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How do you know this? From what I read they should underline it to show emphasis. Why not _P?

Not sure if I just missed it but I keep getting "PPP" in my grade string from the LSO. Is this Power Power Power? Or something else? I have also gotten 3Pts. for 3 points so I don't think it is that.

Confirming that I am having the same problem with the rockets. Won't fire if bombs are loaded as well. Also if I put the plane on unlimited ammo I can drop the bombs once and then they can not be used. The guns and canon continue to work.

I thought I understood what was going on there with the curves but now I am not so sure. A short time ago I reset my curves to straight lines per a suggestion on a couple tutorials. Very convincing to go with VR and mothball the big screen. I even started pricing some of these VR sets. Perhaps I am not suppose to talk about $s here but the range of $s is an order of magnitude. Almost 2. I assume I need the expensive set to get the immersion we all want. I am going to have to find one someplace and try it out. I have heard of using the autopilot and the trim for air to air refueling. As far as using the trim goes - once you get close to the tanker you all are saying you don't move the stick - you move the trim hat instead - correct? Unless of course you need a large adjustment. Are you all correcting your lateral movement with ailerons? i.e. You have not mapped your rudder trim to the trim hat. Really appreciate the discussion.

Probably should have mentioned I am not VR so asking about the zoom may be moot. I have heard that VR is the way to go with aerial refueling because you get the depth perception of something so close. Is it time to go with VR? A couple of years ago the consensus (IMO) was that VR was not there yet and to go with 3 flat screens. Trash the monitors and fork out the money for VR? Oh man. Variable or split throttle - I am quite surprised. I have not seen or heard or read about this anywhere in DCS. I just queried all the key words and got nothing. I then tried it. Again surprised that I could get it working so fast. I didn't even have to trim the plane that much. Not that I am hooking up and staying hooked up to the basket yet, but the speed of the hornet is not jumping all over the place. Changes to the throttle cause small and predictable changes to the speed. And it is from the RW. Which speaks to how well the plane is modeled.

I made too big of a deal about the arch and should have just asked what I was really wondering about. That is how much zoom if any do you recommend? Some people think it is important. This is the last thing I am wondering about pertaining to aerial refueling for the moment.

I now see that it was a mistake to keep looking at the air speed. You lose the perception of what the tanker is doing. Apparently with practice one can perceive minute changes in what the tanker is doing relative to one's own aircraft. There is a video out there on refueling the F-16 which recommends looking at the fuel feed to get a more accurate picture of your speed and the speed of the tanker. Of course I don't remember them saying how often to look at the fuel feed, but it sounds like looking at it at all is unnecessary when close to the tanker. Keeping my eyes on the tanker seems problematic with that brace for the cockpit glass arching right above the HUD. Any thoughts about getting a better view of the refueling aircraft? Do you change the zoom? Some tutorials say zoom out. Others say nothing but look like they are zoomed out quite a bit. Also this variable throttle idea is completely new to me for a DCS application. Are you saying each engine no longer has its own throttle on a twin engine aircraft? I have heard of a variable throttle control for electric motors and such. Some of those are pedals. At least that is what little I remember.

Thank you for the responses. Both perspicacious although they are not in agreement. I wouldn't say they are diametrically opposed either. I agree that the biggest problem is the throttle but what can anyone recommend for that? I end up constantly looking back at the air speed. If I fixate on the plane I am sunk. As far as using the rudder, I will try to be more aware of reduced speed when using rudder. I am very interested in the RW. That is the main reason I do all this. Are we under a similar situation as real pilots in regard to what we are discussing here. That is controlling PIO by using rudder to correct lateral position. If I understand Dragon1-1 correctly - maybe not. What he typed made sense to me: "I suspect, the real Hornet's flight stick has linear response, high stick forces and a lot of travel. This is far more precise than a desktop stick". I have been trying to figure out if these real pilots have something I don't. In a nutshell the answer would be YES - Courage. As far as eye hand coordination - Yes again. However, I can't believe they are practicing more than many of us at aerial refueling. The ease we have of getting right behind the refueling plane and practicing is not something real pilots can do. At the very least they have to submit a flight plan. I have been watching aerial refueling of real F/A-18s and pilots on the documentaries and YouTube (there are quite a few). Granted they may only be showing the best case refueling. What I have noticed is the plane never bounces up and down enough to go above the plane of the refueling aircraft or the pilot never has to unhook and hook back up. When they first approach the drogue, there is movement between the plane and the drogue of at most a few meters or less. The approaching plane's movement is always small, crisp corrections that seem to stop immediately. Truly the ability of these pilots is remarkable. But do they have the advantage of equipment that is far more responsive? Again the answer would be yes. Compare the price of tens of thousands of dollars of avionics equipment from McDonald Douglas or Lockheed Martin to our (what any of us would say is expensive on our budgets) $150 to $532.95 from Earl Scheib. I guess I will just keep practicing. Thanks again for the insightful responses.

I am getting better at Air to Air Refueling and noticed that I could be using roll too much instead of rudder. I saw some posts that highly recommended using the rudder when you need to move horizontally a small amount and others said that they did not own decent pedals and that roll was fine. Before I force myself to break the habit of rolling I thought I would check with the community. I know this could be a personal preference issue but I have noticed I still get into those dreaded up and down oscillations. At first I thought it was the refueling plane hitting turbulence but now I think it is me trying to roll the aircraft. Other posts have corroborated this. Any thoughts?

That is good news. When you say fixed does that mean we will see it on the next version? Another issue while we are here is the conventional takeoff and handling at night. The only difference between it and the conventional takeoff and handling is that someone turned off the lights for the night version and added the line "do it now" pertaining to turning on the APU at night. This was an opportunity to go over the lighting, the NAVFLIR, etc. Granted this is suppose to be in the Night Operations tutorial but I don't see having a separate tutorial for the conventional takeoff and handling just so you can do it in the dark. I see the interactive training to be extremely important. Active learning is superior to passive learning. If ED is going to bring in new money and keep expanding while maintaining what it has - it needs to find ways to make the learning curve as painless as possible without turning the sim into an arcade experience. I see interactive training a big part of that effort. But when I see for all planes very few new interactive tutorials, and some of the new ones not as professionally done as the original tutorials, and these original interactive tutorials slipping behind the latest version releases, and then to become aware that some of these interactive tutorials are mere copies of others although they are suppose to address another topic - I get a little nervous. I only hope you get a bigger budget in the future,

I had the same problem. I noticed wheel chocks on the front wheel only. Since the engine was running I could not remove them. I somehow missed removing the wheel chocks or it was not in the tutorial. I have noticed in the Laser Guided Bomb tutorial that the tutorial seems out of date with the current TPod. I am not sure if that is what is happening here.

Thank you so much for the reply.

I can't seem to find this answer by query. I must be slipping. Not that I mind being a junior anything at an age where I am applying for Medicare but how do I go from Junior Member to Member to Senior Member to Veteran...? If the answer is out there please just point me in the right direction. Thanks

Thank you once again. This is the kind of help I need. I am not even sure I have these files in the right spot. DCE folder is under: C:/Users/My Name/Saved Games/DCS/Missions/Campaigns/en/ DCE_Missionscript_mod is under: C:/Program Files/Eagle Dynamics/DCS World/Mods/tech/ I have had these files about everywhere and this is where I gave up. I also used OvGME in different locations but gave up on it for now. The MissionScripting file contains: --Initialization script for the Mission lua Environment (SSE) dofile('Scripts/ScriptingSystem.lua') --Sanitize Mission Scripting environment --This makes unavailable some unsecure functions. --Mission downloaded from server to client may contain potentialy harmful lua code that may use these functions. --You can remove the code below and make availble these functions at your own risk. local function sanitizeModule(name) _G[name] = nil package.loaded[name] = nil end do -- sanitizeModule('os') -- sanitizeModule('io') sanitizeModule('lfs') require = nil loadlib = nil end The path.bat file in init directory contains: REM Core or Main DCS ou DCS.beta path, always end the line with \ set "pathDCS=f:\DCS World\" REM DCS or DCS.beta saved game path, always end the line with \ set "pathSavedGames=Saved Games\DCS\" REM DCE ScriptMod version not any / or \ and no space before and after = set "versionPackageICM=20.38.01_S-AW" Hope this is what you wanted. Hope it was okay to use the copy and paste instead of printscreen - the old DOS way.

Thank you for responding. Almost missed it within these prune issues. Yes I used Notepad++. That is what the instructions called for to modify the path.bat file in the init directory even though I seem to recall using it may not be good for editing certain files. But the line turned blue like other comment lines so I figured it was okay.

Hello, First I want to say thank you for all these campaigns. Second I tried to load the Ka-50 campaign - ran it and got this error message on the first mission: sanitizeModule('os') in MissionScripting.lua has not been disabled. Mission results...will not progress. a message about getting restored to defaults after updates. And the old message ...at your own risk. I tried the -- in front of the specified lines to make it a comment with no effect. Still got the message and it only apparently ran the first mission. I tried using OvGME App per the instructions as a place to hold the above alluded to file but I am not sure the campaign is even seeing it. I will admit I am no longer all that tech savy. My Tech Hay Day was DOS and Windows 3.1. You should have seen me explaining computers to the previous generation whose Hay Day was punch cards and card readers. Any thoughts?

I am having the same problem and have a thread going with the title "Sidearm Not Locking Up".

I would love to see the development of a heavy bomber. Too bad ED is not interested. I still have a working B-17 app developed by Microprose in what - 2003 on an old Windows AT computer. One of my favorite programs. It let you jump from one station to another. I thought it did a fairly decent job with the Norton Bomb site. Even let you set up missions in the briefing room. I also remember a documentary about the British going after the dams in the Ruhr Valley. As I remember they dropped these large round bombs from a very low altitude into the reservoir so they would skip into the dam. The AAA was horrendous along the shore of the reservoir. ruhr

I am fairly new to the WWII planes. I was wondering how you all are handling the control of propeller pitch/RPM in the FW-190s. In the P-47 or P-51 you have a separate lever. In the FW-190 the control is on the throttle and you have an gauge telling you what the setting is. Apparently from my reading so far the Germans automated the propeller pitch/RPM setting so that to set it you must first take the control out of this automatic mode. My question to someone with far more experience than me is does putting the propeller pitch/RPM control in manual ever give you an advantage? If so when and what binding of controls works best for controlling the propeller pitch/RPM settings?

It is a drastic solution. I ended up reinstalling DCS World. The problem I was having was that I could not find DCS World on any list to uninstall. The internet had the solution. It turns out that many of these files have an uninstall app right in the file. In the DCS World file is an app called unins000. If you hold the cursor on it the description comes up as uninstall. Click on it twice and it uninstalls DSC World.

Problem Solved. Found the answer on the internet. Guess I am not as computer illiterate as I thought.

Help! I am not getting much help from support. My DCS World crashes whenever I try to run anything. I can login just fine. Whenever I try to do anything like run "Instant Action" it crashes. Support did tell me to change the DCS file name to Temp. All that did was when DCS World crashes, it crashes without a message saying it crashed. The thing is DCS World OpenBeta works just fine. Of course support told me to just use that but my experience has been that the resolution is not near as good in OpenBeta especially in reading things in the cockpit. I tried to delete and reinstall DCS World but only the Open Beta shows up on the control panel program list. Support told me to use the Apps & Features to reinstall but again only the OpenBeta shows up on that list. You can probably tell I am not the best at computers. I actually was quite the computer wizard when DOS and Windows 3.1 was around which was just after the scientific revolution kicked off. I am not even sure how to attach the crash files. Computer specs. AMD Ryzen 7 1700 8 core processor 3 GHz; RAM 32 Gb; NVidia GeForce RTX 2080; 3 Dell monitors

Thank you for responding. Never occurred to me about tail wind although in this case you start out very close to the runway. What made the difference is opening the oil coolant door along with the radiator coolant door. This seemed to help cool the radiator fluid as well. Apparently I need a lot more practice. I barely made it to the battle without overheating and was in no condition for a dogfight. Other planes were flying around without hindrance or restraint.

Tried a new campaign for the P-51d. Afrika 1942 using the Nevada map. Jumped to the 3rd mission "Pincers" as I am new to the P-51d. I can't even get off the ground without the coolant gauge hitting the maximum temperature. Tried all kinds of things like manually opening the radiator up to air before taking off. Is someone else flying this mission and doing okay?

Nice job. I did not know this sort of thing existed on a forum.