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Mark points are defined as either "overhead" or "offset" (page 164). Basically, as i understand it, if you have a ground point set as SPI, (and Dragon, looking at your description, you didn’t), and you create a mark point, it will be based on the SPI point as "offset" from you position. If you have no SPI , you will store your current location for flyover waypoint creation. **EDIT** Try resetting SPI (TMS Aft Long), and see if there is a difference in the Long/Lat coordinates of two markpints in the CDU. I will do some tests tomorrow At least thats how i understand it. I'm at work so cant experiment. have the CDU repeater in 2nd MCFD and you can see the lat/long co-ords of your markpoints

Hey Pikas. Can you pm me when you get that info. Thats not a bad idea, now the Cougar stick can be disregarded, (if you have a hog ;)), it should be a lot cheaper to tart up the throttle. I might do the DIY "anti-stiction" mod. Of course you are banking on Ed not releasing "DCS:Apache" next right ;)

Hypothetical Scenario: Everyone sells their Cougars as they get new HOTAS ED Announce DCS:Viper

going rate on ebay about £90 AFAIK for decent quality / boxed. newer obviously worth more, just make sure you play up the "newness" in your Ad. lots of close up pics. might keep hold of mine for when friends round for LAN / beer / pizza nights. they have realy crappy sticks and would crap themselves with a Cougar ;)

My missus hasnt twigged or if she has she hasnt mentioned it. she gave the hog stick a long look last night so i began distraction chit chat. i figure that if i can get the DAMN THROTTLE LIGHTS TO TURN OFF OR DOWN when they fix TARGET it will be less of a risk to my personal health and safety. That and gettign rid of the Cougar discretely.

The laws of physics would seem to dictate that there will be a reduction in the force required to keep an object moving than that required to start the movement as long as the forces of gravity and friction are present. (smartass mode) :) but I know what you mean, as the laws of physics weren't written with a giant centering spring in mind! The Cougar spring was a distraction and made accurate flying difficult. I can't comment on modded Cougars but i can say the Hog stick isn't like that. Within one day i was accurately tank plinking and not just spraying like a champagne bottle as i did in the Cougar. There’s no appreciable increase in force required the more you move as there was in the Cougar. No noticeable bump at centre. It just stops when you let go. It centres yes, but its not like driving over a pothole or anything. Not distracting at all.

I really wish i had a set of G940 & X65's to compare against the Hog. Then i would have a broader base of comparison. BeachAv8r’s future articles in SimHQ with road-tests of the main HOTAS rivals from the viewpoint of a RL pilot should be very illuminating in that regard. In my little review I tried not to comment on anything I had no direct experience of, which isn’t much in the HOTAS field to be honest as apart from some basic joysticks, the stock Cougar is all I’ve had, and that took £30 worth of new switches, etc. as when I got it 2nd hand it looked like it had been under the sea for 2 years! It was in a wretched state and smelt of “damp garage”. After a bit of a refurb and re-grease though, it served me well. If any other stick that I have had experience of had suffered that much abuse, I doubt I would have been able to resurrect it. TBH that ability for TM products to be taken apart by the jobbing mechanic with a bit of soldering know-how and modded, etc is strength to be celebrated. How many Dell monitors are moddeed? How many mice? In my black and white world you should be able to gauge the quality of a product with the senses. The hog looks and feels the part. It breeds confidence in the budding A-10 pilot. The competitors are the G940 & X65 in that price range. The ED factor helps TM a lot in this instance. If ED were releasing DCS :Fulcrum for instance, would I have bought a hog stick? That’s another question and in that regard it would be hard to criticize the hog stick for being a replica, as after all, it’s a HOTAS with lots of axis and switches. Only the lack of rotaries could be grounds for grumbling, but I hardly used them on my Cougar TBH. Once the TARGET software is patched, I will start delving in to macros and seeing how it matches up against Foxy. I totally disagree. As for "better use a keyboard", that’s one of the plain most ridiculous statements I’ve heard this week. My badly mistreated Cougar that I refurbed had the same pots, and they were fine. It’s all down to personal experience. My unmodded Cougar opened my eyes to how a Proper HOTAS could improve my enjoyment of flying. There seems to be a fashion of the vociferous minority condemning the Cougar over the broadly content silent majority. Democracy favours the loud until its voting time, then the pundits are shocked. ;)

The "wobble Hijack”, was me mate. I wish i hadn't opened Pandora’s box! The base issue here is for us all to gain familiarity quickly with what is, after all, a completely new piece of kit. Knowing what is a design limitation (the tiny play), and what is pretty obviously a fault, (broken switch. Etc.), will help us all. Rasputin’s issue was demonstrated as hardware when he plugged into a different machine IMO. That’s black and white. Return to vendor. Don’t even bring TM into it. Now can you all please stop examining your throttles under a microscope :joystick: and just enjoy the damn things. They are amazing pieces of kit. :pilotfly:

Due to the WIP, I don't think we have Chocolate & Strawberry flavours of JTAC yet. Just Vanilla :megalol:

It seems like the JTAC unit must be manually targetted at an enemy unit in the ME before it will give any information. Not very dynamic IMO. Can anyone confirm this, as when i havent had them in "attack group" mode (with line connecting them in the map), the JTAC isn't available.

Serial #: 0273 Location: Bristol and still at bloody work

To me, the force required is just something to get used to and, your right, it make mistakes less likely. I only put it in the 'against' list as i know many will complain about it. They did about the Cougar and that had buttons a moth could push those buttons. I think pointing out that there are real life girl pilots may put most off from complaining. Its a man thing ;) The slew hat is taking a lot of getting used to. Beta2 seems to have fixed the wild movement when zoomed in but i havent yet had time to see whether the STAT page can control the slew rate.

Bollocks to TM, who did you buy it from? Its the vendors responsibilty. And no, dont cancel your pre-orders. Read my review. The throttle is amazing. The play is tiny. My Cougar stick used to move into the next room before registering any input! :joystick:

Having seen enough porn photos of the real cockpit there are two rubber flaps to the side of each throttles travel-slot-thing (technical term), i assume partly to stop dust and sandwich crumbs and a side effect will be the reduction of play. [from the DCS A-10 manual]

nooooooooo. Ive not killed santa or the easter bunny and my name isnt GRINCH! ;) Just wanted to know if mine was dodgy and glad its not. I can handle a few small imperfections for gods sake i drive an Astra! Absolutely loving the HOTAS though. It's light years ahead of my cougar which was itself miles ahead from my saitek evo.

And back and forth on right one? Not a problem when linked. I had a little look with a torch into the shaft innards, (ooer), and you can see how each throttle’s 'play' is caused by a different slight slackness. Shouldn’t be difficult to fix and it doesn't spoil the setup for me it’s just that i wanted to know i wasn’t sat on the only buggered one. If you think about it. As there isn’t a hugely powerful centering spring as in the stick which prevents play there, its inevitable to have some play otherwise friction would wear away the parts far too quickly. A little tighten should do it but I’m not opening mine up first….

and back and forth on right one?

Small throttle play Guys can you please confirm that with the throttles separated you see; 1-3 mm for and aft play in the right throttle 1-2mm side to side play in the left throttle Basically, if everybody has it, then it’s a general small design flaw and I can live with it. If it’s only some of us then I am going to return the unit to Amazon whist I am in my 7 day returns grace period for replacement. This could probably be fixed with some internal tinkering, but for £330 and an invalidated warranty? Bollocks to that.

stick base plate 23x27cm throttle 15x26cm the base plate is 4mm thick so you can rest stuff on it, (you may have to), unlike the cougar

lets just do our own bloody changelog! after dinner. stupid bloody digestive system

just install as admin over the top. when the game loads after instal it runs the x64 version so your Track ir is buggered. quit and run the x85 game instead. cant find a changelog explosion smoke borked on my card but switches and TGP slew now fine with TM HOG TGP IR fixed..... back to the game. off to test mavericks and LGB's MAVERICKS ARE FIXED. GND STABILIZATION WORKS. I MAY HAVE TO START SMOKING AGAIN AS A CAN OF COKE JUST AINT CUTTING IT! ooh battery switch works. cold and dark really is cold and dark now electrical dependencies fixed. dont forget that inverter switch guys or you aint goin nowhere! JTAC speaks!! (with a strangely Wagnerian tone ;) [labrat #273]

MMMMMMMMMMMM new manual MMMMMMMMMMM new music TGP IR mode has had vaseline cleaned off lens. now nice and crispy. that is worth a new beta in itself for me!

600kb/s estimated @ 52 "microsoft" minutes to go. Torrent link dead as mentioned. I wasn't expecting this. Good job i've got the day off! [ducks behind cover] ;)

hmmm. Ive just tried it again and i can't contact the JTAC with the comms menu. All i get is what sounds like Wags doing triggered warnings about 'hostile mortars, etc'. Im not to fussed ATM as its a beta after all.

Your talking about a "release candidate". Whole other kettle of fish right there. :smilewink: Anyway Viper, shoudn't you be waiting by the front door in case a certain parcel arrives? You don't want to be answering a forum post and go to find one of those "you weren't in" cards! :thumbup: