Slydog486

When did I say I hadn't watched his videos? I in no way intended to put his videos down, I simply stated that the content quantity simply cannot keep up with the amount I intend to put out. Nothing more. Nothing less. And as an FYI, I have seen them. [TBS] [TFP] Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob Sent from OnePlus Two.

I'm going for content amount and detail, not time spent. Might take longer, might not. The whole point is to make sure that people don't have to sit through the most factual book ever written just to learn something they'll probably use on the weekends and a few hours during the week. I think the manual sometimes scares people and pushes them away, and the video series could really help squash that fear and bring people towards the A-10, rather than push them away from it. [TBS] [TFP] Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob Sent from OnePlus Two.

Though this is a nice list, it is nothing even close to what I have planned. This will more or less be a video version of the entire manual. Every switch, every CDU and MFCD function, every weapon, how it works, how it handles, how it drops from the rail, why it drops like that, how to change how it drops... Are you seeing it now? It will be hundreds of videos long. It will cover every single possible thing you could ever hope or want to perform or complete using the A-10C. Bunyap simply hasn't done this. [TBS] [TFP] Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob Sent from OnePlus Two.

Over the past few months I've noticed that DCS has stepped out of the shadows, and opened itself up to new players a bit more. I've noticed that the Steam version has been getting a constant, steady stream of updates at the same rate as the standalone version. I've noticed YouTubers taking an interest in it, and most of all, I've noticed the community is starting to grow. A lot. But the time has come, I believe, to stop thinking of DCS as a small sim that we play on the weekends that no one else knows about. It's time for the community as a whole to step up its game. I propose a new breed of DCS, a new way of making DCS more accessible to the average person- I propose a comprehensive video tutorial series on the A-10. I've never seen someone do this before, and after hours of searching, could not find a video series that covers even close to everything about the A-10. Therefore, I believe it is time for us, as a community, to work together to bring this idea out of our heads, and turn it into a rich tutorial series that will expand across the entire A-10. Now, this is the part where you pick your jaw up off the table (I know, I know, you're all thinking I'm crazy for trying to do this) and get a bit more serious, because though I'm willing to do this, I'll need help. A lot of help. 4 people. Okay, maybe that's not a whole lot of help but still, it's a significant amount of help. Moving on. I have 5 positions I need filled in order to do this: 1) Coming up with, for lack of a better term, "lesson plans" (I will be handling this area) 2) Voice Actor (this is the only position where I'd like to audition, or at least hear what the voice sounds like. Since this is going to be quite a bit of work, I'd like to do it the best I can, so I'd definitely like a decent voice actor. No offense.) 3) Video Editor 4) Gameplay Recorder (we're going to need a lot of gameplay to go off of here. Examples of things happening, systems starting up, the A-10 employing a weapon or two, etc. THIS MEANS THAT YOU ACTUALLY KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE A-10. This is the only position where I will require you to have a significant knowledge base for. I'm looking for people who, when I say "let's do a JTAC" video, say "Awesome, I'll go record stuff", not "Yeah... What's JTAC again?") 5) Social Media Manager (This will probably be the easiest. You'll manage the YouTube channel, respond to comments, tweet our progress, as well as post it on the forums. Not too much, about 15 minutes every time we upload a video. To put that in perspective, I'd like to roll out a new video every 4 days.) I'm aware that this is a lot of work, and that we'll all need to pitch in to make this happen, but I think that if we all take just a minute and think about it, it will help so much. Imagine that, when a newer A-10 player comes on the forums and asks how to do this or that with a GBU, instead of having to explain it, you just link him to an easy to find, easy to understand but very detailed video series that will explain everything he wants to know. How great would that be? No more massive posts with giant explanations that can get pretty darn hard to follow. Just one link, nothing more. I should mention, that I'm not looking for the weekend warrior on this. You must be dedicated and willing to put in some real effort for this. I'm not a very hard person to work with, but I do request a professional attitude and a decent amount of effort from each person who volunteers. Just to mention, by the way, I'm not just here for one of the above positions! If 3 people apply for the same thing, I'll rotate them in and out so everyone gets a chance, though I will limit the number of people per position to a reasonable amount. Probably somewhere along the lines of 4 to 5 per position. Thanks to Everyone for Helping to Make This Happen, Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob Applications will be accepted through the email for this,DCSVideoTutorials@gmail.com. If you're applying for the voice actor position, please include a sample of your voice as an attachment. Nothing specific. Pick your favorite movie quote if you're having a hard time thinking of something to say.

I completely agree with all of this except the autopilot part. While autopilot is nice, people really should learn to employ payloads without the need to take their hands off the stick or throttle, and especially be able to do so while maintaining a pilot-controlled stable, level flight. Once you learn this, autopilot is fine, but until then I'd highly recommend that anyone who hasn't learned to be proficient at this, keep trying until you are! In an emergency situation, you don't want to have to wrestle your A-10 to +5° so that autopilot kicks off or have to press the left pinky button. It adds to the pilots workload in an emergency and can really distract them from using effective countermeasures and doing proper defensive maneuvers. I understand that maiming level flight on your own does add to the workload, but you usually aren't employing weapons in an emergency situation, assuming you've planned your attacks and executed them in the manner you intended. This is not to say that autopilot is bad, however. I do think it has its place. On the other hand, I believe everyone should learn to effectively manage the aircraft without it, before implementing it into their "bag of tricks" for lack of a better word. [TBS] [TFP] Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob Sent from OnePlus Two.

Make sure the TGP point track has a SPI under it and that the Mav is slaved to SPI. It should work then. [TBS] [TFP] Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob Sent from OnePlus Two.

Alright. Here's how you enter a waypoint in all 3 variations, just to clear things up as well as I can. Please excuse my slight lack of terminology as I'm doing this on my phone and don't have the manual handy at the moment. VIA LAT/LONG - Switch the left knob to "mission" - Either a) switch the right knob to Waypoint and click "Waypoint" on the screen, or b) switch the right knob to "Other" and hit the "WP" button on the keypad, then click "Waypoint" on the screen. - Enter a name for your waypoint and press the x? (or ?x maybe... Can't remember) button, where x=some random number, probably 0. This will create a new waypoint under the name you've typed in. - Check to make sure it shows "L/L" in the lower right hand corner. If it shows "UTM", click it to change it to "L/L". - Enter Latitude on the top of the two boxes on the left side, near the bottom of the screen. - Enter Longitude on the bottom of the two boxes on the left side, near the bottom of the screen. - Change any extra settings you'd like (DTOT, DTTG *note: press the page down rocker to get to the next page of info to change DTTG*) - Done (: VIA UTM/MGRS Exactly the same as for Lat/Long but instead of using L/L, change it to UTM. (4th step of lat/long) - Done(: VIA OFFSET Note that this assumes a bullseye call. - Change left dial to "mission" - Press OFFSET button. (might not be called exactly this, it's along the top of the keypad though. The left of WP and FPM if I recall correctly. On screen labels to the rescue!) - Enter a name, press the same button to create a waypoint as in the L/L steps. - Use the data rocker switch to change the selected offset location to "BULLSEYE" *note that this can be used to offset from any location. Just punch one in or make your own by entering L/L or UTM coords in below the name* -Enter heading/distance in the form of HHHDDD *VERY IMPORTANT. IF THE HEADING IS 41 AND THE DISTANCE IS 12 MILES IT WOULD BE 041012* -Done (: ADDING ANY OF THESE TO A FLIGHT PLAN: - Left dial to Flight Plan, right to Other. - Press FPM above the keypad. - To edit an existing flight plan, click the right hand side LSK next to the one you'd like to edit. To create a new one, punch a name, and hit the bottom left LSK. - Enter in the waypoints, in order, into the lines, each time pressing the left LSK next to "(next)" (I think it's that. Might just be "NEXT") After, hit FPM again, then click the left LSK next to the flight plan you edited or created to set it as active. Hit that again to change the mode. AUTO will cycle waypoints as you pass them, MAN will allow you to manually change them with the HUD as SOI via DMS UP SHORT. - Done (: Hope this helped! [TBS] [TFP] Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob Sent from OnePlus Two.

It's a little... Odd. Sometimes, if the conditions are correct, yes. But most of the time, you'll need to change SOI to Mavs and lock it yourself. I still haven't figured out the "sweet spot" viewing angle that makes it 'autolock' if you will, but I have had it happen on more than one occasion before. [TBS] [TFP] Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob Sent from OnePlus Two.

TTG: Time To Target TOT: Time On Target. One is for when you'll get there, one is for how long you'll stay. [TBS] [TFP] Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob Sent from OnePlus Two.

Once set, your SPI will move with your TGP. Instead of slewing the maverick sensor head, slew the TGP. Just to clarify, the Maverick head will move with the SPI, and the SPI, will move with the TGP. So TGP moving = Maverick head moving. Sent from my ONE A2005 using Tapatalk

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Alright, before we go any further, I'd like to confirm the steps you are taking to use the auto-lasing system. 1) Master Arm - On 2) Laser Arm - On 3) TGP - On 4) Wait for TGP to start up 5) Change TGP to A-G Mode 6) On DSMS, go to Profiles page 7) Select the GBU-12/10 Profile, depending on the munition you're using 8) Change the release mode to CCRP 9) Enter the Settings portion of the DSMS 10) Turn Auto-Lase on, and set desired Auto-Lase time 11) Find target on TGP, set target as SPI 12) Fly over target in CCRP 13) When countdown timer reaches 5, hold weapons release until 0 14) Weapon release, ensure bomb tracks correctly Are there any other steps you are taking in there? Are there any you aren't? I've only used Auto-Lase a few times, but if you've done that, it should work properly IIRC.

Hello! This will be a multipart question, so don't feel like you have to answer the whole thing: I regularly visit the TFP Free Flight server, and have recently come in contact with a small group of pilots that I'm really enjoying flying with. A few days ago I volunteered to make a flight plan for the group to tackle a somewhat sticky target area. Though I certainly don't mind making complex flight plans for the group, it would be nice to know of any tips you may have for the future. So, on to the questions: 1) When making your flight plans, what information do you use on your waypoints? (How do you choose names for them, how do you choose whether to stick with ground elevation or place the waypoint in midair, how do you choose an accurate DTOT, etc.) 2) For example, we have a target area on a road, immobile, that has 6 MBTs and 2 Shilkas. Would you recommend A: Placing a waypoint on each individual truck (they're about 25-30 feet apart from each other in a line), B: Placing one waypoint for the Shilkas and one for the MBTs, or C: Placing a single waypoint for the whole area. If it's the second or last one, how would you let people know, through the waypoint name or something they can check easily in the cockpit, what the target type and number of targets there are under the waypoint? 3) Last but not least, how do you guys name your flight plans? I'm aware of how to assign the name, but how do you go about choosing one properly? I plan on having one flight plan for ingress, one for the actual target area, and one for egress (I'm doing it this way due to the sheer size of the flight plans themselves). Thanks for any feedback I can get! -Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob

Wow! Didn't expect this threat to get this many replys! Thanks to all of you for your generous help throughout this. WHOGX5 and HMA deserve a lot of brownie points for helping me out with this, and I want to thank BimC for steering (ha... ha... steerpoint... CDU Jokes c:) me into the whole, phone or tablet as a CDU thing. I'll probably be using both HMA and WHOGX5's strategies on how to do these things, depending on whether I'm setting this up while on the ground, where I have a little more time (WHOGX5), or in the air, trying to change this stuff on-the-fly (HMA) Thanks Again for Being a Great Community, Slydog486 - Veteran DCS Noob

paulca is correct, though thank you to HMA (it didn't help my problem a whole lot but I did learn a few things throughout that). I'd like to be able to have as little CDU typing as possible. As little coordinate-punching as possible. I love the A-10C, and I'd also love to find a way to do this without constantly typing numbers into a keypad that I can barely use because I have to look up every time to see where my mouse is clicking. Thanks for all the Replys, Slydog486 - Veteran DCS Noob

Hello DCS community! As this is my first post, it's quite exciting so please bear with me. So, on to the problem! Earlier this week, though I've been flying the A-10C for... A long time (I don't know exactly how long, but a significantly long amount of time), I just got around to learning to set waypoints, create new flight plans, etc. through the CDU. After hours and hours spent trying to figure out the fastest way to set up waypoints, I'd like to know something. Is it possible to say, create a markpoint on the map where you'd like to go, set the markpoint as SPI, and then set the SPI as a new waypoint? I'd like to reduce the time to do this as much as possible, as I'm currently in that phase where I'm erasing the waypoints on the server I join just so I can make my own flight plan for practice, and I'd really like to not spend 45 minutes setting one up EVERY SINGLE TIME I FLY. Any feedback is appreciated, even if it is to just say "Sorry, this won't work, back to typing forever!". Thanks, Slydog486, Veteran DCS Noob