CBStu

I am not sure if the problem is w/ this campaign or with DCS. I have flown this stage 2 to death. I have three 'Success Score 100' and 10 'Skipped' in the list and but every time I click OK it takes me AGAIN to Stage 2. How do I get to Stage 3?

I agree w/ Art-J. I have created several missions for the purpose of trying different bombs or missiles. I wanted to be able to figure out how to do things w/o anyone shooting at me. I have one mission that has 3-4 variations. Create a mission and fly it. If you want to change to another bomb, open the mission in the editor, change the bomb, and 'File' 'Save as' and give it a new name so you know what bomb it has. I don't know how to do much more than that but that skill level is all you will need to fly a P-51 in the Marianas.

"I want plane fly through a WP to a setting course,but when i turn on CPL, the plane always skip the WP,what's wrong?" You need to have your waypoint sequence set up first before clicking CPL. On your SA or HSI page click the 'SEQ1' button (this will give you a dashed line on the screen for your entire flight past all waypoints) and the 'AUTO' button (this will give you the next WP automatically as you fly past the current WP). Both buttons are at the lower right corner of the SA screen. I generally hit both buttons before I take off so I can see where I should be flying. Once you have the sequence displayed and are in the air, you can click 'CPL'. See the pic on page 638 in CHuck's Guide showing the dashed line and see the 'SEQ1' and 'AUTO' are boxed. I have been doing this more and more lately. It is nice to hit 'cpl' while you are still climbing to altitude. This way you know your plane will be flying the direction you want while you are setting up weapons or anything else you need to do. Just check altitude once in a while.

A couple of thoughts. 1- Like others have said be sure to disengage autopilot. I don't understand it completely but if you have used autopilot at any time in that flight you need to disengage it. Hitting AP and then clicking 'BALT' for instance to make the colon sign go away, does not disengage it. I have a separate button on my stick for disengage AP. It also does something else that I don't remember at the moment. 2- I 'assume' you are doing a straight-in approach. If so, I do not drop flaps until about 180. That way you get what you would expect, a quick loss of airspeed, w/ virtually no float upward. 3- If you are doing a carrier pattern trap, you fly past the carrier upwind at 350 and 800ft w/ the hook down. I always set full flaps at the same time I drop the hook. But the flaps will not actually drop until below 250. So in the first break turn, you chop the throttle, bank over hard, hit the speed brake, watch the airspeed and drop gear at 250, somewhere right around there the flaps will drop. But, since you are banked over hard, you don't really feel them because, rather than lifting the plane, they just tighten your turn. Hopefully you finish the turn at a heading of about 180deg from the carrier's base coarse and can use the downwind leg to perfect your onspeed aoa as well as drop to 600ft.

I use a VKB stick. Gladiator NXT EVO ‘Space Combat Edition’ – VKBcontrollers.com Even though I fly FA-18 about 95% of the time I decided that I wouldn't go crazy trying to exactly match the stick to any one plane. This one has a lot of buttons, hats, switches. Also it comes w/ 1 or 2 extra buttons or hats that you could swap in if it worked better for you. I am very happy w/ this stick. I use a Warthog throttle which works fine. It has a long travel which works really well for the fine control needed for carrier traps.

I have seen the 'auto' button not do anything sometimes also. Not sure why. Like you I think maybe there are some conditions that need to be met, or a certain sequence of buttons push for it to operate. It will always come on when I try it a little later. I have only been using it for a month or so and at that time in a mission there isn't a lot going on so it hasn't caused enough problem to worry about it. There are quite a few missions w/ pretty long waypoint legs and there are missions that I am on my 3rd try to win. With those I really like the combination of BALT and AUTO waypoints when I hit the fast forward buttons.

I agree, I'd put in a small pitch dead zone. I had to do that on my VKB stick. I use BAlt quite a bit. You notice that using any one of the AP modes makes the rest feel stiff. So I use BAlt and while it doesn't completely eliminate roll, it makes it much less likely to head off left or right. Something else I discovered a few weeks ago is the couple mode. If you are flying a route of waypoints hit 'waypoint', the top right button on the SA screen and then hit 'auto' which is the bottom right button. These put distance to the next waypoint in the hud and automatically moves that display to the next waypoint as you pass over the current one. Now if you hit AP and COPL (?) the plane will automatically fly your waypoint route. Hit BAlt also and you have a fully functioning auto pilot. You can couple to course I think but haven't tried that yet.

Today I did a 'repair' and tried again w/ no success. I have started a ticket.

Norman99 thankyou. Goes to show that learning from movies, novels, and flying sims doesn't always provide correct understanding. I really enjoy this part of the forum because of guys like you who explain how stuff works for real.

Would they be planning to jettison the wing mounted tank asap? Just looking at the pics it seems that aero drag would be mostly affected by that tank. I am not sure about weight distribution though. I know that in DCS (I have never flown a real plane of any type) I have a couple of times had a very asymetrical load. I found that the trim could just barely compensate to give me level flight. The side effect was it was easy to turn in one direction and almost impossible to turn the other way. I could see the need to dump something to get a more even load before doing anything more than fairly straight in bomb runs.

I happened to get an email from the satellite company saying I had used all my high speed data for the month. So I bought more data, and started a new download at 930PM and went to bed. This morning same thing, download stopped and message about server capacity. Is it possible to have Syria put on a flash drive and mailed to me? Worst case, is it possible to get a refund or maybe a credit? I haven't done a support ticket yet but certainly can. Thank you.

Thank you Bignewy. I am in Virginia, United States.

I just checked on it and it has stopped again. Same message about server inadequate. Would trying it just before I go to bed help? Maybe less internet traffic then?

I bought Syria yesterday and tried to download it. Two times it worked for maybe 90 minutes and shut off saying something about server size? This morning I started the download ran an errand and after 1.5 hours it is still working w/ the green bar maybe 10-15% done. Speed over my satellite connection is shown as 2.2Mb/sec. Normal updates have always taken 1-2 hours but now I wonder is there any other way to do this download?

Bunny you were correct. I should have taken a screen shot but forgot to. Looking in file explorer in the campaign folder I found the campaign listed but when I clicked it, it opened to three folders. I forget the first two but the third one was the campaign, but it had the Zip file icon next to it. When I clicked it, there were a bunch of miz files like I would expect. So basically I moved the miz files out of the Zip folder into the main folder and deleted the now empty Zip folder. I just got through flying the first mission and ,although my result wasn't perfect, I did have the option to skip to the next mission. Thank you so much for helping me out again.

Thanks Bunny. I bet that is the problem. Sometimes I have trouble going from the download, to the unzipping, to placing the campaign where it should go. I bet I screwed this up so will look at it again.

When I clicked OK I get this, right back to the same mission.

Well, I was going to just forget this campaign but came across it and figure try again. This is the screen it comes up in. I don't see any button to skip a mission. Just a 'Play Again' button.

Honest I am not trying to be argumentative w/ this post. What is the appeal of the other carriers? More realistic missions due to the carrier having been used at that time and in that area of the globe? I am asking because I don't know. I just fly off or onto whatever carrier is set in the mission and really don't care which it is. Also how does ACLS fit in time wise. Isn't is a newer system? When did it first become operational?

Geez, there sure is a lot of complaining about a $30-40 purchase. I see nothing unusual about this at all. When I bought my first battery powered drills I was thrilled. Years later they came out w/ better batteries and I was happy that the new batteries could be used in my old drills. Years later more new batteries and they would not fit my drills. So I eventually ended up buying new drills because otherwise I couldn't get all the new features. This stuff happens all the time. It is not always possible to make new products w/ new features backwards compatible to work w/ older products. The older products are simply missing characteristics that are needed to work w/ the new features. In many, many other product lines new features can be added to the basic product over time. But at some point, new features can not be made compatible, and the base product needs to come out in it's second generation. Look at PC programs. There are a ton of programs for Win10. How many of them will run on WIN8? When we upgraded to Win10, did all of our old programs continue to work? I know that I lost a $130 car suspension design and analysis program and a $60 home design program. Here the SC is the second generation and the ACLS is the new feature. The older carriers are the first generation. How much more work for ED would be needed to make ACLS work on the old carriers? Should they do all that work for free? Do it for free so no one would need to buy a new carrier? He11, if they did the work needed to make ACLS work on the old carriers then they would be new carriers. But we already have new carriers, the SC. Get a grip people.

I have no interest in editing a lua script. I want a simple procedure to adjust the height of the hmd relative to the hud. If I am using the HUD to shoot a missile it is all fine, but if I need to look off to the side of the hud, (the entire reason the HMD exists) the HMD appears significantly lower than the HUD. As someone said, I have to point at the enemy plane w/ my chin. And this theory that I should look down at the instruments when setting TIR is crazy. I don't fly looking at the instruments. One more point; all other aiming systems work just fine the way I set up TIR. Reticles for guns, rockets, AIM9, AIM120, bombs work just fine. ONLY HMD is screwed up so I am not going to adjust so one of 5-6 systems will work.

When I get that warning I turn both heaters on and after several minutes the warning goes away.

When using the mouse starting w/ wings folded it takes two R button mouse clicks to drop the wings. One click moves them to about 45 deg and the second click drops them fully. Then a forward scroll of the mouse wheel pushes the lever in toward the instrument panel to lock them down. To fold wings step 1 is back scroll the mouse wheel to pull the lever out and unlock them. Then 2 left mouse folds the wings. BTW they are not locked in the up/folded position. I ran through all that so you can check if your switch panel does all those steps.

I have been wondering also. I have thought maybe it is me because I read a thread about radar use and realize I don't understand some of what is discussed. But I fly missions and have both radar and EW running. I see an enemy plane on both screens and try to lock it up on the radar. The dang thing disappears off the radar screen but is still on the EW. Also, I have the IFF and DL running, so I see a plane in red on the radar. I try to lock it but, if it doesn't disappear, it changes and loses the red coloring.

A couple of years ago slew speed was a real problem especially if one was using the slew on the Warthog throttle. It worked fine on RADAR page but terrible for other uses. I got lucky in a way when I got a new stick which has several 4 way or 5 way hat switches. Now I use the button on the throttle for radar page slew and the switch on the stick for everything else. I don't know how many of you might have a similar option but it works great for me.