Terry Dactil

Read the stuff above about Voice Attack again. It doesn't have to always be a verbal command - it can react to just one key press and send off a sequence of keystrokes. eg Press your 'gear up' key and Voice Attack sends 'release lock' then 'gear up' keystrokes. If you want only one key for both gear up and gear down, then use the 'gear toggle up/down' key instead.

No. Just include any aircraft specific stuff as a profile in the Global Profile list and it will be found and used when needed. I have a lot of commands to get my Mosquito navigator to select fuel tanks, select bombs, feather an engine etc so that is in a Mosquito specific profile. The more generic game commands like adjusting seating/viewpoint, knee-board and map controls, active pause, accelerate time etc go into a game control profile. This is easy and what works for me.

It is a "Must Have" if you fly in VR. It completely eliminates trying to use the keyboard in VR

Yep, I use Voice Attack to automatically release the lock before moving the gear or flap lever if I use the switches on the warthog throttle. Alternately I can command my invisible navigator to move the lever for me. Flaps down is: null

Thanks. It can be downloaded at https://ebook-hunter.org/

In the meantime is it really so difficult to click on a few shortcuts to get started. null

Generator damaged or failimg? If so it will show on the mission debrief screen. Reflected's missions toss in all sorts of sneaky problems. There is probably some drill like turning off the generator that we should know if we were competent Mosquito pilots.

The main problem is getting an accurate magnetic heaing. The RI has a horrendous paralax error. The easiest solution I learned a long time ago on DC-3s which had similar ancient suck and blow instruments was to use the runway heading when yo lined up for takeoff. Here we are at Manston where the runway is 113°M and the RI is nowhere near corrcct. At least you can have an accurate DI for a while after takeoff.

This is where Voice Attack is perfect for a 2 crew operation. I have set mine up so I can ask the navigator for an apropriate cheklist at various times. As it is challenge and response (like in real life), the coding can be a bit tricky, but I can share it if anyone is inerested. (The actual challenge and response items can be modified to whatever you want if you don't like mine). It is also possible to select who should perform the required action. Very handy to have the navigator find and press some of the buttons and stuff for an engine fire/feather drill.

Don't forget to close the radiators. I've found out the hard way that it can cost you up to 20 mph at cruise setting 2650/7 (Sea level, dunno the weight... 240 mph vs 260 mph)

Yeah me. It was so hard to find the kneeboard controls ... (Sorry. Couldn't resist)

Remember that the Mosquito was designed to be unarmed. Its speed was to be its main weapon/defence. It was not designed as a dogfighter.

Have you increased your Gamm setting as recommended by Reflected. Increase Gamma until you can see details of the terrain outside the cockpit. 2.8 worked fine for me. *** Disregard - Not in MT ***

Yeah. That's the big problem ED needs to fix. I either set up as much as I can on the ground before takeoff, or I use VoiceAttack to ask Nigel my navigator to turn on the power and select all the required mode.. Then I can leap into the Nav seat and twiddle the knob to set the correct frequency and maybe get back into the pilot seat before the crash.

It has been a long time since I used TrackIR, but I think you have a command to re-ecener the viewpoint direction. If youu do then you should be able to use this handy effect I have in VR It goes like this .. Move to Nav seat. Turn head rightto look at the wing tip. Re-center the viewpoint Now you have the centered view with your head still turned far to the right So looking straight ahead you have this .. And now it is easy to look a bit to the left to see and access all the radio controls

Yep. Same problem here on occasions. However, I have found that increasing the revs to 1500 during warm-up speeds up the self errection process considerably. (Probably increased suction that speeds up the gyro or something similar is modelled). After that it seems to work OK for the rest of the flight. I have not been getting the previous huge errord developing in level flight.

Installing 2.8.3 Open Beta on a new Windows 11 computer. The basic program (the 2 aircraft and 2 theaters) installed OK, but i kept getting the “Server capacity may be limited at the moment. Please try again later” error when trying to install the other modules in my account. Tried numerous times selecting individual module or batch selections with no success. Tearing hair out until I decided to check these forums to see if anyone else had seen this problem and that was the smartest thing I did that day. Installed the VPN I was saving for later and everything then loaded OK. Thanks Slippa !

It seems like you don't see the little buggers soon enough. I suggest you set labels on to 'dot only/ symbol only' (whatever it is called now). I fly in VR and find this is pretty much essential for me to have any chance of surviving. The saying "lose sight, lose the fight" applies even more if you never never even see them coming.

This one works for me. Just open the window and tell the ground crew to start priming. Get Voice Attack to call up the 'Options' menu and the F8, F6 stuff. When I say: [Ground; ] [ready for start; start priming] Execute command, 'Options' (by name) (do not execute if already running and wait until it completes) Pause 0.1 seconds Press F8 key and hold for 0.1 seconds and release Pause 0.1 seconds Press F6 key and hold for 0.1 seconds and release (I also get Nigel, my navigator, to do all the switching & button pressing to actually start the engines. It's handy to have a helper)!

You have nailed it! It is designed for use on a heading that you select. It doesn't really care about the accuracy when the aircraft is pointing in other directions. Seems obvious when you put it this way.

Bugger! The RI compass is not as good as I thought it was. It has a large parallax error (about 10° on E-W headings) depending on how high your eye position is in the cockpit. Here is what the actual heading of 270° looks like - it's not the 260° the needle points to. I initially thought the needle pivot point was not concentric with the scale, and shot myself in the foot putting in a bug report about that. You can laugh at me here ... https://forum.dcs.world/topic/319007-remote-indicating-compass-needle-pivot-off-center/#comment-5149039 So it looks like we need to apply a parallax correction from zero if the needle is vertical, to about 10° if it is horizontal. Actually, I think I know why the RI has such an unusually long pointer - it is so you can also read the tail of the needle. It should be 180° off from the head of the needle. If it is not, take half the difference and that is the parallax correction needed. Apply this correction in the upwards direction from the indicated heeding. (or just think of a number between 0 and 10 and use that )

Yes. You are right and I stand corrected. It is a parallax problem with the needle so far away from the scale and not a shaft/pivot point problem. From a high viewpoint here is what appears to show 270° But down at a level viewpoint it is really 280° Here is what 270° looks like from the level viewpoint. And how we see it from the normal viewpoint. So, the RI also has errors. And I thought the P8 was the bad one! Update: I have had it explained to me by Bozon. Thank you ......... "... the correct way to use the RI is by setting the broad, manually rotating arrow to the direction you wish to keep. Then, the heading-indicating needle needs to be parallel to it - it stays parallel at all perspectives and is easy to monitor by a quick glance towards the dial. No need to read the numbers during cruise. " (So, unlike the modern compass, this one is not designed to tell you what heading the aircraft is on at all times, but to be accurate in keeping you on the one heading you have selected).

The needle pivot point is not concentric with the circular scale. It is on the vertical center line, but is some distance below the horizontal center line. The tail of the pointer needle should be 180° off the head. It is OK on the N-S axis. But will have about 10° errors on Easterly and Westerly headings. (The needle should be horizontal if indicating East or West}.

Yes. The P8 ring is set to the desired 110°M. The RI and DI has us on the correct heading, but the P8 wants us to turn about 10° to the right and stuff thing up!. Easy. Just turn it on with the 2 switches on the left and synchronize the DI to what is now showing on the RI cockpit instrument.

I have just flown that route with no problems. Forget about using the P8 compass as we have no deviation card for it. The RI compass is far more accurate and does not need corrections. Synchronize the DI to the RI and fly a heading of 110° This is what it looks like There appears to be about a 10° error on the P8 on this heading. (The AI never erected properly , but the DI worked OK) And here is our position marked on the map. I know it was only a short distance from overhead the departure airfield, but I'm sure we are on the right track (pun!) using the remote compass and not the P8.