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Thats cool. Some of you guys have picked up the intricate mysteries of the CDU very quickly. I keep putting it off as that part of the manual is a bit baffling, (as a pdf - it will be easier once ive got a nice ring bound manual). These vids help a lot. Can this be done from the UFC? I dont like to go "heads down" whilst fliying. I can create offest markpoints using the TGP as per "headspaces" tutorial, but would like to save them as a flightplan.

I am slowly converting the 'man' half of our study into a cockpit. First a HOTAS appeared, then TrackIR, and now 2xMFD's Next week a TM hog and retirement for the Cougar. She has some pictures of cats. [and a wardrobe full of expensive and worn once clothes and shoes]

Bloody hell, we've had mandatory seatbelts since the '70's over here. Are you allowed to have loaded guns on the drivers seat? (looks for passport) And we haven't been allowed to drink-drive since the Vikings were over here. Bloody Sweyn Forkbeard my arse! ;)

My i7 930 @ 4ghz chugs with an overclocked gtx285. Like andy said, the beta is not about performance, it's about stability on various hardware platforms. please DO NOT make buying decisions based on A-10 performance. However tempting it may be with the next gen of AMD @ Nvidia GFX cards on their way for xmas ;)

Ebay is your friend. Ive been selling all kinds of junk to fund my upgrade. Its not the stick and throttle that wil give it away to my missus. Its the gigantic shit eating grin that i wont be to hide when i open the box. Still, its Xmas. :santa: Nearly.

Sorry to rewind a little but I just caught this thread. Carrier? With no arrestor? How fast did you sink? :pirate:

My Cougar knows its time is up. Every time i unplug the damn thing i have to wipe the firmware when i plug it back in. Its like when you are breaking up with someone and they just get more annoying towards the end. As if thats going to make you come back. Sorry Dear Cougar We had some great times together. You weren't my first. But you taught me things that my Saitek Evo never dreamed of. I became a right handed flyer for you. But there is another. She has more buttons, And a chinese hat. Her throttle splits, Her baseplate is flat. Goodbye ps. And you can take your centre slop as well, its taking up room :huh:

That would be the recoil then. You will get that on a gatling gun the size of a volkswagon under your bum :smilewink:

If i hadn’t already pre-ordered, the A-10 beta would have me ordering anyway. I’ve mapped China hats & boat switches to various Cougar shifted button states, but, by god it will all be easier with the proper buttons there. I couldn’t give a toss whether its designed for an A-10 and i end up getting DCS: Whatever, next, or BOB when that ever shows. Has there EVER been a time when you have thought, "geez, my HOTAS has TOO MANY axis and switches"? Nope. Thought not. Roll on next week.

Smear some vaseline over your monitor then and you can stay with fuzzy-vision whilst we move on to more accurate bombing runs :)

Fantastic news. Now for some "night hog" hunting.

Yes, its WIP guys. I don't think we are going to be doing any tank hunting with a 0.0000000001 megapixel camera at night. I don't expect to be able to target a tank commanders glowing cigarette tip at 9mn but being able to differentiate a tank from a hillside at 4mn.........

Hopefully the whole JTAC component will be in the GUI manual or a yet to be seen flight manual chapter as that needs some proper explanation having seen Wags recent vids and thought "i want some of that!" There is a big hole in the "communications" chapter around page 634 that looks likely for filling ;) Currently this is it... "Once you selected the desired JTAC unit, Check -in with it and follow the on-screen directions." Obviouslty the manual is WIP, so i'm good to wait.

CCD, (standard camera), has very high resolution. However as soon as you switch to IR, either BHOT or WHOT, the focus / resolution drops massively making them pretty useless for target aquisition. Having read many A-10 RL accounts i dont recall pilots berating the 'fuzzy-vision' IR camera, in fact they were in awe of its capabilities in ODS and useed it, (IR mav not TGP), to hunt at night in the older A-10A so i am hoping this is a WIP issue. The very fact that the focus and gain OSB buttons don't do anything ATM points to this.

When you get annoyed that Airfix dont do an A-10c model

Aha! I’m not expecting everything to work as its beta, etc. but i need to get "my head in the zone" as far as task saturation goes. I can fly, navigate and drop ordnance, (sometimes even on bad guys). I now need to practice accurate target acquisition based on JTAC references. I’ve seen Wags video and it gave me Goosebumps! He made it seem so calm and relaxed, like he was knitting at the same time. Practice!

Impatient taxi-ing shreds nosewheel tyres. Every time. Man i need some tractor tyres! Hell, i can take off on rims, just dont have coffee in your lap!

Hell yeah, i can feel my "playstation thumb" coming back with all the TMS/DMS twiddling.:joystick: The avionics have topped Falcon which was itself top dog IMO. The interrelations between TAD & TGP are very deep and thats before we get working datalink, etc. (it may work now but my brain is way behind)

I take it this is for a later beta release as i cant find it, so i'm either; looking for somethingf that isn't there, (WIP) looking in the wrong place (story of my life) I was reading a post where someone created a JTAC mission though, i'm sure. Unless ive been "sleep ED forum reading" . God that would be sad. :doh:

FFS, i look at that bloody switch panel every time i startup or do a FENCE check. Sigh. I'm a "night hog" now! cheers guys

As seen on various screenshots. I cant find it in the manual. I've dug through the UFC menus. I surrender. where is it?

Cheers for that (and SFJackBauer). A good vid with a clear and concise voiceover is worth a lot and to some of us, (me included). Helps to learn procedures better than a manual :book::doh::thumbup: rep inbound

I'm not too fussed to be honest. I am a happy camper right now i have SOMETHING to fly. The systems are almost there and there is a boat load of depth there. We are finding which systems, mavs, pgms, for instance, which are WIP and we can work around them. there are still months of enjoyment before i even start on the campaign missions and with regular beta updates promised we will be having a mini xmas every time one of those comes out. “WAYEY, voice overs are in”, and “W00T, Mavericks work”. I can wait, and with the TM Hotas coming next week, ED can take as long as they want to polish this gem as far as I am concerned. Hopefully with the funds generated from us beta testers, they are under slightly less pressure to release and will do the right thing. They did it with BS. “When it’s done” is absolutely the right way to go in this industry.

Heh, says HE with an A-10 sig :megalol: Yeah, the "Inn on the green" is a great pub on gloucester road. Its got about 20 guest ales so you can work your way down the pub from the ciders to the stouts to the bitters to the...........kebab shop then taxi rank if you can still walk. EJECT!, (gahh. doing it again) then you get in the house late and "bithin' betty"...........[CUT]

So there I was getting the hang of the systems and weapons. You know, getting my china hats and boats in a mess, SPI here and SOI there. Wandering Mavericks and hung stores. Basically a flying rant with wings. I thought, “I need to get something off pat”,” just one thing that I can definitely do right. So I thought I will practice start up. That’s a linear procedure and therefore easy to learn. I’ve never done a manual start before. Not in falcon or BS. I always thought “why bother?” . This time though I thought that my appreciation of the avionics and engine systems will be massively increased if I learn how to start them and I will begin to better appreciate all their intricate interdependencies. Now, in the evening after dinner when I fire up the PC and coax the TrackIR into life, all I want to do is KILL. And EXPLODE THINGS. Therefore I jump into a runway start, get my HOTAS switches sorted and off I go to slightly damage some enemy vehicles. So I thought, I will practice the start up in the mornings. I am dozy, not full of the after effects of the workings days angst. It’s the perfect time to practice the more sedate side of simming. If I do it every morning before work, I will have it off pat in a week. After downloading a few checklists and so on, I gave it a go and was well chuffed. It wasn’t at all as baffling as I had hoped. As long as you have a vague idea which panel to look at the labels aren’t in Russian this time, (thank god). It worked. Later though I had a strange thought…….. I am starting up my A-10 whilst eating breakfast. The start of the day. Now that’s a weird parallel. Should I practice a ‘shutdown’ before I go to bed? A ‘refuelling' at lunchtime. ‘Configure my stores’ before going to the toilet? My god I am now starting to think in SIM-GLISH. I need :helpsmilie:.