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What can I say ? The trainer is just phenomenal ! I just bought it from aerosoft.de for 1250 €. As mentioned in the review cited above, it comes in a relatively small and light-weight package. After having assembled it myself (took me about an hour), I was astonished how small the dimensions are. But that´s nothing bad at all, since it´s very sturdy and precisely manufactured. And yes, it`s a lot of money, but after having used it for the first hour, I can say, it´s worth its money ! I can hardly believe that I had coped with such a basic equipment as the HOTAS X before. Nothing against the HOTAS flightstick and the rudder pedals which in combination work just fine with DCS, but you feel immediately how much more precise and realistic the steering with the Puma works when you take off with it for the first time. The sensors are so sensitive that it needs only a slight touch of the controls to bring your heli into a different flight attitude. All that without any special adjustments in DCS or on the trainer hardware. The only thing that one has to take care of when using the buttons with the clickable cockpit, is to have the left/right mousebutton as well as the mousewheel functionality mapped to buttons on the throttle stick in order to flip switches and to turn knobs inside the cockpit. Unfortunately DCS doesn`t support this kind of input action natively, so I use KeyToJoy for that. Bottomline: The Puma makes flying so much more precise and realistic, that you won´t regret spending that much money on it ! : )

Thanks, Greg ! Good to know, that postings are being read and reacted to by you guys. : )

Gas throttle not reacting Hey there, has anyone else experieced a not functioning gas throttle when starting the first mission ? To get the mission going, you have to press 'page up' a few times. Once done, you can use your stick again. Developers, plesse verify this issue.

Refueling problem solved ! Alrighty, I found out how to get refueled. As always the detail lies in the small things. In order to get refueled you´d have to make sure you are communicating with the ground crew. In order to do that, you have to set the dial of the communication controller (C-1611/AIC) to "INT". Once done, you can ask for refueling (and rearming) and you `ll get an immediate response from the ground crew.

Thanks MadDog-IC for your help on refueling. I´ll give it a try this weekend. With all the talk about changing the governor mode when leaving the crash site on top of the mountain, I can say, that putting it to EMER works good for me. But you have to be careful when the co-pilot returns it to NORMAL operation and you are still on the slope down in front of that cliff. The reduced power brings me into difficulties while trying to maintain height and course. So, what works best for me, is to set the governor right back to EMER once my co-pilot set it back to NORMAL. I leave it in that position until I reach the drop of the cliff and can go full-speed down. At that time I have to set it back to NORMAL, otherwise the engine will be toasted within the next few seconds, as Sandman1330 mentioned above.

Hey guys, I just wonder, isn`t there more to this thread ? Now that taking off from the top of Mt. Elbrus has been discussed to extend (and it´s working in V 1.5.5, I managed taking off from there myself !), I have the next question. Where do you have to land in order to drop off the 8 soldiers from the first run AND to be able to refuel. Finishing the first run, I landed close to the fire trucks (on one of those helipads next to the big white T) in order to have the injured pilot taken away as quickly as possble. At that time, the fuel gauge shows allmost 'empty' and my co-pilot tells me that it`ll be necessary to refuel before going up that mountain another time. I radio ground crew to refuel (and rearm) on the given frequency, but nothing happens. No confirmation, no refueling whatsoever. I tried to find out by watching the most recent youtube videos, but they don`t show refueling in between those two runs. Can anyone answer my question ?

There you go ! I just posted the same prob. So, this bug has obviously not been fixed so far. Any idea if the developers care about our posts and let us know if and when they fix it ?

When selecting a quick support mission I found myself in the Huey on Tiblisi airport. The weather was set to 'random' and a light rain was falling. When looking back over the pilot`s shoulder at the rear seats I noticed the rain falling through the cabin ceiling into the cockpit. Has anyone experienced the same glitch on other occasions ? Is this bug known to ED or Belsimtek ?

Thanks, Redglyph for presenting a 'howto'. This way I'll fix it myself. (see post on previous page) I also wonder why ED seems to be so ignorant about this old bug... I recently bought the Huey module and use it with DCS1.5.5 and it's still not fixed... Don't they care about their customers ? If someone knows how to report bugs to them, pls let me know.

Damn! It's supposed to be a training lesson, right ? So, I 'd expect the tutorial to work correctly, which it definitely does not. I only recently bought DCS and as one can see, this problem hasn't been fixed over the past 4 years. Is ED aware of this bug at all ? Does anyone know if they have a bug report tool ? I'm just curious....

Hi Skyfoxx, you CAN reprogramm the HOTAS X buttons on the stick natively. That´s what I did and it works great with DCS and other games (EECH)! Have a read on my post: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=180561&highlight=Huey+HOTAS%2AX Alex

Hey there, this is for all of you who are using the T-Flight HOTAS X with DCS. The Thrustmaster stick and rudder is quite basic equipment and far off from being really precise and versatile for using it in simulations as DCS but it does its job in my configuration really good. And here is how it goes: 1. Setting up the HOTAS X a) Seperate the T.Flight HOTAS X from its throttle stick by loosening the two screws underneath the stick. b) Disable the flight stick rotation by tighteninng the screw underneath the palm rest. c) Make sure the selector-switch is set to "PC" and the selector light is lit RED. d) If you prefer to have your throttle behave more like a real throttle stick - that is, you raise the collective by pulling the stick towards you - you should reverse the behaviour of the throttle function. And here is how that`s done: e) Press the "PRESET"-key on the right side of your flight stick, so that its green light comes on. Now press the "MAPPING"-key next to it - the green light flashes slowly, push your throttle all the way forward (away from you) - the green light now flashes rapidly, then pull it all the way back (towards you) - the light is a steady green again - and move it back to center. You have now "re-programmed" you throttle to function like a real throttle stick. You can use this same procedure to also swap keys on the sticks. 2. Now to assigning keys to buttons by using "KJoytoKey". Download and start the tool to set the key mapping as follows: a) under "Options" (right side of the configuration screen) "Stick/POV": "Show all axes (8way + POV x4)" to let you assign keys to all elements of the two sticks. b) now with that done here comes my basic button assignment: Button 1: Space (Release Weapon) Button 2: m (Flexible Sight On/Off) Button 3: t (Trim) Button 4: L-Click (Mouseclick left) Button 5: R-Click (Mouseclick right) Button 6: R-Shift,K (Kneeboard On/Off) Button 7: ALT,C (Left Alt-C - Mouselook On/Off) Button 8: Home (Turbine Start) Button 9: F1 (Cockpit View) Button 10: L-Ctrl, F10 (Theater Map Current Point) Button 11: Escape (Esc) Stick2:<- Mouse: Wheel(-40) (Mouse Wheel Up) Stick2:-> Mouse:Wheel(40) (Mouse Wheel Down) Slider1(<0) Mouse:Wheel(-40) (Mouse Wheel Up) Slider2(>0) Mouse:Wheel(40) (Mouse Wheel Down) POV: Up 1 (Pilot Seat) POV: Right + (Kneeboard Next Page) POV: Down 2 (Co-Pilots Seat) POV: Left ? (Kneeboard Previous Page) This is my basic setup to get one through the first lessons and to enjoy the first hours of flight time. If you need to map more keys to buttons, which you´d certainly want to if you fly in campaign mode, you ´d have to make use of a second, "virtual" joystick, which is supported by JoyToKey. I haven`t made use of that so far, but will give it a try to assign radio functions to the coolie-hat-directions, for example. If anyone has found out a better (more efficient) mapping of keys, I´d be happy if you share it with me. This setup lets you use the buttons 7 and 5 as right- and left-mouseclick and the rocker buttons for twisting knobs or the gas-stick, which I found very helpful. I uploaded the JoyToKey-files in this post. 3. Setting the rudder pedals with the T.A.R.G.E.T-Utility When using the TM rudder pedals you can make use of the "T.A.R.G.E.T"-configuration tool to manipulate the functions of the pedals. (The HOTAS X is unfortunately not supported and never will be (I asked the TM support team) ) a) Open up the tool (TARGET GUI), select "NEW CONFIGURATION" of type "Basic", give it a name, select the "TFRP Rudder"-device, click "Next", set "TRPRIGHT" to "NONE" and "TRPLEFT" to "NONE" in order to diable the "gas & brake" functionality of the pedals you´d rather in racing games. b) Under "FLY NOW" add a new game association, give it a name (e.g. "DCS") and select the DCS.EXE or DCS_updater.exe in the DCS installation path. Wheever you want to start DCS, remember to start it from this point (by clicking on the arrow right next to the name of your game profile) in order to have DCS start with the rudder functions set to your personal configuration. 4. Start up DCS-World, on top of the main screen, select the setup button (gear symbol) and go to "controls". Under "Axis setup", find the row "Flight controls: Rudder, Yaw" and move vertically down the column "T.Flight Hotas X" to the key-entry there. Hit "DELETE" to delete this field. This makes sure that moving your rocker on the throttle stick of your Hotas doesn`t interfere with rudder-movement in the sim. 5. Now the most important thing to make your virtual mouse clicks work, is to bring the simulation on your monitor into FULL SCREEN MODE. Remember to hit (Left)-ALT + ENTER (just like you do with the good-old-DOS-box) any time after you have started DCS and BEFORE you start flying. If you don`t, the cursor movement and especially the virtual mouse button functions trigger windows desktop interaction which interferes with DCS in a very unnerving manner. Well, that´s quite a bit of a pre-flight setup, isn`t it ? The good thing is, you only need to do it once ! Remember to start "JoyToKey", then "TARGET GUI", then start your game profile from there, bring your sim-window to focus (ALT-TAB) and hit ALT+ENTER ! You `re all set to have a great time with your TM gear. :pilotfly: DCS Mouse.cfg JoyToKey.ini.remove_this_text_and_suffix.txt

If u really want to give it a try, unsrew the 6 screws in the base and try to open the case. I tried it, but let go because it didn`t come off easily. I didn`t want to try prying it open with a screwdriver and to damage the casing. If you found a way to get rid of the "center bump", let me know !