Ironhand

I don’t know what’s going on but, since my last post, I’ve had another instance where I couldn’t connect and had a 2 day grace period here on the east coast. No idea now why you don’t.

Late seeing this thread. I downloaded the TRK and took control. AP worked perfectly on my end with me in control. If I just view the TRK, however, I see your difficulty but have no clue as to why.

Have you tried doing a slow repair? And, out of curiosity, when’s the last time you rebooted your computer? I’ve had odd issues pop up in the past with DCS that a reboot solved. Worth a try, if it’s been awhile. EDIT: In looking through one of the links you posted, I noticed that using a VPN was causing issues for some people. Is it the issue for you?

No problem on my end when I played a day or so ago. Couldn’t connect at start and told me I had something like two days to play before I’d need to log in again.

Thankfully, nothing I’m experiencing but I’m also not a VR flier in case the issue arises there.

Just tried that mission and received a mission success message. I took out 2 F-16s. My wingmen took out 1 before all dying. Some other flight took out the last one, I think. I ready didn’t pay close attention to the debrief. It didn’t make much sense to me to fly the 1st waypoint. I went straight across the mountain chain, then headed down the east side until about 80 km from Nalchik. At that point I turned deeper into the mountains looking for trouble. (Edit: the reason for my flight plan was to position myself between Nalchik and the F-16s so I had someplace to run, if necessary. It also helped to let me dictate the fight.) Told my wingmen to attack bandits, while I took on an F-16 attempting to flank us. Killed him. Turned into the fray and killed another but lost my wingmen. Landed before another group of enemy chasing me could catch up.

I may have misspoken there. I just reread that part of the manual. The radar transmissions are brief and intermittent and used to provide range information. In the real world aircraft, you have to move the radar transmit switch to transmit. Quasi-search mode (KVO) begins after a 5 second delay. So I suspect it’s detectable, when used. In this mode, the radar system switches automatically from KVO to STT (RNP in transliterated Russian), when the range closes to 15 km or manually when the ENTER button on the flight stick is pressed at a greater range. So I don’t think KVO is modeled in the sim. In the sim, EOS just keeps the radar pointing at the target.

The interaction in the two in the sim is a bit convoluted. In truth, you are never turning EOS “on”. You simply select it as the primary sensor by pressing “O”. With the radar, the same is true. Pressing “I” simply selects it as the primary sensor. When one is primary, the other is slaved to it. When EOS is primary and a target is locked, the radar begins transmitting in quasi-search mode. When radar is primary, it is transmitting in either search or “TWS”. When a target is locked with EOS, it tells the radar where to look for the target and vice-versa. The slaved sensor is always looking in the target’s direction. There is something else involved as well. The selected missile type (IR vs radar seeker) will influence which sensor will become primary and demonstrate the interaction of the two systems. Start in EOS with an IR missile selected. Lock the target. Do not press “I”. Switch to a radar guided missile with the “D” key. EO is still displayed on the HUD. Press and hold the “launch” button. EORL will display as the radar locks the target and the selected radar guided missile will launch in STT. Part of the problem in the sim is that only the primary system’s lock is displayed on the annunciation panel. In the real aircraft, both the primary and secondary (slaved) lock are displayed. So it can sometimes be harder to tell what’s going on in the sim.

Guess it can be “read” both ways and, knowing ED, your interpretation will prove correct. Still prefer mine, though.

According to the newsletter: ”The next update will feature substantial enhancements to DCS weather in particular a new state-of-the art fog and dust rendering system. This highly immersive solution, which took more than 8’500 man hours to develop, allows both automatic and manual fog generation and accounts for sensor and AI line-of-sight blocking.”

It shows up in the original post now. Don’t know why I couldn’t see it earlier. At any rate, I believe I once clicked it while viewing an object and it gave me a 2nd page of information. But that’s not the norm.

No image is being displayed in your post. Only the image name.

So nowhere does it say that it is currently in early access, which is what I thought.

Ok, I’ll bite. Where do they state that it is currently early access?

A better implementation for an FC aircraft would be to simply model the button as “engaged”.

And, once it’s released, there will be a DCS software update that you will need to install before it will show up in your module manager.

True. And I have no problem with the current system’s function now (in Eagle’s view) being primarily for debugging. It just annoys me that they make it sound as if that’s all it ever was and that it was just a happy accident that simmers found a different use for it.

That, unfortunately, doesn’t explain why it was first used to deliver the tutorials that shipped with the sim.

I’d pay the current prices for maps, if it were both updated and expanded in any direction.

Basically, it was designed to randomly generate moving weather on the map. Toss in some numbers and, then, hit “generate” until you get something you like and save it. It was not designed to give you precise control over anything. If you know what you’re doing and edit the generated weather file itself, you could gain that control. But that took a lot of work. At one point, I was able to generate some spread sheets (this was many years ago) that made it much easier to get what you wanted, where you wanted it. Unfortunately, they no longer seem valid. I might take another look at some point. Has dynamic weather started generating clouds again? For awhile, it was just generating wind patterns. EDIT: Just checked. Clouds are generated but it now takes much more wind differential between the zones than it used to.

You’re not tripping. Something has changed. Even flaps employment is smoother than it had been.

I understand English just fine. What it actually said is “Coming in 2024, Iraq and joining RedFor in full fidelity, Fulcrum-A.” Just saw BIGNEWY’s post. Hopefully some news soon.

I suspect that he, like most people with the 2024 expectation, is taking his cue from the Coming to DCS in 2024 video. In the last few minutes, it states “Coming to DCS in 2024” and shows the Afghanistan map and the MiG-29.

FWIW, the Russian SK manual that’s floating around refers to that line as “Time, remaining until missile meets the target.”

Still better than the full price of $59.99