Captain Orso

Here are some quickly made screenshots. The last one is actually from the Falkland, because... why not.

I just had to say, the mountains on the South Atlantic map really do look fantastic now I have only one question... where the hell is "Shroders"?! DCS World Changelog and Updates of Open Beta 8< DCS: South Atlantic by RAZBAM Simulations 8< Adjusted the stands at Shroders to allow for Hercules parking 8< Keep up the good work

Oh man, forest for the trees... I think the real question is, what are those islands, and when do we get to bomb them?

Yeah, since the CTLD JTAC also tells you what type of unit is being lased, you can go to the F10 map with Scratchpad and check the coordinates against what JTAC is posting. I'm just thinking the whole time, there's gotta be a better way. I think I need to write a plugin for Scratchpad to collect the data from the JTAC report, let me pick the JTAC unit and take the coordinates from that, then use those LAT/LON/MGRS to put down a marker of some sort I can put into the RTE and then DIR the point to put the home plate over it. I'm also starting to set everything up the run the ship from CPG, but I've got a very long way to go with that. Also I really hate how slow and sloppy the AI Pilot is, like if we're passing over a small town and I want him to fly as low as possible up this avenue, you can forget it. Either live with the crappola way George flies or do it myself.

Hi LorenLuke, I'm going to tell you a secret... I have had the KU setup on my keyboard for many months, BUT not permanently. I use a 'switch' modifier. I can very quickly enter an MGRS... while on the ground--I hate landing away from airfield/FARP. I cannot tell you how many times I got snagged on the ground by unseen detritus and crashed the rotor into the earth Anyway, I had a free toggle switch on my Thrustmaster Warthog Throttle--the one I use for lowering and raising the undercarriage on all other aircraft--setup as a 'modifier' 'switch'. So when flipped up, practically the entire keyboard is mapped to the KU, including the NUM block. Using the keyboard like this I can very quickly enter anything into the KU, especially MGRS coordinates, as 1. I can ten-finger blind-type, and 2. I have the number block mastered, because in my youth I worked as a cashier for several years, plus two years in accounting working mechanical calculators. The problem is, for ten-fingers you need... ten fingers, ie none for the cyclic, and for the number block I absolutely need my right hand, and flying the lefthanded cyclic is not pretty for me. But you did make me realize that I'm already switching to the CPG seat to switch to 'weapon follow' view so I can see what the Hellfire is doing in-flight, so I might as well switch to CPG to enter the target coordinates. In fact I might as well setup CPG as far as I need to rifle off LOAL Hellfires and turn the nose to keep on target. *sigh* if George were not so ret... learning impaired, life could be so much easier. Thank you

In the end, I'm trying to compensate for the inability of George to 'write' down the target coordinates the JTAC is providing, enter them as a target point and making the target point available that the pilot can aim the aircraft, and thus the Hellfires, at it so that the LOAL HF have the best possible opportunity to find the target lased by the JTAC while in-flight. At some point, the updates to the trim and SCAS have made it impossible for me to put the Apache into a stable hover into which I can apply Altitude and Attitude Hold while I enter/edit a waypoint for me to use as a target.

Many thanks for all the info, LorenLuke. I've been trying to implement and test it, but with limited success. The CAQ works as you said and the video show, but I can find no use for it. The deviation between the TSD map and the F10 map are far too great and the scale of the TSD map is so poor. You would need a map at a scale of about 1-50,000 or even better, 1-25,000 and these appear to be about 1-100,000 at best. I'm going to have to set up a special mission, emulating what 4YA does, but without enemy CAP constantly buzzing around my head. I'd rather not try to make any statements about viability, before that, because there have been too many variables and incidents. One irritating thing I can say is, at dusk and afterwards you can easily see the JTAC's 'sparkling' of the target, but not through the HDU and NVS, but only through the naked eye - smh.

Just MHO, but I think the gaps between those concrete slabs could be toned down a bit. The reality look quite a bit more subtile, to me at least.

"Laser point"? I think you mean the lazed point, ie what the laser is targeting. "Capture the 'laser' (sic.) point", I have no idea what that means, capturing it? To use the CAQ, there must already be a point on the TSD. You cannot create a point on the TSD through CAQ, you can only pick one. For a LOAL shot to find it's target, the target must be within a 15° cone.

Thanks for the reply LorenLuke. What is the ladder point?

Thanks for the reply, Rob. Thad document is just as ambiguous and the User Manual and it still doesn't work.

Look at the DCS User's Manual to be found in 'C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Doc\DCS User Manual EN 2020.pdf', on pages 313 - 315. The Management Summery is, the manual is a jumbled pile of garbage, the most of which is simply wrong. The 'Table of objects/units at the airfield/FARP' table is supposed to illustrate everything you need for which service, but it is ambiguous and unclear and wrong. The easiest thing is for me to say what I do know. Put down a FARP and within 150m of it put a FARP CP, a FARP Ammo Storage, a FARP Fuel Depot, and a FARP Tent. With these you can get fuel, ammo, and repairs, by landing on the FARP and requesting them. What doesn't work is the ATC radio comminutions. It seems that FARP CP has not actual function. It requires an APC M1025 HMMWV to provide it's radio for the communications. I guess the CP is just an empty bunker with no power and no radio. The thing is, the APC M1025 HMMWV was stricken from the game with out explanation or even announcement, and without replacement. It's just gone!! So you can get your FARP to do refuel, rearm, an repair, but no ATC support and in the darkest night, it won't turn the landing lights on.

The CTLD JTAC "sparkles" all the time, but I don't think there's any way to see it during daylight hours.

I think you need pretty exact directing in which to fire, and entering an MGRS while flying is a bit of an issue, for me at least.

Is there a definitive set of step-by-step set of instructions to get the AI-CPG to fire Hellfires at an out-of-sight target being lazed by a FAC/JTAC? There are so many servers with a drone flying over a target area and lazing priority targets, but I cannot figure out how to make any use of them.

Thanks for the reply. I wanna fly Corsairs off British carriers and smash up German ships in fjords you know, fun stuff

For me, the first simply opens the exact same image in an image viewer, and the other 3 opens a screen shots page from ED with no Kola map section and no Kola map section.

In light of the Marianas map getting a WWII version, I was wondering if any thought was made to giving the Kola map a WWII version as well.

In the DCS: Kola Map - Introduction from 2022-07-29 post, most of the screen shots links are dead It would be nice if they were revived.

Looking for a... turkey shoot...? .... *cough* ... I know the way out by heart, now...

Everything in DCS is about 2010 at the latest. It had to do with when things--aircraft, weapons, etc--come out of being top secret and manuals and research data are published.

Neither MS Notepad nor Notepad++ changes any files willy-nilly just by using theses apps to open a LUA file. If you are out of control, maybe. If you edit a LUA file, you are responsable for the effects of those changes, good or bad... always.

On angel's wings..... Angel of Death

Thanks for the reply That may have been an issue. Yes, this. I use OMM about 98% of the time for DCS, but I also use it to mod The Witcher: Wild Hunt for one specific mod, which was the last Context I added. So every time I open OMM TW3 is the last context loaded and on the main screen. I'd just like to be able to set the order so DCS is always the one shown per default and not have to remove and re-add contexts to get a certain order.

Oh! An excellent place to post a request, because this very related to Donglr's issue... It would be very useful if there were a 'test inputs' ability, like in DCS when in the controls, if you assert a bound button/switch the display jumps to that bind and selects it. In this case it would be enough to high-light the bind. a request... or two... or... *cough* It would be so user friendly if for CREATE PROFILE there were a pulldown menu of player installed flyable aircraft from which to choose, to minimize mistakes and wasted time from using the wrong name-string. If would also be very user friendly if you could display the active profile on the in-cockpit SRS overlay.