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So how would you do that in single player, or in the training missions?...

Just a little tip from something I've discovered in DCS if using rudder pedals. I know this is as tedious as f**k, but you have to go through every single aircraft, one by one, and check that the key bindings for your toe brakes (left and right) are set to "Slider". Amazingly, this took me a while to figure out. I could not understand why they didn't work properly. All of a sudden, the Tomcat's brakes actually worked...

I'm new to the Viper, and like flying in low light conditions. I can't seem to be able to control the brightness of the HUD. I'm flying in VR (Rift-S), and the console/instrument/food lights seem to work fine. I've set the switch to "night" on the right knee panel (or whatever it's called), but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to dim the HUD, it's dazzlingly bright at night (ditto for the "Gear down" indicator lights!). Is there something I've missed? I've tried the key bindings, but they don't seem to do anything) Is there a way to dim either of them yet? if so, why not?! surely that'd be one of the first things to implement? Hopefully I'm just being stupid and have missed something. Please enlighten me, oh veteran Viper Gurus :D

Many thanks, your hard work is very much appreciated.

With the greatest of respect, that's a lame response. Just because it's normal, doesn't mean it's right or better in any way. I'm just trying to offer suggestions for improvements to realism and immersion, it shouldn't be that hard to implement and you can't deny that it'd make refuelling far more realistic, the sound is half the vibe!

I was doing a spot of air-to-air refuelling the other day in my trusted harrier, and as I approached the KC-130, it suddenly occured to me that there was zero noise from the tanker's engines or props, despite doing 260KTS just a few metres back and below its engines. Surely, as you'd approach in real life, you'd hear/feel the low frequency hum from the props/engines through the cockpit window?! That would be a good addition to make refuelling even more immersive (especially in VR!)

It does it in the Harrier quite a bit, but not all the time (I've been flying Harrier exclusively in DCS for 3 or 4 months now) but I've noticed it only mainly does it if your targeting system (whether DMT, FLIR or TPOD) are zoomed in quite far.

Well this thread went cold quickly...

How do I insert a track file? it's pretty easy to make one, just go to the main training mission for carrier ops and click "fly" mission, you'll get the same result and will be able to make your own track file. It seems to be broken for all Tarawa cold starts, but seems to work OK for hot start missions... which brings me to my next bug... If I don't take off immediately from the carrier, my wingman (somehow) just falls off the front of the carrier into the sea (creating a huge splash over the bow of the ship), but strangely, is still sat behind me on the carrier. If I take off immedaitely, he joins me in the air, no problem, but I have literally seconds to prepare my cockpit for takeoff to prevent this, but I'm more concerened with the cold starts being "broken" and the mission starting in the F10 map with no way to get into the jet...

It's brilliant. Easily my favourite jet. A lot to learn, and a bitch to master, but very rewarding. The learning curve is STEEP! but very rewarding once you start to get the hang of it. Highly recommended. The only downside is if you don't have rudder pedals, you kinda need them for VSTOL Ops., just like flying a chopper. If you don't have any, get some, it's worth the £100 or so investment as it adds another layer of immersion.

Are you aware of the AV-8B/Tarawa bug? it's "broken" any Harrier mission that starts cold and dark on the Tawara (Inc. training missions). it was fine a couple of weeks ago, so something in the last 2 or 3 updates has broken it. The problem being that when you click "fly mission", the mission starts on the F10 menu, with no way of being able to get into the jet, and even if you change the mission to a hot/air start, it just freezes. Please fix soon, the AV-8B is pointless without carrier ops.

Cheers. It only seems to happen for a cold and dark start. I think a hot start works OK. It definitely worked before the last 2 updates (Open Beta).

I've been having problems in the last few days with some Harrier training missions (For example, the main Carrier Ops mission) and some of my own SP missions. They were working fine a couple of weeks ago, so I can only assume it's due to a recent update. What happens is that I load the mission, click "Fly", but when I do, the mission starts, but it's in F10 map view and I can't get into the cockpit. I read on another thread that this has been common in MP for a while and the workaround is to click "esc", then select spectator, try cycling those a couple of times, then re-selecting the Harrier. I've tried this with the training missions/SP missions, but when you press "esc", there's no option to select different views or units. Can anybody help? thanks in advance.

ISSUE RESOLVED! Thank you. I forgot that there's an extra step involved the first time you add a modifier (from the actual "modifier" menu option, and not the "modifier" option box on the key mapping menu). I spent an hour trying to resolve this the other night. I don't remember doing this extra step when mapping the SU-27 a couple of days ago, so it stumped me. Turns out I was just being dizzy, thank you!

Anyone? Anything?

I recently bought a VR headset, so I needed to map all controls to my Warthog hotas Throttle/Stick (due to not being able to see the keyboard). I went through the SU-27 controls and managed to add a modifier (pinkie lever on stick) as a "keyboard shift" button to allow me to map twice as many buttons, but when I went to duplicate the controls on the SU-33, it won't let me add a modifier. Is there a workaround? like maybe editing some file or something? It seems ridiculous that you can add a modifier to the SU-27, but not the SU-33 :( (I prefer flying the SU-33 over the SU-27, because I like carrier ops)

I freshly installed DCS a month or so ago, it's the latest stable build, I've been flying the Harrier a lot recently so have just come back the the Hornet. When I enter the cockpit, my view is zoomed right in to the dashboard, so as I zoom out to make it normal again, it gets to a certain distance away and flicks me right back to being zoomed right in. This happens every few seconds, making it unflyable. I've checked my bindings, and I haven't changed anything since I flew it last, but I cannot fathom it out, any ideas? All my other modules seem to work fine :/

Ah, Brilliant! I edited the .lua just as you advised, and it fixed the issue. Many thanks for your speedy reply/solution! Also, thanks for the workaround tip about copying to the "saved games\DCS\Missions\..." folder, that hadn't occured to me... I'm assuming this'll be patched out soon. As for the Training tutorial mission No.16, ah OK, I know there are a couple more tutorials to come, incl. night ops, countermeasures, etc, so that'll probably be one of them. Again, many thanks for your speedy reply. I think you also helped me when I was having TACAN problems a month or so ago, it's very much appreciated.

Any ideas why there's no Training mission 15 and 16 on my system? I'm running the latest stable version of the game, and it was a fresh install a couple of weeks ago, I haven't messed with it at all, but I'm missing the dumb bomb tutorial training mission(s) No.15, as well as whatever No.16 is. Any ideas on what to do? I've just downloaded Baltic Dragon's latest training files, No 15 is in there, and on my computer in the correct folder, but when I load the game, neither Training Mission 15 or 16 are in there. Am I doing something wrong? (How come Baltic's file doesnt contain training mission 16). Many thanks in advance.

Many thanks, Ramsay! I guess I just overestimated the capabilities of the TACAN. I just assumed that the TACAN spinning wildly was some kind of bug (as it works with ground targets and A/A refuelling), but I now know that it's normal behaviour for smaller jets. I really appreciate you taking the time to make the video, thank you very much! Incidentally, how do you record the video as you're flying? is it 3rd party software, or do you record .AVI from within the game?

Thanks for your reply, much appreciated. TACAN is turned on, set to A/A, Set to TX/R, set to "On" on ODU and "TACAN" is "BOXED" on EHSD, still no Distance markers, reads 0.0, bearing pointer just spinning round and round. Completely useless. I'll try and get a track file for the carrier thing if I can remember which mission it was that I was doing. I'd very much appreciate it if you could do the Harrier takeoff and Hornet joining up video, I have no idea how to do it without the TACAN working and giving a range. Many thanks for taking the time to reply, it's very much appreciated, thank you.

First of all, apologies for posting on the wrong thread, I'm very new at this and I made a genuine mistake. My Bad, apologies. Moving on... With the greatest of respect, none of you appear to have actually read what I was struggling with. The TACAN steer marker goes round and round in circles, and the distance to TACAN reads at Zero at all times, so what's even the point in giving us TACAN info if we have to rely on spotting them visually, and we have no idea of their bearing? how come the TACAN works fine for (most of) the Air-to-air refuelling missions (Range and bearing) , but not when trying to find other friendly fighters?, when it gives me neither?! My second question may possibly be where the confusion lies, how do you set your own TACAN freq? I can't find anywhere that explains this, it's only explained how to tune INTO a TACAN Freq. So, should I be tuning into 11X or 74X? How do I change what Freq I transmit on? how do I find out? I have not encountered this in any of the training missions, manuals, videos or Chuck's AV-8B guide so far. I'm totally baffled and am seriously getting to the point where I'm ready to give up on this module and ask for a full refund. Secondly, sometimes when trying to land on the carrier, the TACAN symbol is over to my 10 O' clock, but looking out the cockpit window, the Carrier as actually at my 2 O' clock. WTF?!? I'm running a brand new syste, and am running a fresh install of the entire game.

I'm having major problems with A2A TACAN in the Harrier. It seems to work fine for ground targets, and works fine for SOME A2A Targets, but on the latest Air-To-Air training mission, with the missiles it asks you to take off and find the Hornet whish is on TACAN 11x and then it says set your own TACAN to Channel 74X (Eh? how do you do this?!). Anyway, when I set the TACAN to either channel, the tacan bearing pointer on the HUD and EHSI just go nuts, spinning round and round in circles, with no range indication. I've tried everything, yes it's all set up correctly, but it's not working. I'm having the same problem even after completely re-installing DCS World. I've also contacted Razbam and had no reply. Somebody else had the same issue, and as far as I can tell, it wasn't resolved as the people on the thread changed the subject and started talking about which aircraft do and don't have TACAN, etc etc (es, very helpful when the question was specifically related to the Harrier TACAN). I'm pulling my hair out here... any ideas?

Did you ever resolve this? I'm having the exact same problem in the Harrier, even after a completely fresh instal. Contacted Razbam but they have ignored me so far, it's driving me nuts.