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My guess is the Heading Hold mode kicks in. If you open the control input by RCtr + Enter you should see 2 blue lines around the yaw indicator, if yaw changes very abruptly while you are slowing down, I assume you should see 2 things in the control input for the yaw axis: 1) blue line around yaw axis 2) green line bouncing around. What I did to solve this was to either hold the FTR button, which makes the helicopter less stable, or "break out" the heading holding. In the manual page 179 you will find the heading hold engage conditions, one of these conditions is `Pedal displacement <= 3% in yaw axis from the force trim reference position.` This means if you are below 40 knots and move the pedals away from the previously trimmed position far enough, then the heading hold should not be engaged. Without heading hold there should be no abrupt yaw changes during the approach, especially when you reach 40 knots or lower. So my suggestion is, you can trim the helicopter to perhaps 50 knots, and from there stop trimming, once you established a stable hover, trim again. If you watch Brad's video you will also find at some point during the approach he stops trimming and just flight the helicopter. According to the manual:" a 'breakout' value within each flight control axis of the cyclic and pedals allows the pilot to 'fly through' the hold modes" This is a video I recorded a long time ago, you will see once my speed is below 40kts the heading hold mode kicks in, but instead of moving the pedals to the left and trim, I breakout the heading hold mode by moving the pedals away from the previously trimmed position. https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxf4WeNENy5jWFJkL-UW_jBLfl-f_XGRPl

I totally agree that the customer service from Thrustmaster is first class. I've never had any Winwing products before so it's not my position to judge their customer service, however, I did hear some people have had issues with their customer support. I was originally looking at Virple or MFG pedals, but I have to pay import taxes for both of them, Winwing is the only company that will ship their product within Canada. Looking through some of the posts regarding the customer support issue of Winwing in this forum or on Reddit makes me a bit worried. I'm gonna wait for another 2 weeks and perhaps I will buy the Virple rudder pedals, at least I didn't find any people mentioning their quality control or customer support issue.

I'm in Canada and I placed the pre-order for Orion pedals on Feb 20th, I haven't got any updates so far. Some people suggest checking their website daily because the item might be in stock before they send you the notice.

I had the same bug today plus a few more things: 1) After passing waypoint 1, Raven 41 called for the radio switch to Strike, after switching, nothing happened until he said "knock it off" and decided to meet the tanker. 2) He was connected with the tanker all the time and radioed me to connect while he was on the hook. I do have some 3rd party mods installed. Aircraft Mods: Civil Aircraft Mod, Hercules ver 6.8.2, Military Aircraft Mod, UH-60L Services Mods: DCS-SRS Tech Mods: SAMSitesAssetPack Hope this will help to find the cause of the bug.

Thank you Raptor! I've been practicing Apache a lot recently, I'm confident to say that the FTR button is the most frequent button I use in Apache, but still, every now or then I will encounter something like this: Now I understand the cause of this issue: my bad trimming technique. What I used to do was: fly the aircraft to a desired state -> press the FTR -> release the FTR -> recenter the joystick and pedals. I found this technique is OK as long as the required joystick/pedals movements are really small. What I do now is: press and hold the FTR -> fly the aircraft to a desired state -> release the FTR -> recenter the joystick/pedals. So in short, if I ever need to move the cyclic or pedals, I'm just gonna press and hold the FTR until the maneuver is done, this solved my issue.

Thank you so much for the input! That pre-order waiting list is killing me...

The helicopters with force trim release systems are not 'dead stick' all the time. Without the force trim release button being pressed, moving the cyclic away from the center position and releasing the cyclic will cause the cyclic to move back to its center position, just like other normal aircraft would do. In other words, the further you move the cyclic from its centered position, the more tension/force it will be required to move the cyclic. In Apache, when the force trim release button is NOT pressed, it means the force trim system is engaged: Pressing the force trim release button will release the magnetic and allow movement of the controls without any resistance. For the article, you can check this one: https://www.spinningwing.com/the-helicopter/control-forces Also, these 2 videos will explain: The force trim system in Apache is similar but with SAS involved. That's why if you want to do some big maneuver the best practice is to hold the force trim release button, this will release the magnetic brakes and allow the cyclic to move freely without resistance, as well as re-center the SAS servo and de-active the SAS with only SCAS engaged. Once the maneuver is finished and the helicopter is in the desired flight state, releasing the force trim release button will cause the cyclic and pedals to stay in the new center position. Most of the helicopters in the world with such system do not have any limitation on how long you can press the FTR button, but some old Russian helicopters such as Ka-32 has 0.5 seconds limit on holding down the FTR button. If you want, you can find some Mi-8 landing video, the 'click' sound is the FTR button being pressed and released, you will be surprised how often the FTR button is being used.

I just placed the pre-order for Winwing's pedal, the main reason I didn't choose MFG or Virpil is because of the shipping and tax. MFG costs 70 USD to ship to Canada and that's the price without tax. So the whole price to get MFG with damper to be delivered to Canada would be around 600 CAD+, but Winwing costs 486 CAD. I just wish I lived in the EU.

I just placed the pre-order for this pedal with the damper kit included. I mainly fly helicopters so I guess I will use the rudder pedals without spring, but I've never used any rudder pedals with damper before. Is the damper kit worth it and will make the rudder feel better when using without the spring?

I can't comment on other stuff that you've mentioned without a track replay. However "hold the TRIM button the oscillation (yaw SAS I guess?) stops" is the correct behavior, since holding the force trim release button will make the aircraft back into CAS mode only, which means no SAS. Also, holding the force trim release button will command the SAS servo back to the current control input's center position. BradMicks had a great video explaining this:

Just did a quick test for the new ATT hold mode, this is so much better! ED really should change the word "slight" to "huge"

Yes, took me some time but I found the source of the issue, it's in Config/Input/FA-18C_hornet/keyboard There is a Lua file in that folder called Keyboard.diff: local diff = { ["keyDiffs"] = { ["d131pnilunilcdnilvdnilvpnilvunil"] = { ["added"] = { [1] = { ["key"] = "F5", ["reformers"] = { [1] = "LAlt", }, }, }, ["name"] = "F9 Landing signal officer view", ["removed"] = { [1] = { ["key"] = "F9", ["reformers"] = { [1] = "LAlt", }, }, }, }, }, } return diff I have no idea how and why this file got created, but I believe LAlt + F9 and LSO view got removed. Once I deleted this file everything went back to normal.

Oh boy, this did the trick!!! Now my LSO view is back and normal! Can't thank you guys enough @macedk and @draconus

Ok guys, sorry to come back to this thread again. The bad news here: I still could not get into the LSO view. @macedkGuess I do owe you a beer. So here are the things I did so far: 1) Uninstall the game completely and re-install it to the latest open beta version. 2) Uninstall and re-install the supercarrier mod. 3) No mods in C:/User/userName/Saved Games/DCS.openbeta/Mods 4) Tried in both mt and non-mt versions. I also noticed some weird behavior in the supercarrier's LSO platform. My LSO platform looked low poly when I entered the supercarrier for the first time. However, if I hit`Rctl+Ralt+Rshift+F9` which is 'Supercarrier camera' option under general, my LSO platform would actually render something, but the screens are messed up. As shown in this video: I don't think track would be too helpful here but I will still attach it. I already saved the logs and I guess this would be a great opportunity to submit a trouble ticket. no_lso_view.trk

This also happened to me yesterday, if I switched to the front seat I could not even move the TADS. George was fine for my previous flight, the only thing I missed was aligning my IHAADS during the cold start, however, the issue was still there after I found a place to land and re-calibrated the IHAADS. I also found some other weird bugs during this process: 1) The front seat MFD was stuck at the weapon page, for example, if I clicked TSD button the WPN button would be triggered somehow, and I could see the WPN button being pressed down many times. 2) The front seat laser second detent button could not be held, by this I mean if I held down the laser second stage detent the laser would only be turned on for a few seconds and shut off. 3) There was no way to choose TADS as ACQ Source in the backseat or the front seat. TADS option was missing. 4) TADS can not be moved freely in the front seat using RHG MAN TRACK controller, the TADS movement was really jerky and sluggish.

I'm also looking at the MFG crosswinds pedals, one question though, how did you place/mount your pedals? I'm currently using CH pro pedals and just place them on the floor, but after some youtube videos I don't think the MFG would be stable enough to be placed on the floor directly.

Hi, I've checked everything and I still could not get into the LSO view (both MT and non-MT version). Game version: 2.8.8.43704 (latest version as of 08/22/23) Supercarrier mode installed: checked Double bind: checked, in case my F9 key not working I assigned 2 extra keybinds. (Press F9 key would switch to boat external view) Mission: ED's F18C supercarrier launch mission.

Hello all, This is just a minor issue, the current vertical velocity reading on the HUD would give us instant reading without any delay. I don't know how F-15E calculates the vertical velocity specifically, but since vertical speed is calculated based on the pressure change by the pitot-static system, there is always some delay. This behavior can be seen in the DCS F-18C as well as irl hud, also across all commercial aircraft (just google any commercial aircraft + PFD) even to a small Cessna.

Thank you so much! I couldn't understand why I was not able to enter the SRM mode until I looked down at the in-game throttle, unlike A10C, the boat switch in F15 is spring loaded back to center, and the china hat switch can be maintained at one of the three positions.

This is great news! I can't wait to enable wake turbulence for carrier operation, I really hope the new FM/FCS will fix this.

Just updated to the latest open beta and did a repair, still no luck. Use F9 to enter the ship view and still could not get into the LSO view. I was trying this on both built-in SC launch mission and my custom mission, how can I check if the external views are disabled in the .miz file?

That's great news! My throttle has the old-style crappy slew, I will wait for your force sensor upgrade!

Thanks for the advice! Does Raven One DF campaign has similar AI problems in MT? Because I really want to buy DF if it has fewer DCS AI problems.

Hi, First of all, I want to say thank you for this amazing campaign, this is the first F18 I've ever bought and I loved it. However, I believe due to the updated version of DCS, there were some script bugs, for example, I've tried Mission 3 for four times because SMOKE either went AWOL or F10 menu disappeared, or the Jeep would not spawn. So my question is, what is the best way to load the mission to avoid these bugs? Should I use the ST version of DCS? Or should I start the mission directly from the mission instead of the campaign?

Thank you! I still deciding either should I purchase the slew upgrades now or wait for a bit for the future force sensor version. Another question is, I've heard the TM actually upgrade their newly shipped Warthog throttle to have a new kind of slew (Since 2021 I believe), what's the difference between your slew upgrades with the newly stocked Warthog slew?