[EAC and Auto Pilot]

To arm EAC and get the caution lights to extinguish during a ramp start, I get the hog up and running with Nav aligned and TAD no longer has the no nav data warning caption. I then roll forward a metre or two, test the brake pressures and switch on the EGI. EAC will then extinguish and the gunsight reticle will appear on HUD.

[Self Illuminating Grass.]

Moving along from the older thread.

 

Just downloaded the new 2.05 update and note that the fibre optic grass is still switched on.

 

I love ramp starting at groom lake at dusk and taxying out to the runway past all the buildings to the runway, but the self lit grass ruins the effect. Id rather the grass was removed than have it lit up by the sun when everything else is in near darkness.

 

Any ideas how to cure this pretty serious visual bug?

[[REPORTED]1.5 Broken. Mouse will not move after update ... Oculus]

Since today's update, the mouse cursor will not move in VR, it just jigs backwards and forwards, making it impossible to select switches and therefore ramp start the A10C.

[Really Broken Track Replay]

With Oculus Rift.

 

I am trying to do a simple VR demo in my Hog. I want to start her up, taxi to the active, line up on the piano keys, take off, do a gentle circuit and land again before taxiing back to ramp and shutting down. All this with the user being essentially a passenger in the jet, the jet flies as I flew it, but the user still being able to look around where they want.

 

I am well aware of missions being replayed wrong and getting worse as the mission goes on, which is why I wanted to record a very short and uncomplicated demo with minimum switch inputs.

 

Everything works fine in my headset, but upon playback of the track, the original headset movement has been saved and amplified. This is very vomit inducing and unwatchable.

 

Any ideas? I already disabled a bunch of stuff such as outside views and free camera.

 

Edit. Tommy on Hoggit sorted it. Just press F5 during playback.

[A10C - Losing Cockpit Orientation With Oculus Rift.]

Since the recent update, starts out fine, if a little close to the panel, then after a couple of missions, the seat to panel orientation goes to around 45 degrees off centre.

 

Pressing numberpad 5 to recentre either makes it 45 degrees the other way or a full 90 degrees and you end up sat cross cockpit.

 

When you press the fly button before the start of the mission, where the "loading screen" is orientated seems to have some bearing on the eventual cockpit orientation.

 

A temporary fix is to carry out a full reorientation in oculus home, but the problem soon reemerges.

 

Only occurs in DCS, when you exit back to oculus home everything is normal again and is also normal in all my other games. Def a bug in DCS.

 

Edit.

 

Def loading screen related. When loading mission, if you look around, the loading screen moves and that is where your cockpit orientation will be. Have to stare hard at the nose of the hog during loading to prevent it.

[A10c Rolling to Right]

Hi

As a total noobie to DCS world iam having a problem with the A10C flying the lessons that are provided with the module.After doing the cold startup& taxi i take off but the A10c wants to roll to the right, but if i do the Tour of Nevada flight the aircraft flies straight & level.(Using the same joystick settings)

Is it something i am not seeing in the cold startup?

Any help would be deeply appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

If you are using rudder pedals, check that the pedals are not mapped for ailerons. I had exactly the same thing and this was the culprit.

[Startup and master caution]

If I recall, the pilot in question said they kept the APU running and generating, right until taxi because the engine generators were notorious for tripping out or spiking the volts or somesuch. Might be mistaken.

 

As for me, my startups and shutdowns are a sorry mess of master cautions. Thinking on it, the way I collect machine gun bullets in the nose and engine fan cowls, my flights are usually a mess of master cautions too. No stranger to the weapon jettison button or the silk letdown. :(

[In Cockpit Footage Taxying and Airborne - Engine Noise]

I have found, at least here in the A-10C forum, the vast majority of posters to be exceptionally helpful and friendly. Don't be shy, post away!

 

*edit*

 

ninja'd by hansangb, what a jerk! :lol:

 

Indeed. As on most forums, most people are kind and helpful, there are just the rotten apples that spoil the barrel.

I was brought up with a modicum of tact and don't understand why anyone would flame someone trying to add to the forum via putting up interesting topics of discussion. Debate is one thing, deliberate disingenuity regarding semantics, sarcasm and disrespect are an entirely different matter.

After all, this forum is about a GAME fer chrissakes, a very complex game sure, but a game nevertheless.

Anyone who thinks they win real life kudos because they know how to play it has some real self image problems.

 

 

Anyway, that's over now. My safety valve has reset itself and the steam has stopped coming out of my ears.

I hope the music teacher keeps posting his conversations, I for one am interested in reading about them.

[In Cockpit Footage Taxying and Airborne - Engine Noise]

Apologies. Having a really bad day the other day. Could not get onto my berth at the marina because some ahole had parked their boat in it and walked off into town.

 

Yes I know the A10 does not have reheat.

 

This thread originated in defence of someone else's post where he went to a great deal of trouble and time detailing a conversation he had with a real life A10c pilot who specifically said the engine noise was completely wrong in this sim.

The poor guy got flamed by an extremely small, yet nastily vocal minority who hang out on here who seem to enjoy taking peoples posts apart. I guess these are the boogie Francis types with no life outside of the internet. The pooy guy in the end was on the defensive, essentially saying he was not lying.

 

I got to tell you, from an outsiders point of view and from someone lurking in the background for a few months, this forum prima facae, is not the friendliest because of this minority of keyboard warriors, and many, like me, refrain from making posts because of it.

[In Cockpit Footage Taxying and Airborne - Engine Noise]

Ummm... the A-10 TF-34 doesn't have burners...:music_whistling: Just a large fan and a 4-stage LP turbine, a 14-stage HP compressor, and a 2-stage HP turbine.

 

These are essentially (with a few differences) the same engines used in the commercial Bombardier CRJ-200 (CF-34) so if you want to hear a more accurate sound, listen to one of those from inside the passenger cabin.

 

Well where does the fuel get burned then if not in burner cans or similar device - mixed with air and ignited??? Or are we playing lets diss the no nothing newbie because of semantics? :music_whistling: Been into aviation all my life, had a private pilots licence and well know how a jet engine works. I'm done with this forum.

 

[In Cockpit Footage Taxying and Airborne - Engine Noise]

Might have been shown before, but of particular interest to me is the noise of the engine, compared to the sound files we have.

 

Airborne, there is the deep bass rumble of the burners and air going through the engine, rather than the whine we have, whilst during ground handling the noise of unsynchronised fans / cores is very apparent.

 

Anyways have a listen, perhaps a future update could accomodate this.

 

[Thanks From a Newbie On The Forum.]

My A10C would occasionally suffer from an uncontrollable roll and yaw to port or starboard and this would usually end in ejecting from the AC. Other times it could get very antsy when reefing it around over the target area, esp in low cloud and on instruments.

 

At first it seemed like a deep stall, but often the gauges would show over 240mph, so more puzzling req. Then I thought it was an accellerated tip stall, but unloading the stick had no effect.

 

Even went as far as marvelling at the very strong katabatic winds causing a rotor in the lee of the mountains that were apparently modelled in DCS world.

 

Then I came across a thread on here, can't seem to find it again; that opined that such departures could be caused by a control set problem.

 

So thought and looked through all my tm warthog buttons and switches setup. Nope.

 

Then looked at my saitek pro flight rudder pedals..... low and behold it had a roll response dialled in, so started it up on ramp for a looksee. Yup, with a hard right rudder application the stbd aileron came up slowly and stayed up. Went back and cleared the erroneous control coupling and what a transformation, the thing flies in a straight line now and the autopilot is not as choosy as to when it refuses to engage.

 

Thing is a big clue that I missed was on playing back the mission track, oftentimes when taxying, I noticed the right aileron was raised which was puzzling, as I don't hold the stick when taxying, something battered into me by my old flying instructor in the days of yore when I could afford to do the real thing. That yoke is not a damn steering wheel he'd shout, when as a tyro flyer I'd try to steer round the corners of the taxiways.

I just put it down to yet another playback glitch.

 

Anyway, now I put down a wall of text, I made this first post a thank you to the community for helping me sort out my hog's misdemeanours.

 

Thanks.

[Thanks From a Nebiew On The Forum.]

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