Greyman

well, i've just been flying the Dire Straits mission, which comes with the Hornet, and being able to select an AA weapon, having already set up the JDAMs, without losing those settings would have been nice, when an Iranian F4 Phantom turned up and fired a missile at me, when i was just getting into the JDAM's range. the bad news was that i eventually got shot down, having taken too long to decide to fight, but the good news is that i did manage to land an AIM 9X on the F4 before his missile landed. i also didn't need to reset the setup and target data for my JDAMs, as i probably would have done had i survived. btw. That second "plus point" was me just being overly positive about getting wasted by an F4. i will get that mission completed though :)

hmmm, the folder structure that the guy in the video shows doesn't look like mine at all. for some reason, i don't appear to have subfolders for each version of DCS and have just set the custom folder, in the VP config screen, to the top-level DCS World folder. i guess i must have installed DCS in a different way, but as it was so long ago, i don't have a clue how. oh well, it seems to work now so no worries.

I often wonder why legal documents appear to contain so little punctuation, as it can totally change the meaning of the text. I guess they must use really clear and easy-to-understand language? ;)

The control profile, Sim or game, that gets used by the F18 is determined by how the flag is set in IIRC the gameplay settings tab. It is not determined by which profile you choose to amend when you go into the control settings page. Please forgive me if you already know this, but from the information you have provided, this could be explained by your changes being applied to one of the two profiles and then, when you load the F18, the other profile is being used. If you open the control bindings, via the esc menu from within the module, then that should show the currently active profile. Confirm that this is the profile you expect it to be and make any changes you require. If it isn't then you will need to go to the settings page, via the main menu, to change to the desired game or Sim mode.

i particularly like the way that the Hornet automatically recognises that a re-arm has taken place, unlike the A10C, which you have to "prod" to get it to do so. don't get me wrong, i still like the A10C a lot, but this always seems to make re-arming a lot more complicated than it needs to be. maybe i've missed something?

That seems to have stopped the constant menu calls and even though the message box still appears in the bottom right, i can now get that back to the top by selecting any radio. asking for "options" and then letting go of the PTT. When the comms menu disappears, the message box takes its place. thanks @hornblower793 and @Hollywood_315 for the suggestions and hopefully @jameslockridge will find them equally useful.

I have now thanks, i moved it from low to medium, and all appears to be as it should. I guess I'll need to avoid "low quality water" in future. :) thanks again. Edit: I have Shadows set to low also @BIGNEWY

if you open your canopy and select any radio, the ground crew should respond. The radio is fairly redundant in this case, as this just simulates the ground crew being able to hear your request without a radio. there is a knob, at the very back left of the cockpit, that allows you to select the intercom, but as the only effective VR position in the A10C is pretty well forward and i am not a contortionist, i normally tend to just open the canopy.

Sorry if this one has already been posted, maybe in the DCS bugs thread, and i'd be surprised if it hasn't, but i couldn't find it. Having landed on the John Stennis and parked up, i noticed that the aircraft on deck were casting a shadow on the deck, as you'd expect, but also on the ocean surface, which you wouldn't expect. I've attached an image which will perhaps illustrate this better than i have explained it.

there's a comma between "unboxed" and "selecting", which, to me, means that selecting another weapon, and not explicitly unboxing the JDAM, will put it into the background-power mode and not deselect it.

No worries, but what are you doing chatting on here? You need to be practising your aerial refuelling. :)

Try "approaching to refuel" to request refuelling. The tanker should come back and tell you to get to pre-contact (just behind the tanker) and then that is when you say "ready pre-contact". Good luck, as that is when the real fun starts ;)

I experienced something like this last night and eventually discovered that pressing the undesignate button freed the cursor up.

Sorry @randomTOTEN, I missed your post. It was the former that I was thinking about, more than the latter. My interest was prompted by doing a mission, where I hadn't planned my fuel too well, and returned to the boat with not a great deal left. The controller put me into a stack for a CASE III landing and I would definitely have struggled to refuel or spend too long in the stack.

Thanks for that. It would appear that the CATCC has a very British attitude, in that queue-jumping is "just not cricket"'. ;p

thanks guys, that is really interesting stuff. do you know if the ship's ATC will prioritise aircraft for landing, based fuel held or do pilots just get a time-slot and it is left with them to make sure that they have enough to land, paying a visit to a tanker if necessary? Fuel is apparently one of the parts of the inbound call that the pilot makes, so i'm guessing it must be of some interest to the controllers?

might there still be exceptions though, for example, unlikely as this might be, the aircraft's refuelling probe has been damaged, making it impossible for it to refuel or the aircraft's fuel tanks are leaking and it only has "fumes" left? I guess that there must be a point at which ejecting and safely ditching the aircraft would be better than threatening the pilot's/carrier's safety?

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4008210&postcount=173 It will ultimately have more than one mode and the video explains how to use them in their current form.

A probably noobish question, but what would normally happen in RL, if a pilot were to get back to the carrier with insufficient fuel to stick around in a landing pattern? would he/she a) be given a "that'll teach you" type message and told to go find a tanker b) be given an earlier landing time and then maybe get kicked out of the squadron for not heeding his/her fuel management training i guess that the RL treatment of such pilots is/will be mirrored in DCS and that option a) should already be covered by the provision of tankers by the mission designers. if option b) would ever happen however, will the new improved carrier ATC include any options that allow for requests for an urgent recovery? For example will the AI controller take into account the relative fuel/repair states of the returning aircraft, or just prioritise human pilots over AI, which shouldn't be so stupid as to run out of gas and/or will they perhaps receive requests for emergency landings and delay the aircraft that were earlier in the queue?

I get that too and even if I select the option to hide the menu, it must still be getting called, as the message window gets moved to the bottom right of the display. Maybe VA/VP is interpreting ambient noise as commands??

ah, ok, I thought that there must be another explanation, other than the pilot having to eat lots of carrots to be able to spot the beam, so was thinking that i must have missed something. thanks for your help.

Are there any indications, possibly on the HUD, that would allow the pilot to see the LASER "spot" that the JTAC has just activated, before replying to JTAC with the Spot command? Having watched Wags' Introduction to Laser-Guided Bombs video, i can't see any changes on the HUD that might indicate that the beam had been spotted.

It won't necessarily be everyone's problem, but Windows can have an annoying habit of taking the focus from your DCS, or other, window, so when the keyboard stops working, just check that the DCS window is still the active one. if the DCS focus has been "stolen", then you can explore "whodunnit" and how you might prevent it in the future.