Bob Denny

May I ask to add the old and new Desert Rock airfields? If you would like a hand-drawn approach plate I have one. They were used by the Dept of Energy for A-Bomb testing, and now I believe the new Desert Rock is used as an Aux field for UAV testing. I'm not 100% on this.

Well there were other issues, so I decided it's time to go to DCS 2 and enjoy the Nevada area and it's other benefits. I resisted because it has been "beta" for so long. Thanks again for the help though.

Ah, excellent! I still have the old one running. I'll deactivate there. I'm still having trouble with the installers seeing DCS on the new system. I'll dig further when I get my next chance to look at it. Thanks for the info.

I've moved my entire DCS World folder to a new computer. It is now on the C drive instead of the S Drive. I think I have some issues with licensing serial numbers at cetera. Should I just start over? Or is there a fairly straightforward way to migrate?

I hope you're looking at simplifying the installation, updating, and licensing. I totally get the need for licensing, and the web-verify/key/password scheme is fine. Detecting and applying updates is really difficult (read the blog?). Also I would LOVE to have a single unified package including the training, docs, and qualifications, that self-updates. I'd pay for it in one transaction and maybe a subscription for updates... Just a thought.

And I found this where the confusion goes back years: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=1068563 -------------- snip --------------- ILS Training mission The real Batumi runway 13 is 130.89° true (AIP, Mar 2010) thus 126°? magnetic (given 5°E var). In-game I get a 119.8° magnetic readout on HARS which suggests 125.3° true (DCS says 5.5°E for that location). And yet the angular relationship between the lines of longitude in the ME and the runway edge is 131.3° so... a serious "angle audit" is in order. In DCS:BS the map rotated as you moved it so that true north was always straight up for the center of the ME screen. In WH it doesn't seem to be so (yet.) At least in FAA rules the naming of the runway and the actual magnetic heading can differ by 15° so a 056 named runway 7 is technically fine. Also notice that the CRS knob setting that results in a course to the runway when centered on the localizer and the setting that results in a 0 bank command again when centered on the LOC are different... again by about 5-6°.

I just spent the whole morning trying to figure this out, and I finally came here to post this question... then I found this great IFR/ILS mission BATUMI IFR / ILS Landing A-10C which is what I have been working on independently (I had no idea this other mission existed until 10 min ago ugh). My issue is with the inbound course of the localizer. Everything, including the Mission Editor (attached) and the Georgian Air Navigation (Sakaeronavigatsia Ltd.) plates (also attached) all show the localizer inbound course at 126 degrees magnetic. Note that using the ruler tool in the Mission Editor also shows 126 magnetic. I verified that the ruler tool shows magnetic by lining it up with the lat/long grid and it shows 355 degrees. Right, magnetic. However JorgeIII (as well as me) have discovered that the course in the A-10C is 119 degrees magnetic, and sitting aligned with the runway shows 300 deg (close enough). When you're at the FAP, the airport is indeed at a bearing of 119, both visually and via an EGI steerpoint if you put one at the touchdown zone. How can this be?

I guess Batumi falls into the latter classification. Thanks guys.

The DCS Updater GUI Utility Hello ... Beginner here... This looks like an epic tool! But what command line stuff should I know about? Beyond rolling out mods with JSGME then saying "yes" when DCS says there's an update, then rolling them back in, what else is there? I don't mean to minimize your work, I am asking a naive question. If there is a place where I can RTFM the answer I'm good with that!

Ok things are settling down and working well now. Putting the aerodrome names into MS voice dictionary really helped. I was unable to add my own pronunciations to these. No matter what it would not hear my speech with or without the button press. No problem with speech input under other conditions, just in the dictionary pronunciation window. It still seems to have helped. I also added a few other words. Hollywood this is such a great addition thank you profusely, including your prompt assistance. Software is a service not a product, and you get that!!

Ok thanks guys. It seems even the experts are foggy on this, so I will press on and live with it.

Could it be Desert Rock south of Mercury NV?

That didn't work. As you can see it will now do a downwind takeoff (look at the smokes in the background). I had the low level wind set to 10 M/s. This can't be difficult :-)

Oh geeze!!! How crazy simple. Thanks I'll check it later after work.

While I can place an aircraft in the mission in position for takeoff ("Takeoff from") it seems I have no choice for the runway? I am at Batumi, my a/c symbol is forced to appear midway on the runway, and there is no Heading selection/field. How can I determine for this aircraft to be lined up for takeoff on RWY13 vs RWY31?

Hey Hollywood, did you happen to see my post about the VAICOM_fetch_data.cmd script? It seems like a bug. And Kozmyk, great idea (though I already had moved the centre to the joystick paddle). I just made the change. Thank you.

Made some progress, but it's still acting quacky. Firstly, it seems I have to speak commands one word at a time, watching VoiceAttack out the corner of my eye to see it recognize each word. If I do that, it seems to be recognizing words 100%. If I say the exact thing just a bit faster, the recognition goes to he**. Example "Sukhumi hawg11 [request] start" works every time if I say it one word at a time and the progress in the VA log is good. But just a little faster and it hears goofy stuff like "ciccone hog 11". Miraculously in this example VAICOM figured it out anyway 6:13:01 PM - Shortcut : 'Transmit VHF1 pressed' 6:13:01 PM - Listening resumed 6:13:04 PM - Unrecognized : 'ciccone hog 11' 6:13:05 PM - Recognized : 'request start' 6:13:05 PM - Progress status 1/5 (Recipient selected ATC: auto set by context) 6:13:05 PM - Process Status 2/5 Player callsign hawg 11 6:13:05 PM - Progress status 3/5 (command recognized) 6:13:05 PM - Progress status 4/5 (executing) 6:13:05 PM - ATC 6:13:06 PM - Request Startup 6:13:06 PM - Progress status 5/5 (command executed) 6:13:07 PM - Shortcut : 'Transmit VHF1 released' 6:13:07 PM - Listening suspended But at this point, where it seems to be OK, it either causes F9 to be sent out, which is TrackIR's Pause command or more often it leaves the Comm menu visible for Mozdok. Anyway, here it is with each word spoken separately: 6:14:04 PM - Shortcut : 'Transmit VHF1 pressed' 6:14:04 PM - Listening resumed 6:14:06 PM - Recognized : 'sukhumi' 6:14:06 PM - Progress status 1/5 (recipient recognized) 6:14:08 PM - Recognized : 'hawg 11' 6:14:08 PM - Process Status 2/5 (player callsign recognized) 6:14:10 PM - Recognized : 'start' 6:14:10 PM - Progress status 1/5 (Recipient selected ATC: auto set by context) 6:14:10 PM - Process Status 2/5 Player callsign hawg 11 6:14:10 PM - Progress status 3/5 (command recognized) 6:14:10 PM - Progress status 4/5 (executing) 6:14:10 PM - ATC 6:14:10 PM - Request Startup 6:14:10 PM - Progress status 5/5 (command executed) 6:14:19 PM - Shortcut : 'Transmit VHF1 released' 6:14:19 PM - Listening suspended looking at the timing you can see the slower pace. In both cases, though, the wrong thing is done even though the right command was executed (request startup) but to no effect in DCS except maybe an F9 or a Mozdok Comm menu (as usual). The radio is on the correct freq for Sukhumi 129.0. As a sanity check, without changing anything, I activated VHF1 for "Options" which causes the Comm menu to appear. Now, while holding the comm button down, I can use the F-keys to select ATC, Nearest, Sukhumi, Request Startup and it executes fine. Why would VAICOM leave me at the Mozdok menu? And what's up with the F9 commands? I've seen F9 appear at other times too. The initial smoke test in the VAICOM manual,. "Chief, ground electric power off" works great. I get a readback, and I don't have to read the stuff word by word. This is a system that runs a great high frame rate, has the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog sticks and TrackIR, using a Logitech G430 gaming headset/mic, I have trained voice recognition three passes and I am sure it's for that gaming headset mic as I set it up with a profile to be used with VoiceAttack. Lastly, is there a complete VoiceAttack log somewhere? It looks like I can only get info by select-all/copy out of its window. Is that all there is? I spent 8 hours getting this far (including a 90 min trip to Best Buy for the G430 headset/mic and its installation and firmware update), and I think I am really close.

VoiceAttack "Check For Updates" Watch out... if you have the 1.5.8.9 (prerelease) version of VoiceAttack installed, a check for updates will not tell you that the final release is out there. See the attached image for proof. Once you go to the VA site, the production VA 1.5.8 is there.

There is another possible reason which I just discovered. If your Windows user name has any spaces in it, the VAICOM_fetch_data.cmd batch script will fail to locate the mission data and give you the same errors as shown i n the image above. Find this cmd file in Program Files (x86)\VoiceAttack\Apps\VAICOM\Tools and change the COPY command to quote the source path COPY /Y "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\tempMission.miz" TEMP\tempMission.zip This one took me a while to find. I'm still struggling with VAICOM and will report additional issues as I go. Also sorry I can't figure out how to put uploaded images inline, my editor only offers via URL, and the attachment manager doesn't offer a way to place it except the [noparse][attach][/noparse] BBCode by number as in the quote ?!?!?

[REPORTED] AN/ARN-6 Radio Compass I looked online but couldn't find a sound file that works. Basically you tune for lowest pitch if that makes sense. With no signal, no tone at all. As you near a signal you get a high pitch tone, and as you tune closer and closer, the pitch lowers in proportion until the pitch is super low when you are perfectly tuned. Then as you continue and start to get off frequency on the other side, the tone rises in pitch proportionately higher and higher, weaker and weaker until it again becomes silent.

Check for updates does not show the new version. You must go to trackIR website, download section and you will find the new version.

OK, I looked at all of this and I confess to be confused, probably because I am a new user. Maybe you can look at this, which I have on my disk (not inside DCS, but in a separate "installation files" folder) after apparently downloading some updates (??). I have run the .exe files. The .miz are the updates but with the same version numbers on them. How can I tell what I have?

Is it possible this is just the fact that IAS vs GS differ as a function of the altitude (air density)?

[REPORTED] AN/ARN-6 Radio Compass This is incorrect. The CW mode introduces a "beat frequency" tone that changes pitch as you tune.The idea is to tune for "zero beat" the lowest pitch. This really does help tuning a weak station. It's called CW for "carrier wave", a radio on-off mode used to transmit morse code. The beat frequency makes the signal audible at the receiver by converting what would be a hissing sound of the radio signal being keyed on and off into a tone that you can read. It happens to be useful for tuning an always-on AM signal like a non-directional beacon (which has its morse code as AM audio not carrier keying). I hope this makes sense. I know this because I am an old pilot who used the ARN-6 for ADF as well as old 4-course Adcock range navigation (which went away when I was a young teen).

What is the best way to keep up with your updates? I haven't updated yet. I have them all. I will add my vote to somehow make it easier to purchase, install, and update. I understand you're limited by EDs servers. It might be worth a trade off analysis or posting a small installer program that goes elsewhere for the "meat". An example is the Navigraph nav data service for flight simulators. It has an installer that allows you to configure multiple simulator and aircraft installations and then do a 1-button update/refresh of all of them. It also alerts for updates available. For DCS I guess people have multiple installations (beta, alpha, production, ??). I feel OK making a suggestion like this because you are doing this as a business not a gift. I am totally fine with paying for the content, it is really great!!! People have no idea how well it's done (well till they use it ha ha), and how beneficial your instruction is. Bravo!!