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    CASE 1 Recovery practice

    in DCS: F/A-18C

    Posted

    I've enjoyed watching the entire video. You are obviously way better at this than I am

    An area where you could improve IMHO is the trimming into E bracket to catch OnSpeed. It seemed to me you were 'searching' it, while this too should become muscle memory if you know what I mean.

     

    Love your video, thanks for sharing!

     

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    OnSPeed AoA Question

    in DCS: F/A-18C

    Posted

    Keep in mind that Onspeed AoA is meant for a descending trajectory towards a runway or the deck of a carrier, not to fly level.

     

    I do it like this:

    1. Throttles back and decrease muy speed to about 150

    2. 'Feel' the stick by pitching a little so I get a sense of how much trim to apply

    3. Apply trim down so the nose goes up. It's quite some that you need to apply. Two seconds on the trim might just do it

    4. Meanwhile, go rocking the throttles

    5. Trim until the flight path indicator meets the center of the E bracket

    6. Now you are trimmed. Don't apply any more pitch with the stick, just roll if you vere off to left or right

    7. Trim a little more if you see the fpi drifting away from center of the E

    8. Now, just play with the throttles to point your fpi (flight path indicator) on the touchdown point vertically and roll with the stick for horizontal control

     

    Hope this helps.

     

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    Cage/uncage on Warthog throttle

    in Controller Questions and Bugs

    Posted

    Hi guys,

     

    I remember recently seeing someone post pictures of a modification to the HOTAS Warthog right side throttle, adding an extra button for CAGE/UNCAGE.

     

    However, I can't seem to find the post anymore, I was wondering how to install this extra button and how the schematics would look like.

     

    Any ideas? Did anyone see this post and know what I am talking about?

     

    Thanks!

    CTS module for F/A-18 ?

    in Controller Questions and Bugs

    Posted

    Hi guys,

     

    I'm used to using CTS to quickly setup the HOTAS warthog stick and throttle and MFDs for use with different planes in DCS.

    However, I find myself having trouble getting everything setup right for the Hornet since there's no option (yet) in CTS to select the Hornet module.

     

    Do any of you use CTS and how did you get things setup?

    Rolling clouds

    in Release Version Bugs and Problems (Read only)

    Posted

    I was doing some free flying info the FC3 F15 on Caucasus tonight and decided to fly through a few clouds rolling into them.

    I noticed that the individual "cotton balls" the clouds are composed of roll themselves. It looks to me like the roll rate of these clouds within the view is not fully opposed to the viewers roll rate.

     

    Did anyone notice the same thing?

     

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    Helios AP anunciator

    in Home Cockpits

    Posted

    kidogofoto;

     

    I looked at your profile and its just a slight error, easy to fix.

     

    The issue is when TM made the Throttle A10C didn't have an indicator for AP on/off state, so they used a momentary pushbutton to turn it on and off. This is the reason in your profile the indicator lights while you are pressing the button.

     

    To get the annunciator to work as you want it to do the following....

     

    -- Open your profile in Helios Editor;

    -- Click FILE on the menu bar and choose 'Add Interface';

    -- Choose Throttle - HOTAS Warthog;

    -- Click on your AP annunciator to highlight it;

     

    In the bindings window make sure the Input tap is selected;

     

    -- Open the Throttle - HOTAS Warthog interface and scroll down to button #26;

    -- Left click on Button 26 and drag it over to the 'Toggle Indicator' position

     

    -- Save profile, and you're all set

     

     

    Hope this helps

     

    Thanks, I tried this and although the anunciator toggles nicely now, it's far from representative since whenever I press the AP button and I am not within limits, the AP will not actually get engaged but the anunciator will light up nevertheless.

     

    I'll keep fiddling with this though...

    Helios AP anunciator

    in Home Cockpits

    Posted

    kidogofoto;

     

     

    In 'Helios', an annunciator can done several ways, as text label which has two text colors. One for On(lit) and one for Off(un-lit), or two images can be used to do this. You say you tried (toggle or Set), but you don't say what you are toggling or setting or where in the profile you are doing this.

     

     

    Could you attach your profile to your post and I'll have a look at it to see if I can tell why it isn't working.

     

    Thanks DeJohn,

     

    I have a very simple profile just to test this AP anunciator. I have six in total in this profile, just to test different combinations. None of them give the obvious needed result which is AP ON -> anunciator on. I know for sure that I am missing something, hopefully you can clarify ;)

    AP Anunciator test.hpf.txt

    Helios AP anunciator

    in Home Cockpits

    Posted

    Hi guys,

     

    In the past I've been an avid Viperpit builder, and really (it's been more than 10 years) the world has changed. What meriad of options are available now with Arduinos and cheap screens etc.

     

    I'm now doing a simple desktop pit. It's more or less a universal design so I can accomodate the most necessary guages and controls for just about any type of aircraft.

     

    I've been fiddling with Helios for three or four days now, and I managed to get the obvious stuff going. However, there's one little thing I cannot seem to get to work as I'ld like.

     

    I have a couple of anunciators in this desktop pit. Just on-screen, really (so it's the Helios anunciators). I am trying to get one of them to indicate whether AP (AutoPilot) is engaged or not. No matter what I try (toggle or set, various Autopilot category input values), as I press the AP button on the Warthog throttle I see the AP anunciator light up just shortly or I see it toggle ON but it is never in sync with the real autopilot status.

     

    How can I fix this? There is no autopilot engaged input from DCS to Helios it seems to me.. just button presses.

     

    Any suggestions?

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