Chops

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I am having the same issues. After pressing and holding the force trim button and releasing it after stabilizing the helicopter in pitch and roll, it will pitch up. Also, after stabilizing the helicopter and tapping the force trim button it will oscillate in pitch. Screenshots and track are attached. Apache Trim Fail.trk

What is the significance of the Preset 1, Preset 2, etc... Unit ID and Call Signs in the mission editor? In Wags' datalink setup video he has Preset 1 as GUNSLGR which he refers to as Battalion, and Preset 2 as HAMMER.. It appears that these names are not actually associated with any Apache flights in Wags' video, so they are just random names. Can we put the names of actual Apache flights that are in the mission in the Preset fields or should we just use random names? ( I am only single-player )

What I have found so far is that you have to go into the mission editor and make all of the flights have the same com frequency. For example: Chaos Flight = 127.50 and Sioux Flight = 127.50. Then once in the Apache in-game go to the COM page and make sure VHF has 127.50 and L1 (Wags shows how to do this in his FARM video). I know others have mentioned this, but I wasn't sure what they meant exactly. Anyway this worked for me and I was able to get PP (Present Position) reports from my AI wingman in Single Player. No other reports or messages are available from AI wingman at this time as far as I can tell.

I am still having difficulty getting a response from my wingman over datalink. Here is a short track, in case anyone has time to check it out and offer assistance. Apache Dlink Fail.trk

Thank you, however it looks like @Mange solved it. I had to use capital letters such as CHAOS for Unit ID and CHAS for Call Sign when naming the COM Presets in the Mission Editor

@Mange Can you please provide some more detail on this? In the mission editor both groups (Chaos and Crow) are on 225.00. In the datalink coms in-game UHF is selected and 225.00 is the frequency, however, I still don't receive a reply although I am not getting an error message anymore.

As shown in the screenshot, the unit names are not showing up correctly on the Com page in the Apache. They should show up in game as Saber and Crow.

Can one of the developers please confirm if the new datalink messaging system is available in single player, or only multiplayer. I am trying to get it to work in single player and have followed Wags' videos, however I constantly get the XMIT NAK UHF message. Also, what are the limitations of the datalink system.....line of sight, distance, etc...?

@flag02004 @razo+r thanks for the assistance, appreciate it.

I am trying to get 3 red aircraft groups to activate and take off after bombs enter a zone. The red aircraft groups are set to late activation. However, the way I have set it up is not working. Any ideas on how I can correct this?

When climbing using ALT Select I increase thrust and maintain an airspeed above the required speed, when descending I reduce thrust and maintain an airspeed below the required speed. As others have said, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Difficult to figure out why. Hopefully Notso can confirm whether or not this is still a work in progress.

What I have found so far is that Altitude Hold and Altitude Select in climbs and descents works when flying a mission that starts in the air. When flying a custom mission with a "take off from parking hot" start, the Altitude modes don't work correctly; and yes I am flying the aircraft to the altitude I want and trimming to hold level flight before engaging the autopilot. I will test a mission starting from "take off from ramp" (cold start) to see if that makes a difference.

Thanks guys for the help. I do know how to operate the autopilot and have read the manual. However, the Altitude functions do no work consistently. I will check out your track.

Can you please post a short track of how you engage and use the autopilot? I can't get Altitude Hold or Altitude Select to maintain altitude.

Set your parking brake before starting GC Alignment.

What years was this aircraft F-15E 4+ in service? What aircraft serial number was modeled for this first release by Razbam? I searched the manual and forum, but no luck.

Well as we can see from the picture of the flaps, the physical position seems to be beyond 21 degrees. I understand that the manual says 21 degrees. Maybe the flap animation is off in the game.

When using keyboard commands or my HOTAS to lower flaps to the full down position, the flap indicator gauge only shows flaps at approximately 20 degrees. I have checked my control mapping and there are no duplicates or issues that I can see. Has anyone else noticed this?

@imacken"You will have to define axis to buttons for this. I do the same. See the attached for how mine are set up. You then have to add logical buttons to these in the button tab." That worked perfectly. Thanks for the help!

What is the width of the whole pedal unit? (The distance from one side to the other). My CH Pedals are about 13" across and I am looking for something that is of similar size.

I would like to bind the control button shown in the attached picture of the Constellation Alpha Prime grip, to be used as a view button in DCS when flying in 2D (monitor only). My old CH Products Fighter Stick had a hat switch that I used for this function and DCS actually mapped it automatically. I could use the switch to look up, down, left, right and all points in between very easily. My old Fighter Stick had more functionality than this Alpha Prime. I have read the manual for the Alpha Prime, however, it does not describe the names of the buttons on the stick or how to map buttons in a situation such as this. DCS doesn't seem to recognize this button when I try to map it to view controls. I also tried to map an axis to button within the Virpil Software but was not successful. Any ideas on how I can use this button as a view control?

I have the T-50CM3 Base and the threaded connectors for the grip are metal.

I noticed when reading through a lot of posts on the subject of idle/cutoff settings, that a lot of people had to go into the Axis Tune settings within DCS and make complicated adjustments to Saturation and other settings. I didn't do this, so am wondering why my setup is apparently working ok. Any ideas?

@imacken I appreciate the help and suggestions. In case anyone is interested here is how I got the CM3 Throttle idle/cutoff and afterburner setup in DCS for the F/A-18C: So, I started over and created a new profile and calibrated the axes in the VPC software, then I followed the @imacken guide dated April 5, 2022 Below are the screenshots of my VPC software configuration for idle/cutoff and afterburner -