darkman222

Here is the original thread I created in 2023.

I reported that the F16 switches to radar ranging when a mountain is blocking line of sight to the target area measuring the radar distance (F) to the hill thats in between instead of measuring the distance to the waypoint (B). You can work around if you make a mark point for the target, then use this steerpoint while looking down to the HSI to see the real distance to target to coordinate your pop up. HSI does not switch the ranging method. My report was marked as "investigating" and disappeared quietly over time. If you want to make another report feel free to do so, together with track replay.

"that mission requires activation" never seen that message, thus cant replay your file. But what you describe sounds weird and reminds of when I am too excited slewing the Maverick seeker around to find ground targets, but accidentally pressing the RDR Cursor button while slewing, which intentionally puts the Maverick to VIS. Press the RDR Cursor wich is called "cursor enable" and it will cycle through VIS, BORE, PRE and so on. To be sure remove all the keybinds for"ENABLE switch- depress" and try again, see if it happens again.

I would like to give it a try. Can you be more specific which Lua and the corresponding value are?

The trim rate ( polling rate ) of the DCS F16 is way to fast to hit the perfect trim setting. I woul be glad if it could be reduced in future updates. Or if there was a setting implemented. Just one click of trim always overshoots the perfect trim position.

From chucks guide: NORM: all electronic signals for the aircraft are enabled • QUIET: radar, TACAN, and data link transmit but all other emissions are inhibited. • SILENT: all electronic signals for the aircraft are disabled, and include the radar, radar altimeter, data link, TACAN transmit, and ECM.

Everybody who is flying the F16 on a more proficient level has his own MFD layout, which tends to be often very similar between people doing the same task in the F16 though. For example AA: Right MFD (in Nav, MSL, DGFT mode) : HSI, TGP, SMS For example AG: Left MFD: HAD, TGP, FCR. Right MFD: HSI, WPN, SMS That creates the recurring task of setting the MFDs up every mission, especially repetitive on public servers, when you'd respawn often during a session. NAV, MSL, DGFT, AG are 4 separate MFD main modes, that remember their own setting, you have to set up 3 MFD sub modes each for every of the 4 main modes. Which means setting up 12 screens in total, worst case. In the real jet this will be set up via the DTC with one button press. At the moment we only have the option to use the external DTC mod. I attached a screenshot of the DTC mod functionality that covers most of what would be needed for EDs native DTC. As we dont have a roadmap for the ED DTC I can not check if this is already in the planning or if it probably will be missed, which would be very sad.

The amount of trim you get with one click on the trim button is way too fast. Thats why you cant get the F16 trimmed out perfectly, nor can you bring the trim back to neutral, because of the sensitivity of the input you just overshoot the perfect trim value. A trim reset is a good workaround, and or reducing the speed of the trim input per click would be the realistic way to approach it.

Thanks. I did not expect that. But what youre saying is, as the TGP is not replaced, it would stay on then. Which confirms that the behavior of the current rearming process is correct.

Thanks a lot. I was asking for a roadmap to get an idea which features are still in the planning and which ones are probably not, although they might be highly anticipated by users already using the external DTC app. If there was a "MFD configuration" drop down or a greyed out button showing that its in the planning for that feature, me and probably many other users would be glad to know its in the making

Asking especially for the F16 because its pretty hard to tell whats coming or whats not. Pre-configuring the MFDs is such a powerful and handy thing ( and probably comparably simple to implement). Its the only reason I still use the external DTC app that remote controls the ICP to setup the jet, which breaks track replays and is already bugged because the order of button presses is not correct any more after some DCS updates. We already have custom CMDs and radio channels in the DCS DTC. Bein able to set up what page in what sub-mode is shown on a particular MFD would be so helpful. Any statement on that? @BIGNEWY Many people using the external DTC app would be very sad if that was overlooked.

What do you mean? I guess in real life you would never rearm a jet with the engine running, would you? Yeah I think that was the issue too. It was how the rearmarment process was programmed which lead to the behavior that is luckily fixed now for everybody who flies on servers with quick landing, refueling and take off turn around gameplay.

I am wondering the same. While the flight model of the DCS F16 has been improved over the past years a lot, why does it not affect the take off behavior too. Probably a separate look up table for take off behavior that was not changed according to the other flight model adjustments.

If you fire your first Maverick using the ATP, Litening, GMT or even VIS mode, the seeker of the second Maverick is stuck in the middle of the HUD. Which obviously does not make any sense. As you probably want to do a follow up shot. You can bring it back to move to the target area using TMS Down. So it goes back to where ATP, Litening, Ground moving target radar GMT or even the VIS designator is looking. Tracks for each method attached. atp.trk GMT.trk litening.trk vis.trk

I did not think of that. But whats the difference if it loads your default.dtc on cold start, or if it loads none? If you will change your settings for that particular mission you would do it anyway, no matter what was loaded before.