unlikely_spider

In real life, if you could look behind you while driving by only turning your head a few degrees... And if you could zoom in 10x to see something far away... You wouldn't want that? Of course you would. Also I'm single-player only, and am not competitive.

Same as you. I have a headset, and use it for things like Half Life, but I much prefer TrackIR for flight sims.

Confirmation that the AI taxi issue is fixed wholesale before I upgrade? I see that note under the F-5 campaign, but does it fix all other campaigns?

Baltic Dragon is a victim of his own success - his campaigns are so good that people can't get enough of them. I'm also eagerly awaiting the Harrier campaign, but am in the Mirage at the moment. Anyone who hasn't done that yet, and has the M-2000c, should. It is so good, as expected. The bad thing is that it's hard to go back to the other sim because of how cinematic the campaigns here are, like all of Baltic Dragon's.

Weird

Looks great. Do we know if any single player content is imminent? That's where my interest lies.

Nope, none.

Mission 4 - on the radios I can hear myself talking but not the flight we're supposed to join on WP3? Any ideas? I've tuned to channel 3 on both red and green. Edit again - just played again and it works fine - I had to be on Green 3 and Red 1. I was confused by the "training" tag that the Red channel 3 had in the briefing.

Not in campaigns or missions. Aren't those all still broken because of AI taxiing?

Depends on what you mean by "budget", but CH Products sticks are a good mix of price and functionality. Light touch for helicopters, and good button layout that matches many modern fighters.

The D2M light under the RWR display is always blinking for me. In the manual it says: "When blinking, indicates that the system is powered but not ready for operation (warm-up)." I have the switch for that in M mode, along with the other countermeasures switches. Is this missile launch detector feature functional? I've completed three missions in the campaign, and it's always blinking throughout, so it's not just during warm-up after startup procedures.

Agreed. I'm still on an older release of OB (before SC) precisely because of this.

I just started for the first time three days ago, because I knew it was coming up in the Mirage campaign, and after practicing an hour per day for three days, I'm 1000x better than I was when I started. It's not impossible by any means. Unless of course you have a physical barrier like Falby above (sorry to hear Falby). But if not, just try a training mission a few times. It will get you better at formation flying and everything else probably too. And it will make sure you are comfortable with your curves if you have any set up.

I thought the G-sync was supposed to prevent tearing.

You've got an Nvidia card - you can limit your FPS via Nvidia Control Panel. For FPSs I like V-Sync, but in flight sims I dislike the input lag that it introduces in TrackIR, and thus run with it off.

So I just used the awesome Skate Zilla updater utility to roll back to 2.5.6.47404, and I get comms in mission 1 as soon as I connect ground power, battery, and radios on. I haven't tested further than that though. (I'm new to the utility and am amazed how easy that makes it to switch between versions)

I was just going to start this campaign :( Do I need to roll back to the previous OB build, before SC?

Weird - not for me. Do you have any mods? (also I'm on the OB)

Seems quite useful to me... Assuming that the target is directly below you. And within 5000 feet.

I agree more campaigns should have that option. However Baltic Dragon already said that the upcoming F-18 campaign will have it.

Well, now that was easy. (Had to download 25 GB of data, but it launched the OB afterwards with all of my settings intact). Also, I had to delete the Civil Aircraft Mod. What a great utility though. I got tired of waiting for all of the campaign/training bugs to be fixed on stable, so I'll see how the OB works. So far it seems great. I'm not using VR at the moment though, but TrackIR seems smooth, and a quick Instant Action test flight on Persian Gulf with the Mirage runs smooth at my capped 98 FPS.

If I do this, will my keybindings be reset?

For what it's worth, I'm on stable and I just used the NTTR Cold Startup from the link in the first post, and it is accurate regarding the radios, unlike the one that currently ships with stable.

The free Grenzland and Larkin Aviation Huey campaigns are also very well done, better for beginners (Grenzland first), and have lighter transit times. I did those before Argo, and it was worth it in that order.