grandkodiak

take off from ground... hot. wow. im an a$$. thank you!!

Is there a way to have your unit already started in a mission like in instant action? I can't find where to do so. Thank you!

damn thats a shame, what a sim it would be! i'd take that or an apache in a heart beat! or an f117 or b2, long overdue for a sim with one of those! i miss janes us navy fighters, even if it werent an "accurate sim", all the replay value came from the horde of planes and weapons available!

Found this on google, looks like the lomac/dcs ground textures. what plane is this from? doesnt look familiar at all, def US or Euro no? http://oi45.tinypic.com/9014q8.jpg

So I thought that counter rotating blade idea illiminated the action/reaction torque spin on the body, removing the need for a dedicated tail rotor system. Now, does the BS use engine exhust down a duct/nozzle system into its tail like civi NOTARs to have yaw control? second, im pretty sure that i still get a good amount of spin into the wind... even when no wind is present... does ground effect cause any sort of directional preferance? lastly, what altitude does ground effect come into play, and what determins it, the total rotor diameter and rate of collective?

"or ask a KA-50 pilot on teamspeak for wind at ground level." lols

Also check in windows to make sure the throttles are still recognized inputting for thier entire length... try recalibrating the joystick, make sure that full back is zero input, middle is middle, and full is completely full. double check the same in the sim and make sure the throttle position lines up in the game as it does on your real world joystick. you can also look in sim and make sure the turbine rpm's are going to max or if they are staying below the line. also check the toe brake constant on or parking brake/emergency brake symptom people have mentioned... if you can, go as far as unplugging just the rudder portion and see if it goes away.

its possible, i havent played in over a year and even then i didnt play often since it wasnt an apache or cobra :) only thing that makes me think that it SHOULD be like that, is because all the other planes are, and there is a seperate binding for firing the canon from weapons release, why would there be if you couldnt operate the canon at any time?

Hey all, Just getting back into the series, and brushing up on my ka50. I'm experiencing a strange thing with the autopilots autohover feature though... sometimes when I enguage it, the helicopter rears nose up, and starts flying backwards at nearly 50-80 and stays like that, albiet level in flight and holding the same heading, just backwards...? I've experienced this a few times... ill be in all but a manually held hover maybe under 10kmh in any of the axis, press autohover and shes off backwards like it was a race! sometimes it works perfectly though... comming to a slow stop, leveling off and maintains a point position. second, ive been practicing in my own test mission agaist some cargo trucks parked in a field right at the airport so i can practice taking off, hovering, comming to target, shooting and landing without worrying about transiting along waypoints or getting shot down etc. so when i start, everythings already running, but im having a problem getting the canon to work. im in the right modes as far as i can tell, master arm is set... and i can shoot rockets/missles with no problems, but the canon trigger never works UNLESS i am in cannon mode with the "c" button pressed. I recall that the canon was like any other aircraft where it could be fired with its own trigger press even if other weapons where selected...? i can only seem to get it to do anything after entering "cannon mode". is that realistic or am i just missing a switch somewhere? :)

I got around to installing DCS World today, but it didn't pick up any of my games? The icons all have money icons on them, and bring me to a hyperlink to the store. I already own everyhting but BS2, Combined arms and Mustang... which I don't want. I don't see any option in World to find the game installs? Is this not like the Steam program I presume? I tried running World with each retail DVD in the tray, but that doesnt do anything either. What am I missing?

Alright I saw thier faq on the website, never noticed it before. ill try in a few days, im still mastering a few a10 systems then i think im game! will just copy/pasting the control config files not work, or atleast save a certain percentage of keys? i have a great x45 profile right now

alright so i headed upto about 10k feet and the bomb couldnt have landed any closer, i think it actually impacted the vehicle itself! now, on to masterin inertial guided weapons! im still not comfy with setting/changing steerpoints, spi's, markpoints etc... but that video is very helpfull. thats tonights project, then ill be ready for some multiplayer!?!

Hey, just got back into DCS this morning and was reading about DCS World. Looks like they are finally getting on track with merging all thier software like they said they wanted to back in the day! Anywho, I had FC2 and A10C already installed on my computer, have been there for months, just havent used em. I just booted A10C back up this morning for a few training runs as refreshers. (I also have the first blackshark which is not installed currently, because I was loosing hair over the f**king trim system and gave up on it.) I was wondering, do I just download and install DCS World and it recognizes the existing installs like steam, or do i have to uninstall, install DCS World, and install each one again? I only ask because I have alot of custom key mappings and graphic settings are finally where I like, wondering if I should save the configs before installing World. Thanks all!

It's clearly centered on the truck the entire time, even during flyover and passing, so if it is on a point, it should be correct there too.... anywho, ill check when i get back home. im readin the 40+ CDU pages in the pdf manual too haha.... *sigh*

alright ill do a higher alt run to check... im only low since i put the truck right in the middle of the airport to make it easy to find haha... i go out over the water on takeoff, turn around, and thats where ive been perfecting my guns, rockets etc... after i master laser ill start my luck with inertial/gps guided ones. the hardest part is just remembering the controls on my x45... i WISH someone would make a "low quality" affordable version of the a10 controller, I can justify $400 for it :( ps. thats the video i was looking for... i kept searching a1- dcs laser, jdam, targetting etc., forgot it was a targetting pod video and not just laser tutorial :) ill try again but after watching the video again, im wondering if thats my symptom though. im using a laser guided not a jdam, so it should aim at the laser designated point, so whether or not the mark point was off it shouldnt matter as long as the laser is on at the time and during the drop, no?