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Running into this now too; same errors shown in event viewer. Troubleshooting but no luck so far. Have done a fast repair on DCS, have moved off PublicTest in Oculus app. Trying a few other things, but cannot get DCS to run at this time (in 2D or VR; ST or MT). Will try downgrading Nvidia drivers (just updated them today). Edit: Tried these things, the game is still crashing: Downgraded Nvidia drivers Removed custom modules Disabled OpenXR toolkit Long repair. Edit 2: Ok, I checked event viewer again and saw this repeated error: "Session "OculusVadApoEventTrace" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035". I completely killed any running Oculus service via task manager and DCS finally ran. Now troubleshooting why the Oculus app is throwing these errors. I have changed to different test branches, and not sure what has changed.

Coincidentally flew this mission today and Bowser let me know he's going home in two weeks back to South Carolina just in time for the Superbowl. Glad I was able to provide CAS support so he can go back safely. Also, what a mission. I had to attempt this three times to land and get mission complete, but wow - chef's kiss. Had to go back and study up on JDAMs, LGB's, the ATFLIR, markpoints and more. Had to re-learn to use the moving map better otherwise I kept getting disoriented. I avoided this mission for over a year due to its length, but just wow. Finally, the easter egg on Channel 7 when RTB is awesome. Amazing work @baltic_dragon

My 2 cents. Just flew Mission 3 and I attacked (and missed) the first target with the LGB. I asked Smoke and he killed it within a few mins. I then attacked (and missed) the building with the JDAM. I asked Smoke and he radioed Roger. But it seemed to take forever before he rolled in, I assumed there was an AI bug. But after 10mins(?) he then attacked. Which leads me to believe he had to wait for the JDAM to align. I aligned mine after WP1, but wonder if the AI doesn’t. PS: I seriously need to brush up on LGBs and JDAMs. Ugh

I had same question on Wizards. Glad it’s addressed here, I don’t see a set of coordinates for it, so I’ll try to calculate mentally next time. I also just now (possibly) ran into the tanker issue after the mission and headed to WP7. I was trying to tank from right drogue and just simply would not plug (Nails 42 had just finished). Worst is i only had 500 lbs of fuel so wound up flaming out and not finishing the mission

Side question: Is ACLS mode 1 enabled in these missions? (Autoland) I did not see a carrier datalink frequency on the mission card and the ACC datalink fails on the default link 4 frequency. Edit: OK, after reviewing some old posts, looks like this is a bug in DCS whereby the carrier scripted before ACLS doesn't provide Mode 1, even after being added to the scripting. So I'm assuming the answer here is still No.

Thank you again @baltic_dragon I just downloaded today’s OB and flew mission 2 and Smoke now cuts away properly. Thank you!!

Thank you @baltic_dragon Will fly again after the next update.

+1 Just played this mission twice. I get to WP4, Smoke cuts away and I can tell from TACAN distance he reaches about 30nm away, but the next event is never triggered. I flew in a holding pattern about 15 mins then shutdown the mission both times. I watched a YT video and noticed Smoke should report in after about 10 mins. Edit: ok, I flew this last night one more time. What I see happening is that Smoke returns to the carrier group as noted above instead of going to his WP 2 Training area (confirmed via F10 map). He seems to circle the group, then he DOES proceed to his assigned WP and announces "Tapes On", but I had to hold over WP4 about 20-25 mins. From there the scripting seems to operate as expected. I have attached a track file. Mission02.trk

Observed this too. Glad to see the fix will come.

Thanks! Understood

Ah ok, good to know! Thank you

Following, have same issue. ATC instructions don't print in kneeboard. Just completed a CASE III landing in F-18, none of Mother's instructions printed out on the VR Kneeboard. I did notice that a single line did print, was in the format of "T: +11:13" or something like that which I interpreted to be the push time in minutes:seconds from the current time. But nothing else printed, no holding radial, no holding altitude, no DME nor push time. Tried checking the log, notes and ATC pages. (I've only started using Vaicom this week, so am a total newbie).

Hi @baltic_dragonwas the fix for Smoke released for the CASE III landings? I trapped 3 wire just now (yay!) and then Smoke immediately landed on top of me. still got Mission Complete though so there’s that. thanks!

I saw this post a few days ago after flying M01. I noticed that I got the No Comms grade on landing so on 2nd and 3rd attempt I started calling Marshall and See you at 10 after Saint does. Both times I followed Saint into the holding stack at 3000 and we stayed there - no joke - a looonngg time. Both times I finally started commencing on my own and landed and Saint landed a few mins later. So what I believe is happening is Saint’s clearance get cancelled when I make my carrier calls and he’s waiting for me to land (even though I don’t hear the boat give him any Charlie calls or anything). I thought he was waiting for a push time or was burning gas but I was in the stack over 20 mins. Not fun… Next time, I’ll avoid radio calls and just follow him in. One more thing (from my first attempt). I notice Saint parks on the stern of the ship on the patio. If I give the normal 15 sec spacing after kiss-off he fouls the deck while I am in the groove (like, bro wth?) So I’ll need to use 30 spacing I guess. Maybe this is actually the plane director’s fault? anyway, have only done M01 so far (about 5 time) and love it!!!

Wanted to pop in and say Kudos and Thank you!! This is an awesome trainer. I thought I was a decent DCS virtual pilot and already had numerous successful traps under my belt in the F-18, but this trainer has been humbling. Still took me >20 traps to score above 70 (74!!) and even now difficult to repeat that. Totally addicted to flying traps now :). My main problem now seems to be that I bolter every. single. time. I restart training after a break. Not sure if ground effect is modeled on the carrier, but my hornet seems to like to float above the deck and I get an Eased Gun deduction a lot. I guess I need to learn to work the throttles in the lower power settings better. Thank you!