Terry Dactil

T-V-M-D-C (True Virgins Make Dull Company) Is one of the first things you learn in flight school Navigation 101. Ger the True bearing from the map and apply the Variation to get the Magnetic Bearing. Use the wind correction triangle of velocities to calculate the magnetic heading to fly. (no wind correction in this case). To the Magnetic heading apply the Deviation correction to get the Compass heading to fly. Unfortunately, we have no idea of what the Deviation is. (Has anyone found a deviation card hidden anywhere in the cockpit?)

That is to be expected. The P8 compass is in bad position close to metal objects and electrical wiring which distort the local magnetic field. These errors are partially corrected by maintenance "compass swinging". This consists of accurately aligning the aircraft on a cardinal heading (say North) and adjusting a small N-S correcting magnet to zero that error. The aircraft is then accurately aligned South and that same correcting magnet is adjusted to remove 1/2 the current error. The procedure is also don heading East and West using the E-W correcting magnet. As you can see this does not remove, but only minimizes the errors. (This is called the "deviation" and the errors are listed, normally in 30° increments, on a nearby card, which we don't have in our Mosquito. You apply this deviation correction to what you see on the magnetic compass to get the actual magnetic heading). The remote compass sensor, on the other hand, is in a much better magnetic location and any errors are electronically eliminated so the indicator in the cockpit should be accurate on all headings and does not require a deviation card at all. /nit picking mode off /

Ever tried moving into the navigator's position in flight to set / tune a radio? This module badly needs an attitude / altitude hold function for when you move out of the pilot's seat. This has been requested many times, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to happen. (Nice to see that the new missions in the latest updates have scripted the navigator to set up and tune the appropriate beacons as required. Ho ray for now having a navigator! That is a lot easier and more realistic than trying to work all the radios stuff yourself while still flying the plane) Me too! The Mosquito may have its faults, but it is still my favorite.

My understanding is that the venturi type carburetor cannot draw enough fuel from the jets with the very low intake airflow at the low rpm provided by the starter. You therefore use the primer pump to inject an air temperature dependent measured amount of fuel into the intake manifold, and this vaporizes and will enable the engine to start and run briefly. This increases the rpm sufficiently for the carburetor to work properly when you select the mixture to the run position.

This also happens if you are doing a manual start and forget to get the ground crew to start priming. The engines will not start if they are not being primed. It looks like you have a communications problem to fix. If you can't talk to anybody, then the auto-start script probably can't talk to the ground crew either. Did you hear anything just after the window gets opened?

Same here. I could not find a kneeboard.dll file anywhere on my computer. I did find that the older Vaicom manual said that no download or install was required for the kneeboard, so it is probably buried somewhere inside the main program. That paragraph has been removed from the latest manual.

It looks like some new bugs come with the update. My kneeboard works OK, but the 'Options' - 'Take (n)' command is completely stuffed for me. It will sometimes show the text, but mostly just blinks on then off. If called up as a COM (\) command using the keyboard it , that works perfectly, so it does not appear to be a DCS problem. Doubtless all will be fixed sometime soon, and I must say a thank you for the work the new developers are doing to keep Vaicom alive.

I guess this is just another example of terrible British WW2 cockpit layouts. Probably in real life you would adjust that small floodlight on the left to point at the elevator trim gauge to make it visible. Unfortunately for us it fixed and set to illuminate a blank bit of cockpit wall, which makes it pretty useless. Maybe someone can find where a .lua file can be modded to adjust it?

Update: I had a better idea and added a manual trim for each axis. I have to work a bit harder flying the Mosquito now, but it was a bit like cheating to use the hat switch on the stick for a WW2 aircraft that didn't have that luxury! (A big thanks to Authentikit for their 3D print files that I modified).

Exactly. They are two entirely separate systems. Each has different advantages and disadvantages. The P8 compass does not require any power, but is in a terrible magnetic location with nearby metal objects ans varying electrical circuits. There will be a card nearby listing the corrections (the deviation) to apply to get the actual magnetic heading from what you see on the P8 compass. The remote compass requires power, but is in a much better location out on a wingtip or in the tail somewhere where any deviation errors do not vary and can be permanently corrected. Hence what you see on the indicator in the cockpit is the real magnetic heading and does not need correcting. Basically, the RI is the one to use until you get shot up and lose electrical power, then the P8 (commonly called the "standby" compass) will get you home.

It seems like the problem is that VR clips the display to a smaller area than the full screen you have in the non-VR display. It then moves that all over the place so I suspect the screen coordinates get massively altered, but the text coordinates don't. Hence a mis-match and clipping. Here is what I get with a normal fullscreen display. Everything works fine with the text now in a much lower position. Someone must have thought that was a great idea, but did not bother to check how it looks in VR!

B Be aware that all you really need is just Voice Attack to give you your desired keystrokes by a verbal command. Vaicom is a great plug-in for VA which bypasses ED's clunky comms menu and the multiple keystrokes required to do anything. For example: say " 2 attack <whatever is currently annoying you> and you get the required response without ever seeing the comms menu. All great stuff. Get them both. You won't regret it.

The best solution for that is to use PointCTL which keeps it realistic as you have to reach out to where you see the switch. The easiest fix is to use Voice Attack to actuate the switches. Death to Keyboards in VR!

Perhaps ED should take a close look at the DCS-SRS overlay. It can be moved about and also made visible or not. That one got it right for what the user wants.

It is even worse as the lower part gets cut off if the text size has been enlarged. It has become completely unreadable for me now. (Text generated by auto start)

You might also find some suitable files on Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4658260

Same thing with the other covered button ( the Fire Extinguishers and IFF Detonators). Probably someone thinks it is a helpful feature to save a click, but it is not realistic, and I'd like to see it back the way it was.

My setup has the controllers mounted on a large sheet of MDF particleboard bolted under the seat of an office chair. Just about everything has been screwed onto that in some way or other. The Authentikit .stl file is easily modified (in Fusion360) to have an appropriate extension with a couple of screw holes. (The black 'L' shaped thing in the photo). I didn't have any of the small crushable ferrules for non-soldered connections, so I just soldered them in the standard fashion. I did have a problem with the cheap Chinese rotary encoders I used. The connector tabs would break off if bent more than once. The white gunk is to make sure they can't move now. Fusion360 file here to modify as required Rotec backplate mount v2.f3d

The best Authentikit feature is that the replica controls mount on an adjustable framework so that they match exactly with what you see in VR. The improvement in immersion must be enormous! (Unfortunately, I am still using my old Warthog system so I can't do this (yet!). However, all the Authentikot files are free to use so I have taken their elevator and rudder trim files to make add-ons to my setup. Now I am not cheating by using the hat switch trim for WW2 aircraft. Thank you Authentikit )

Thanks funkster. That fixes a problem that has annoyed me for years!

Sorry, this probably was not explained well in the original thread. Mine has been working fine for years. The mod is a direct edit of the textures zip file. It will not work in the usual manner of installing in the saved games folder. I use OVGME to put my edited file directly into DCS World OpenBeta The path is <drive>://DCS World OpenBeta/Mods/aircraft/Spitfire/Cockpit/Textures/Cockpit_Spitfire_LFMkIX_Textures.zip

Try this one .. it's perfect.

It's a bug. I I have the same problem and cannot feather either engine. The feather button does not stick in as it should when pressed. The prop starts to feather while the button is held pressed in, but immediate starts unfeathering if the button is released. (I guess the appropriate authority will have to ground all Mosquitos until this problem is fixes, as they are no longer airworthy).

Brake lever thread is here ...

Congratulations, and welcome to the DH98 appreciation club. You do know that you are doomed now? If you are anything like me you will soon realize that you desperately need a brake lever, RPM levers and a manual elevator trim wheel. null True happiness is having a 3D printer and a BU0836 circuit board /smug mode off (PM me if you want details.)