Greyman

@BIGNEWY has just posted that the master server is at 100% and i suspect that this and the trial downloads are not entirely unrelated. :)

Maybe try @release rather than @stable Computers can be really pedantic :)

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030 should provide all that you need for the standalone version of DCS. If you are on the Steam version, check out https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=234271

yup, and the yellow-vested chappy that guides you onto the cat will give you a signal to do so, when the SC module is out.

By coincidence, i have just downloaded the Serpent's Head campaign, by @glynlewis from User Files, and the first mission involves flying in formation with 3 AI Hornets. Although it' might not be what you'd call aerobatics, with a few 10 degree turns, it does prove that it can be done, albeit with a significant amount of creativity and a good level of aptitude with the mission editor. You might even be able to get it to score your performance or give a pass/fail, probably based on an average of how far you are from where you should be, but that would be a bit more complicated, i suspect. it might be a fun mission to fly, if you could pull it off.

because Steam make their own rules and a 2-week trial window is apparently all they will allow. You could always install a temporary freestanding version of DCS and try the modules out in that.

...but I've definitely seen diamonds instead of squares, around the locked target in the HUD, which should indicate a hostile.

Quite good if, in the mission file, the 8 aircraft have been declared as all red or as all blue, which was what i was perhaps clumsily trying to say.

It might sound like a daft question then, but are the two flights on different sides?

Maybe check out https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=269026 and make sure that you have IFF switched on. D/L might also be a useful system to ensure is switched on, so that any aircraft identified as being hostile by your flight are flagged as hostile to you too.

For AAR, I always find it a lot easier with the levers working independently, as this allows me to "walk the throttles". That is, make more refined adjustments to thrust by just moving one throttle at a time. The small amount of thrust variation between the engines, as with them bound together, appears to make very little difference to the flight of the aircraft.

From a couple of rapidly created quick missions, it would appear that VAICOM Pro works fine with the J-11. I managed to fly around and control flight formation with 3 AI comrades, talk to ATC to get me down at a couple of airfields and ask the flight to engage and destroy a couple of A10Cs, the second one of which was taken down in a rather creative manner that killed both planes, but that's another story. (AI = Abnormal Intelligence methinks). Having said that, i did have a vague recollection of a previous issue, from when the J-11 first came out and a search of this thread confirmed that., However, it looks like it was either just a one-off issue or Hollywood has sorted it out with a subsequent version.

I have FC3, but not JF-17, although the trial month starting tomorrow shouldn't be an issue. However, I did try the JF-17 briefly, with the last trial and although i didn't focus too much on VAICOM, i do always attempt landings with a new aircraft and will usually go through ATC to do so. I don't recall any issues with the inbound call and responses, but will give it another go tomorrow. I'll try the J-11 later today.

Might the hotfix have already been applied to the update before you downloaded and applied it for the first time?

After you @MAXsenna :)

They're in one of the videos, linked in the OP, but it's the sort of thing that would normally go into a FAQ thread, under something like:- "The PTT tab doesn't display any aircraft and the commands don't get sent to DCS immediately, usually after a DCS update" It would be really nice to have a proper forum structure for Vaicom Pro, rather than just a single thread, as if you do a search, there's probably a mention of deleting export.lua in the first few pages. The first one i found was at #787 btw :)

@Shortcut - you need to restart VoiceAttack after you have deleted export.lua (it's the first one that you named btw). Vaicom creates a new export.lua, if one doesn't exist, when it starts up.

Maybe check out VAICOM Pro, to preclude the need to mess around with the comms menu. You have probably convinced me to purchase PointCtrl, so I thought I'd return the favour.

The one in the main folder is not the one that needs to be deleted. If you can't restore that one, a DCS repair might now be necessary. The one in the scripts folder, that i pointed out, will be recreated, by Vaicom, if it doesn't exist.

I might have to buy the F14 now then, before the sale ends. :)

Looks like the F14 has a compatibility fix for Supercarrier in tonight's update.

whenever you do an update, and probably install, of dcs you should delete the export.lua file from your .../Saved Games/<DCS root folder>/Scripts folder and restart DCS and Voice Attack. I might put the above paragraph on a macro key, as I suspect it won't be the last time i need to use it. :)

Have you checked that the on-board graphics have been disabled in BIOS. Even if no displays are plugged in to the on-board graphics, it might still be worth turning them off. Edit: ah, that'll teach me to read the second page of the thread, that i hadn't noticed before i posted, but i'll leave this here, as it might still be useful, even with the new card.

You can already do it. The summary reports a bolter and you would need to reduce the max score to 70, but everything else gets scored. It doesn't try to estimate the wire that you would have caught however, so if you want that, then a change would be needed.

From your previous post and the apparent lack of the active module name in the PTT tab, have you tried deleting the export.lua file from .../Saved Games/<DCS folder>/scripts and restarting DCS and Voice Attack?