Greyman

Have you seen this FAQ post by @Hollywood_315? https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4311067&postcount=5 There are some of your symptoms covered on there and hopefully the associated solutions will work for you.

"Mystery options" will take you directly to the F10 menu, which will save you having to press F10 yourself.

The next OB patch will be on May 20th, alongside the release of the SC

Coin-flipping time then ;p

LOL, those hand on shoulder moments usually come for me, mid AAR or carrier recovery :)

I'm not a big fan of voice recognition for controls that the pilot should do either and VAICOM Pro(VP), as an addon to VoiceAttack is focused on communications. (You can add other voice activated commands if you wish though.) I tend to fly SP, but i am aware of other VP users do use it in MP and do so alongside SRS, via a specific option in the VP settings. I think that option mainly resolves the potential conflict between VP and SRS over the push to talk buttons. Maybe check out the videos, manuals and FAQs, via https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=198297

Fair enough. As someone who has recently retired, all i have to worry about is the rather odd looks i get from my wife, when i've taken my headset off.

For tankers that use them, the basket doesn't get extended, for me, until I state 'ready pre-contact', so if a basket is out before that, then i assume that is the one that my wingman has been allocated.

Make sure your headset is the output device that you have set in the windows tray. Also that your headset is the default comms device in the windows sound settings

It's been reported already, as is mentioned in the OP

Similarly, it surprises me how many VR pilots don't use something like VAICOM Pro, to handle their radio communications. A press of a Push to Talk button and a few well chosen words is so much easier than messing around in a menu and so much more realistic/immersive.

This appears to be only the 2nd of 2 posts that you have made on the VAICOM forum, the first, a request for help, being very shortly before this one. From experiencing the setting up process myself and seeing more than a few others going through the same process, over the years, i understand that it's not a plug and play process, but it is more than worth the time required to do it properly. However, if you don't want to invest that time, then perhaps it just isn't for you. BTW, the DCS Garmin 430 modules, which you have probably downloaded as part of the free trial, do conflict with VP, so maybe try disabling those before giving up.

LOL, i was joking, but thanks for the info.

Yup, the Phalanx should be pretty easy to code. Just bolt the gun from an A10C into a turret and you're sorted. :)

Is there anything in the VA log that shows any recognition of your spoken words that should trigger the startup command?

Have you got your cheat startup in your VAICOM profile or in another profile? If it's the latter, then you will need to check that the profile that contains it is included in the 'Include Commands from other profiles' list, in the VAICOM PRO profile's options. Edit: although if you don't, it wouldn't work with a hot mic. would it? hmmm

As I said, I use the AUX button for my cheat startup command, so for 2 AUX PTT button commands, in the VAICOM profile, have you got one of the two rows set to when you press the button and the other to when you release the button? If so, do you hear the squelch when you press your mapped AUX button? What does the VA log say?

I wonder if I'll drop into the ocean with this fixed, as I haven't been using burners on take-off? ;)

I wonder if that would take into account any OB users that had reverted to 2.5.5 or who had never upgraded to 2.5.6?

Mr Bankler sir, is there any chance that you will be providing an SC version of your mission? I'd expect that it shouldn't be too difficult for end-users to do it themselves, but you might want to save them the job and keep the mission more standard. The extra eye-candy, at least when the deck crew guide you to your parking spot, might add the the feeling of achievement, when you manage to get the plane down and the new more visible Ball tool will make life a little more easy for VR pilots.

ah, now "mystery" does ring a bell. I'll give that a try as i was probably getting that mixed up with "other". Thanks

Doesn't that just open up the top level comms menu? It does for me. "Mission options" should take you straight to the F10 menu.

From the manual, it would appear that what i thought was "other options" is in fact "mission options".

It might be my ageing memory playing tricks with me, but didn't there used to be a command something like "Other Options", that opened up the comms menu inside the F10 menu?

LOL, that'll probably be the guide i linked then? ;p