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Recluse, FYI, I did this in SP and it was working without TDC having to be in FLIR until around this past week. Now It has to be, even in SP. v6, boNes

Yeah I had to fire Phoenix and Sparrow from the back when my human pilot's HOTAS stopped working...I got the kill, he credited it to me, not ED/DCS haha. v6, boNes

In that video, in the LMAV page, there is now a huge 1688 code in bold at the top "headline." This is new, right? On mine, I have this but also on the right side of the circular field of view, there is an equally large "5". What is this? I tried looking it up in the manual but my manual still has a May date on it. v6, boNes

My buddy and I were flying in the F-14 and a weird pop up window appeared that said simply "Someone Have Control." Both he and I saw it on our individual PCs. Anyone know what this is? We were having what appeared to be huge lag issues. For instance, he had raised the gear but if I went to external view it would show it was down and if I looked over his shoulder his cockpit instrumentation showed they were down too. Also my clickable switches in my RIO seat worked, but not any of my HOTAS controls (like the HCU). Anyone experience any of this? v6, boNes

When that happens try selecting ATRK or PTRK. and it will stop the slewing. Then you can manually slew the view to where you want then designate. v6, boNes

I had a GBU that I was using it with, to get it to be like dropping in CCRP mode, with a JTAC lasing. It seemed to always overfly the target and miss. If I did Computer Pilot mode, it would hit. Target was a SAM site. v6, boNes

Has anyone successfully dropped in Computer Target mode? I have been trying but they always seem to overshoot. I set the designator on the target and then designate it and the bomb drops when the cue hits the VV, but they never hit. Anyone else have any luck? v6, boNes

BTW, I noticed on CASE I recovery instant action Syria mission (Supercarrier version) that the briefing says the boat is TACAN 71X but it doesn't work. 74X works however. Also on the Syria Inherent Resolve mission to bomb the chemical plant, in the briefing page 1 picture 1 of 4, there are 2 Building A labels and 1 Building C label but no building B. They are labeled correctly in picture 2 of 4--I hit the buildings as shown in picture 2 and got a mission success. Thanks for all these missions! Strangely enough I checked my Hornet and Falcon instant action and regular missions and didn't see any for Syria, so I think HB were the only ones to make some! v6, boNes

I did too! 100 out of 100! I flew back to Incirlik and landed with my tailhook down to show off (Navy) then taxied to the front of the tower and "flapped" my wings and made the Tomcat take a bow (launch bar down/launch bar up) like they do at airshows to rub it in some more, haha. I also killed the F-15 with just guns in less than 5 minutes and I successfully completed the Bekaa Valley devi;s edge mission, but that was easy with Phoenix...the Fishbeds ran after those kills. v6, boNes

It's on! $39.99 on Steam which is the 20% off of $49.99 that ED was talking about. v6, boNes

OK, I give. I've looked all over for the Syria map on Steam and can't find it. I hear it may drop tomorrow and if there is a pre-order sale I don't want to miss it. Does anyone know how I go about finding/getting it on Steam? v6, boNes

I was not in AG mode--perhaps that was it. Will try again and check to be sure, thanks! v6, boNes

Thanks but master arm was on and I couldn't even get a "Trigger" option to show up on the MFD because to get that LTD/R has to be in the arm position, and it won't stay there. v6, boNes

Is it not possible to use the LTD/R to sday buddy lase for someone if you yourself are not carrying laser weapons? Everytime I throw the switch, the solenoid throws it back off so I can't lase. I'm not carrying any laser weapons, just the LITENING. Thanks. v6, boNes

Yup, got it! Thanks guys! So, IRL, they really don't punch in the code via the UFC or SMS page (A-10 and F/A-18?) What about the data cartridge? Is it in it? v6, boNes

Yeah they have case II and IIIin the instant action missions for the Tomcat v6, boNes

Ok, so the Tomcat can buddy lase for others, but can others bUddy lase for the Tomcat? I see where I can input a code into the LANTIRN, but that is for the LANTIRN laser...where do you input a code for the bomb itself? Does the LANTIRN feed the code to the bomb? If so, then if someone is buddy lasing for you, do you put the code he is using into your LANTIRN and the bomb is good to go? It didn’t IT didn’t seem to work when we tried it last night. Plus in the Hornet you have to put the code into the bomb, cnot just the LITENING, so how do you put the code into the bomb (NOT INTO LANTIRN)in the Tomcat ? v6, boNes

I already figured out the cause of the issue and solution, see my previous post. Your procedure is correct, and is what I do. But you know what? Even though I followed your posted procedure, I would still not get signal charlie, nor would you. You too would be surprised to get missed calls even though you performed the correct join. Why? Because in the above posted procedure, it assumes that you have called signal inbound, then see you at 10. The stock mission that was installed with the F-14 module (non-Supercarrier) that I was flying spawns you in the air less than 10 miles away, so why would anyone expect that they would have to call inbound first when that is supposed to happen as much as 50 miles out? I was spawned at 10 miles, so I went straight to calling see you at 10. How is anyone to know that you still have to call inbound when you are already 10 miles away? It is easy for someone to just assume that since you are spawned so close to the carrier, that the inbound call is not needed/already understood by the AI as being done. Further, when I called see you at 10, Marshall responded--which led me to believe that comms were established AND working per the DCS logic. It was when I got to 3 miles and no signal charlie call that I suspected that something was wrong. And to prove it out, I tried the mission again--this time calling inbound even though I was spawned a good 40 miles closer to where I would've called inbound, got a response, then called see you at 10, got a response, then got a signal charlie at 3 miles. To prove it further, I did the inbound call then the see you at 10 call immediately afterwards. Got both responses AND signal charlie at 3 miles. So it is all dependent on fulfilling the comms logic for landing on the carrier, and not so much the procedure, that triggers the proper comms response, including signal charlie. v6, boNes PS Since someone else mentioned it, I also found in testing that it doesn't matter if you are overhead the carrier or off to the starboard side--you still will get signal charlie if you had called inbound and see you at 10 at first.

No it works fine, it just seems to care in what sequence you do things that's all. I tried calling inbound right away, waiting for her to finish then calling see you at 10. At 3 miles I got signal charlie. Tried it again, this time calling inbound then immediately calling see you at 10 before she even finished. When I got to 3 miles I got signal charlie. Call see you at 10 without inbound call, at 3 miles, no signal charlie. Seems sequence is important non-Supercarrier and Supercarrier alike. v6, boNes

I figured it out. For some reason on some missions, Jester's TACAN is set to A/A rather than T/R and on other missions it is fine at T/R. I don't know anything about mission editing, but is there something in the editor that allows the writer to set the TACAN settings? Or is this just random. Anyway, that was why it appeared he would tune TACAN but nothing would happen. v6, boNes

Thanks! v6, boNes

I sure did! Thanks! v6, boNes

No I was using the stock Caucuses mission that comes with the F-14 and Hornet. Instant Action, those ones v6, boNes

Ok I tried it again. I went on ICS and asked jester to “tacan tune X-ray 0 1 8.” The subtitle showed the command was accepted and the knob showed it too. I had tacan set to NFO and the steerpoint set to tacan. But i wasn’t getting a tacan cue in the his or hud. I was in cruise mode and later landing, 18X is Groom Lake...does Area 51 not broadcast a tacan maybe? v6, boNes

Well I figured out what was up. In this stock mission you hot start out at about 8mi from the boat,maybe a little less. So, since I was already inside 10 mi, I called see you at 10. What I found was that if you call inbound first, then immediately call see you at 10...then it works. Looks like it’s a nuance of a hot start mission too close to the carrier. Thanks all! v6, boNes