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What is AWACS channel in Viggen?
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How exactly does the detection work? When I put EWR in ME, the one that can mimic AWACS, and include this scirpt, when EWR at F7 (AWACS) request bogey dope reports an aircraft, then F10 reqest bogey dope sais picture clear. It will detect the aircraft only when it comes really close (like for 25 nm). Only one enemy aircraft, one friendly radar and one player in the mission.
And great work as I still rather talk to your script than to F7 AWACS. Its sometimes really difficult with this guy. I just wish they will give me the same results :)
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After few months inacitivity I've returned to DCS and updated SR to the last version, however I do have wierd problem - I can hear anything. Mic input is there, when I click to hear myself I can see both input and output volume meters active. Yet no sound, no matter if just in Windows or in game. I've tried to swap all combinations of input and output devices available in the dropboxes but with no success. I cannot see SR application in windows volume mixer either, which might be the issue. Any ideas?
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Instead of using FD mode just use the trim like it's meant to be used in the KA-50 :).There is also a way with holding the trimmer button instead of hiting it. It works in a same way but the problem is not at the "end" but at the "start". You have aircraft in any position trimmed, you hit and hold the trimmer button without moving the stick anywhere from center position and the nose start to dive/climb (related to where it has been trimmed before change).
https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=572028&postcount=34In reality, the second method is not advised or typically used by Ka-50 pilots, because holding down the trimmer button while maneuvering the helicopter can easily lead to oversteering. -
I see now that it is my misunderstandment of the aircraft's systems. Flight Director's mode indeed works good for me. Thank you very much for learning me that! Only thing I am kind of sad about is that it looks like aircraft ignore other autopilot channels, like heading, thus auto-turn as well. I guess I will need to learn to switch on and off DH mode as needed depending on current situation.
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What happen is, that I level up aircraft (f.e. after slowing down when you need to push the nose upwards), move the stick where I want it to be (where the aircraft's nose is alighned with horizont), press trimmer and what I do expect (and other modules do) is that the nose stays where it is and I can release my stick to center position without messing anything up.
When I do it in Ka50 I mess up position of my nose, it continues in direction from where "it came". Like I push the stick towards myself to level up aircraft from dive, set the nose to horizon, hit trimm and release the stick. What Ka50 does is that after this it raises the nose (quite rapidly, easily over 20°). I've tried all trimm modes available yet none is working as expected.
There is also a way with holding the trimmer button instead of hiting it. It works in a same way but the problem is not at the "end" but at the "start". You have aircraft in any position trimmed, you hit and hold the trimmer button without moving the stick anywhere from center position and the nose start to dive/climb (related to where it has been trimmed before change).
That is pretty annoying you see :(
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Thank you for clarification. Is there any way how to force Ka50 trim to work like in other chopper modules for nonFFB joystick?
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Then please explain me how it works. I have such a joystick and it does not work at all for me. I expected it will work in the same way as in the Mi8/Uh-1/Gazelle does. There it is great.
It is just in Ka50 such a pain to trim with nonFFB joystick. It seems they realized it so they added option for us. But how the hell it works I do not understand. From my point of view it does exactly nothing.
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When I saw it in patch notes I was so happy I will be finally able to fly Ka50 and it won't annoy me constantly in the process.
However this trim mode seems to be broken. It does nothing for me. Only when "trim rudder" is enabled, rudder trim works. However X and Y axies won't trim. It behaves like you're not hitting the trim button at all. Axis always returs to the center no matter what I do.
Anyone having the same issue?
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1. Put the radio switch to "ICS" (instead of "RADIO"), so when you press right ALT+\ the menu will be for INTERPHONE;
2. Leave the radio switch in "RADIO" position, but turn on the LARYNGOPHONE (which overrides the radio and makes it become ICS (or something) for ground crew)!
Had same problem. Both those options work. Thanks a lot <3
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Hello guys.
I'd like to play some missions with my friend so I acquired public IP and forwarded port 10308. Me and my friend we both enabled port 10308 for both TCP and UPD and for both incoming and outcoming traffic in our firewalls.
However, when I create a public server it is not to be seen in list of public servers. When my friend try to connect to me directly by IP, game wrote in chat XXX has connected. But after few minutes of my friend's loading screen he got error message connection timed out and on server in chat there is also XXX has disconnected, connection timed out.
In server log there is following (multiple attempts):
00336.673 INFO NET: accepting connection from 93.91.151.87:62936
00336.679 INFO NET: append: client 2
00456.731 INFO NET: disconnecting client [2]: Client idle timeout
00456.738 INFO NET: remove: client 2
00540.935 INFO NET: accepting connection from 93.91.151.87:62999
00540.936 INFO NET: append: client 2
00660.996 INFO NET: disconnecting client [2]: Client idle timeout
00661.003 INFO NET: remove: client 2
00675.980 INFO NET: accepting connection from 93.91.151.87:63001
00675.986 INFO NET: append: client 2
00796.037 INFO NET: disconnecting client [2]: Client idle timeout
00796.044 INFO NET: remove: client 2
Can anyone give me advice what are we doing wrong?
Thanks a lot!
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EDIT
Sorry I was accidently writing in wrong language :D
I now know where the problem was. W10 calc does the math of sin/cos "correctly" - no need to modify the input. However Excel does not, it needs to have the inputs modified before calculation. As I was sometimes calculating by hand (w10 calc) and sometimes by Excel, I got sometimes wrong and sometimes correct results.
Thanks for advice how to convert degrees to correct format.
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I am not very familiar with all those coordinate systems. I belive Gazelle is using DMM (dd°mm.m') and UTM. There is a button on navigation panel to swap between display of those two (GEO/UTM). In that formula I use those UTM numbers, like f.e. N 463481 E 73148 (translates into N 41°49.9' E 41°47.2').
My procedure is:
- get my current coordinates in UTM from navigation computer
- find my target with camera
- read bearing from the camera (0-359)
- read distance with help of laser rangefinder (meters)
- find declanation in navigation computer (f.e. 6°02', which I round to full number for the formula, because I am not sure how to work with those mintues here)
- fit it all in the formula
- read new coordinates in UTM
- put them in the navigation computer as a waypoint
- check if the waypoint is heading at least roughly the same direction and distance
- if so, switch back to DMM as Vigen needs DMS
- if not, being confused
I am using Win10 calc in scientific mode for sin/cos calculations.
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Hello guys.
I found really interesting to play with my friends who fly Viggen and finding targets for them. As I can find the target and count the target's position with informations I have. Viggen can input those coordinates in the computer and guide its weapons to it.
At the internet I am not able to find much about how to count the coordinates, though. I found just this:
TargetUTMNorth = cos(bearing+declination)*(range/10)+CurrentUTMNorth
TargetUTMEast = sin(bearing+declination)*(range/10)+CurrentUTMEast
The problem is, that in some cases it works, in some cases it works roughtly and in same cases it does not work at all (point's coordinates counted are kilometers away). I created excel for this, so it is not counting error issue. I usually double check inputs and outputs so it is not typo issue. I don't understand why it is no unreliable. Does anyone have any experience with this to share?
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Run reg cleaner file with administrators rights - right click and select "Run as administrator".
Worked, thanks.
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Please do following:
- perform REPAIR on each DCS version you have (Windows Start -> Eagle Dynamics -> Repair DCS World XXX),
- perform UPDATE on each version of DCS you have (Windows Start -> Eagle Dynamics -> Update DCS World XXX).
- restart your PC,
- perform registry cleaning (unzip and activate the file attached to the FIRST post in this thread).
- start DCS and activate your MiG.
Regards.
I tried to deactivate the key:
So I ignored this step as is written in the PDF.
I performed REPAIR.
I performed UPDATE (download 2GB+)
I restarted PC.
Did the register thingy.
I restarted PC once again, just in case.
I tried to activate the key:
Please advice how to proceed.
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I don't get it very well. In the PDF there is aprocedure how to handle the patching itself. However, as someone correctly noted perviously, not everyone check every day forums of all his modules. So I did not notice and patched in a standard way, leading to key failure. What is the fix procedure when the patch is already applied and module is not working?
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Just do what I did (I don't have any head tracker) and set up your own custom snap views. I have one set to put my eye right up against the rubber or bracing of the EP-13, and two others for setting up lights, radio, ck-37 access, weapon settings, and the drop-tank and weapons jett. buttons.
https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1743483&postcount=3
This link has it all.
*EDIT* Follow his instructions for changing that one value in the .lua file. I don't know if it changes whether the Viggen can set it's own snap views or not but its what I did.
I find my target on radar, put the target waypoint over it, select RB-75/T/AGM-65B, go to ANF, and put the seeker bore-sight marker right on the HUD's waypoint target ring. It really works well for taking sam sites, air defences, finding convoys, you name it.
It works. For one mission. There is SnapViewsDefault.lua where those views are kept, but it lacks section for AJS37. Otherwise it is amazing!
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No there is no symbol you can slew around.
But there is a boresight Dot.
(you might have to lower the seat slightly to sea it on the HUD).
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Oh, thanks! Now I see and targeting is way easier indeed. I only wish there is custom snap view for EP-13 zoomed in. For those who don't have that fancy look around equipment it is quite a pain to manage the camera and zoom in that speed. When you need seach for your target a bit, its really rough. For close radar view, there is such a snaphot I can bind on my HOTAS...
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Several times this happened to me:
- Throttle working as usual.
- Engine stall happened because I am an idiot.
- Emergency engine restart procedure - success, RPM back to military idle.
- Engine cannot reach more than 70% RPM, even with throttle at maximum.
- Swap to manual mode.
- Engine works as it should be (possition of throttle represent correct RPM again, AB again possible).
This behaviour is kinda wierd to me. Can someone explain why after engine stall and restart it works so badly in automatic mode?
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I've spent the last three days learning the Viggen. It's a fine plane, but I do have some comments/questions.
1. Bk90 Cluster Munitions. Very cool, but 9 out of 10 times they fly over the target LOLA and do not dispense any munitions. I've followed John's excellent tutorial. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? They are dead on target, so I'm not sure what else to do.
2 App-27 RWR: This is possibly the loudest RWR ever. :) The volume is supposed to be controlled by the UK DAMPING knob on the front left panel which also controls the sidewinder volume. This knob does not appear to function. There is also a "lights only" mode keyboard binding that does not appear to work. So far, the only solution is to turn the entire system on or off.
3. Landing with the Autothrottle lever: I find that visual landings are deadly with this engaged if you make any mistakes in AoA, which always leads to a compressor stall. As soon as I hear that first thump I want to do what any pilot does for stall recovery: lower the nose and go to full throttle. However, the Autothrottle lever seems to override my manual inputs. By the time I look back and get the darn thing up, it's too late. It seems safer to do a visual approach without it and manually control the throttle and AoA to maintain speed and glideslope. These automations should make this bird easier to land than the Mig-21, but no matter how you slice or dice it a delta wing plan is touchy as low speeds.
2. "Lights only" switch works. I've included switching to silent mode to my start-up procedure.
3. I personally found landing with AFK more tricky than without it. First I liked the idea "you don't need to care about throttle". Like I like the idea "you don't need to care about flaps". Then I found it work well only when you do the perfect approach. When you fly with same descending ange and AoA all the way and not doing much nose upping/downing for altitude corrections. In case you are doing any bigger nose corrections, throttle just respons too slowly, allowing the plane to get high AoA and lose much altitude very quickly. Simply put, automatic AFK system can be only reactive because it is not connected to your brain. Manual throttle is proactive, because it is connected to your brain. You know you will need more/less power before you do. Plane does not.
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In what way is Maverick deployment difficult?.
Do you have Track IR?.
I find it to be easy enough just lower the Seat lightly so you can see the Boresight Dot for the Mavericks.
Put the Dot on the target and simply look at the EP-13 Display and lock the target you want.
And remember to Re-Boresight between shots.
Dont find it much more difficult then using the Maverick on the A-10A.
Err ... wait a second, there is any way to see where the "eye" of the missile is looking? On the HUD, like on A10A? Because I never notice anything which make the search for target really difficult.
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I can confirm it may be quite tricky when you get to Viggen from real modern fighter.
I am used to fly M2k, which is true dogfighter. They look similar, but what different they are. The engine of Mirage is awesome. I really miss its power and ability to "not need to care about anything" in Viggen. But when you fly few times some older aircrafts (like Fishbed), you will find out it is actually not so bad.
There is a high AOA warning sound. But it is ok to exceed the safe AOA limit for a short while. When the "bang" sounds occur however, you really need to get back to comfortable AOA asap. Even at this point, the engine is able to survive without stall. Only the further ignoration of the situation will destroy it.
I didn't have the heart to press the plane any further. So I have yet to stall my first engine in Viggen. Lucky for me and my Viggen. General thought - when you are in position you need to use such AOA you are doing something wrong. Either you execute your attack badly or you found yourself in situation the plane is not designed for (f.e. dogfighting).
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You even don't need to map that this way. There is bind "Rb05 switch input with flight stick (hold)". Belive me I tried drive the bloody missile via axis and I hit .... a house 100 meters away from the target. Always. I found myself more comfortable with HAT/POV for both Rb05 driving and Rb75 targeting. Thus this solution won't solve my problem :(
Improved stability and dedicated server - Discussion
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In my opinion, should be the MP in better shape, DCS would be way further. Because it would attract way more people already, meaning more cash. I think there is quite big player base which will play only MP but rather go for other game because - and be honest to ourselves - its more pain than fun to play MP in DCS. And we are playing games for having fun, not having pain, right? If ED wants more players and money for their work and development, they must focus MP strongly. I understand that SP carry you now, but good MP can carry way more. DCS is now wasting its potential.