisfactory way yet.

Aaah! How about updating the AAT practice missions? They’re still 1.0 and the newest version is 1.4. In AFT01 what do you do if you're full? I filled up after maybe 7 well dones... I'm going to have to watch closely how much fuel I get with each well done and how quickly I can burn it. Edit: oooh... starting with no fuel. Excellent plan. Edit: OK, is it me or is AFT01 completely dumb? I’ve managed 20 successful connects however that means starting with as close to zero fuel as possible, filling up to full, then flying at full speed with full speed brakes at close to minimum allowed altitude to burn fuel and if I do that enough I can finally do another few connects adding up to 20 on the final stretch. What an overcomplicated process! Cutting the amount of successful connects down to 10 or the allowed disconnects up to 4 might make it possible but 20 successes to 1 miss? And you better be quick about it because otherwise you won’t be able to burn enough fuel to be able to fill up without the tanker aborting you. Anyways after the 20 connects the instructor just says nicely done but you’re not given any qualification and I’ve tried landing both at Batumi and Kobuleti without any more instructions… so did I pass? Or do you seriously have to connect successfully 20 times with at most 1 pilot-induced disconnect? It's insane.

Interesting and I have no expertise to offer but when it comes to 24'000 ft the sams weren't 4'000 ft above sea level by maybe?

Did you try deleting your temp directory?

How about reading the post above yours? Should solve your updating issues.

I don't think the option does anything useful at all. In most aircraft you can use LCTRL+P or something such to toggle pilot body though.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=133695 Cliffs owners can install the individual modules for free without having to activate or only extract the missions as desired.

The Hawk and Kurfürst are scheduled for this month, yes.

I want to point out to everyone that Su-27 missions including a new campaign (is it new?), 4 quickstart missions and interactive exercisemissions are available now but only if you install the Su-27 single module and navigate manually to: Aircraft\Su-27\Missions\EN Searching for ".miz" in the Aircraft directory shows about 1000 missions... it's a shame that only a few of them are visible in-game without manually changing directories it seems. And I've always thought DCS has so few missions, d'oh! By the way in order to install the Su-27 module you have to update to the newest DCS version and if it doesn't work delete your Appdata\Local\Temp\DCS directory and then use DCS_updater to update.

Deleting DCS Folder in C:\Users\????\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS and updating again did the trick!

What is the latest version? I have 33866 at the end but Su-27 asks for 33921. I'm not sure how that's going to help... install everything all over again? Edit: it seems I am updated already (electric switches are in A-10A controls menu)... it's just that the Su-27 module asks for a newer version. Edit2: Ah... it seems I have all the new documentation and missions and everything so no need to install the module as well but it's still strange.

Nope. Try again.

I can't update either... Something happened the first time I launched DCS but the version number is still 33866 and now attempting to update does basically nothing.

Hey, I'm having some serious difficulty trimming the A-10A and F-15C... it doesn't work at all. Is it supposed to work? It is available in the controls settings.

Of minor importance: the icon for the AFT mission in the campaign selection has been broken some time and I believe the BFT campaign mission text is missing some information (no mention of phase 4)... and the other ones are missing a colon at the end of the first paragraph.

Challenging mission! My best advice: As you enter the mission zone you join with the instructor carefully when he is moving north because once you meet him he will start moving to the next waypoint and it is easy to fall out of formation immediately if you join with him carelessly or going in the wrong direction! You don't want to have one strike without even having started flying. Note his altitude and speed and establish co-speed quickly (around 240 knots if I remember correctly), then maintain it without major changes in speed. Carefully managed the throttle and... SPEEDBRAKES!!! SPEEDBRAKES!!! SPEEDBRAKES!! When it is time to turn speedbrake slightly so you increase your distance to him and when he starts turning throttle up to max immediately and start turning at a high banking angle and maintain vision of him in your HUD throughout the turn. When it is time to ascend increase your distance to him as much as possible without falling out of formation and when he moves up set your throttle to max and mimic his steep upwards dive without shooting too high. When it is time to descend exercise extreme caution also. The mission has one ascent, one ascent/descent, one descent and four turns. You can actually fall out of formation in the beginning of the mission and once in ever ascent/descent and still be qualified. If he disappears from your vision speedbrake and descend slightly. Cheat: if you fall out of formation stay out of formation until it is safe to join up again instead of joining up while you are still destabilized in which case you will probably fall out of formation again immediately. I'll say using speedbrakes and going max speed in all the manoeuvres is the most important. I (barely) made it on my third try or so... Halo-skillz I suppose.

Who is affected by this issue and who isn't? Any clarity?

I thought so and I agree it's a good idea to leave out exercise missions for TT.

Tactical Training OpenBeta and exercise missions coming eventually?

Does the Su-27 have an individual flight manual now finally? I would also appreciate if someone could tell me how to quicky and easily move all my pilots and settings to OpenBeta. Also can non-beta be deleted completely when OpenBeta is installed? I'm considering switching to OpenBeta entirely if it's possible... new stuff quicker, nice.