Tusker

Yup, I do a Request to Land call and get nothing. I read someplace that the RtL call inside of 5.5 miles will trigger the lights. I’ve been mindful of that, and still no lights. Tried to land with NVGs, and that’s no fun. Sort of sucks because I’ve been working hard at night opns. I’m comfortable with airfield departures and aerial refueling, but nighttime carrier recoveries are still missing. Thoughts?

tkamba - Thanks that makes sense. It's just strangely worded. One would think that it would tell you what you shot down or damaged.

In both Single Player and Multiplayer, playing a BLUE FA-18C Hornet, I can track and engage a target that has been clearly identified as hostile, e.g. it is a red icon on my radar and SA page. I engage and shoot it down, and I get a message up in the upper-left corner of my screen that an "Unknown FA-18 Hornet" has either been damaged or destroyed? This freaked me out initially. I'm not aware of any Red Hornets, so why am I getting that message? I check in TacView, and the destroyed target is in fact a Mig or some other Red acft, not a Hornet. Am I miss-reading something? eric

Sorry, not actually "clicks", just successive stabs at the hat switch on the top of the FA-18 stick. That puts me in the ballpark for the trim I want for AOA. After that, it might be a stab up or down to dial it in.

I drop gear and flaps at 250. Then I apply fwd pressure on the stick to prevent the jet from ballooning. As the speed comes down, I release the fwd pressure slowly, and also begin to trim of AOA. On my TM FA-18 stick, I've found that AOA can be trimmed with 5-7 downward clicks of the hat button that controls pitch trim. I watch the speed continue to come down and around 140 knots I add throttle to "catch" the AOA. It's all throttle for pitch from there on out. It took an untold number of straight-in approaches to sort all of that out. Now I can get it all done on a short downwind for a Case I approach.

I manually adjust the bingo level by half each time a reach it. That way my fuel level remains sort of top-of-mind.

One of the lads (RedKite?) has an excellent video on this. I took his advice and set up two profiles , #1 for chaff and #5 for flares. The red rocker on my TH Warthog throttle: forward = chaf and back=flares. Next, I use the mod that automatically loads those profiles each time I get in the jet. Its a PIA to have to reprogram the countermeasures each time, so the mod is super- useful.

Yup, the black wheel has no electronics. I'm playing with how to map some of the switches on the TM Warthog Throttle base for the Hornet. I've decided to map the Flashlight and NGVs to the two switches near the front of the black box. The NVG Gain is mapped to my up/down arrows, since I don't use the keyboard to fly. At the back of the black box I have Landing Gear, Hook Up/Down, and Active Pause mapped.

On an FA-18, what are ppl using the friction dial on the front TM Warthog throttle for? Can it be mapped? Was considering mapping NVG gain to it. I’m not talking about the dial on the side, which works well fro mapping zoom view.

Major props for that. That was super-impressive!! I'm still trying to tank in daylight, ideal conditions. Gives me something to aim for.

Stupid question. How do I update to the hot fix?

Yup, that works. If you hold the PTT down longer after the command, the game executes the command. Problem now is that if I say "Options" and hold the PTT down longer, as the options menu will appear on the screen, but will disappear as soon as I release the PTT.

Got it. I don't have a RIO, so I didn't see it. Thanks.

Where is ICS Hotmic?

We're removing "Stop VoiceAttack listening" from Transmit TX1 press AND Transmit TX1 release? Both the press and release lines in the profile?

I'm getting something similar in single player: Initially it will recognize "Texaco", but when I add "Options", I get a "Command 'options' is currently disabled for this session and was not executed". After that... any command results in, " Command "***" is currently disabled for this session and was not executed". I repaired DCS and restarted VA prior to starting DCS, to no avail. Standing by.

Pre-ordered. Now the wait begins.

I thought that advance purchase started today.

Think of it as literally looking down the bore of a rifle. That's where the term came from.

RedKite has a YT video entitled, "DCS Custom Countermeasure Profile Presets Tutorial" that walks you through editing the .lua file so that every time you get in the jet you custom profile is already loaded. This is super easy to do, and I've found that it works great.

Thanks guys. It was a real pain to Exit DCS every time I wanted to do something in SRS, TrackIR, VA, etc... Put yourselves in for a small award, and have it on my desk in the morning :) -eric

There are no stupid questions.... only stupid people. I run the game full-screen at max resolution on a 16:9 monitor. If I want to make adjustments to Track IR, SRS or other running apps, I seem to have to completely exit out of the game, because I can't find a way to minimize the running game to get to other apps. What am I missing? Is there a way to exit out of full-screen game to get access to other apps, and then re-enter full-screen again? eric

Same thing. I was not getting any audio feedback, and went into Win 10 mixer volume and made the adjustments. I also use Viacom Chatter so that volume is controlled from the UI pop-up box. Also, check that your in-game cockpit volume is set to your liking as well.

Using the hat switch on the side of my TM Warthog throttle. Down is comm1 and up is comm2. Seems to work well.

Still waiting for that day to come, but I can see progress. I started out watching my airspeed on the HUD, but soon realized that I need to just relax and 'become one' with the tanker... flying with it and ignoring everything on the HUD. I now just dim the HUD down so it doesn't distract.