3rd Wing - Raiden

It's the very no well explained/detailed "MAGIC button in the PCA changes MAGIC seeker search patterns, but do not select the missile." sentence. To me this quote is wrong as I have explained to you on another thread. But let Razbam do what they can with the information they have. By the way Zeus67, in the last update, all the button animation is nice but way to slow and there is something wrong with all the knobs. For instance, when you are in TR/VS on the PCN and want to go to the position next to its left (DV/FV) the knob does all the trip around in the other direction before stoping on DV/FV. It's the same with radio channels and any wheel with numbers on it. Please test you stuff before releasing.

wow, awesome! I'm buying! What's your rate for two more kits like those?

Exactly Sir. The MAG PCA button will change to MAV when you press it. Press it again and it will restore the MAG mode. This button allows you to select the mode of your Magic, it does not select it as a weapon to fire. If you want to select the Magic Missile (in order to do some killing) you will have only one option, use the three position switch of your HOTAS. - Forward position: MAGIC II - Center position: PCA Weapon (S530D or Ground ammunition) - Backward position: Guns And jojo gave you the meaning of MAV.

Not exactly a Magic Lock, it is the MAV feature, than allows you to use the Magic II seeker as an IRST. In this mode you cannot fire the Magic and this mode is obviously only available if you have a Magic under your wing. You can tell this is MAV mod because you have the scan mode on the left of the VTH. <-> stands for horizontal scan. This will come with the revamp of the PCA/VTH/HOTAS logics. Finger crossed

IIRC this maneuver was forbidden in the French Air Force shows because of the high risk of stalling the engin. It is way over the flight envelope, so it may not be simulated well in DCS.

I don't know about the warnings and their behavior. The only thing I know is DON'T TOUCH the FBW Spin Mode Switch. It is only used for emmergencies in case you enter into a flat spin and gives you more rudder authority. Never had to use it so far.

You are right. AP will not reengage if you are outside of it's enveloppe of operation (bank 60°+ IIRC and pitch angle, altitude under 200 ft and higher than 50 kft, too much AoA, etc.)

To reengage AP if the light is stuck on amber after releasing everything, yes! To make manual adjustments without using the ministick (trim Hat) when AP is ON, you have to hold the AP Standby Lever. AP will reengage as soon as you release the AP Standby Lever.

No offence but I think you are doing it wrong. Let me explain myself. In the real plane the AP disengage lever is located behind the stick, as you can see on this image. The pilot will automatically depress this lever when grabbing the stick. This will put AP on Standby (amber light). Then when releasing the stick (and thus releasing the AP Standby lever) the AP will be reengaged (Green light). What I think you do is forcing on the stick without using the AP standby lever. Wich is fine, it's a feature, but not appropriate for normal operations. When forcing enought on the stick, the FBW understand it as an emergency and put the AP on standby for you. In this case, just give a tap to the AP Standby lever and the light will go back to Green. With this baby, using the AP and AP Standby lever is mandatory. I have binded it to the Pinkie Lever of my Hotas Warthog. It felt a bit strange at the beginning but now I do it even when I am not flying the Mirage... Bad habits :) I emptied all the brake hydrolic circuit of the MiG-21 once... A hell of a landing man!

From what I understand, the aircraft is constantly trimmed when AP is engaged (green light). When AP is on standby (yellow or Amber as described in the M2000C RDM real manual) or is off, the aircraft keeps the latest autotrim provided by the AP but will not autotrim anymore. To reset the trims you will have to engage FBW reset switch on the left panel. Also when AP is on (Green), the trim hat acts like a ministick, when Standby or off (amber or off) the trilm hat acts like a normal trim switch. You can confirm all the behavior by flying leveled, AP ON (Attitude hold, not Altitude hold) and increase/decrease speed. You should not pich at all. The second test would be to fire something with AP ON, the aircraft should autotrim the aircraft to prevent the roll induced by the asymetric payload. Now if you disengage AP (Amber or Off) just before firing, the aircraft should start rolling due to no autotrim when AP is Amber or Off. From what M2000C pilots say, they usualy never turn the AP Off. Only turned off for AAR (something to do with the auto level feature when bank angle is under 10°).

Good job :thumbup: I manage to do that too from time to time. I even recall this one time when I nailed it with an open canopy :pilotfly:

The same applied to me. Nonetheless I am interested in understanding what you think.

It would require a ton of editing and "special" effects to have the tanker in one way and the Mirage inverted. Just flipping the video won't do the trick. Sorry but I don't get what you mean.

Here a few tips to spot the troll : - You cannot have cockpit view on a bot flight. - You cannot force a bot to refuel inverted - As well as doing barel rolls or aileron rolls or whatever while refueling With that said, all the fancy maneuvers in external view while refueling can't have been done by a bot. The same applies with acrobatics in cockpit view. Obvious right?

Yes in France. You are most welcome :-)

Maybe come to see us when you pass by. He'll do you a live demo.

I know the pilot well, and all I can say is "he really is that good". No special editing in order to dupe anyone.

Well played buddy! I'm working on the level 3 :pilotfly:

Hi, Could you tell us what are the missing systems you are referring to? I find the Mirage pretty neat the way it is now.

Hi fitness88, French M-2000c performing Air Defense Mission usually have "BUT" (waypoints) and BAD (BUT Additionnels - Additional Waypoints) preload in the Mission Data Cartridge. Part of the BUTs are airfield locations and the respective BADs is usually the airfield entry point or initial point. What you can do is to set a waypoint on an airfield in landing mode in the editor. Then add a BAD to this waypoint in-game. The BAD would be set to the desired initial point. When performing your approach, head for the BAD the switch back to the associated BUT. This way you should have a good alignment, even in very bad IFR conditions. Cheers,

I don't pretend to be a great mirage virtual pilot, neither do my pals, but out of the ~50+ S530 fired that night, only 2 got a kill. I think it's suspicious enought to talk about it here. If you have any doute about what I am saying, please take a look to the Tacview. Anyway, can Razbam or ED say something about it? Is this being looking at? Cheers, Raiden

Hi everyone, Had a nice flight with my pals yesterday night on NTTR and we experienced the greatest difficulties to hit something with the Super 530D. As you can see below, missiles are perfectly guided but do not detonate at targeted aircraft proximity. On this one I am pretty sure the missile goes through the aircraft. And here are the TACVIEW files. I think something's wrong... Cheers, Raiden

Anything between 118.00 - 143.90 or 225 - 399.90.

FAF pilot also use UMPCs (Ultra Mobile Personal Computer), which contain mission data, charts and maps.

It is called EFB (for Electronic Flight Bag). If you can read and understand french, you'll find more here Cheers