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What a cool setup. Enjoy!

Beautiful looking pedals Huzar. I wonder if they would stand up to a child, though. My nephews were once flying in my pit... all laughs, then quiet and they went to do something else. They go home and I see all my controllers are just shredded. I still laugh to this day. Best of luck with your build!

The English language and the L-39 manual don't mix very well. I spend more time trying to figure out what it is saying instead of learning the airplane. Then you see an "ILS" system that gets you close. but wont allow IFR zero/zero landing and I just wonder what is the point of it is. Missing something here... If that is not enough, you can't correct compass deviation when in MP. Summary as I see it is: Glide path mode is for 'this' distance away, use landing mode when you are 'this' distance away. Hope you can see the runway when you get close.

Speechless... Wonderful work!

This is a great thread and thanks to Sven for the explanation. I run a multi monitor setup, so I've always tried to optimize for the slower FPS. It is amazing how subjective the settings are and I even find settings that I used to dislike may work better now. I used to cap DCS at 30, but it now causes very bad stutters for me. My best results are with a 59 DCS cap and 60 hrz on my monitors. I used to love, then hated V-sync, especially the half-rate adaptive, but I now use the half-rate option with good results. As I read of the performance issues people have, even in single monitor, I thank my lucky stars my system runs like it does. I note that getting DCS updated along with Windows 10 was a $#@, but all is well now. All I need now to complete my setup is for SoftTH to work in DX11 and get back to full screen and bezel management. Best wishes,

2.0 is much less bleak than the 1.5 map. You're going to need the NTTR map anyway, so buy it. You just missed a sale on it.

Make the DCS resolution smaller than your desktop resolution. You are actually always in a window and must use ALT ENTER to make it go full screen, even if you check "full screen".

When this happens, invert your keyboard and tap out the cookie crumbs. Those always get me...

Books made me smile... :) Like Rangi said... a saw, some 3/4 inch plywood, a 2x4 and some wood screws. I had to whip up some stands to get my PLPL monitor setup all in one place. Here is a horrible picture of the setup. You can make some low center of gravity L stands to replace those books (I don't use any VESA mounts). My setup is based on a computer kiosk I was given long ago. I made notches to hold the center 32" HDTV. The side monitors are on the L bracket stands. I think you can see a bit of it on the left side. Just engineer your design to keep COG low as possible. I plan to de-bezel the 3 PLP monitors and that will help a lot. I just de-bezeled my 27 in monitor for my gauges and it was not too hard to do. Best of luck with your setup. Oh, please hope and pray someone updates SoftTH!!

No. Occasional pause with gear... not always, though. Never with the trimmer that I have noticed. I note I did remap trimmer keypresses and got rid of the qualifier keys. Possible to send unwanted hot keys to Windows... watch out for that (just an idea).

Found another one... http://www.infozone.tv/?p=1604 Please note: Text is a re-write of the earlier story, but it contains a video at this site.

TIR toggle is the most used button in my HOTAS. Simply toggle the TIR when you look around in or out of the sim. You should not be fighting the TIR so much. Take some time and experiment with the settings. Make it do exactly what you want.

https://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/l-39/l-39_all.shtml You will see that mirror in pictures of real L-39s. Using M to toggle will give a slightly smoother feel in FPS. Mirror is almost useless, but I still like having it. Especially in 1024 art. I do wish the mirror was not so bright when toggled off.

Hello, I wanted to report this here as it qualifies and it would be hard for you to search all the forums. All L-39 C and ZA models, in both 1.5 and 2.0 will lose their rear canopy after the user runs the auto start/stop routines more than once (botched start, refuel/rearm, whatever). Can be reproduced 100% simply by choosing any cold L-39 and running auto start, auto stop, auto start. Rear canopy will not re-seal and will fall off on take-off. This is a simple fix and it will look good on the next update list. Best wishes,

Like I said earlier, I am probably the only one that runs into this problem. As a work-around to any others that might want to stop and re-start online, you can comment out lines 426 and 427 of the auto stop sequence in your... C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World 2 OpenAlpha\Mods\aircraft\L-39C\Cockpit\macro_sequences.lua file. This will stop it from opening the rear canopy when you shut down. same for 1.5 but different folder. The rear canopy stays closed, then un-seals and re-seals on restarts. Fly forever without it falling off. Note: I edited earlier post to make the lines you will edit red.

Going external view and zooming in was a good learning experience. When we enter the L-39, the rear canopy is closed and sealed. When we hit the auto start sequence, the rear canopy un-seals, then re-seals. You can see this happen when zoomed in close. We do auto stop and both canopies open up. We do auto start. Sequence now runs with the rear canopy open. Rear canopy closes, but does not seal (you can see this as lines around canopy look different than when sealed. There are no key bindings for the rear canopy, so there is no way to manually seal the rear canopy. repeatable every time.

From 'macro_sequences.lua: start sequence lines: push_start_command(1.0, {device = devices.MECHANICS, action = device_commands.Button_7, value = 0.0, message = _("Front Canopy - OPEN")}) push_start_command(0.2, {device = devices.MECHANICS, action = device_commands.Button_1, value = 1.0}) push_start_command(0.2, {device = devices.MECHANICS, action = device_commands.Button_8, value = 0.0, message = _("Second Canopy - CLOSE & LOCK")}) push_start_command(0.2, {device = devices.MECHANICS, action = device_commands.Button_2, value = -1.0}) push_start_command(1.0, {device = devices.MECHANICS, action = device_commands.Button_8, value = 1.0}) stop sequence lines: push_stop_command(1.0, {device = devices.MECHANICS, action = device_commands.Button_7, value = 0.0, message = _("Front Canopy - OPEN")}) push_stop_command(0.2, {device = devices.MECHANICS, action = device_commands.Button_1, value = 1.0}) --push_stop_command(0.2, {device = devices.MECHANICS, action = device_commands.Button_8, value = 0.0, message = _("Second Canopy - OPEN")}) --push_stop_command(0.2, {device = devices.MECHANICS, action = device_commands.Button_2, value = 1.0})

Yes, this is a bug. All testing done on the Aerobatics Online servers. Same conditions, same results, 1.5 and 2.0. L-39C, no human rear seat passenger, auto start, auto stop, auto start. Takeoff roll and rear canopy falls off.

Yes, I just reproduced this in the NTTR. Auto start, auto stop, auto start, letting each one complete the normal sequence. Take off and rear canopy pops off when I rotate. Will test 1.5 now.

Thanks Morpheus, I've seen other L-39s flying with a missing rear canopy, so I know this happens to others. At first I thought I was doing something to cause it, but I've been careful not to interrupt the auto start, stop, start routines and it still happens. Last times I have seen it was NTTR map. Unsure of 1.5 version. I apologize for not stating facts earlier.

The saddest part is: People are already doing this and editing the lua so it works as you ask. All that it would need is a look over and incorporation into the sim. Instead, it all gets over-written in the next update.

Another great story, thanks so much for it. My ADHD hyper focus has latched onto the '39 and it is all I fly now. I imagine my cyber-self in Manfred's position (from the story here). I am very lucky to have such a fun simulator and fly whenever I like. Interesting locations in the story. I bought my dog in Winnebago, right near there and I've been to Byron.

I forgot to add, this is a MP issue. I guess I am the only one to fly the 39 long enough to refuel it. :)

Hello, It seems most of the times I stop, shut off, refuel and restart my L-39 (using auto stop and start), the rear canopy falls off when back in flight. Any others?

There is no detent, it's just the way the springs and free play work against each other that make the CH pedals 'center'. If you use stiffer springs, you get a more pronounced centering action. Non-centering means removing the springs. Good luck with your project.