johnan

Ah, I haven't tried that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Once you have a missile locked onto a target, is there a keyboard command to bring up a view of the object being tracked? I know F7 cycles through ground targets, but I would like to see, to identify, the actual one I am aiming at. Bit of a cheat really but it would save missiles being used on not so important targets. I thought F8 might be the command but it does nothing when pressed.(in my setup anyway)

Thanks again for being so helpful, I really do appreciate it as the manual is so daunting, although I realise the importance of reading it and trying to understand it. This sim is not to be taken lightly and I want to do it justice and devote the time to it that it deserves. Your help has made things clearer in areas that were bothering me. Much appreciated!

Thanks again! Yes, I agree about the need to learn how to land and having to do that to re-supply is a good way to discipline yourself into practising landing. I have found the comms key "\" is not recognised when pressed on my keyboard when in the sim so I have had to re-assign it to get the comms menu to appear and hence allow re-supply.

I checked and the mission I referred to is not the "shooting gallery" one, but the one in the "training" section about weapon usage, which does not seem to have a miz file, only trk, and so can not be edited as the shooting gallery one can be. Anyway I have learnt a bit about the sim which is useful!

Thank you very much for your help and patient reply. I will do as you suggest.:thumbup:

I noticed the ammo running out first in the training mission that shows the use of the various weapons, even with the unlimited box ticked. I gather by the replies that I am alone in having this anomaly and will try again to see what I am doing wrong, unless the training mission in question has a built in ammo limit, which I think would be a little unhelful!

While training I like to use unlimited weapons but I find that although I have "ticked" the box for unlimited ammo and asked for the option to be used in all flights, I still run out of any weapon I use. I thought it was happening post patch but I sacrificed one of my deactivations to reinstall the original version 1.0 and found the unlimited ammo option isn't working in that version either. Am I alone in this or have others found the same, and is it computer related (OS) or a bug?