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Great to know, thank you!

Amazing, thank you. I had bound an axis to the rotor brake - added a 5% dead zone and it started right up.

Hello, I am having trouble getting the Mi-8 to start. The green light next to the start button won't turn on, and the engine needles won't move. Things I have tried (in order) [Primer] - Disable 3rd party add-ons - Repair DCS World [Failed Starts] - Follow normal start procedure - Re-start DCS, attempt an Auto-Start [Win + Home] - Re-start DCS, Mi-8 training mission - Cold Start + Re-start DCS, switch to Mi-24P with normal start procedure [success!] I am at a bit of a loss on how to proceed. Any recommendations?

Thank you, that was helpful! I must have missed it somewhere, but the L2MUMs system appears incompatible with the AN/ALQ-144 IRCM. The latter is installed, then the L2MUMs system be will a black screen.

Hello, Is it possible to add discrete control inputs for: Bomb Doors - Up Bomb Doors - Neutral Bomb Doors - Down Gear - Up Gear - Neutral Gear - Down Flaps - Up Flaps - Neutral Flaps - Down

Been loving the Kiowa, and a minor note/bug. I have an encoder mapped to the Altimeter Pressure Set, and each increment on the encoder only changes the QNH by ~0.001 in Hg. If means if starts at 29.92 and you need to go to 30.31, it's about 390 clicks to get to the correct base pressure. (I'm not crazy enough to do that)

Hello, I setup a practice mission with a target range, and the L2MUMs does not seems to work (screen is black). I have no issue getting it to work in the missions supplied by Polychop. Is there an option in the Mission Editor I am missing?

Finally reached feature complete after a little more than four years of part- part- time effort.

Life has been very busy the last year (wow!). I haven't bee able to document progress very well, but progress has been made. The switch layout is on its third and hopefully final iteration. Panel bases have changed from plastic (prototype) into mirror finish aluminum. This is nearing final iteration and will post some more in the coming months. null null

Some larger pieces are finally coming together. Almost ready to begin fabrication, complete F-18 font family built from scratch (sourced from actual F-18 imagery), and narrowing in on paint selection after running through 8 candidates (optimize ease of application, no sanding, and durable).

I've been impressed with the general quality and function of the router. Some high-level pro's and con's General - It has a serious learning curve, with probably 3-6 months needed to fully wrap your head around it capabilities and good technique - Very capable in soft materials (wood/plastic), but at its limit with aluminum....you really need to be dialed with the tool to have good results - As always, good cutters from solid carbide are worth the investment - While Shaper does sell a base, I found it necessary to make own to really get the most out of the tool (see above). Fixture building for part cutting seems to be a routine need in projects. Pro's: - Robust design from hardware to software. Probably the best example is that there is no shutdown procedure, just yank out the power cord whenever you are done. It remembers where you were and what you did. Really thoughtful design for work environments where circuit breakers trip without warning. - Good general accuracy in X-Y plane (part edges), though it does take a good understanding of referencing and datums. - Outstanding accuracy in depth and small features (e.g. holes) - it nails the transition in fits from press->slip->loose Con's - 2D only, it's best to think of it as a free-form water jet or laser cutter that's not bound by spatial requirements, and you have a cutter to determine the path profile - 3D is not really a feature limit: you can easily offset paths per depth, or with datums it's possible rapidly and accurately place varying contours with different depths - 3D is really limited by human hours (you have to walk it through every pass) and the router supports its mass directly on the work piece, so it would start to get unstable if you made a topographic map (as an example). - From above, the router support its mass on the work piece and will scratch more polished/finished surfaces if they are soft.

Since this is a generalized cockpit, there are no specific switch layouts to follow. Starting with the all-important CAD prototype (Ref: Project Binky), panel sizes and layouts are on a third revision and getting close enough to start moving towards design and fabrication of the frames.

After quite a few months, the seat is complete:

The font was made from scratch, using a pseudo telecentric image of the F/A-18 panel I posted above. Letters were cropped and calibrated based on size and then imported into a Font Builder where they were drawn/digitized one letter at a time (sample below). So I am not sure how directly the font features we've built will translate to the MS33558 font. Also, as with all things hobby.....it's not finished yet! I have some sources for numbers, but would like them to be better.