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  1. CBStu
    I just finished Bold Cheetah. OK, I tied on a few missions but...Anyway, this is a really enjoyable mission. I like all the communications from the guy/lady in the sky. Ads what i think is an extra bit of realism. Thanks a bunch Sedlo.
  2. CBStu
    Another option if you have extra on your stick is set the throttle slew nub for some functions and set your extra stick control for other slew functions. This way you can choose which of the basics slew speeds works best for which function.
  3. CBStu
    You look at the stick when you are trimming the aircraft?
  4. CBStu
    I discovered something re; radio comms in mission 7 (I think). I was going from 20 to 4 as instructed but fumble fingered it, went past 4 low, then went past 4 again going to maybe 7. Finally calmed down and got to 4. OK take off and something isn't happening re; coms so I carefully go to 20 and carefully down to 4. And then I hear the next expected radio call. So, if you are like me, slow down just a bit on scrolling to change channels and things will work better.
  5. CBStu
    Don't forget that you need to have the small diamond in the top right corner of the screen where you have the flir. I usually run flir on the right screen so I SCS-R to put the diamond on the right screen. Then I click menu, then click flir, then click the vvsv (I think there is one more letter in there that I don't remember) button twice. That usually gets me to a curser type that I can slew. If not, flicking the SCS to the right will cycle through the various cursers until I get one that moves. I zoom w/ my mouse hitting various buttons to the left of the screen. I need to try the antennae elevation button next time.
  6. CBStu
    I typed, "admittedly I am not doing my traps correctly re; communications" I was trying to say that I have not yet figured out all the correct communication procedure. I usually get the popup after touchdown 'No proper communication'. For me Banklers is a learning tool. It is nice to get the comments during the standard double 180deg turns trap procedure and the score after touchdown. It is also nice to be able to hit 'L Shift R' and keep flying traps for practice.
  7. CBStu
    EmJat22, admittedly I am not doing my traps correctly re; communications but, as far as I experience him, the LSO is mostly wrong. I pay him zero attention. Also I have no idea how guys trap w/o the ICLS cross. Neither the on ship 'meatball' lights nor the cartoon addon meatball give any left/right lineup info. In a pattern trap one comes out of the final 180 turn close enough to see the wake and the deck but in a straight in approach I am supposed to just eyeball it?? I fly a lot of SP user file download missions and campaigns. What I see is some variance in .2 to .3 mile out sinking. I feel like I have this one nailed and suddenly need a ton of throttle or I slam the fantail. Maybe these old missions use the old carrier, maybe there is something else I am not aware of computer programming wise that causes this variation. IDK. I have slowed throttle response in the middle 2/3 of travel which was recommended as help for AA refueling. I think I am going to take half of that slowing out so when I sink behind the carrier, I can get back on the gas more quickly. I will ad that this stuff takes a lot of practice. Have you downloaded Banklers carrier landing mission? He starts you out 10 miles back at about 1500ft and 350. You can do either a straight-in from there or a standard pattern trap. The pattern trap gives you grades along the way and after landing. Nice thing is once on the deck or wherever, just hit Shift R to start over again. I notice that if I don't fly Bankler's for a while my first 2 traps are terrible because my memory needs a reboot.
  8. CBStu
    At my beginning 5 yrs ago I saw very little point in landing on land beyond getting practice getting to on speed/on aoa. On land the runway is stationary and it is not at an 8-9deg angle to the wind. I did see a LOT of advantage to doing a straight in approach to the carrier from 10 miles out at about 3000ft. I always use ICLS and the E-bracket. I ignore the aoa light completely, as for me anyway, the E-bracket is much easier to use and to fine tune. I try to be fully flaps and gear down and on aoa at 10 miles or 8 at worst. BTW, I dislike the term 'on-speed' as to me it has nothing to do w/ landing the plane. From the time I am on aoa I aim the VV (another term I don't like- I prefer 'Flight Path Indicator' = FPI or 'Fight Path Marker' = FPM) at the base of the tall island on the boat. This keeps me going to the right so I am following the boat as it is moving to my right. As I get down under 1 mile out I start moving the FPI slightly to the left to now line it up w/ the notch. If you move the FPI to the center of the landing area before about .3 mile out you will end up left of center line and have to be crossing the centerline left to right to touchdown on the center. Some of this diagonal seems to be OK but much of it gets the plane flopping left to right on the landing gear. BTW, I never look at any controls indicator or aoa number. As long as I am centered in the E which is right in the hud, I don't care about either of those. BTW2 in that 'real pilot' video he was high and way left and managed to do a huge correction to hit a wire. Notice his FPI was dropping like a rock through the E in the last 3-4 seconds before he hit the deck.
  9. CBStu
    A lot of missions on the page w/ the 'Start' button there is a 'Mission Planner' button center low. This brings up a map w/ a lot of flight plans marked and waypoints indicated. Usually enemy ground emplacements are drawn in red. The map is very zoomable so you can zoom and see individual buildings and you can get lat lon by placing the curser and reading #s in the top left. I think this would be similar to maps available in a pre mission briefing. Also many missions have maps available on the kneeboard which I think would be analogous to either a real kneeboard or the maps in the case..
  10. CBStu
    I have no idea but will be watching this thread. I mostly fly SP user files missions and behavior right at that same point seems to vary widely. I haven't bothered to try to figure is I am trapping on a super carrier or not but something is different.
  11. CBStu
    Not all the time but often enough to be annoying. Anyone else having this?
  12. CBStu
    I just completed Mission 3 and WON. I had chosen the most recent prior attempt to fly this time. I closed it via the 'End Mission' button and all went well. Thanks again.
  13. CBStu
    Thanks Sedlo, I will definitely be flying it again. After my post I was thinking about this. After I fly a mission several times I have a line added to the 'choose you mission' list for each time I failed. I 'think' I had chosen the first line (the original line) for Mission 3. Maybe I should chose the line for my most recent failure of Mission 3. I will let you know.
  14. CBStu
    I finally completed Mission 3. Got on the boat, was told I could close the mission now, got to the statistics screen and both results were 100 or >. Cool, this was my 3rd or 4th try so I am happy. I go to the usual upper right corner X and click it. I get a popup saying something about do I want to do this because I will lose my progress if I do. So I go to lower right nice color button 'End Mission' and click it. Same popup. WTF? I don't know any other way to end a mission. So I click it. And failed the mission. What am I doing wrong?
  15. CBStu
    I wanted to come back to say that now, after quite a few more flights ,DCS is back to the way it used to be. I have flown several missions w/ 16 to 20 planes flying at the same time and got a tiny stutter twice when I moved my head real fast. So all of the planes kept flying and it was just my TIR5 view that had a slight hiccup. This is wonderful. I can't thank all of you enough. I made some changes recommended in this thread but the video from Hartsblade posted by Silverdevil on Feb20 is the fix for me. It does make me wonder though. All the testing done by ED prior to releasing 2.9 and no one was running a PC w/ Win Defender on it? That is kind of hard to believe. OH well, I am a happy guy loving DCS again.
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