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Interesting! Hopefully the upcoming special Gunfighter mounts will allow for more vertical and horizontal displacement ... especially as many folks would be interested in using the larger MCG Pro grip eventually. Also: what's the molecule? :)

Do you folks find that the horizontal displacement (forward-aft) of the mounts is sufficient so that the shaft/grip + 20 cm extension does not knock against the table at full forward displacement at all heights?

@rrhode, is it possible to order backups of the little clamp screw thingamajigs that secure the grip to the extension or the extension to the base?

So, I ran into a few problems with this procedure. I complete steps 1 and 2 ok. When I try (3), though, I get a "no new data" alert. When I try (4), there is an access violation warning. When I try to go to the button wizard, there are a whole bunch of access violation errors that keep popping up, so much so that I have to hard quit the application using the OS. However, it appears that I still end up getting the shifted keys, at least, as given by the VKB_Btn_tester.

This is a fantastic guide, Rainer!!!

Ah yes, got it! Sorry for the trouble!

Hi Rainer, what is the screw size for the holes on the floor mounting plate (the ones through which we will secure it to something firm on the ground)? P.S. so, one good thing to add to the wiki idea is full specs of all screws/parts?

Will do, Rainer! I think that the first thing to gather would be things required to get folks in the cockpit from "out-of-the-box": - some images/additional details of the setup/assembly to accompany the official guides: e.g., the mechanism to lock the grip and the stick to the base (this may seem straightforward to many folks, but the fact that there were questions on this thread would seem that images can help); the dry clutch loosening required; the loosening of the screws holding down the dust boot to avoid friction with the dry clutch, etc. - the all-important calibration using VKB software and not Windows Then customization: - setting the grip angle - adjusting tension using springs, cams, and the dry clutch - recalibration required after any of this? Then a whole section to Warthog grip usage - again images and instructions to supplement official guide, especially as it seems the wiring configuration is different (no grounding wire, different colored wires) - note on required steps using software to get working - note on mapping (including how default A-10C mapping gets lost and must be redone) - troubleshooting/issues Many of these are common sense to many folks, and others are just community wisdom picked up over a lot of forum participation ... but useful to have it collected in one place for new people still!

So is that a MonsterTech mount? Do they already have one for the Gunfighter Pro?

Great stuff in this thread, but scattered over so many posts! E.g., I had to open up 40 pages to find the one pic Rainer so kindly posted of the clutch adjustment screws. Will have to go through the same when it comes to WH adapter wiring etc. The guides on the VKB site are good, but lacking in images! A stick of this complexity/configurability really needs its own Wiki (or at least, dedicated page collecting all the various information, tips, etc. with supporting images)! Maybe when I go through this thread again, I will try and collect all the useful information and get that started somewhere.

I know what you mean. It really sucks to have a degradation that is so bad that it totally ruins the experience. And, of course, there is no going back to 2D :( :( :( I have not read all the stuff you tried, so apologies if you have already tried this, but are you able to roll back to a previous version of 2.0? Maybe one, two, or even three updates back? That will at least rule out one variable. And perhaps same for the NVIDIA drivers? Not sure if you can do that with Oculus. Of course, the complication will come if there are interactions between versions!

Could you try the F-5E instant mission take-off? I get ~45 FPS on the runway, and then after taking off, I circle back over the airport, and the FPS drops to 22-23. In this mission's case, I suspect it is the clouds/rain. If you happen to have the F-5E BFM campaign, fly the second mission (familiarization flight) ... this, for me, is the real FPS killer.

Absolutely! +1

Fantastic! Thank you!

Good news! I wonder if the plates would allow sufficient horizontal offset/displacement to allow for full deflection with the 20cm extension? This was an issue IIRC with the 20cm extension for the Warthog (though I could be mistaken about this: someone please correct me if I am wrong).

Great, thanks! No urgency --- have not even got it yet --- but perhaps VKB could share the specs of the correct screw (and maybe a link to the correct model on a major online vendor, e.g. https://www.boltdepot.com/ )? This for those of us who find the physical world even more challenging than the virtual one!

Thanks for this, Rainer. Would it be possible for us to replace the screws entirely with ones that are within specs?

Never let speed drop below 180 MPH with open throttle. Which means you have to think ahead. E.g., going in a steep climb? Chop the throttle. Open it up again when you recover speed > 180 MPH in the dive. Counter-intuitive, I know!

+1

That would make sense ... except that the 109K is really --- in practice --- as hands-off management as the Dora. You can override the RPM/pitch, but I've not found it terribly useful to do so. So from an engine management perspective, flying the K is mostly just throttle management like the Dora. The 109E3 (and before): now that was a handful! But also so many generations older so as to be, in WW2 technological pace terms, a different era. No, I think I like the 109K over the Dora because it flies better and it take more to fly her --- a racing horse rather than a cavalry horse. Though, I agree that take-off's in the FW-190 are the most challenging of all the DCS warbirds.

All makes sense. Sorry for the plaintive note, but yes, when I think when we read "shipping starts Tue", we understood "shipping notice on Wed, delivery Friday, persuade wife to take kids to zoo so we can play with new toy on Saturday". At least, some of us did! Good idea regarding disclaimer --- always good to manage expectations --- and great idea to open up ordering when products ready to ship! Also, I will say just you stepping in an explaining the process and what steps we are at and what steps are around the corner, etc. goes a looooooooong way to helping out and is greatly appreciated! THANKS!

Ah, good to know! We don't use any of that, though in my college days incense was popular in a few of the places we lived at. Which at least smelled better!

Yep, no shipping info for me either ... and I ordered within the first two hours as well.

By the Normandy invasion, the Luftwaffe was no longer (really) an effective fighting force in any capacity in the region. The Allies had total air supremacy, and there was not one German aircraft in the sky over Normandy on D-Day. And very little (though, of course there were some) after till the end of the war --- stories of two dozen or more Allied fighters chasing a single Luftwaffe fighter are not uncommon, and Allied fighter-bombers and attack planes had the run of the sky. This was by design: it had been planned two years previously, and masterfully put into effect in Operation Pointblank. The great Allied bombing raids leading up to the invasion had only the secondary objective of infrastructure and material destruction. The primary objective was to draw up the Luftwaffe to fight and eventually destroy them through attrition. To the extent that bomber routes deliberately went near or over Luftwaffe fighter defense bases instead of avoiding them. They succeeded in this not just spectacularly, but some would say, given the resources at hand, inevitably. All of this (and much, much, much, much more) is covered in great and fantastic detail in https://www.amazon.com/Command-Sky-Superiority-Smithsonian-Spaceflight/dp/0817353461 "To Command the Sky: The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944". A truly fantastic book that covers everything in great detail from a strategic, doctrinal, and tactical viewpoint from both sides. So yes, there is historical and there is historical ... a "what happened" and "what might have happened". So, as you can see, a balanced (even by a long margin), even vaguely symmetric force-on-force air conflict on a late 1944 map is no more or less historical than a "Cold War Gone Hot in Normandy using 1970's tech"! ;)

Depends on how good you are at flying with no hands and no stick! ;) From the guide, you have to disassemble the base to get at the clutch tension screws ...