Mr_sukebe

and was it it more or less effective than the quad views DFR?

Try a powered external USB hub. I found with my old PC that it didn't like having too many USB devices directly attached.

Agreed. Whilst the specs don't look great to me, it could well be that those pixels are "very nice pixels". We've seen before how resolution is not always the decider for actual image quality.

IMO is that Germany seems to need more VRAM. Personally I don’t have an issue, but it’s worth optimising your config. I’m a big fan of the Germany map, it’s great stuff

It has roughly the same specs as the Quest Pro, i.e. slightly better resolution, eye tracking, but no DPMI connection. As CoF has stated, it's really not a great solution for DCS. We need to have a tethered solution to avoid battery life issues, and if you do that, you might aswell include DPMI connection, remove the battery and most of the complex onboard processing capabilities. The Pimax Dream Air SE has the best looking proposed specification, i.e. light, DPMI connection, no battery, eye tracking, decent resolution without requiring a 6090 GPU, all at what appears to be a sensible price. The only questions are when will it arrive and will it have the usual Pimax "areas of opportunity". If HTC or Meta made the Dream Air SE, I'd be throwing my money at them, as they give me confidence that it'll do what it says on the tin.

I’m feeling inspired by the news about the Balkans map, and as such, I’m hoping that the Devs may consider introducing a new missile type, the HM1. This is an open source missile type with the following capabilities: - can be mounted on any airframe capable of carrying an air to air missile (ie available to aircraft of all nations) - is a dud when fired at an AI aircraft, with rocket motor failure after 2 seconds and a trajectory of an unguided rocket - can only be mounted on AI aircraft or SAM units When fired at a real player: - acquires targets as though it’s an R73 and has the same manoeuvrability - is a rear aspect only missile - emits a radar signature as though it’s an R26, including radar lock when fired - accelerates as an R26 and has the same top speed - on approaching its target, air brakes to a speed matching that of the target, such that it follows 200m to the rear - in the unlikely event of it accidentally hitting the target, it will only inflict superficial damage or disable one engine - has a long burn efficient rocket motor to keep it flying for 5 minutes If possible, would be great to have it available in just under 5 months. Any takers?

Strikes me as very much a "nice to have", but so far back down the priority list, that I've stopped counting.

Ooooh, that worked. Lol, spoke too soon (again). Worked until take-off, at which point it was back to 180 degrees out again. Pah.

I found what appears to be a workaround elsewhere. There's a comment that if clearing the FXO and Metashader folders in Saved Games doesn't work, to ensure that you do NOT have Mavs loaded on the aircraft during a cold start. That solved it for me until my aircraft had finished aligning, then it promptly broke again.

I've had something similar on both the Kola and Germany map. Cold start, power aircraft up, 9099, and my heading is 180 degrees out. I'm hoping that it's just me being a muppet.

It was more about me remembering studying Boolean logic at school, and being told that computers were all just binary of yes or no. Nearly 30 years in IT and I’m now a firm believer that it’s just not true.

I'll give that a go later today. My thanks for the suggestion. Seems a bit of an odd "fix", but hey, we're talking about IT.

Absolutely nothing, apart from the fact that the only one I know anything about is the K51 unit. I'm certainly not going to speculate on the quality of something that I've never seen or for that matter even read about. As I understand it, K51 is/was (unsure) an employee of Virpil and his unit was released prior to the Virpil solution being available.

It's worth reading up on the mini-blitz. The Luftwaffe loss rates were ridiculously high during this offensive, to the point that they very quickly pulled the plug. By 1944, most German fighters had already been pulled back from France and the Eastern front to focus on defence of the Reich.

Some good news for you. The point about "slop" was almost certainly because they were using the friction setting to stop the droop. Since that issue was raised to Virpil, they added the counterbalance system, and I believe that it's now part of the unit sold. The counterbalance is basically a spring that can have it's tension adjusted. The adjustment means that you can use different weight grips with the base. Personally I have a Hawk unit. So to setup: Securely mount it Add the grip Reduce the friction to nearly zero Adjust the spring/counterbalance such that there's just a tiny bit of droop Add a spot of friction to stop the tiny bit of droop That results in low friction/stiction, whilst having a collective that won't droop. Hope that helps.

Phew, not just me then

Anyone else experienced issues with the Viggen heading being reversed in the Nav system on Kola? The compass is showing the correct heading, but the Nav system is the other way around.

For a chair mount, the first question from my side is how you’ll mount anything to the chair? On the arms? Does it have secure mounting points? If you’re insistent on using a chair, start by taking a look at some of the mounting options from Monstertech. Yes, they’re expensive, but they also work well. As for the Virpil, there’s a multitude of ways to bugger up its physical setup. It needs a very solid mount (hence my comments above), and some playing around with the level of resistance via the spring system that is used to cater for the weight. Took me several hours over different days to get it right. Its now hard mounted to my aluminium profile frame, with the spring set such that the collective has a small amount of friction and feels like it has no weight. As for alternatives. There’s not much, outside of the full on “built for commercial” sim kits. The only genuine alternative is from WinWing, but I’ve no idea if it’s any good.

I flew over to the Tajbeg palace yesterday. The terrain appeared to be pretty flat. Is that correct? The images (eg above), seem to show it on a rise?

Dare I ask how you know that?

I have a trackball on the left, also hidden from view.

The cupholder is mounted on the right next to the mic stand. It's just hidden from view.

I’ve been using an aluminium profile frame for a couple of years now and have just updated the seat. I’d previously been running a seat from an MX5. It was comfortable and dirt cheap. The new seat is from an F30 BMW sport. It needed to come from a 3 series, as I wanted manual controls, not electric. The reason for going with a sport was that they have adjustable thigh supports. It just so happens that these can be removed, which results in my Moza AB9 being able to be mounted much closer to me. The bad news was that it meant removing pretty much everything near the seat, then tinkering around to find the new most appropriate locations. 12 hours later and it’s basically done, bar some fine tuning. As can be seen, it’s not trying to simulate any specific aircraft, which is because I fly probably 80% of the aircraft in DCS. So whilst I think that the F18 and similar cockpits look amazing, that’s not my preferred route. For example, between the throttle and seat, is the helicopter collective. So, worth the effort? Definitely, but that’s partly as the BMW seat was pretty cheap and I already had the metalwork to hand for re-configuration.

One “opportunity” that I’ve had with my AB9 is the mount. Mine is bolted to a Monstertech mount, as typically used with TM Warthog bases. Unfortunately, that means using some fairly small diameter bolts. I’ve had on occasion an issue when getting into my seat, that’s ended up slightly twisting the AB9, as the small diameter bolts don’t generate enough friction to stop it happening under load. I see that Moza now have a square steel mounting bracket for the AB9, with pre-drilled holes, as against slots in the Monstertech. I ordered one yesterday. Hopefully here by the end of the month. Will keep this thread posted on the outcome.

My assumption is that v2 will not be any more accurate in its interpretation of what I say. Is that correct?