SandMan23

Typical, ED could and often does screw a one car funeral.

Big Newy says "Once we are 100% sure of the date we will let you all know, thank you for your patience." Well stop the presses and let me thank you very much for that.......please don't strain yourselves. Give us a break. Postings floating around about ED forcing a push back of the release for "Confidential Reasons" Really? What the heck is word salad? The "coming soon", "imminent" , "weeks not months" BS statements.... Release of the module certainly shouldn't be a surprise to ED. Seems they would have been working with the devs for a bit now to be ready for a release from both a resource and scheduling standpoint easily knowing how long and what is required once everything is in their hands. But as usual, everything iabout DCS and the Devs is cloaked in secrecy and a bunch of word games. Transparency would go a long way in assuaging the community, but instead we get the "Let them eat cake" and like it. Typical ED and Devs - Lucy and the Football.

Thank you for the quick and kind response.

F14 spawns on carrier with nose strut lowered in the launch position. Been this way for at least 6 months. Jester no longer visible in command wheel center. Also used to be able to look over my shoulder and see him looking around and leaning a bit to provide a glimpse of his helmet. While these are not game breaking, they are inconvenient (nose strut) and annoying. Takes away from the immersion.

It is Safety Wire. Common aviation maintenance requirement used industry wide (both civilian and military to prevent bolts from vibrating lose and backing out creating failures or damage.

I primarily play single player. Prior to the last update, I could switch to the RIO seat and IceMan would hold whatever attitude / bank I aircraft was in once I switched to the RIO seat. Now the aircraft levels off when I switch from Pilot to RIO seat. Thanks,

Firt I would like thank ED and the entire team. Awesome job and to know that more improvements are to come is even more amazing. Loving the Apache! As with most, I have spent the last 3 days getting acquainted and am at a fairly good level of proficiency. She flies amazingly well. No trim issues, after of course much trial and error with my Warthog settings. Can fly, transition, hover and land easily. George as CPH is great as well, but since I am 90% SP would like to be able pilot - move to George to operate weapons systems and have pilot George fly a bit and then back to pilot. All trim settings are nulled out when moving from front to back and visa - versa obviously calling moments of erratic flight before I grab the controls and reset everything. Can this be something that can be corrected? Thanks again for all of the hard work and such an AWESOME module!

Apologies for what may seem to be a dumb question, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to cycle through waypoints. Make navigation a pain. Thanks in advance

Flying as Pilot trimmed out. Switch to CPG blow stuff up. Switch back to Pilot and all of my trim setting are reset to center causing immediate pitch up. Is this normal?

So, after much trial and error with Thrustmaster joystick, throttle and pedal curves I can hover, transition and maintained trimmed flight using ATTHOLD, but I cannot get the ALTHOLD to engage. What am I missing?

Ok - let me try and explain another way. Easy to reproduce. Doesn't matter if you start code, hot or in flight. Turn off a system to create an advisory condition. e.g. disarm ejection seat, turn off a generator, etc. You will get a flashing master caution warning and a flashing advisory panel light. Do not correct the advisory. Hit master caution reset and the advisory light on the panel goes out without correcting the condition. If you hit master caution reset again. The advisory light will re-appear - show on the panel like it should until the condition is corrected.

Advisory panel lights do no show in test. No advisory lights on start up. Panel should look like a Christmas tree with lights extinguishing as I bring systems online. If caution or advisory event occurs during flight, I get a master caution warning and the advisory light on the panel flashes, but once I rest master warning the advisory goes out. Doesn't remain lit telling me what system malfunctions I have. I know there have been some changes based on SME input, but advisory panel does not appear to be functioning correctly.

Since the last update (hot fix) of 6/17, the nose strut switch seem to be bugged. Prior to this update, the switch would remain in the kneel or extd position. Following the last update the switch behaves as if it is spring loaded returning to center. I am nor sure if this correct, and if it is you should at least be able to or have to hold in in place to actuate the strut. The switch simply moves 1/8" returning to center regardless of action

Washed lighting issue - Hud, instrumentation, indexers, etc. is not just a CAT issue. Effecting all modules across DCS. Everything is brighter - washed out, and adjusting Gamma doesn't effect the low cockpit lighting. Is kind of curious though that while everything in the cockpit is washed out. The green hud "blob" still exists.

Yep, I am definitely digging the new Carrier. Thanks ED and Great Job!!

Select "None" in the Link to Unit drop down. Place your static object then re-link to the unit (carrier)

Hi Big Yes, only occurring with the F14 on my side. Tested with SP F-16 and F-18. Mission ends to briefing screen just fine. Getting the error described by OP when exiting F14 missions.

Thanks for the reply, but yep I had previously tried that as well. Same issue.

We all know 2.5.6 has several bugs. Essentially makes the update unplayable for me. Rolled back to 2.5.5. Ran repair and now crashes every time as soon as the mission loads at the screen where I hit "Fly" I can see the cockpit and Fly screen for 3 seconds then crash!. Tried different AC and maps. Same result. Highly frustrating. 2.5.6 is unplayable, and now I cannot rollback. Knew I shouldn't have updated. Something told me to wait because there would be issues, but did I go with my gut? No! Like everyone else I was looking forward the improved lighting and various other fixes. Next Steps? I could uninstall DCS all together and start over. My question is can I download 2.5.5 or do I use the DCS_updater.exe update 2.5.5.41962@openbeta instead of downloading the open beta again from the site? Stuck! Any help will be much appreciated.

New I shouldn't have updated. Yep, this and too many other bugs in 2.5.6 render the update unplayable for me. I knew I shouldn't have updated. No fault to HB......we all know who is at fault. Has happened too many times before. Rolling back to 2.5.5..... See you on deck in another ~4hrs or so.

Can confirm that RIO PIT frame rates are reduced by 50% at all times even while flying in the day. In SP mode - I would get ~60+FPS on the ground airfield or carrier, and ~120 fps in flight. I flew a good bit yesterday and this morning prior to the update. Since update, FPS are instantly halved in the RIO pit even during the day with zero cockpit lighting. Ugh. Essentially unflyable for me now.

Hello All: Haven't taken the Harrier out of the hanger for a bit. Decided to do so today but am unable to cold start from the Tarawa. Single player Caucus mission. I can start from the runway just fine in the same mission. However, when take from ramp is selected the fly screen takes me to the F10 map and my bird is no where to be found. Not sure when this has changed. Again haven't flown the harrier in a bit, but it worked fine prior to whatever change or bug has effected this. Is this a new bug? Is there a work around? Thanks,

First let me preface by saying thank you ED for the F16 module and all of the hard work. Kudos as the updates seem to be picking up some breadth, and I am honestly enjoying this little bird much more than I thought. My question is around external lighting and a centerline tank. Night ops without lights...do I need to say more? And if I recall correctly, I believe Wags last update prior to launch stated the centerline tank was completed. Seems I am feasting or famishing for fuel on missions. Some middle ground (centerline tank) would be much appreciated. Thanks

Any thought given to adding animated fuselage ladder and steps to the CAT?

I find that the Cat still talks to you and replies with ample feed back or "buffet". The fact that it no longer flies a like a school bus at 13 AoA and rattles my teeth out at 13 and ~only 4 Gs is a plus. Given HBs attention to detail and input from various SMEs with real life experience, I don't believe they would be taking us down an unrealistic FM path.