Dutch Baron

@rainman1810 I have tested it and found no issues with the form. Can you explain exactly what error you get? Thanks.

Hello pilots, We have noticed that in the 2 vs 2 signup, we see a few teams where only 1 half of a team signed up. We do require ALL pilots to signup individually, so for a 2 ship team, both pilots need to register. Thanks for your understanding!

Thanks for signing up pilots!!! Great to see so much interest. DO NOT FORGET TO SIGN UP VIA THE FORMS, ONLY VIA ED FORUMS POSTS IS NOT POSSIBLE: https://tawdcs.org/2017/10/07/taw-presents-top-gun-2017/#signup As for the FUEL specifications of all airframes: SU27 - 55% FUEL @ 5000m 2 x IR Missile = +/- 5 min BURN TIME SU33 - 50% FUEL @ 5000m 2 x IR Missile = +/- 5 min BURN TIME F15C - 71% FUEL @ 5000m 2 x IR Missile = +/- 5 min BURN TIME M2000C - 38% FUEL @ 5000m 2 x IR Missile = +/- 5 min BURN TIME These will be the settings for FUEL quantity in all rounds.

@stuge My bad, I will adjust it to be a selection, you do not have to go in and redo the application, but future applicants can choose multiple airframes. Thanks for the tip!

Hey there previous TOP GUN participants! Glad to see you guys join again to defend your honor ;) @Slutcher: Wow, that's a great idea (me being a 27 driver), not sure how those 15 jocks might feel about this...... :music_whistling:

Hello everyone, Thanks to all the guys who already signed up, we are too looking forward to this event! @microvax All planes will have the maximum amount of flares available. Regarding the fuel, the M2K and SU33 will be setup to have just as much burn time as the F15C and SU27, still working on the exact number, we will share once we have found the sweet spot.

http://sa-sim.com/top-gun-2017-official-brackets/ IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN EVERYONE……. TIME FOR TOP GUN PRESENTED TO YOU BY: THE ART OF WARFARE – DCS DIVISION We are back with ROUND 4, but it will be called TOP GUN 2017 from now on and the years will obviously increase in the future. <<< DOWNLOAD THE MISSION FILE HERE >>> What is Top Gun? The Top Gun event is in its fourth incarnation and has been an intense and awesome event every time. This has provided us with some of the best dogfighting we’ve ever seen. This event has been created, planned and will be hosted by TAW (The Art of Warfare) in association with Situational Awareness. Therefore ladies and gents it will count towards your SA ranking. The formula is the same as last year, but make sure you read the rules to get an understanding of how it will work. When is it? 1 vs 1 – Saturday 11th of November 2017 @ 1500z 2 vs 2 – Saturday 18th of November 2017 @ 1500z It will be STREAMED LIVE (with a delay) here: What can I fly? Our roster for aircraft available this time around is the following: SU-27 SU-33 F-15C M2000C SU27 - 55% FUEL @ 5000m 2 x IR Missile = 5 min BURN TIME SU33 - 50% FUEL @ 5000m 2 x IR Missile = 5 min BURN TIME F15C - 71% FUEL @ 5000m 2 x IR Missile = 5 min BURN TIME M2000C - 38% FUEL @ 5000m 2 x IR Missile = 5 min BURN TIME What are the rules? Detailed rules and DCS Map location overview are HERE. How will it work? The event will be split into TWO separate competitions, a 1vs1 and a 2vs2. For the 1vs1 competition we have 32 slots to fill and for the 2vs2 we are going to get 16 teams (32 slots). 8 slots from each competition have already been reserved for invitees. Once signed up, pilots will then be sorted and assigned matches. Each match will consist of three rounds, first player/team to get 2 victories is declared the winner and will move onto the next stage. The three rounds will be structured like this: #### 1vs1 #### – Round 1 – Pilots will be provided with 2 heat seeking missiles (SU27/33 – R-73, F15C – AIM-9, M2K – Magic) and their aircrafts gun, all of which will be employed post merge only. – Round 2 – Pilots will be equipped only with their GUNS ONLY, in traditional Top Gun fashion, again firing post merge only. – Round 3 – If after round 2 the score is tied then we repeat round 2 GUNS ONLY to get our winner. #### 2vs2 #### – Round 1 – Pilots will be provided with 2 heat seeking missiles (SU27/33 – R-73, F15C – AIM-9, M2K – Magic) and their aircrafts gun, all of which can be employed pre merge. – Round 2 – Pilots will be equipped only with their GUNS ONLY, in traditional Top Gun fashion, again firing can be pre merge. – Round 3 – If after round 2 the score is tied then we repeat round 2 GUNS ONLY to get our winner. ———————————————— We strongly believe in showing good sportsmanship, therefore all matches will have a referee who will orchestrate the match and resolve any issues that may arise during. You will not be allowed to switch airframes once the match has started, you must complete all three rounds with the same airframe. You can change airframes in between matches. For attendance to the event itself, you must show up 30 minutes before your match begins, if you aren’t present in the TeamSpeak lobby 30 minutes before your match then we will already contact reserves. If you do not show up 15 minutes before the match someone from the reserve list will fly your match. If no reserves are available, then the match will be ruled as a walkover win. It’s very important that we keep the event running, so that others will not suffer for someone else’s tardiness. Alot of organisational work goes into preparing an event like this, therefore we need to stick to a strict timetable to keep everything running smoothly, we hope you understand the reasons for the above. Finally, keep yourself up to date with the event by checking the thread here, just in case any changes are made. Have fun! Where do I sign up? Anyone and everyone is welcome to sign up to the event, for 1vs1 and 2vs2, it doesn’t matter how skilled or unskilled you think you are. Simply visit the relevant signup form below and enter your details in, once done, hop back to the thread here and just post your callsign into the thread so we can contact you easily if necessary. We do ask all pilots to signup individually. SIGNUP HERE PLEASE NOTE: We strongly encourage you to sign up even if you believe that we have reached our limit for players, we’ve noticed plenty of AWOL’s at past events so we therefore want a strong reserve list! How do I see if I am signed up correctly? Once the first registrations are in, we will post the list on the bottom of the page at the following link below. We will update it each day manually, so give it a day to see you name in the list. CHECK PLAYERS LIST Where do I join Team Speak? Address: 37.59.10.136 Password: wargames -------------------------------------------------- Hope to see many of you join and we are looking forward to providing you an awesome event. Thanks to all those TAW members working hard behind the scenes, and thanks to SA-SIM for arranging the rankings and brackets! Blue skies to all of you, On behalf of The Art of Warfare - DCS Division Dutch Baron http://www.TAW.net http://www.TAWDCS.org -----------------------------------------------------------

I am interested in the answer, too!

Hi there, Yesterday I crashed twice after pressing the 'set trim' button in the Huey. What happened is that I had no control of the chopper anymore until pressing the 'trim reset' button. One of my squadron members had the exact same thing in the MI8 during that same flight. It is in the latest release version in a MP server. Anyone else had this happen as well?

Hey there, AWESOME WORK ON THE SU33, ED! You guys made me and many SU27 pilots happy! I do have one issue with the Air Brake Light not showing when activated. Thanks for looking into it. Kind regards, Dutch Baron TAW DCS http://www.TAWDCS.org

Awesome work there, ED! We all can't wait any longer, but having these sneak peeks makes the waiting more bearable ;) Keep it up ED!

Sorry to hear more of you have issues! At the same time I'm happy to hear it's not just us... Especially since I spent (another) 25 hours last week, on the mission we did today (I was afraid I messed up something in the mission). It is indeed very bad for all DCS players, even more for bigger communities like us in TAW, where many players come to play DCS every Sunday evening and then we end up with these issues. A lot of folks get unmotivated to join again, as they are expecting some form of issues in MP. I hope ED will spend some time on fixing this asap, stuff like this might cause people to walk away from DCS and start flying BMS or one of the others. Most of us are paying customers and we do expect the MP side of DCS to get some more love and attention. Any word from ED would be very much appreciated!

Hello ED and forum visitors, We are experiencing massive lag on multiplayer missions. We had around 30 guys and everybody had lag or we did not see other pilots move, or they stopped moving at some point. We did a server restart, we tried other missions (to check if it was mission related) and these other missions have been running perfectly fine before, but same issue. We are running the latest DCS Release version that came out last Friday April 7th 2017. Are we the only ones with these issues or do more of you have this same problem? If yes, are you guys from ED aware of this? Thanks for any help in advance! Dutch Baron http://www.TAW.net http://www.TAWDCS.org

Having the same issue here, in the F10 menu no CTLD options. Both previous and new version of CTLD does not work anymore, so it seems related to the recent DCS updates. Tried a new simple mission, still no joy. Ciribob, can you confirm this? If yes, could you please tell the folks at ED about this because we really can't live without CTLD :thumbup:

Hello all, Please signup via the website. You find the link in the first post. Only those signed up via that medium are registered. Regarding the GCI/LotATC: We will add the GCI slots, but using LotATC is at this moment also not perfect at all. There were many ghost flights or incorrect names/locations recently when using LotATC. Also, DCS is not extremely stable lately and maybe adding LotATC will cause extra issues. Thanks guys for all the registered pilots already, looking forward to this event!

Hi Sacha, 1: AAR refueling is not in the mission, at least not in the first one. The distances are not that great so having them now would be a bit of a overkill. 2: I am all for flight package names (we use it in TAW normally) but for this mission we have not set that up. I will look into this, but expect just to use your own callsign. Also, if GCI is used, it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to know the package name because DCS only shows the UID. 3: We can use a fixed airbase frequency for departure/taxi/approach info. I will put that in the briefing. It will be 251.10 for all airbases per coalition to not make it too difficult. 4: It has no GCI included, but if we get many requests from the players to have it, we can easily add it of course. But I do believe we need to have a dedicated GCI, so that there will be no situation where one coalition has a GCI and the other has not. Just to prevent some advantages over the other. - Let me know what you all think about this 4th point.

Hi Apocom, Did you register with the name APOCOM? If yes, I do not see your registration. Let me know please, thanks! @Sacha Thanks for the nice comment! The M2000C is on both sides. And please use our registration form on our website to signup!

Hello all, TAW, together with SA-SIM, proudly presents a new event for all types of modern airframes! The idea is that after ROUND 1, a new mission will be created that follows up on the end situation of ROUND 1. After that a new mission that continues the end situation of ROUND 2, and so on. Please follow this link to see the MISSION DETAILS and to SIGN UP. (If applicable: Make sure to use the callsign you have used before, so it matched the SA-SIM rankings callsign) We have made an individual signup, teams also have to signup individually: http://tawdcs.net/events.html Here are the rules: TAW CAUCASUS FLAG EVENT - RULES This mission has restricted weapons, the ones that are not allowed are: - AIM-120B/C - R-27ER/ET - R-77 - KH-58 - All CBU bombs The airframes available are: FIGHTERS: 1 LIFE, after death a 15 minute no-fly penalty, after that again 1 LIFE and then again a penalty etc. - F15C (BLUE SIDE ONLY) - SU27 (RED SIDE ONLY) - SU33 (RED SIDE ONLY) - MIG29S (RED SIDE ONLY) - M2000C (BOTH SIDES) STRIKERS: 2 LIVES, after 2 deaths a 15 minute no-fly penalty, after that again 2 LIVES and then again a penalty etc. - A10C - SU25T CHOPPERS: 3 LIVES, after 3 deaths a 15 minute no-fly penalty, after that again 3 LIVES and then again a penalty etc. - UH1H - MI8 - KA50 - SA342M - The mission runs for 3 hours, all airframes need to land just before the end of the match after receiving the message to land, stop fighting immediately. - Teamplay and proper communication for finding and taking out targets is key to success. - You can only fly and use the airframe you choose at the signup. - If you skid off the runway and do not die, you can respawn without a loss of a life. - DCS SIMPLE RADIO is mandatory, you need have it installed and be able to use it. - The main battle frequency is 251.00 AM (both RED and BLUE). - The individual in-flight communications are done from 124.00 AM and up (both RED and BLUE). - Each coalition has 12 x FIGHTERS, 8 x STRIKERS, 4 x CHOPPERS - If we have enough applications for 2 sessions, winners of the first games will fight each other in the finals, losers will fight for 3rd and 4th place. - Your individual points will count for SA-SIM.com rankings. - Additional rules from SA-SIM apply which you can find here. WINNING CONDITIONS The coalition that has the most captured airbases at the end of the 3 hour match wins. If it is a draw at the end, the points of A2A and A2G kills, as well as capture points are counted and the coalition with the highest score wins. ------------------------------------------------------------ Hope to see many signups, catch you in the air! ---------------------------------- Current list of registered pilots: Seastate Streamcap SmokeyGer OverG SLAYEROMATICK Koksy Dugo Burnhard STRYK3R legitscoper DarksydeRob SeraphimGray Smartis Moltar AGRS_Mustang AlephRo overdude Kougar SF_Kapsu Croncat redcoreSix [Charcot 22] Sacha 104th_Stuge Veritech 104th_Octuplefire 104th_IronMike 104th_Presing

Hello all, Our server in TAW also had the issue of not starting SRS 1.2.8.0 server.exe After updating to .NET 4.6.2 the issue is solved. So if you have this as well (ONLY ON SERVERS) then do this to fix it ;)

Hello Ranger79, that did not solve anything for me at least. Thanks for the input. So ED or moderators, any response on my recent message? - QUOTE - Hi SkateZilla, Sounds plausible, but BigNewy mentioned about the new hot-plug functionality that was also introduced in that same update of DCS where the issues started. You say you had people reverting back and issue remained. The weird thing is though, I had this issue first after an update of DCS Open Beta, at that moment it did not happen in DCS Release version. Then when DCS Release was updated I also had it in the DCS Release version. This to me does not sound like it had anything to do with Windows. What I can imagine is that the new Windows update, together with DCS hot-plug functionality is causing this. So could ED at least give us a way to disable hot-plug and see if that will fix our issues? Thanks! - END QUOTE - I still have the issues after trying every possible tip on this thread and other things found on the internet. Thanks for the help!

Does ED ever reply on any suggestions as to if they think it is a good idea? Would be great to get some response. Not expecting to hear when it will be ready, just if they think it is doable and will be implemented some day or not. Thanks!

7 = USAF Aggressors ;)

Hi SkateZilla, Sounds plausible, but BigNewy mentioned about the new hot-plug functionality that was also introduced in that same update of DCS where the issues started. You say you had people reverting back and issue remained. The weird thing is though, I had this issue first after an update of DCS Open Beta, at that moment it did not happen in DCS Release version. Then when DCS Release was updated I also had it in the DCS Release version. This to me does not sound like it had anything to do with Windows. What I can imagine is that the new Windows update, together with DCS hot-plug functionality is causing this. So could ED at least give us a way to disable hot-plug and see if that will fix our issues? Thanks!

I would also like to get a reply from ED on what their view is on this issue, other than the message that it is related to loose USB connections. Tried all possible fixes on this thread with no luck. Now my 350 Euro joystick is working for like 70%, since I only have the issue on 10 or so switches on my TM Hotas Warthog...... I have this issue ONLY with DCS and all other usb devices are fine, no issue with mouse, keyboard or USB hub. Please note that my TM Warthog is directly connected and not via a hub. As stated in my first post, it only occurred after a specific DCS update and never happened before. Please ED, a whole bunch of your paying customers have similar issues, please don´t leave us in the dark. Thanks in advance for any help from ED.

Thanks for the tip ZHeN and Gregzagk! It was indeed a bugged list, after resaving it with unlimited and adjusting it afterwards did the trick!! @ZHeN once I have time I will also add the Lat/Lon coordinates.