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Not Hornet specific, but one of the best sources out there: Fighter Combat by Robert L. Shaw. Not the cheapest book on Amazon (i think ~50$), but worth every cent. Spectrum Holobyte... Those were the days!

ECM hasn't been implemented yet and comes later in early access. If you set the dispenser to ON, you can only deploy CM after selecting a specific program on your EW page. Select your EW page on one of the DDI's and check the Status of the ALE-47, wich should be on standby. Press mode to cycle through the different modes. For now only Manual works, Auto and Semi are not implemented yet. So press mode 1x to bring up MAN 1. 1 means, that there is program 1 selected. To cycle between programs, select the ALE-47 by pressing the specific button on the DDI and then press the STEP button wich should now be marked on the DDI. If you want to change the programs (set the number of flares and chaffs that shall be dispensed), press ARM on the DDI. Now you can adjust your CM programs. If you want to deploy just a single chaff/flare, you have to set the Dispenser to BYPASS. Cheers

Just a rather stupid question. Why not contacting TM support and ask for replacement cables/parts? TM has a superb customer support. Just open the throttle, check what parts you'll need and email them. They will ship them for a reasonable price. I´d prefer that over the electrical tape solution, just my 2 cents...

I suffer the same issue and have DCS installed on a (rather fast) SSD. By my experience SSD does not help with ingame performance, only with loading speed. Also the GTX 1650 isn't the best GFX card to play DCS, yes, but this is for sure not the reason why his GPU usage drops to 0% and then goes up again. I suffer this in SP after playing for like an hour or two, in MP a bit faster (or immediatly after beeing shot down). My FPS is at stable 60-65 in MP and then drops to 1 with my GPU usage dropping to 0% in tandem. Then it goes back to normal, just to drop again after like 10-20 seconds. The sim turns unplayable and however only rebooting my pc helps for me.

I'm addicted to military flight sims for more than 25 years now, but tbh i have never heard of bugeye technologies. Just checked their homepage and they seem to have some nice high quality stuff, especially the Hornet D and F throttle for the WSO seem to fit my needs. But this all looks like professional/commercial grade hardware propably in the 1000€+ price range, + shipping from the US to germany. Same for the Typhoon HOTAS, propably an excellent piece of hardware. But as you said, there is a reason why Reiser and Bugeye don't list the price online. That stuff is made in USA/Germany, not in China. I'd have no pain with spending 500 or 600€ + shipping for an excellent Hornet throttle replica, but the Bugeye throttle will most likely be double the price. The legacy Hornet is my all time favorite fighter jet and i'm a bit frustrated of not having a Hornet throttle replica while other lucky ppl can gladly enjoy their Winwing hotas, but not enough yet to get something in the (assumed) Bugeye Tech price range... But still, thank you very much for your effort. At least it gave me some hope, that there are options for me to get one some day. I saved the Bugeye homepage to my favorites, who knows... cheers

Yes, i know about the Winwing throttle and i'd love to get it. But sadly it will never fit into my simrig, no matter what i try. I even considered weilding a DIY solution, but it's simply impossible to make it fit because the throttle is too tall. I already accepted the fact that there will be no Hornet throttle for me and i have to stick with the mid-class WH throttle for each aircraft. It was just some upcoming hope after reading your post about a Realsimulator throttle beeing in developement... Well, at least i can expect one for flying the Viper. That's nice too.

Makes sense though. I'd prefer a Hornet replica throttle, but a Viper throttle is very welcome too. It hopefully will fit Warthog throttle mounts...

Hello everyone, Since the update that implemented the option to place neutral units, i have a weird problem with the mission points for triggers in the ME. I didn't find anyhing via forum search about this issue yet, so i just open a new thread. If i set a trigger i.e. "mission points higher than" and choose red, blue or offline, it always says "unknown" instead of the choosen point type in the trigger text. Only if i choose neutral, it shows neutrals in the trigger text. This issue only occurs for triggers, for mission tasks, choosing red, blue or offline works as intended. For old missions, crafted prior to the update, where this type of trigger has been set, it still shows red, blue or offline in the trigger text, but not the type of mission point in the selection field. This has direct impact on the missions, as the triggers don't work anymore. Just for clarification... "Blau" = blue in german and "Unbekannt" means unknown:

May i ask what kind of throttle? Hornet replica?

Versuch doch mal 4Players.de. Da hatten wir damals unsere Battlefield 2+3 Server gemietet. Waren damals nicht die billigsten, aber der Service war erste Sahne. Ich glaube mich zu erinnern, dass ein 32 Slot Bf2 Server um die 95€/Monat gekostet hat. Allerdings hat 4Players 24/7 Kundensupport (Zumindest war es damals so, ist schon über 10 Jahre her), also wenn morgens um 3 Uhr dein Server down ist, sofort anrufen und Störung melden. Innerhalb von ner halben Stunde war das jedesmal erledigt, ganz selten hats mal länger gedauert. Gruß

Nein, das geht nur im Missions Editor. Bei FC3 Flugzeugen bist du darauf angewiesen, dass derjenige der die (Multiplayer-) Mission erstellt hat auch Wegpunkte für FC3 Flugzeuge gesetzt hat. Ansonsten bleibt nur Karte-Kompass ;)

I installed the stick in the perfect position to operate it comfortable while beeing completely leaned back into the seat. In order to make this work, i had to reduce the X and Y axis deflection to 50% via DCS axis settings. 100% deflection with an extension that big on the WH base isn't realistic anyways. With both X and Y axis deflection set to 50% i do now have full deflection nose up exactly when the stick touches the seat and nose down when i'm leaned back and my right arm is fully stretched. This way i have a soft detent at 100% nose up and ~25mm from the grip to my mfd mount at 100% nose down. For rolling left and right, i have full deflection as soon as the grip touches my legs. The stick is still significant more precise and as a side effect this prevents the WH gimbal from beeing damaged. I center mounted the stick half a year ago and it works great. edit: Maybe i should mention that only the straight part of the extension combo hits the chair.

May i ask where you got it from?

I took the Virpil curved extension and attached it on top of an additional straight extension, so i have 35cm in total. Works great for me, but had to switch the original spring for Sahajs blue one.

Have you considered selective jettision + station select?

I misread that, my fault. But still, on one hand you're saying standalone is better because one avoids the steam cut and on the other hand you're calling it an advantage that one can buy modules on the steam shop as well with standalone. And then again have the 20 or 30% steam cut? Where is the point? If you buy standalone to support ED, you should not take advantage of the opportunity to buy from steam at the same time. That would be a little bit two faced, wouldn't it? You could just delete your standalone install and stay completely with steam, no difference at all. Another advantage of steam in general is IMO, that steam does not require any reinstalls after reinstalling windows or getting a new PC. Plug in your Steam SSD and all games will run without having to reinstall them. I'm using the same steam install for like 6 or 7 years now. And within that time frame, i upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10, reinstalled windows several times after getting a new SSD etc. and i never had to reinstall Steam (or any containing apps/games) for a single time. Just double click the steam.exe, steam will create a new registry entry on it's own and every game will run as before. I can copy paste my Steam install to a different SSD and it will perfectly work. I could even unplug my Steam SSD, go to a friend and plug my SSD into his PC, start the Steam install on my SSD and it will run on his PC without any issues. Try that with a standalone installation and report the result. You can turn it how you want, literally steam has only advantages over standalone. ED would not be the first software studio that sells more copies on steam than standalone.

That's great news to me. So if i would order a new T-50CM2 base, let's say in 10 minutes, i will get one with the redesigned cams?

1.) Are you sure? I think i can transfer my steam modules to the standalone anytime and have both versions, but not vice versa. 2.) The ED miles almost completely equals the price difference for single modules on steam. At least here, and i'm in central europe and by far not in a 3rd world country. I don't see any advantage here Excuse me? For me (and i guess a lot of others) ED is a software developer as any other. I love DCS and wish ED all the best, but i play dozens of other games (and also other sims) and if ED shall ever fail economically, then it shall be and it will have various reasons. But for sure not because ppl have purchased their modules on steam instead of standalone.

I wanted to get a T-50CM2 base to replace my center mounted WH base as well, but the issue about non symetrical cam forces made me scratch that. I don't want to use more force rolling to the left, than rolling to the right. The T50-CM2 cam shape is a design flaw. I don't know if VPC already redesigned the cams that come with the T-50CM2. At least i haven't seen any reviews yet, but have to admit that i rarely visit the VPC forum.

Supporting ED is literally the only real "advantage" the standalone version comes with. That's why you won't find any other arguement for the standalone version than the "steam takes 20% of your money" thing. Besides that, DCS has 10.000 reviews on steam, means Steam draws a lot of people to DCS and ED benefits massively from steam, even while steam takes 20%. So no one needs to feel as if he's not supporting ED if purchasing modules on steam. I started DCS with FC3 on Steam in 2014 and never had any real disadvantages compared to the standalone version. Discounts sometimes come a bit delayed, but they always come. Only very few updates had a 1 or 2 day delay. 99% of all updates come without any delay. The most important thing for me is download speed. I have a 1000Mbit connection and i'm downloading DCS updates via steam with full speed. The update from 2.5.5 to 2.5.6 was 10GB wich took me 100 seconds to download. Exaggerated, even with a 1 day delay, my download is finished before most people with standalone finished their downloads. Standalone download speed is total crap compared to steam. If you're unhappy with a module, refund on steam is a walk in the park. afaik, Steam decides about it and the game developer has no right of co-decision. And steam always decides in favor to the customer (at least that's my experience). edit: another advantage is switching between open beta and stable version. With steam there is no need for 2 installations if you want to use both. switching between both versions is a simple click on a button. Long story short: purchasing standalone version is better for ED, purchasing steam version is better for you.

I use the WarBRD base as sidestick with the Warthog grip on top without extension, heavy springs installed and it is very flippy floppy compared to the WH. Mostly related to the heavy WH grip, but also with one of the VPC plastic grips it is much softer than the WH base. And it recenters perfectly so i stick with that setup. I also purchased the extra heavy springs for the WarBRD base and they make it a bit more comparable to the WH, but still significant softer IMO. I liked the heavy spring setup better, so i switched back. Tested the base also with the soft springs and the WH grip on top and the stick struggles to perfectly recenter (It does, but it is floppy as hell). The heavy springs and 75mm extension + WH grip worked, but was very floppy. Tested this as well. I guess the extra heavy springs should be okay for a 100mm extension with the WH grip, in terms of stiffness i would assume its pretty much comparable to the setup i use.

This demands for the stable to actually be stable. No bugs, no performance issues and only beeing updated if the update is 100% bug free and will do nothing except enhancing the sim. No new bugs, no non-worked out features. If thats the case, i can live with an update cycle of a few months. As long as there is significant progress on the early access modules with each update. Waiting 3 months for a Hornet update to get i.e. only a new launch mode for the HARM is not enough. Waiting 3 months for a Hornet update wich then implements i.e. all AG-Radar modes feature complete and absolutely bug free to the stable, would be an acceptable progress and reasonable QA when waiting that long for updates.

Thank you for the update.

You got me wrong. I'm not argueing against stable. I'm argueing against the advice to go to stable if one doesn't like the bugs, as there is basically no significant difference to OB.

No, wrong. People paying money for modules create cash flow wich is necessary to keep the company vital. And i for myself have decided to stop that, until the Hornet and the F-16 are both truly feature complete and there are no significant bugs and performance issues left in the stable release version. I planned to dip my toes into helicopters with the coming hind and into the WW2 part with the recently EA released channel map. Scratched both and will wait for all modules to be completed. Not out of EA, but truly feature complete. And if more and more ppl decide like that, ED will get into serious trouble although releasing one module after another. Can you even name 10 significant bugs in the OB, wich are NOT existant in the stable version? If not, the "go to stable version" argument is invalid. In fact it isn't an argument at all then, just a sign of having no clue.