hhatch

That solved the problem. Thank you. Now it's off to Tacan and ILS.

I started working with the a 10c about a week ago. A simple problem is driving me crazy. I can't get a response from the tower for an approach. I created a simple mission to practice landings. I tuned the vhf radio to the tower frequency, but get no response when I press f1. I set the radio select dial to man and adjusted the knobs to the tower freq. I also tried entering in man mode then hit load and then set freq select to pre,but that did not work. I have spent the better part of the afternoon searching here and there and trying everything I could, but no luck. I managed to do a cold start in a few hours on my second try, but I can't tune a bleeping radio.

Ideally I'm was looking for a balance between the weapons management and flying. I just purchased the A 10c which was on sale on Steam. It will take me a few weeks to form an opinion of how I feel about DCS.

I am certainly not ready to throw in the towel. This is different from FSX to be sure. However, I must admit it's fun to blow stuff up. What I do like about DCS is that it is not the usual fps game which I have no interest in. I do like the complexity and challenge of this sim.

I could tell pretty quickly that targeting was going to be tough. Even with labels on the visibility of those black dots is such that I still have to get quite close before I can ready and deploy weapons . Your comment about DCS being more of a "weapons simulator" "strategy" game was interesting. I found my primary interests in fsx was navigation and difficult landings. I learned how to navigate using only radios. I planned flights using sectional maps and FAA approach plates. So the flying element needs to be there for me. The problem with civilian flight sims is what to do during long flights. That's why I flew a lot of small planes on short flights. It remains to be seen what my level of interest will be in DCS. I am accustomed to dealing with steep learning curves. I enjoy the process even when things don't go well. People have suggested going to the 1.5 beta. Perhaps I'll do that. I need to solve the target visibility issue. Thanks to all for helping me get started.

Labels Well the labels mystery is solved. In gameplay options the default setting for labels is off. I turned it on and everything seems find. The simplest explanation is usually the right one.

I did the game cache integrity and that did not solve the problem. I went into the app but found no dcs executable file. I was able to launch from one file simply called dcs and another called launcher. I tried those and still have the problem. I have been able to map a lot of commands to my joystick but this file will not work off the keyboard or the button I tried to map. I've never had this kind of issue before. Very strange.

I used steam to install the update. The problem is the application would not launch. I clicked on the icon, tried to launch from steam, and tried the exe file in the application. I had to go back to the previous version.

I downloaded the public beta which I assume is 1.5 but I could not open the application.

I did not get any labels. I did click on the check box.

I have been out of flight simming for a few years and decided to try something a little different after flying FSX for several years. I downloaded DCS World and have spent 30 hours or so trying to get my flying skills back. I have now started to learn how to use weapons - something new to me. My problem now is that I am having great difficulty identifying targets. In order to id targets I find I must be quite close which gives me very little time to get a weapon released such as a laser guided missile. I understand I am new and expect a significant learning curve. I simply cannot see those little black dots until I am real close. I have tried going around the target area scanning with the camera etc but I just don't see targets at any distance. Maybe it's my old eyes. I thought I would try using labels for a bit but the command does not seem to work for the SU 25 T. I am running version 1.2.16 which I downloaded from Steam. I have been watching the videos by Robert Sogomonian and did notice that I could see targets even though the plane was a good distance from the target. I tried some graphics adjustments but to no avail. I'm sure you have heard this before. I would appreciate some suggestions.