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I have been holding out on buying a cougar for a while, waiting for the add on "A-10, F-15, etc" grips that were SUPPOSED to come out from the TM factory. However, if you produce this stick, I will MOST DEFFINITELY purchase one from you for my Su-25 pit. I will also purchase the required cougar from TM. However, the only way I will EVER purchase a cougar is there are grips available OTHER than the f-16.

Ok, 7rooper has a good point.....What can the rest of us do to assist you in this project? We all support you, and many uf us wouldlike to help in whatever way we can.

you are all warped....VERY, VERY, warped........ ZZULU , welcome to lomac..... :P

Ok guys, thnx for the help...I found exactly what I was looking for last night...dummy me, it was staring me right in the face.......

looks sweet....

It doesnt seem to let me do that...However, I just discovered LOME at lockonfiles.com...lets see if this helps....

Ok, this is possibly a dumb question, but here goes anyway. How do I get the mission editor to let me park my AC on the ground at an airfield, cold and dark ? So I may create a taxi then take off scenario? Will the editor in lomac even let me doi this? or is there a NON ED map editor that I can use? I always just used the quick engagement....Never needed this before.

Ok, I seem to have missed something....:noexpression: Whats the deal with TM driver support?

It's good to hear that you look to the pit builders for advancemnt. It's too bad that you dont have much space. However, there are a few alternatives bor building in a limited space. I personally have an akers-barnes cockpit( http://www.62ndfightingfalcons.asn.au/projects/cockpit/cockpit.htm) that only takes up a 3'x5' footprint. I have a full un-finished basement to play in, but I wanted that space for my other hobbies and my kiddos. So the pit was set up in a small un-finnished closet space. So I can maintain a very small footprint and STILL put all the bells and whistles on my pit. The goal (at least in my mind) is not to try and re-create the cockpit of a specific aircraft, but just wire all the generic controls to real physical buttons / switches and to make them so accessable that the keyboard is no longer needed. Once you have that, try adding some external gauges \ tews \ stores info via TB/VP. Try to squeeze as much "Visibal / usable" data into a comfortable area as possible without over-crowding it. This REALLY increases the imersion factor. Personally, I have my area "Curtained" off so there are no external distractions. I also placed my surround sound setup in the pit, putting the sub under my seat. When I use the cannon on the a-10 and su-25, I can really "Feel" the rounds going down-range. All I need now is a track IR and then I wont even need to pan around with the hat switch on my x52. I will have it free to assign to OTHER functions. Once you are comfortable with the immersive quality of your pit, paint it up, decorate it, make it FEEL like an airplane. I keep a knee-board with a flight log and maps. I log EVERY flight I make, no matter how mundane. When you "speak with the ATC prior to taxi and take-off, really speak to them. It might sound strange to the people around you, but once again, it increases the realism. a good pit can take up VERY little space, be Cost effective, and truely enrich your gaming experience. There are all sorts of people interested it and building cockpits, ranging from the guy who just wants to build something cool, to the folks like me who used to be REAL pilots and can no longer fly (medical disqualification)... You just need to find your motivation, and a method that works for you, space wise, time wise, and cost wise. :pilotfly: :music_whistling: :joystick:

ok, I will explain where I see it. I fly the su25 usually.. In the cockpit when you look down at the stores display in the lower left, and change your weapons, you will see the little lights denoting which pylons are active, marks BOTH of the pylons that rockets (or missles, or bombs, etc) are on...If the weapon is on four pylons, it marks ALL four pylons. However, when you select said weapon, the stores display in tb only marks one pylon, and it is always on the left side...I will grab screen shots tonight (I am currently at work), and post them later...Like I said in the begining, it may be nothing, it may just be my setup, however, it's just plain irritating...(silly, I know:)) But after a half hour or so (sometimes longer) the tb stops marking my pylons all together..(always after getting shot down and doing a SHIFT+R ro reset my AC...if it is just one or two resets it does fine, but after several (I'm a crappy pilot, ok :P) resets, it does this. I thought that the PC that I am running TB/VP on might not be good enough, maybe lagging or just striving to keep up, but its a P4 2.6 ghz, 1gb ram, and 128 mb AGP nvidia video card....Should be more than sufficient... I will try it with other AC and see what happens...it might just be something with the su25....

"Anytime".... your a buzzkill....:) I put NO! NO! NO! on the poll just for the sake of being complete...I didn't think anyone would actually select it... Do you care to share with us why you are completely AGAINST a pit builders forum?

Sweet ruggbutt, looks real nice....

I should have just saved my cash and bought a cougar.....

Uh...yeah....:noexpression: I posted here intentionally, to see if any other users HERE have had this problem....I have ALSO posted on touchbuddy...:thumbup: Thanks though...Considering that the TB/VP integration was Born here, I thought it might be appropriate....

I dont have that specific problem, however, I do have a problem when trying to assign buttons in lomac. I dont use the stick programming software that came with the stick. Although there are a FEW nice functions, I find it to mostly be a waste of time. When I amattempting to assign a button in lomac, and I click the change button, the damned mouse scroll wheel (which lomac reads as buttons 33 and 34) chatters so much that it sends lomac signal BEFORE I can press the button I want...I have to click the change button 10-15 times before I get a moment WITHOUT chatter from the wheel, and even then I have to be QUICK with the button I want to use, or the chatter starts again. I just recently purchased this stick and I am so disappointed with it that I MAY go back to using my old Suncom SFS...... of all the years of using it, it only NOW has a single burnt out pot.... So to be short, I feel yourt pain man....

I have noticed a couple of things that dont seem "right" in touch buddy. Actually just two things, and minor at that. When using the payload module, and changing weapons, the red highlight that denotes the pylons in use, only higlights the pylons on the LEFT side. It NEVER changes color on the right side. Also, after flying for a half hour or so, the highlight fails to mark ANY pylons. It still properly states what is at each pylon, and properly updates the count if you expel a weapon from that pylon, but the "highlight" just stops happening. Otherwise, I love it!!!

SPIFFY!!! I like it...sure is a lot on one display though.... Then again, i only use touch buddy for the warn indicators, tews, and stores\payload. I use DD's profile for lovp/tb used together.... I do like the generic nature of it, and the buttons\graphics are not to "flashy" -- thats good, nice and simple on an already cluttered display. KUDOS

Ok peter, i finished reading the docs you sent me, and I am still a little confused. But that's ok...it's par for the course :P Would it be possible to get the app you wrote?:music_whistling: I will be plugging it into an old dell optiplex gx260 small formfactor pc via serial and running pocket fms. It accepts NEMA input so it SHOULD work the same as your lowrance.... If I can get it working on the pc, then I just need to play with the virtual serial (stuff that came with dowson's gpsout), and make it work on the usb connected pda....either that or I have an old compaq laptop that would work too.... Anyway, the app you wrote would be extremely helpful. MAYBE by the end of this weekend I will have a working gps....:pilotfly:

Thanks for sending me the docs. I will play around this weekend to see what I can do...

No prob with the hijack...GRIN ... I didnt think the original topic was going anywhere anyway....Plus, now I know who all the colorado sim geeks are...lol and now I'm getting new shooting buddies to boot...! :thumbup:

SPECNAZ!!! You crazy frenchie! Where have you been hiding!! I know that you say that you have been "working on the house..." but WE ALL know that you have really playing in the pit....:P Sorry Off topic!!...LOL

Why does it matter how many threads he used....you are going to read it whether it is in 1 or 10 ....:)

YUM!

www.pocketfms.com

Thank You!!