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  1. I've selected stable 1.5.6 from the beta versions on steam and it works fine.
  2. I'm in version 1.5 on steam and luckily I have saved an older version of dcs. I'll install it and opt out of any updates and see if it works. It appears that this is not a Huey specific problem and perhaps we'll have to wait for the next update for a fix. Many thanks for the answers. Sent from my SM-J510FN using Tapatalk
  3. Hello, The error in the picture happens since last Friday. It is not random. It has happened once while touching down at the frigate in the UN campaign and then it consistently occurs while touching down at waypoint 3 in the same mission (I have tried it more than five times). I have also tried mission 3 of the Argo campaign. Same here. DCS crashed again having completed the mission and landing on the frigate (it's a landing related problem???). I had been flying the Huey for a few months and had never seen the error before. By the way, what changed on Friday - the day when the error first appeared - was that I purchased and downloaded Vigen DLC. Here's what I did: * Updated my nvidia drivers * Uninstalled & reinstalled DCS from file * Uninstalled Viggen (by unticking it on steam) * Uninstalled DCS and reinstalled it by downloading it WITHOUT Viggen. I am positive that hardware is not the problem. I have made no other changes in my laptop except for purchasing and downloading Viggen DLC. If there's anyone who could offer any help with this, it'd be very much appreciated. I also have attached the log file of the problem. I am not sure how to read it. All the best for the New Year to everyone, John https://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=175093&stc=1&d=1514446665 dcs.log-20171227-153951.zip
  4. Just tried it again this afternoon. I flew an approach towards runway 9 as requested instead of going straight to the landing spot and permission was given this time. Many thanks to all! Sent from my SM-J510FN using Tapatalk
  5. Many thanks for your answers, especially Ramsay for taking the time to compose such a detailed answer! At least I am now confident that I'm not doing something wrong. Frederf, if I understand correctly, you're saying that I have more chances to get a reply if I do things as the ATC expects me to do them. For this matter flying an approach like an airplane I guess. I'll try it. The ATC regardless how incompetent is surely part of the immersion.
  6. Thanks Holton. I was flying around and above them for quite long while I was trying to figure it out. No luck. Eventually I crashed while looking at the avionics panel :D Sent from my SM-J510FN using Tapatalk
  7. First off, the huey is the first and only clickable module that I own. My questions may be common with other modules that have clickable avionics. I cannot know that so I'm posting it here. Yesterday I was for the first time requested to use comms. Although the whole avionics stuff was familiar to me through flight simulator and I had already read the manual and watched some tutorials, this was the first time that I actually put it in use - specifically on the third mission of the UN Campaign ("reporters") where the captain asks you to get permission to land and let the reporters get off. After I found out the differences between UHF and VHF comms (and their corresponding channels, that is 2 and 3 respectively) and I discovered the alt+\ peculiarity on the Huey I was able to to contact the airport and get a reply for the "inbound" option on the radio dropdown menu. However, after a few moments the ATC contacts again and tells me to "contact tower" to request landing. Well, I hit the option to request landing but none replies at that point. Still, if I hit request azimuth from the same dropdown menu the ATC comes back with the vectors. It's only the request landing option that is ignored. Is it that I have to contact another frequency for the tower (there's no other frequency for the airport either on the briefing or on the F10 map)? Is it just a bug? Am I doing something else wrong. By the way, I have tried this with both VHF and UHF radios; same results. Anyone familiar with this? There's another thread in this forum about contacting tower on the same mission, yet my question is quite different.
  8. oh yes, I now understand the logic of the f10 map and I think that I like it. Indeed, it some kind of intelligence instead of 'what you see from the cockpit' map, especially when set on the 'fog of war' option. It's indeed a pain spotting new targets, yet after some 80 hours on the frogfoot I feel that I'm getting better and better. In the aftermath it's all about tactics and patience. Thanks for the tips :thumbup:
  9. I believe that a restriction in pilot view is good and indeed realistic, yet sitting on my chair I can look straight up (90 degrees) without moving my body. Also, arguably in a real cockpit you would be able to look much further than 90 degrees with your peripheral vision which naturally cannot be simulated on a pc monitor (unless you have a VR setup which I don't :cry:) Peripheral vision is not very detailed, yet you can - for instance - keep on tracking an enemy fighter during dogfights, although you may not be able to see it clearly. I am not sure on how the developers could simulate these restrictions, yet I feel they're quite awkward at moment - especially the camera jumping which totally disorientates me during dogfights.
  10. Many thanks Voodooman! I tried your recipe and I confirm that I was able to look up 90 deg at the centre of my screen. It's certainly much better than it was in terms of looking up, yet I did find it a little awkward finding the right position for looking forward. When I find the time I will also synchronize the DCS's head up limits with FacetrackNoIR so as to get rid of this annoying camera-jump effect. I also recently bumped into some other DCS thread in which the same issue is discussed (for some reason I can't find it anymore) and where people report that the looking up behaviour is much better in DCS 2.0. So I'm just looking forward to the next official update :D
  11. Yugon, thank you for your detailed and helpful reply. I think that I now understand how the f10 map works and what to expect from it. Your explanation on the view options also cleared things up for me. Mine was set to 'all' (perhaps by default). I now have set it to the 'fog of war' which makes more sense, and adds a bit of a challenge.
  12. Thank you sthompson, No, from what I see it's not realistic. It's just looks messed up. The trucks that I referred to in my previous comment were 'hidden' on the f10 map yet they were clearly visible in the middle of a valley among other targets that were shown on the map. Yet, some other targets which were actually hidden behind trees and buildings were 'visible' on the map. It doesn't make sense. So, should I assume that there's no logic through which the targets are displayed on the map? If so, how do I know whether an area is clear other than getting hit?
  13. Thank you for your reply Slazi, I haven't designed any missions. I'm just trying to play the default campaign. So, are you saying that the designer of this mission decided to 'hide' some trucks and some AAA? Is there any logic behind this decision or is it mere caprice? If it's the latter then this renders the f10 map untrustworthy.
  14. Hello forum, I've been searching for an answer for a while before posting here, so please forgive me if my question is too dumb or has already been answered. I've recently started playing DCS and I'm still getting used to the Su-25T. I have the target labels removed and I'm trying to learn how to spot targets manually. The only help I can get during a mission with regards to target-spotting is through the in-game f10 map that displays air and ground units and through which I can understand whether an area is clear or not. My problem is that it is not all ground units that are displayed on the f10 map. For instance, in the first campaign mission of Su-25T, the player has to clear waypoint 5 before proceeding to 6. While trying to do that, I made several attacks on wp5 until no target was displayed on the f10 map. Then I decided to fly low over wp5 towards wp6 only to get hit by some AAA that was not displayed on the map (eventually I also noticed that several trucks were also not displayed on the map). Is there any logic behind this behaviour, or is it just a bug? If it is normal, how am I supposed to know whether an area is clear or not?
  15. I have made a short video featuring the problem (sorry about the lag, I don't know what caused it). If anyone knows what causes this bizarre behaviour, please advise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WoCm_0AkJI&feature=youtu.be
  16. Thank you for your reply Rudel (EDIT: & firmek). I have already adjusted the curves to the desired settings and the three led's are visible at all times. By 60 degrees I refer to the virtual head movement in DCS. In real life and with my current curve settings this is no more than 20 degrees of real head movement. The little head monitor on the left side of FaceTrackNoIR that previews the head movement seems ok and smooth when looking up. The problem only occurs when I look up in DCS.
  17. There's not been any activity on this issue for a while now, yet I'm having the same problem. When I look up further than approximately 60 degrees the camera movement breaks and I end up looking back on the horizontal axis. I am using delan clip with FacetrackNoIr and I'm pretty sure that there's nothing wrong with any of them since they seem to register the movement just fine (as shown in Facetracknoir preview). I have tried various settings in the server.lua file (user\Saved Games\DCS\Config\View\Server.lua) but nothing seems to work. This is what I have ended up with: ViewSettings["Su-25TM"] = { Cockpit = { [1] = {-- player slot 1 CockpitLocalPoint = {4.000000,1.000000,0.000000}, CameraViewAngleLimits = {20.000000,140.000000}, CameraAngleRestriction = {false,180.000000,1.000000}, CameraAngleLimits = {280.000000,-200.000000,200.000000}, EyePoint = {0.000000,0.000000,0.000000}, limits_6DOF = {x = {-0.200000,0.200000},y ={-0.200000,0.200000},z = {-0.200000,0.200000},roll = 60.000000}, I'm currently flying the Su-25T and I'm using the steam version of the game (if that makes any difference). Has anyone been able to fix this? Any suggestions?
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