Terry Dactil

Do some research and you will find that the the aeronautical standards were derived from the maritime standards which go back to the mid 1800s. Apart from changing terminology like "2 points abaft the beam" into measurements in degrees, the regulations are a lot more than 80 years old and were well established in WW2 when the Mosquito came on the scene. If in real life you can see lights from the wrong angles then you are not seeing the lights directly. You are close enough to see the dirty cover over the light, not the lamp itself. Yep. However, more than 18,000 hours flight time and LAME's qualifications should take me out of those chair pilot's standards. Your apology is accepted The whole point here is that the navigation lights should be visible only in certain directions. Here is a Mosquito nav light It seems pretty obvious that it should not be visible from the other side or from the rear and that ED do not have the graphics correct.

Note that all 3 lights are visible. This is not correct. The nav lights are designed to enable an external observer at a distance to determine the orientation of the aircraft and its flight path to assist in avoiding collisions. There should be only one colored light visible at any one time and this will show the sector of the aircraft the observer is viewing. The lights are deliberately restricted to be visible only at certain angles. This aids the pilots in determining if a collision risk exists.

This might help. As I did most of my aviating on multi-crew aircraft, I rather like using verbal commands to get something done. Voice Attack is perfect for this. For example, the VA command line to Nigel my navigator … When I say: [Nav; Nigel; ] [You can; ] turn on the [radios; radio power] … has 12 permutations, as the semicolon and space acts as a blank so the command accepts any of the bracketed words or nothing at all. Anything from “turn on the radios” to “Nigel, you can turn on the radio power” as well as the other combinations will be accepted, so I don’t have to remember an exact phrase for the command. I had to assign some keystrokes and the command output becomes … Move to Nav seat Press 2 key and hold for 0.1 seconds and release Turn on radio power and Tx Master sw to STBY Press Left Ctrl+V keys and hold for 0.1 seconds and release Press Left Alt+V keys and hold for 0.1 seconds and release Press Left Shift+M keys and hold for 0.1 seconds and release Set Arial DF mode and Rx Master sw VISUAL Press Left Shift+D keys and hold for 0.1 seconds and release Press Left Shift+V keys and hold for 0.1 seconds and release Return to pilot seat Press 1 key and hold for 0.1 seconds and release Say, 'Radios set for D F. Tuning still required' I am still trying to find a way of not having to manually tune to a frequency but telling Nigel to set it. However, this VA command saves considerable time, so I have a better chance of getting the radio tuned before the aircraft crashes.

Yes. If you really want to fly around continuously with such a low power setting, then do it with a big reduction in the rpm and keeping the throttles above the warning point. (I find that the warning makes a handy reference point when flying in formation and having to make numerous small power adjustments).

There is a great mod that makes the Spitfire's instruments perfectly readable and also fixes the too-bright floor textures. Click to go to these old posts ...

Modifying views.lua is working again. Change lines 15 & 16 in "<your drive>\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Views.lua" and the F4 view can be changed to whatever you desire. These are the values I used. I tried using OVGME and placing it in 'Saved Games' but that did not work like it used to.

Suggest you try a forum search. This is an old problem with an easy fix to set the default view to whatever you want.

Yes. Mouse panning was lost here too. Fixed when I found where these options were located. (Hiding in axis controls and not in views where I had been searching)

Yes. It is not rocket science If you can't keep it straight and the heading is varying wildly from side to side it means the human bit of the feedback loop can't keep up and the control gain needs to be reduced. Put in a curve, or if you are in the anti-curve brigade, then reduce the y axis sensitivity until you get rid of the over-controlling. For the Spitfire I finished up using 30~40% curve and it runs like it is on rails. Same with the Mosquito. Google PID and control loop feedback for more info.

You are not the first nav murderer Nealius Posted October 16, 2021 Oh no....I've been killing poor Nigel all this time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update: I find Voice Attack very useful in situations like this. One verbal command can issue the complete string of keystrokes required to get both crew members out of the aircraft. I thought my command should be very British. Like " I say Nigel old chap, I think we should be vacating this gentleman's flying contraption, what?", but I settled on a more realistic (for me) "Bail out - bail out" in a rapidly rising tone. I also did the gentlemanly thing and let Nigel go first. Probably the smart thing as I suspect his legs would get in the way of my rapid exit. Anyway, it all works OK if you give the command to both.

You might get better results with the other rocket types. The suggestions I've seen somewhere and noted are: Ships 25lb AP Armour piercing Soft targets 60lb HE High explosive Light Armour 60lb HE/AP Both Also aim slightly short to get hits below the waterline. Good luck, and medals if you succeed.

OK. While we are all whinging about the rocket's shortcomings, I discovered something I consider very neat. ED have model the acoustic effects to include the speed of sound. Look and listen to this ... Moz rockets.mp4 Great stuff ED! So who is going to be first to complain that the speed is not quite correct or does not vary with temperature or something?

True. But then it depends a bit on which manual you search.

Yes, very sneaky. But then they do like hiding important fuel controls behind the pilot's seat and scattering other controls randomly around the cockpit. You can't find this one by mousing over it as it is , like the other weapons buttons, not mouse clickable. I could not find it until I clicked on the keyboard continuously while looking around the cockpit.

Yes. A fantastic weapon, and another role in which the Mosquito was superb. I read recently that the technique was to aim at the water slight short of a U-boat. The round would then be deflected to horizontal, hit at the waterline and with a bit of luck go right through and out the other side. Much quicker at sinking a U-boat than punching holes in the conning tower and stuff above the waterline!

Nope. The default keys for release are Bombs RSHFT + Space Rocket LALT + Space so you will have to go to the controls setup page and assign those different keysbinds to two different hotas switches. I am looking for a way to read the rockets armed / bombs armed switches so one button on the joystick works either weapon, as it does on other modules.

No problems here for me. I used the takeoff exercise at Manston and set both full and partial bomb loads on the aircraft. Flew it several times selecting individual bombs, symmetric pairs, as well as the lot. They all released as selected. Maybe a 'Repair" would help?

There are also two new training missions that show you where the switches have been hidden, and how to use them. I could not get it to work either until I discovered the training missions. (The rockets are where the outer bombs go, so surely it will be just like dropping the outer bombs. Duh! No it's not.)

Yes. That is correct. My problem was self-inflicted. I had a mod to the joystick keybinds for the 2 speed elevator trim running and that prevented the operation of the new rocket keybinds for the joystick. All fixed and working now - learning something new every day Now I can go and blow stuff up too!

Yes. These should be more accurate than the bombs I have been scattering far and wide around targets. Are the rockets working though? I can get the ground crew to hang them on the wings, but in the controls setup I can't bind the one listed keystroke to a Hotas switch. Also I can't find any control/arming/selector panel in the cockpit for the other functions. The manual only shows rockets as a 'work in progress'. Suggestions please? ___________________________________________________________ Duh! There are new training mission that shows where the Master Arm and Salvo switches are placed in a truly British WW2 cockpit layout. In the training mission there is now a great big "salvo" switch on the coaming that wasn't there before. Still can't bind a hotas key to fire the rockets though.

I have to agree. There seems to be no resistance by the wheels to any lateral movement. It is like the runway surface is ice. If you try really hard it is possibly to take off with the aircraft pointing about 90° off the direction of travel. There are some big problems with the undercarriage dynamics. My particular whinge being the excessive pitch up moment on touchdown.

Yes. I have just done a beam approach into Manston in bad weather while flying the Mosquito. I was in a crosswind and the cloud / snow particles were moving quite rapidly across the flight path. The cloud / snowing effects are very pretty, but there is something badly wrong with the dynamics. In real life when you are flying in rain or snow where you can see the particles they are always coming straight towards you as you are both equally affected by any wind. You are both in the same air mass and at this stage its speed and direction is irrelevant. It got even worse when I turned 90° and flew downwind. Now I was being overtaken by the clouds and snow. It was passing me and moving away in the forward direction as if I was stationary on the ground. It looks like ED need to do some revision on their relative frames of refece, and while they are at it perhaps change their wind directions to the common standard 'coming from' not 'blowing to'. ____________________________________________________________ Update: I have to take it all back! I flew the mission again and everything looked perfect. Even the tower told me the correct wind direction ( After landing the snow was visibly now blowing 180° different from the first time. Perhaps something randomized in the mission is screwing thing up?) ________________________________________________________________ Update 2: Repeating the mission several times (LSHFT + R) gave the weird effects and reversed wind direction again each time. However, a restart of the computer and DCS OpenBeta restored normal effects. Strange

Yes I have, and I have also operated aircraft engines for more than 40 years. Aircraft engines are not designed to give extreme amounts of power, run on exotic fuels and have 30 second overhaul life. Yes. That is very impressive, but I bet you have never seen a drag racer engine running for many hours like an aircraft engine has to. That is not a valid comparison.

Yes . We see engines being test run and there are pretty flames out the exhaust. Why are the engines being test run? Probably to adjust the carburetor. Exhaust flames do not produce power and are just wasting fuel. To be fair, there is one way that there may be some combustible mixture in the exhaust stubs. These are supercharged engines which is why they do not have tuned exhaust / collector pipes. There is some brief valve overlap at the end of the exhaust stroke where both intake and exhaust valves are open at the same time and the pressurized intake charge helps scavenge and helps the exhaust on its way. However, the spark plugs are not firing here so there should be no ignition source to produce a flame. If there is, it means there was combustion still occurring on the exhaust stroke (or perhaps a large glowing carbon build-up) and the mixture control is grossly in error. Sorry /rant off.

All that demonstrates is that some programmer is completely clueless about how a 4 stroke engine works. the combustion of the fuel gives pressure to drive the piston down on the power stroke then the upward exhaust stroke gets rid of the combustion gasses in preparation for the next (intake) cycle. if there is still fuel burning during the exhaust stroke it cannot provide any power and is just a waste of fuel and shows that the carburetor is not adjusted correctly/. As a side note: The problem of WW2 aircraft being seen at night was not because of flames from the exhaust, but because the exhaust gasses are hot enough (>1000C) to cause the stubs to become red-hot and this glow was visible. You can see a lot of photos where the bombers have a metal shield over the exhausts to hide the glow. Here is an example: