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  1. You look at the stick when you are trimming the aircraft?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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..
  8. 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.
  9. Not all the time but often enough to be annoying. Anyone else having this?
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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?
  13. 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.
  14. One other note. Maybe 1-2 years ago DCS set it up so you can skip a mission in a campaign and go on to the next mission. I have a couple of campaigns that have 2-3 slipped missions. I usually go back later and try to do the skipped ones. Sometimes I have learned something somewhere else and now I can complete the mission. Sometimes I still can't complete it. Oh well, moving on.
  15. An alternative to campaigns is single missions from the user files. I fly a lot of these. Some kind of suck so I delete them. Flew one the other day that was fine until I tried to get back on the carrier and the ICLS was not set up. I made it but it was ugly. User Files (digitalcombatsimulator.com) One thing that has helped me is I keep my web browser button visible while flying. When I get to something I don't know how to do I pause DCS and go learn. Chucks Guide is invaluable. There are also a lot of youtube videos available. When setting up a new to me weapon I often go back and forth DCS to guide or youtube. Pausing one, then pausing the other, so I can follow steps one at a time until the weapon is ready. Also, if you get frustrated, get out of the mission and fly one you have figured out and enjoy. I like to learn but this is also supposed to be fun. I have two user misions now that I have flow each 2-3-4 times and still have not succeeded. I will keep trying. Oh a second thing that helps is fast forward. Once I fly a mission and basically see how it goes, when there is a spot that needs 50nm of flying (maybe to the next waypoint) w/ nothing happening, I often fast forward until I am 5-10nm away and then go back to normal speed.
  16. Good job. I see nothing wrong w/ adjusting an axxis at all. It's not like you can't readjust it.
  17. Yes they had the svc tag for both purchases and I double checked that the part number on the first one I bought matches the one I just now ordered.
  18. Thanks guys. I ordered another grossly overpriced Dell ram stick. So I will check the old one to see if they match the new ones. Supposedly what I bought is compatible w/ my PC but I am not sure that means they exactly match the original ones.
  19. Silverdevil, you da MAN! Setting all the exclusions in Defender per that video did the trick. I flew the single player mission Battle for the Docks where I used to get stutters just taxiing and it is now perfect. Then I flew Shootin Putin where there are 4 flights of 4 friendlies and about 20 red planes. It ran PERFECTLY. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. A general question though. I understand that, while DCS is loading it must go online as it checks for updates, but is something going on online while I am playing in single player? I ask because I think I understand that Defender is looking at protecting the PC from crap coming in from the web. So why were all the exclusions affecting how it flys if I am playing within my PC? Lange 666, I will order another 16 stick from Dell. It is too expensive but, at my PC skill level, I think that is my safest way to go. I have 4 ram slots and the existing ones are in the 2 white slots so I will place the new 16s in the whites. Would there be any way to use the old 8s by placing them in the black slots? I will also look into the ST/MT thing. Not sure I need to but will try ST just to see. BTW I am not sure what I did in Alienware Command Center but I had been manually setting it to performance which cranked up the cpu fan constantly until I changed it back. But the other day I changed something so now the fan cranks up automatically when I launch DCS. That is a nice function so I will figure out how I did that.
  20. Silverdevil thx so much. I had dropped McAffee and started using Defender a month or so ago. I did exclude dcs but now I realize just part of it. OS c user, name ,saved games, dcs. So I followed the video rec exactly and changed that to all of saved games vs just dcs. Also added all his other exclusions except simple radio which I don't have. Unfortunately I will have to wait until tonight to try flying. BTW, my PC = Aurora R9, Core I7-9700k @ 3.6Ghz, Geforce RTX 2080Super, 16 ram. running an Alienware 27 monitor at 1920x1080. I have learned a bit about Alienware Command Center how to crank up the CPU cooler fan before starting dcs. Haven't learned about overclocking yet though. I will keep working through this and thank you again for all your help.
  21. 6-8 months ago I thought my 4 yr old Alienware was needing some upgrades. I used to notice in a few missions w/ a lot of planes moving around on carrier or airfield or w/ a bunch flying, I'd get some lags/stutters. But it usually went away a few minutes after takeoff. Then 2.9 stable effed dang near everything. I have a mission Battle for the Docks where the only thing moving other than my plane is a few cars on the airfield perimeter road. And I get stutters and actual 2-3-4 second pauses taxiing to the runway. I have done a few of the fixes, turned down or off some graphics settings recommended in a thread by BigNewey, dropped max fps to 120. Dropped from the medium to the low graphics setting. DCS is somewhat better now but sure wish I hadn't gone to 2.9. So a few Qs to try to see if some internal desktop upgrade might help. 1- I see mentions of flying in either MT or ST. I guess MT is multi threading? IDK. Several posters say MT sucks while all is well in ST but I have no idea where I can choose one or the other. 2- No way to spend $2500 on a new PC and I have seen some comments indicating that newer higher performance PCs than mine are having similar problems anyway so.... 3- How do I get real time #s on graphics and main processor (and whatever else is important) performance? Maybe I need to upgrade one or the other or? 4- A couple of weeks ago I saw my PC has 16 of ram so bought another 16 stick only to find out my 16 is actually two 8s so I need to buy another 16 stick. Due to my lack of experience I bought Dell guaranteed to be compatible ram at $130 for the 16 and of course now I see I could have gotten two 16s from Crucial for <$100. Should I buy another Dell 16 or shelve the one I have and buy Crucial? I have seen quite a few people mention their PC specs in a thread and now I am thinking maybe extra ram won't really do me much good? 5- I have seen threads about turning off a processor core and then turning it back on? In the bios? That is way beyond my ability and I don't think I should have to do things like that to play DCS when my PC works just fine for everything else. I think DCS should fix whatever is causing so many people to have the same problem. I understand DCS could have a tough time making something work on 1000s of different PCs but mine is a pretty run of the mill standard machine from a mainstream manufacturer so whatever testing they did certainly seems nowhere near enough to me. I understand that like all electronics, things need to upgrade periodically so I understand and am willing to do some things. If I saw some big improvements w/ 2.9 but my PC is old enough to not be able to take advantage of some of them fine. But I see NOTHING OTHER THAN PROBLEMS and I am far from the only one experiencing these problems. I hope they will figure out a fix. Thanks in advance for any help you provide and now that it is typed out I realize #5 is a rant. Sorry for that but dang I used to love DCS.
  22. I guess Microsoft is forced to let companies like McAffee to coexist. Sure made my life he11. I kept trying to get Defender set up completely and many times it told me to do something in McAffee. I don't understand since I bought this PC in 12/2019 and set up McAffee immediately. Apparently they did a major update 1.5 years ago and no problem. Then a couple months ago I started noticing problems, and they kept slowly getting worse. Oh well, I finally deleted McAffee completely. And Baam, I can do what I want in Defender no problem. Set my entire DCS folder as an exclusion in Defender last night. This Am I flew as a wingman in 10 ship mission to bomb Shiraz. DCS is fantastic. Then I flew a mission defending the CV w/ maybe 6 others and maybe 25 Migs approaching the boat. Used up all 12 missiles, landed to rearm, but all Migs shot down by others by the time I was ready again. DCS works flawlessly. Thank you to every one who helped me out. McAffee was the problem
  23. I shut of McAffee and things seem a lot better. Have only had time for 3 missions but back to normal so far. I will need to set the exclusion in Defender as I have not done that yet. Thanks guys, I was afraid I was going to need to replace or upgrade this 4 yr old PC and that would be pretty much impossible right now. No flying DCS as it was = uuuggghhh. Maybe in 6 months???? But I have hope finally. Thanks for staying w/ me. Dang I love forums. I am on maybe 8 others in the car and gun worlds and they are all like this one. A great place to hang out and helpful when needed. I will get the Defender exclusion done this weekend and report back.
  24. I agree on the hud. There are times when a color change is all that would help but that isn't possible. I have also noticed that the three screens are not real bright either. IDK but I wonder if this is normal. Afterall we are flying an old plane that started life in 85 or so. Not sure about dates on C version or Block 20 but it is OLD.
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