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Thanks for the insight Mover

Lol, not meaning 8 G’s isn’t much but doesn’t take several maneuvers to get there.

So in the DCS world, not much to get warmed up. Good to know, Thanks Sandman

Ok cool! Sort of what I figured. Thanks Vampire

So from a real life perspective and what is modeled in DCS, what does a pilot do for a proper G warmup? At what point in a combat mission would you do this? Just curious, I’ll start incorporating it into my flying.

Thought I was losing my mind over here. I hope they fix this in the next couple of days, this isn't cool at all! What I don't understand is why isn't everyone running OpenBeta not seeing this??????

Thought it was just me but a updated video would be great.

+1

Did you program them with the board software. Had the same headache as well till I downloaded the software from his website under the BBI 32 section. Once downloaded, select the board number from down menu then you will see all the switch slots. Select “1-2” in each slot that you have an encoder and it should work!

@ Cuco: The only thing I’ve read on the net is airliners do it to save fuel during startup since you have the APU running along with a hot engine already up. Some argue the APU uses less fuel than using the hot engine to crossbleed. Think I may try to see the burn rate difference between the two processes, I was just curious more than anything about the topic. There may be some emergency type of reasons as well to crossbleed. Well...........in RL, maybe a compressor stall on left engine, then you had hit the APU and it doesn’t fire up! Then you have the crossbleed option.

Yes, tried it after I landed and never touched the APU switch.

My real time around Hornets, MERS on Hornets were only used for MK-76’s, MK-58’s and LGTR’s. You can pull up all the internet pics you like but I never ever saw Hornets load a MER with full scale Mk-82’s, MK-83’s etc. A-6’s in my wing used them religiously.

So I was just curious how to cross bleed to start an engine last night and figured it out. Really very simple, first get the hot engine rpm to at least 73%, select crank left or right engine depending on which you are trying to start. You will see the rpm creep up on the cold engine, it may stop at a low rpm so just bump up the throttle a little on the hot engine. At this point you will see the rpm on the cold engine climb up and once at 25%, move throttle detent on the cold engine and watch her fire up. FYI: The Hornet will dump fuel on deck, found out the hard way when I hit the wrong switch in my pit.

Disregard guys, figured it out.

Hello All I've recently purchased a Warthog and was able to setup the axis on the stick and throttle but the buttons are not recognized in the sim or in windows control devices. I'm trying to map to the F-18 module. I thought the buttons would have at least been recognized in the game controller properties. Any suggestions? Thanks

Yes, I’m going to need this big time. I built a pit for this module and the Helios part is my last piece to the puzzle.

Perhaps allowing a flyable C-5, C-17 for those who want to be a part of the dcs world in a more casual manner. Wouldn’t be for me but I can see how it would be cool for those that like that type of flying.

During my time around Hornets I never saw them on a centerline station. In fact the pod is actually shaped to specifically mount on the fuselage. I’ve seen pics of Lightning pods on the centerline but never saw them in the fleet mounted. Keep in mind, I retired from the navy 9 years ago, maybe they have something now.

Oops sorry for the previous post, didn’t read the part about the BRU-55 Data Transfer.

The hornets in my Airwing carried these all the time in the mid 90’s. The were designated as BRU-33’s which is two BRU-32’s paired on a single rack. The ordnance guys nicknamed the “Boogie Boards”.