Greyman

It would be interesting to see how ED would create a globe's worth of maps, not just for the present day, but also for past eras, WWII for example. It might otherwise look a bit odd, for example, with Spitfires and ME109s dogfighting over a London skyline that includes buildings like the Shard and the O2. This would be an absolutely mammoth task, as I am sure that the very large team of direct and indirect MSFS devs would tell you and they're just trying to model the earth as it currently is.

If you're going to ask the RIO to adjust the TACAN, it would make sense to ensure that the TACAN CMD is set to the RIO. Whether you can switch to RIO after asking them to tune the TACAN or whether you have to do it beforehand, I'm not sure, but i suspect that the former should work. In theory, the pilot and RIO could be tuned to different TACAN channels and just use the CMD switch to toggle between them.

Just checking, but the module you had loaded, when you noticed VA/VP wasn't working, was the F14 Tomcat wasn't it? I ask this, as the AIRIO commands will not work with any aircraft other than the Tomcat. Also, can you give a little more detail around what you experienced, as "nothing at all" could cover a multitude of behaviours and potential solutions. For example, did the VA log show that it had recognised the commands and that they weren't being passed to or received by DCS or was it showing that the command wasn't recognised?

time for a double celebration then \o/\o/ nice one

1. Open the plugin Configuration page and on the Config tab click on the EXPORT button. 2. The export folder contains a file called ‘VAICOM PRO AIRIO.vap’ 3. In VoiceAttack, select Import Profile and import this VAICOM PRO AIRIO.vap file 4. Next edit the VAICOM PRO AIRIO profile (click pencil icon) 5. Right-click on each command (there are 6) and select Copy To.. VAICOM PRO for DCS World. 6. Done (the AIRIO profile can now be deleted). Continue to use your VAICOM PRO for DCS World profile as usual.

noooooooooo!!!! If you check out the manual, you should see how to find the VAICOM PRO AIRIO.vap file

'Yes' to all of your questions about the 'Scan Sector' command, which i would expect, if you correctly import it from the .vap file, as per the instructions. I wouldn't try to add that command via another route, as that might introduce more reasons for it not to work. In short, just import the 'VAICOM PRO AIRIO.vap' profile, select the 'Scan Sector' command, right click and 'Copy to' the 'VAICOM PRO for DCS World' profile.

The Vaicom Pro profile, in VA, should look something like the attached image

As it has a command of its own, 'Scan Sector, Angels [0..14,5] [at;for;] [0.30,5]' it doesn't need to also be in the 'when i say' list of the main Vaicom Pro command collection. You therefore just need to make sure that you have a 'Scan Sector...' entry, like the one i have stated above, in your list of VA commands Edit: This should be imported from the VAICOM PRO AIRIO.vap profile, as per my first post.

It appears that you might have two choices. Either set the VoiceAttack option to start automatically when Windows loads, which would mean that it would be always loaded and ready to go, or create a batch file that loads VoiceAttack and then DCS World. If you choose the latter, then you would need to amend your current DCS shortcut to call the batch (.bat) file, instead of the exe that it will currently point to. Don't forget to start VA in admin mode though.

It appears that the latest manual has an inconsistency, between the screen print at the top of page 44 and the text that goes with it. The text suggests that there should be 6 AIRIO commands in the extensions whereas the screen print only shows 4. This screen print might have been amended recently, as i don't recall this inconsistency when i installed AIRIO, just a couple of weeks ago, but that might just be my crap memory. If i were you, i'd import the 'VAICOM PRO AIRIO.vap' profile and make sure that you have copied all of the extension commands to the main VAICOM Pro profile, as per the instructions. You shouldn't ever need to create your own AIRIO commands.

Then can we take it that the "last update", in the OP, refers to the last update of DCS and not the last update of Vaicom Pro?

I suspect that as Vaicom does NOT navigate via the menus, the commands are not recorded as part of the track, which means that they will not be played back. The DCS track system, in short, effectively records the starting position and then applies a recorded set of commands that the pilot had given, during the session, to figure out how the aircraft should behave when the track is replayed.

If you have any overclocks applied to your PC, maybe try disabling them temporarily, to see if the issues still occur. It might not fix your issues, but at least it would rule it out as a possible cause.

Are you sure you don't have any other apps running in the background that might be intercepting your hotkey presses or taking undue control of your mic? Maybe have a check of task manager, to see if there are any unexpected apps running and maybe temporarily remove any that you don't absolutely need, before trying again. Programs like Asus Sonic Studio have caused me some issues in the past, albeit not necessarily with VA. It must be something pretty obscure, with just a few peeps getting it.

Maybe try a reset of the lua files, using the appropriate checkbox on the reset tab, might do the trick??

Just as a 'by the way', it looks like Heatblur are going to eventually be allowing more current menu-only commands to be accessed via control bindings, which might make life more straightforward, depending on which commands you might be struggling to get across and which ones they might be allowing bindings for.

I'm guessing a bit, but do you have the 'Use custom DCS path' set, on the Config tab? If you do, have you selected the path in the field to the right of that checkbox? The error/warning messages appear to be expecting a string and getting an empty/null value.

Have you looked among the missions for the F18 or the F14, as unless I'm mistaken, the Supercarrier never had any of its own.

Let us know how you get on, as this does seem like an odd one. I've never had any loading issues like this with the Tomcat, apart from perhaps loading it with a 2-way switch set to enable active pause and then watching the carrier sail from underneath the aircraft. :)

Do you have the DCS option to synchronise controls set? If it is set, the aircraft should adopt all of your control settings on loading, which is probably what you need. I'm guessing it is clear, forcing you to move your axis controls, after loading, to get to the state you want.

Just as a suggestion, maybe try "approaching for refuel" and "complete and rejoin" for the two examples you have given.

Great news

As @Svsmokey said earlier, if your 2d DCS window sits above the windows taskbar, when you use your mouse to change a control, possibly low down in the cockpit, you might inadvertently move the focus away from DCS. McAfee also has a tendency to steal focus, when it gives you one of its countless renewal reminders, about 3 months in advance of expiry. :)

Also, you can specifically state the DCS window as the target for VoiceAttack, instead of the active window.