coolts

We are talking about the big KH-29L missiles here not a little Vikhr, but I will try, as, in this mission the magical fog is preventing any sort of lock so I will give it a go, (although i can see perfectly the ship in the SHKVAL). If this is realistic, any seaborne invasion of Russia would be helped massively by a light fog!

Can you launch without "authorisation"? i will give it a go later. cheers

Guys, I am going insane here. Mission #2. Two warships, foggy conditions. I simply cannot get a SHKVAL lock no matter what. I have tried; · Different target size gates (50,55,60) and a million others · Night time SHKVAL (no heat signatures for some reason, possibly fog) · Anti-radiation missiles with fantasmagoria can’t lock. Ships must be using passive IR missiles · Command wingman to “attack naval targets”. Nothing happens I know my missiles (KH29T / L) have at least 10k standoff but I can’t get any sort of SHKVAL lock further out than 2-3 km and by that time I am dead meat. I have set up a training mission with loads of ships and can easily target so either the campaign mission is borked or the fog is interfering even though I have a perfect SHKVAL image. Cheers Coolts (unwilling Russian kamikaze pilot):pilotfly:

No worries. You might want to look at getting a better gfx card cooler if you plan to overclock. They are about £15 or so, and can make a difference.

dont panic just yet... MS retire support based on SP# installed. So, as long as you update Vista to latest service pack you will be fine for a good while yet. Basically, if you phone up MS with an issue with Vista and they say "what service pack are you on" and you say, "what service pack?" you'd better have a gold card ready. Fair enough really, all these xp holdouts...........:D:D

at a glance i would concur with Boulund. have you clocked your gfx card? does this only affect LOMAC?

hmmm. I will check the inputs in the game settings. linear in the cougar control panel. Cheers guys

I'm just wondering whether, as the autopilots in the SU-25T essentially set the trim for themselves, maybe it’s best to go one way or the other. Either trim or autopilot. After all with 6 or whatever autopilot modes you have essentially got macros to any trimming you would ever want · hold attitude · fly level · hold bank · hold alt baro · hold alt radar · cancel autopilot (and trim?) …. and to manually trim as well will just confuse things leading to more problems as there isn’t a reset trim option

From Greek lomac website (admin "sisifos") Cheers Ike4fin for pointing me at this one. "There's 6 new Auto-pilot modes for the Su-25T. The plane does auto-pilot by trimming itself with trim tabs to match the mode required. On exiting most auto-pilot modes, the trimming is bound to be incorrect and you'll flop about. In the other planes you could cancel trim with Ctrl-T. But for the Su-25T, you can get the correct trimming by choosing the Emergency leveling mode(ALT-3), which puts you level and straight, and then exiting auto-pilot altogether with ALT-9 or A.Overall, when you use auto-pilot once, you have to use it forever more." That clears that up. I need to map some more autopilot modes to the stick. :joystick:

<Viper> does that alter the trim? I've been fighting the SU-25T instant action scenario for days now and am flailing about all over the place after a fire any ordnance. If I trim to attempt to stabilize after firing an IR missile, (the weight imbalance immediately sends the wings over), then hit "emergency levelling", then need to shallow dive to strafe, (therefore cancel "emergency levelling"), will my previous trim send me out of control again? My ham fisted fix to this ATM is to simply fire two A-A missiles at a time to maintain balance. A waste of Roubles! I guess I am asking whether to avoid aileron trim if using "emergency levelling mode"

Gaaa! Ive been battling with my HOTAS for the last half hour trying to get the trim reset to work on this!

hmmm…. I had that same issue, (tearing on BS & LOMAC), no matter what I did. It works now though. I don’t therefore think it had anything to do with LOMAC or BS but rather flakey NVIDIA control panel. Over the course of a 6 month period I must have updated drivers 3 or 4 times. I noticed it works now, (before I prepared this post), and i have done nothing differently apart from disabling UAC but I’m not saying that was a factor. My best guess is that the newest nvidia drivers / control panel do work when setting application specific profiles. Make sure you do set per app and make sure the app appears on the list. Failing that, do a complete uninstall / reinstall of the nvidia drivers and all associated apps. Good luck ps. I'm not using nHancer or Rivatuner as the latter does'nt yet work with the latest Nvidia drivers, but as LOMAC is so CPU dependant anyway the gfx card isnt so much of an issue, (assuming you have a powerful card).

Sorry to butt in guys, but the llights......mean neutral trim right?

Compared to the basic FM planes this thing needs bucket loads of trim, but that’s okay, because trimming is free and legal! Can someone tell me the meaning of the 3 trim lights (green) in the bottom centre of the cockpits [below]. I noticed them last night. Are they pitch, roll & rudder trim indicators?

Got my Cougar profile sorted. Got the hang of the SHKVAL, (its more twitchy in FC than BS, (BS seems easier to lock). The plane shudders when you are too slow / fast / turning too quickly, so easy to see what i am doing wrong, but, hey, the airframe its not getting repaired out of my pocket so 'shudder all you like fat boy'! [in a southern drawl] Ricardo's HD pits are very nice as well.

That worked! What a dipstick! I can fly again!:pilotfly: Now to create a BS Cougar profile, (fast forward a week.......). Cheers.

SOLD: One advance copy of DCS:A-10

how long will it take to get up there (30k)? You might have to take a shaver and a copy of "war and peace".

I use this profile for BS & Cougar http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=33583 Having the control axis view open in flight, I click to trim, (I can hear the in-game 'click'), and release the stick. The virtual stick returns to centre in the viewer when it should stay put. It must be a glitch as I was getting pretty good with the Evo, (cable ties for springs, etc). Anyway, I have hi-jacked my own thread here! :doh:

12km? Thats like being in space to an A-10 flyer! :pilotfly::pilotfly:

Cheers mate. I will try a loop tonight!! I reckon you had a special "red bull air race" version of the SU-25T made up for that. Or maybe you climbed to 20,000, dove at 90, turned smoke on them did that loop, (or would your wings have come off?). As for the KA-50, its sitting in disgrace atm as i CANT TRIM THE BUGGER NO MATTER WHAT I DO**. Had it licked on my old Saitek Evo Force but with my Cougar? pffft. no matter what profile i use, "click trim, release, wobble,pitch, repeat, crash".* Bah!:joystick: * to badly quote the shamen i have "i have watched, watched, watched every video, i have read, read, read every post"

Guys I am just dipping my toe in the strange and unknown waters of Russian planes in FC. Namely the SU-25T as this was the whole point of the Flaming Cliffs expansion, (advanced FM, etc). Now, having come from an A-10 A-G background, this is quite challenging, especially with the metric HUD and Cyrillic cockpit. I have two queries, so please forgive me if this info is squirreled away on the forums already but as my granddad use to say, “a shy lad gets nowt”; · This plane flies like a double decker bus carrying obese gorillas to a pie shop!:chef: I know it has the advanced FM and the ‘T’ is heavier than the vanilla model, but is this right? If so, god help me when DCS: A-10 comes out! Are there any ‘top tips’ to Frogfoot flying? (I am going through the great BeachAV8R tutorials on SimHQ) · I have the FC printed manual, but want aircraft performance data. Not the ceiling, max payload stuff, etc., I mean the takeoff / landing speeds, best climb rate, corner speed, etc. If I remember from my civilian FS days, this used to be on the kneeboard. The manual goes into great detail re: ordnance data but omits this stuff. I’m not one to give in easily, and once I’ve got my HOTAS up to speed with all the extra SHKVAL / autopilot controls, (and the mental RWR), I will hopefully manage to blow something up that is actually shooting back! Увидимся в небе ! (Я думаю?) Ps. One more note for ED really, if it’s not too late. Please add more procedures to the FC2.0 manual. The printed DCS manual was great but again, was short in the procedure dept. I don’t want to bang on about the old Falcon manuals but……sometimes, when learning, a few; “do this then this” steps really help out.

Joe Kurr - no problem. honoured actually:thumbup: Mustang - I have edited my post to reflect the NVIDIA specific nature of the two control panel tweaks. I haven’t played the game on an ATI card yet, (till I get my 5870). Viper - Pity. I was going to try that mod, it looks impressive. I need the alt-tab trick to fix the weird stutter bug.

cheers guys. can you verify that you can see the pic with my table on it? i couldnt get a table into the post, (possibly if i mess about with HTML), so i uploaded a pic, but it wouldnt let me upload a pic from my pc, (to save ed server space prob).

..or buy a 50" tv with a really low resolution (640x480) and you will have dials that are super huge!