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A: Go Fast, it was counter intuitive to me at first. But the faster you are going the shallower the... drop angle... is. Not sure what to call it, but I think you'll get the idea. B: Probably dive a little shallower. I'm not sure what or if there is a proper dive angle, but that seems a little steep to me. C: It's work in progress. I think Wags said in here somewhere that they were re-working the pull up queue logic.

I use Voice Attack for stuff like that rather than take up precious HOTAS buttons.

Correct. You can set trim while they are still at FULL, but they should be set to HALF for take off. Just don't try to set trim with them set to AUTO. Someone mentioned clicking a million times. That sounds like they were set to AUTO while trying to set trim.

Also, when setting trim to 16-19 (depending on weight), make sure you set your flaps first. Trim adjustments are MUCH faster when flaps are at half or full.

The switch on the outside of the plane is just a duplicate of the one on the inside (except you have to hold it while opening the canopy). You can operate either whether the battery switch is turned on or off.

Just use the ground power, that's what it is there for. These aircraft are not like your car and meant to sit for days without running and then expected to start off the battery. I'm no expert on the electrical system of the F/A-18 but I did work on Hornet many years ago. I expect there are a lot of things that are still powered even with the battery switched off. IIRC they are connected to ground power a lot.

"Unable to step through all GBUs loaded, Incorrect release sequence are fixed." Fixed in the next update.

Nope, QTY = Total number dropped. MULT = how many drop per interval.

This is not true. The only thing setting MULT to 2 would do is cause them both to drop at the exact same time with no interval between them. I can't think of a reason that both would drop from the same wing.

According to the NATOPS, that's how it should work. ET button actuation Function a. First (momentary) Starts elapsed time b. Second (momentary) Freezes display, timing continues from first actuation c. Third (momentary) Returns display to running time d. Subsequent (momentary) Repeats action of second and third actuation e. Press and hold (2 seconds or longer) Stops elapsed time and resets to zero

I second this

I had the same thing happen to me on a mission a week or so ago. While someone else lead me back toward the carrier, I started troubleshooting. I found turning off MC1 got my hud working again, I still had no NAV info or anything but it at least got me the pitch ladder and velocity vector back. That and the AOA indicator on the side of the hud was enough that I was able to get back on the boat.

This is exactly what I mean.

I used to work on the Hornet back in the '90s. I used to use the map on the AMPCD all the time when we were deployed. It was the easiest way to find out where in the world I was. :)

Is this a constant Lex? Doesn't matter what altitude or anything? Good info.

Out of curiosity, is there any requirement for military aircraft to also stay below 250 knots when below 10K when you're in the states?

FYI and unrelated to the question. The ATFLIR can only go on station 4. EDIT: the Nite Hawk FLIR was only on station 4, I'm not sure about the ATFLIR.

I've never had to do anything other than turn it on with the knob by the SPIN switch. I cold start almost every time.

This would be great! I have my APU start switch working more or less correctly. I'd like to do the fuel dump switch next but I'm not sure there is any point until it isn't acting like a toggle.

Well, at least I know I'm not doing something wrong. I was assuming that it only looked right on the ground because the plane won't let you keep it on while landed. Anyway, thanks for your work on this module. It was nice to find that most the hard work was already done.

I am. Are you on the ground? I think with weight on wheel it looks like it is working right, but in the air it doesn't. At least for me.

Okay, becuase that is what I'm trying to do. I have a magnetically held switch. I saw that that was an output and thought maybe that's what it was for. I have it working using code, but it's a bit cluedgy (sp?). Another question if I may. The basic command for the fuel dump doesn't seem to work quite right. I'm having to toggle it on and off to turn it on then toggle it on and off again to turn it off. I have in my code: DcsBios::Switch2Pos fuelDumpSw("FUEL_DUMP_SW", PIN); But it's acting like: DcsBios::ActionButton fuelDumpSwToggle("FUEL_DUMP_SW", "TOGGLE", PIN); Although I can see it sending FUEL_DUMP_SW 0 & 1 correctly

I'm just getting started working on all this. I just saw this in the advanced section of the APU Panel: DcsBios::LED apuControlSw(0x54b2, 0x4000, PIN); What is that for, there is no LED light for the switch itself, right? It doesn't have anything to do with the state of the magnetically held part of the switch does it?