Cowboy10uk

Came here feeling like I’m useless at this, pleasantly surprised to see I’m not the only one struggling. Granted a little concerned that the mission has already been downgraded and I’m still getting shot down on the 3rd pass everytime. On bright side, I’m getting really good at startup, using Jdams in both pp and too mode, and adding new waypoints from a new tasking. Really don’t want to skip the bonus mission as I feel Steep wouldn’t abandon a fellow flyer, but damn I need to find a way to escape that darn Sam, makes me concerned for later missions, if I can’t avoid a handheld Sam, I have zero chance if there’s any bigger ones later on. ( too be fair I’ve NEVER avoided a Sam yet in all the years I’ve been playing. So I am aware it’s a skill I’m severely lacking ) Loving the campaign, it’s teaching me a LOT about the F18, and I’m not complaining, more like I’m venting after 5 attempts one after the other today. Now shut down the pc and walked away. I’ve got the Sam on my Lightning, have a Jdam all setup and ready to go, got people advancing on the pilot. Why on Earth would anyone drop down for a show of force when there is clearly a bloke with a Sam stood on the roof, and a high suspicion these guys are the enemy.

I had no doubt about that. Anyone who goes to the trouble of not only purchasing winwing mcdus and PFPs must have a love of heavy metal and logistics. The Herc is right down our street.

Fabulous work as ever. Will get it downloaded and tested on my machine tomorrow. Now the big question is how much do I need to bribe you, to look at getting this on the C130 when she finally lands.

Wow, Dover, Calais and Now the Channel Islands. All areas deep within the reduced detail areas of the Normandy 2 map. So is this your way of letting us know that you’ve now expanded the high detail areas significantly. Is the entire map High detail now? either way I’m very very impressed with what I’m seeing. original areas are shown below and everything that has been shown above is clearly in the reduced detail areas.

Ohhh , yep I do have all the keys bound on my pfp7. I’ll unbind and see if that works. thanks. Even better, I’ll just download the latest version. That was pretty quick work. thanks.

Mmmmm not sure what I’ve done wrong here. I can get output on my pfp7, I can interact with DCS a treat. The issue I’m having is the mcdudcsbiosbridge keeps shutting down with zero error messages. if I restart it, things start working again, but then it closes down again. any ideas?

Hi all, one of the main thing about flying transport aircraft such as the Herc, is flight planning and utilising high and low ifr routes. I was just wondering how will DCS manage this. In MSFS or Xplane which is the closest sim we have to simulate freight transport at the moment tend to use Navigraph subscriptions which allow us to utilise the correct routes and all the real airport charts for approach, taxing etc. Do we know if the Herc will be utilising something similar so we can use a flight planner such as simbrief for our Herc flight, or are ED utilising their own system, and if so how do we get the waypoint names to be able to program these into the FMC, or takeoff and approach routes? I really hope this has been thought about and not just left for us to do what we want as it is currently. granted the landing video put out last month did so approach charts so that does make me hopeful that this has been discussed.

Wow you managed to get the pfp7 working as well. You sir are my hero. can’t wait for you to post the instructions, so I can also get this working. Obviously I did get it for the PMDG 777, but deep down I always hoped I could also use it for the Chinook, C130 and A10. fantastic work sir.

As this is the first Quad engine DCS module, a thought has occurred to me that a large number of simmers in DCS will only have the standard duel engine throttle. Orion, Warthog, Thrustmaster etc. Granted there may be some who also fly civilian simultors who will have more throttle axis like the Honeycomb Bravo so they will be fine, BUT I hope the devs haven’t forgotten that this may present a issue and provide axis binding options that will allow 2 engines to be controlled by a single throttle axis. While I am aware this isn’t at all realistic, it would be a simple solution when bringing a Quad engined aircraft into a what has been effectively a Duel engine simulator. luckily I do have the Honeycomb, BUT I know at least 2 others in my Sqn only have Duel throttles and I’m sure they aren’t the only ones here in that situation.

You say they clearly had it for a while, but that may not necessarily be the case. The FMS is just a FMS, anyone with anytime flying airliners in Xplane or MSFS will be comfy with inputting data into that. Finally the skills some of us have been honing for years in civilian flightsims are finally transferrable to DCS. ( hopefully we can keybind out Winwing FMS buttons to the Hercs FMS. Will make things so much quicker I am hoping they are doing quite a few videos mind you, this landing was great, and while it may not show things blowing up, it was still a very enjoyable video and got me excited to fly the Herc. I may not be great at A2A but logistics flying it’s right up my alley.

Huge thanks to everyone that answered and gave me advice. It did make my mind up to take a gamble on the HF8 Pro which turned up a few days ago. I have to admit to being rather surprised at how different and how much better it is than the original HF8 that I couldn’t get on with at all and returned after a week. This one works well with Simshaker, doing carrier ops and flying Helos is magnificent again, and it’s taken me back to those first feelings when I got the jetseat all those years ago. Thankyou once again for the advice. cowboy10uk

Hi all, I had my sim equipment disconnected for about 2 weeks, now when I’ve reconnected everything I cannot get sim app pro to start up whatsoever. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it just sits at a blank black screen. This obviously means I can’t use my ufc display. any ideas, cause I’m all out of ideas. ive checked defender and firewall to make sure its still got a exception which it has. I’ve even tried deleting scripts.lua but to no avail

Thanks for that @MAXsenna it’s much appreciated and @rapid for your quick review. I have managed to find a few vids on it showing it off for DCS and MSFS, so I think I might take a gamble on the Pro. I do miss having the haptic feedback I used to get from the Jetseat so I do need to get that back somehow.

Sorry I meant being used with DCS. Quite a few reviews with racing sims I will admit. However as it’s Specifically DCS I’ll be using it with, then it’s how it runs with that, which is important. Hence asking the experts here, who will have the experience with DCS and the haptic seats.

Winwing products are great for our community, very good off the peg cheap solutions BUT yes their customer service is none existent sadly. I’ve only had to use CS a couple of times in the many years I’ve been using Winwing and it’s been a battle every time. Resulting in having to go through my bank to get my money back after they sent me my order Twice and charged me TWICE. Returned via customer service but they never refunded my money. I also had the issue with my Orion twisting, and yes it’s a very very annoying issue. I ended up purchasing some better quality grub screws which solved the issue, dirt cheap on Amazon if you don’t already have any. Can’t say I’ve had the issue with the throttle.mine has been great for years. Fingers crossed it gets solved soon.

Hi folks. After Years of great service, my Jetseat has finally waved a white flag and died. ( actually I ripped the cable out after getting it caught under my chair ) So I’m now in the market for a replacement. Since the Jetseat came out I see a few other options have appeared and sadly the Jetseat become harder to import. Have any of you got any recommendations about which seat to pick up. I would obviously want one that matches if not out performs the haptic feedback of the Jetseat. Looking into them myself I’m thinking either jumping through hoops to import another Jetseat or the Next Level HF8 Pro. I did try the original HF8 last year but found it to be rather disappointing compared to the Jetseat. Haptics felt weak and I couldn’t really get much feeling from rotors when starting up my Helos. I understand the Pro is a significant upgrade from the original, BUT after my first experience I’m hesitant as there’s not a great deal of reviews out there for it. Should I just stick with what I know. software wise I obviously have the Simshakers for Aviators software for the Jeatseat, which I understand is also compatible with the HF8 pro. Any advice from owners or either the latest Jetseat or the HF8 Pro would be highly appreciated.

Hi guys, sorry for reviving a odd thread. however I’m just trying to install this mod. I can see the pylons off and on in my livery and in mission editor if I select them, they do remove the livery’s and open the doors which is perfect. My issue is I cannot get the payloads to show for love nor money. They show up great in the load out list, but nothing is showing in game. just the standard Huey with just the rear M60s. just wondering does this mod still work, and if so any idea what I’m doing wrong.

Hi all, I was using the F18 today when I came across a strange bug regarding using the radio on the ufc. I am using a Winwing UFC to interact with the aircraft and on testing ALL the buttons are being recognised in the controls menu. However while I could pull the radio 1 or 2 dial to bring up the freq info, none of the options on the right appear to work or change, and neither does turning the dials clockwise or counter clockwise, so I can’t access any other set channels, Guard or manual modes. IF I swap over to any other mode, AP, IFF, ILS, DL etc, then all the buttons on the right work fine and options can be changed as normal. I don’t have a track file, as I’m not sure if it’s a hardware issue or a software bug. Just wondering if anyone else has come across this behaviour. I have tried this in both free flight, campaign and single mission with the same result everytime. It used to work fine with zero issues, but this is the first time I’ve flown for a few weeks.

Wow I have no idea how I can Thankyou for doing this. My Dad was based at Gutesloh 79 to 82 with 230 Sqn as a loadmaster on Pumas. I have some memories of my time there ( I was only 7 at the time ). I know there was a dry ski slope, as I took one hell of a tumble on it. . Put me off skiing for life. The military married quarters were a series of tower blocks in Harsewinkle just up the road from the base. While I will be using Gutesloh as my main base, I am aware that it’s currently very far from realistic. I cannot wait to see where this project goes and I’ll certainly be downloading it if possible.

Thankyou very much for that info and especially the universal ufc program, I wasn’t aware of that and it’s perfect. Will be installing it very shortly.

Hi all, I am fortunate to have the fantastic Vrsimsolutions MIP and I will admit it works extremely well with its intended function the F18 and utilising a DCS Bios file from their website. However I’m wondering is there a way to get the lighting functions working with other aircraft? I mean all aircraft have a master caution light and fire lights right. Some have the same rwr warning lights as the f18. Yes in a different position on the cockpit but the signal to illuminate said light would still be similar surely. I admit that when it comes to programming I am absolutely hopeless, so I’m wondering if anyone else has had the situation where they can utilise cockpit lights for each module they own in the same home cockpit.

So I’m trying yet again to get the lights on my winwing devices to sync up, APU light on Taurus, Gear light, ECM and stores at the moment, will also be shortly upgrading to the MIP and will require any additional lights on there to sync as well. Now I know I need to repair export.lua to get the winwing line put in, and when I test it by itself it works fine. However winwing isn’t the only program that requires lines added to the export.lua, and the moment I add any of my other lines, the lights on my winwing products stop working, I will enclose a screenshot of my other export.lua lines that I require which I took prior to repairing the file and adding winwing. Has Anyone got any ideas, now obviously removing the export.lua lines that allow my FFB rhino or simshaker to work, isn’t really an option, but after buying a product that sells itself on syncing the lighting it would be nice to actually have the stuff working. I’ve also just purchased some MIP addon glare shields that have many more lights syncing to the cockpit, which no doubt will require additional export.lua lines added to work correctly Im finding it a tad frustracting and the winwing stuff to be rather tempremantal at getting these lights synced to my sim.

Ok, after lots of messing around, I completely wiped the export.lua and manually redid it all and it does now seem to work, APART from I don’t seem to have any engine vibrations in the F18 and if I fire the gun the effect stops working after a second or two. pulling G however works an absolute treat as does stalling the aircraft, gear weapons etc. I can feel them all.

Are you all using just the Next level software or the Simshakers software. I’ve literally been fighting to get this working all afternoon. I can get an output with the next level software but if I’m honest it’s pretty poor. Just a constant buzz from the engines and you can hardly feel any other effects. I then went over to try and use my simshaker software as I used to have a jetseat, and although it sees it in the software and testing the motors work fine. I cannot for the life of me get any output on the HF8 in sim. tried troubleshooting using info from the simshakers page on her but sadly I’ve not succeeded. ANY advice at this stage would be greatfully recieved before I throw the darn thing out the window.

Hi guys I need a hand. Sadly my jetseat died and I’ve just replaced it with a HF8. However I cannot get a output to the seat in game no matter what I do. It sees it in the software, I can run the test motors function with zero issues, but in game I get ZERO output. im getting no errors and I’m only running the latest Simshaker beta software. I attach a photo of my script lua file below. I do use a Rhino FFB stick which also uses a script file, obviously turning that off isn’t a option. The seat works fine with the next level software if I turn that on, but simshakers just will not play and the next level software effects are rather poor to say the least.