Cowboy10uk

Cheers mate, will have another look later today. That may be the issue, as my Kneeboard is that small I can’t actually read the writing on any of the airfield maps. Was looking for the info on a nav page.

Yep completely stuck there as well. Can’t see anything to add on the Kneeboard, and no idea how to do so, if I do find it

I tend to start switching to STT around 50 miles. No idea if it’s the correct procedure, but I do find it does help me tracking the different aircraft.

Nope we always wait in the lobby and join together. No one touches anything until we are both in the cockpit and state we are ready for the prestart checklist. Although this isn’t the only issue we are having in MP, as a Rio I can’t see any of the light checks my pilot does, the fuel light always shows low in the back, and IF we eject,only the canopy jettisons if I fire the seats, or if the pilot fires them, he ejects but the canopy and myself stays in the aircraft on my sim. I’m assuming it must be a sync issue, I have since uninstalled and reinstalled the module, so I’m hoping that may fix the issues we are see8ng. Sadly I can’t check until weds as I’m working nights at the moment.

Strange, ok well I will uninstall the F14 and reinstall her then. Maybe it’s a install issue or possibly a desync issue with the MP

Yep, mentioned this a few times. As a Rio it doesn’t matter what I do, when I eject only the canopy blows off. We still stay with the aircraft. When my pilot ejects, I stay in the aircraft and it didn’t show the canopy separating from F1, in F2 it appears to be blown as normal. Assuming it’s a desync issue

Yep I get this on every MP flight. Cold and dark startups on each one with a full aircraft. Caution panel always shows low fuel.

tried again today in MP, Rio initated ejection both on ground and air, only fired canopy. when my Pilot ejected, he ejected, my canopy and myself stayed in the aircraft????

reproduced Rio in MO, cable disconnected for pilot, stayed attached for me

The reason I’m programming the nav in cockpit, is when I’m on MP servers without waypoints set, I can plan our aircrafts flight route to the target. Appreciate in RL this would have been done at the planning stage and I’m assuming loaded before the aircraft started up. But obviously that’s not practical on MP servers. Thanks for the answers ref the waypoints. Hopefully I can get the darn things programmed right later today.

Hi guys and gals, the title speaks for itself. I’m having a hell of a time getting any waypoints I enter as a Rio in cockpit to get anywhere near the location I want to waypoint. Everything seems to be 1000s of miles off. I’m assuming the Lat / Long format show on my F10 map is in the incorrect format. So should I be inputting the Lat / Long into my computer as Degrees, Decimals or MGRS format? I’ve tried looking through the manual, and all it states is Lat / Long, nothing I can see about which format the F14 uses.

Yep both seats are armed. ????

Talking to my pilot, it appears that he hears the files that are in HIS Walkman folder, rather than the ones that I’ve changed. So I’m listening to Topgun, he has Metor playing. I’m assuming although we haven’t tried it yet, that if he drops my .ogg files onto into his Walkman folder then the music would be synced.

Hi everyone, I was just wondering if there’s anyone who can talk me through entering waypoints while I’m in the RIO cockpit, as I’ve tried doing it a few times, and the waypoints bare no relation to the location I’m trying to input. So at the mo, I switch to Tac data I think it is, and click waypoint 1 so it has the arrow illuminated. I then go to F10, move cursor to location I want and copy down the Lat Long numbers showing in the top bar. I then go back into cockpit, press clear, Lat, type in number enter, same again for Long press enter, which is exactly the system I use for the ins startup. However when I then choose waypoint 1 on the dial, it normally states it’s 1000s of miles away. Should I be converting the F10 number somehow to make it compatible with the F14 nav system. I know I’m doing something wrong, but I’ll be damned if I know what. Can anyone please point me in the right direction? Literally :helpsmilie:

Has your Rio turned HIS missile prep on? Left hand wall next to tacan. Back for sparrow, forward for both Sparrow and Phoenix

Make sure the switch in back is set to UHF2, obviously make sure he has configured his radio switch to UHF2 on his joystick. NOT the general radio button. I have found it’s a bit hit and miss, but just work through the various frequencies shown on F10 for the airfields. I can generally find one that works. I only fly RIO MP and this method works for me

Practise on the radar is the trick, best way I found was run the Pulse Doppler tutorial. When it gets to the end of the lesson, just leave it playing. Then you can try various different techniques to lock up and keep locked the various aircraft, as well as getting used to the position of the aircraft outside flying to what is shown on the screen. After sitting there and running it for 4 hours, I was able to compete a real intercept from start to finish when he received a Phoenix enema. Don’t get me wrong, I am still far from Jester quality. But I am a lot more confident Rio than I was before it.

Got the Iron Eagle soundtrack installed myself. Obviously also have Top gun converted so I can swap about.

So as we know this stunning work of art came out on Weds. I had decided quite a few months ago that I wasn’t going to fly this beauty, but in fact concentrate all my efforts into learning the Rio role. So despite being at work every evening this week apart from today, I spent 2 hours Thurs morning doing the Cold and Dark tutorial over and over again, and then 1 hour on Thurs and 4 hours today doing the Pulse Doppler Radar tutorial, just let the main lesson run then just use the AI to practice locking up, tracking and doing IFF checks. Anyway tonight I finally got the confidence to put everything to the test and try it in a hot environment although granted I will admit the enemy was on weapons hold. ( Hey it’s still a training session ok ) :smilewink: Well back to the story, I sat there with my human pilot, going through checklists together, bringing this amazing bird to life. We took off, made contact with darkstar and turned towards the reported groups. It wasn’t long before I had picked out a couple of enemy craft that failed the IFF, 120 miles out but closing fast. With my new found confidence after hours sat on the end of that runway locking up friendlys, I was able to use the various modes and get my pilot into a position 42 miles away from the enemy aircraft, which I had determined were F4s due to the reports from the radar receiver. Set the radar into attack mode, talked my pilot into a position that would allow a successful Phoenix launch and pressed the big red button twice. 2 launches, 2 different F4s 5000 above us and 42 miles away. Result was 2 kills, which surprised me more than it surprised you I can say. So quick 180 and get us the smeg out of dodge, I then managed to lock onto a friendly F18, which we quickly vectored onto for a formation flight back home. Sadly Lag ended his flight when he suddenly jumped from our 7 o clock low, to striking the rear of our aircraft with his wing, causing it to break off and the pilot a long drift to safety into the mountains of Oman, now we didn’t come out of this lightly. The collision had killed our left engine and with it the hydraulics were also failing. Quick check of the Kneeboard showed the nearest airfield was an international airport, so quick vectors to my pilot, and a talk on until he was visual with the runway and he managed to bring us down safe. All in all we were flying for 90 mins, it felt like 90 seconds. I have been flying in DCS weekly since 2008, I have and have flown every module released for DCS and I have had a jolly good time. HOWEVER I can honestly state that this module, has just given me the best experience I have ever had in DCS. Working as a crew in a true Multicrew aircraft is a complete game changer. Thankyou Heatblur, she is a masterpiece.

Hi guys, not sure if it’s something I’m doing wrong or a bug in the game. But I had an issue earlier where we started going off the runway due to battle damage and I pulled the get out of here handle. ( well the mapped button at least ) While the canopy fired and cleared as it should, the seats stayed firmly in the aircraft instead of carrying me and my pilot to safety. As these are Zero Zero seats, shouldn’t they fire with weight on wheels regardless, providing the seats themselves were armed, which I can confirm they were. This was in a MP session with the Rio ejection handle set to both. Sadly no track avalible as DCS crashed shortly after the issue when we tried to exit the server.

I’ve found the best thing to do ref the locking up, is if you are struggling on the DDD, which let’s be honest is finicky at best, is to switch to TWS mode if the targets are 70 miles or less. That way you can just hook them on the TID and then do the IFF checks etc. IF you loose them from there then switch back to DP or Pulse, and try switching to different target aspects and change the radar elevations. There will be times when you loose the contact due to notching for a good few seconds. Try getting your pilot to change course and height also helps with reaquiring the target.

Have a similar thought as you to solve the issue. Never used a switch as a modifier before, so hopefully she will work fine.

There’s a light switch on the throttle similar to the A10, that needs to be set to on, before any external lights show

Yes from the RIOs seat, but she’s extremely restricted by the number of waypoints you can type in.

Ohhh missed that vid. Thankyou, time to get watching. :thumbup: