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only thing I can think of is if the radio comms menu has popped up, this blocks all keypresses - this will be white text on top right of screen. Click F12 then report back for active duty

check if its wide or narrow view

su-25 is low-fidelity model, not clickable cockpit, keypresses only

do it again, it will toggle .

openbeta 100%, having lots of fun :)

Have you checked out this video? watch from about 4 minutes in, probably one of the clearest and most helpful videos about programming the Saitek software, and applicable to all saitek controllers - it will give you a really good idea of what functions you can program in with just the saitek software. Anything else more complicated, as Ant0ine says, will need joystick gremlin and a virtual joystick setup.

DCS key press assignments do not have the capability I'm afraid. Only if a certain action has a select up / select down option like gear and flaps, etc. can you then assign these to a toggle up/toggle down

I concurr. Fixed :)

Guys - thanks both - thats really useful :) Listening and asking is the key to learning. :)

@ADHS - thats neat, but not sure I can get my head round your post, can you give an example in use?

SOmething I found helped, just practice flying at about 135 - 140 kts, nose up using trim on POV hat to gently stabilise, no joystick input. Balance the rate of descent with v small movements on the throttle. Get used to the feeling when it is stable and you can just nudge up/down with the pov hat and throttle. Allow it time to settle before over-inputting a correction.

the logitech program still allows setup of 'macros' to execute any number of set keystrokes, so for example I have one for F-18 carrier landings where a single button press puts flaps n full, extends hook, turns on landing lights and extends landing gear. These can be programmed in via 'New advanced command' option. You can also select - unprogrammed- for every button/rotary mouse, in the logitech program if you wish. Then it will be DCS keybind entries that will control the input.

Soz- in addition to the standard autopilot functions you then have the altitude mode or speed mode, which allows you to hold one while varying the other with the collective.

I set up a basic farm with no ground units, and a helo parked, but mine crashed as soon as i asked for rearm / refuel

Anyone lasing for LG-Mk82's - you having to reset the laser arm after each drop, and rehitting the Trig button on the MFD? Didnt do that before, which is correct and which is a bug? Firing Mavs via T-pod needs no reset of Laser arm or trig.

I have the old SST programming and current Logitech s/ware but cannot see where you can use a toggle button in this way? I was trying to get a button to step incrementally through keypresses 1 to 7 for the FC3 craft, but it wont do this, I assigned instead to 7 bands on a rotary axis. Some of the DCS commands have option for 'step up' / 'step down' through options for a rotary knob, and these can then easily be assigned to a toggle button up or down. You just assign the correct DCS keypresses to the toggle in the Saitek s/ware

Well I think its starting to make more sense now. Master power on buttons for trim and autopilot kept on all the time. Mag Brake switch on , trim hold on pinkie trigger (X52) works just like the Huey, which is perfect. In addition you can nudge the trim making very small corrections/adjustments with the POV Hat switch. Autopilot normal mode is stability assist, just let it do its thing. The autopilot switch on the stick then acts as an 'attitude hold' to hold a bank angle or pitch. When it is released, you can feel the Gazelle coming back upder the controls of the stability assist, righting itself to a stable position.

With the Mag Brake on, I get the 'usual' Huey-type trim response when I press the trim button I mapped to my X52. It 'sticks' the controls where I set them. Now if I use the POV Hat trim it nudges the trim position very slightly L, R, U, D but not enough to affect the flight of the aircraft. This nudging seems to happen (on the control position display) whether or not I have the master trim button on.

I get same crash to desktop asking for rearm at an airport - huey or Gazelle, doesnt need to be a farp

I struggled with this for ages, and am still struggling to grasp the logic in these control systems. There is a master autopilot on/off switch on the dashboard, this activates the SAS, then there is the autopilot button on the stick, which turns autopilot on and off as needed (but you need autopilot master switch on to do anything). How that differs to the trim and mag brake is something thats still evading me. The autopilot should self-engage at >120 kmh anyway, so what does the little autopilot sick button actually do, and how should it be used correctly? Its almost as if this whole helicopter was designed by French people ;)

Is it just me or did they change something in the Gazelle or DCS last beta update? I can no longer see the position of any of the cockpit switches. Its all just black! - edit - did an update/repair and its gone back to normal again :/

It was too funny to correct, seeing it gently sliding off into the shrubbery :D

I attacked a V1 launch ramp this morning with a Huey and it ran off into the woods. Made me laugh.

OK good advice, only mine is 35 gb at moment as i store all my extra liveries there, so really its just about the setup and config folders, which take up very little space, but as you say are absolutely vital.

do you mean the entire dcsopenbeta folder?