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I get this all the time too.

Viffing should not be used much beyond 15 degrees, certainly not 90...

In the A-10 you can specify the types of targets to attack, which suggests that it is down to Razbam to use it.

Don't know if it's on the to do list, but could we specify more than just attack air defenses, everything seems to be covered by "targets of opportunity", if we could specify to attack armor etc it would be useful. Also the wingman often ignores commands like rejoin formation.

When building missions, it seems rather unrealistic that you can have combat going on on a road or in an urban centre and the civ traffic just ignores it. IRL they'd either avoid an area, or would run away from a tank being blown to bits in front of them. Can the civ AI get an update to run/avoid combat? It's a tad unrealistic at the moment.

After a couple of bombing runs, they respond as soon as I drop on the next target with, "Abort Abort Abort, you do not have permission". What is the AI logic behind this, ground based FACs don't do this in the same mission, I've changed it back and forth and it only seems to happen when it's the OH-58.

I've done that, basically the same way I do with a manned aircraft, which do work, but if I change it to a drone it stops showing up in the radio menu. This is in 1.5beta btw.

I want to get a Predator drone to laser designate for me, does it just do it, if you set it to AFAC and tell it to lase a target, the reason I'm asking is because there is no JTAC channel on the comms for it.

Updated it, added some extra units, best load out at the moment is 4 AGM-65D's, gun pod, 2 sidewinders, on both Harriers

Just thought we could have a thread to post our missions to, maybe it can be a sticky? Here's one I've built, I've left it unlocked so anyone can modify it if they want. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3090906/

It may be a key mapping issue, I had it with the FLIR reject sensor select default key. If it says LST in the HUD then you're in the right mode, you then have to bring up the DMT on a MPCD and change the code to 1688, you have to click the button with CODE next to it off then on again, so there is a box around CODE then enter 1688 ENT on the keypad, that should do it. When the JTAC lases the target as long as you're pointing in the general direction it should snap to it.

Is there any way to have civilian traffic on but have it avoid an area where there are military forces. I built a mission recently for the harrier and I have a row of tanks crossing a bridge with some infantry near by, and during the fight there are civilian vehicles driving around as if nothings happening.

It's worse than that, it can carry 12. You have the two wingtip stations, that will have AIM-9's, then you have the two "shoulder" stations that can accommodate an AIM-120 or AIM-7 each, and then you have four under wing stations that can have two AIM-120's on each.

NO, it will take away time and resources from developing what is at the core of DCS, COMBAT.

That would not have been the RAF, none of the RAF Harriers ever had radar, the RN did with the FRS1 and FA2, the FA2 could have done what you describe, since it had the AIM-120.

I usually don't bother landing unless I have about 2400lb of fuel at most and nothing hanging off the wings. IRL the RN Sea Harrier pilots aimed to only have a few minutes of fuel left when they got back on the deck, the Harrier we have has a more powerful engine than the Shar though, luckily for us we can experiment and see what works without any permanent revocation of breathing or flying privileges.

Thanks

I'm trying to get a bombing run done with some Mk20's along a convoy and setting up the quantity to what I want (eg four) and the time delay between them, say 500ms it still releases all four all in one go. So is it me being thick and not doing something, or is it not implemented yet?

Yeah, you can hardly call a pony with no legs a racehorse...

You know they actually had some legal trouble over that ad.

True they were prior to the Tornados.

When shutting down DCS it just leaves a black screen rather than going back to the desktop, the only way to fully terminate DCS is to use the task manager, it's doing it in 1.5 and 2.2 since the last patch.

The UK's Harriers are long gone, they're not in storage, they were sold to the USMC to be used as spare parts for their fleet. The RAF does have a detachment of Typhoons there, and prior to that they had Tornado F3's since the Falkland war, if we could get a reliable company to do a Typhoon a modern Falklands could be done.

Please for the love of god sort out the tankers and general airmanship of the AI, the way the tankers just oscillate from LH turn to RH turn to LH turn after a turn to a new waypoint is ridiculous, the tanker pilots fly like they're drunk. This has been an ongoing issue for years, how can it take this long to sort out.

Yep, some muppets will tell you you have to fly on the instruments precisely and that it is death to do anything else, such as looking out the window.... First rule in flying is fly the plane, second rule is navigate, and third rule is communicate.... that's what they teach when teaching how to manage emergency situations for a reason.