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Pls advise correct location to find & store skins for the B-17? I see screenshots of basic livery B-17s but theres only one default ai skin on mine, which is v nice and shiny metal but I want a wave of drab olive green ones to shoot.

Its sorted, I had a second controller doubling up as a trimmer on the same axes as the jystk. Once they were cleared it was back to normal again.

Is it me or has the pilot trim control changed recently in teh Huey? I used to be able to lock joystick settings x,y and z-axis with a trim button mapped on my hotas hat, now all it locks is the rudder twist?

Done - loving the recent free month of fun gesture but I have money to buy things and you wont take it!

Sadly the above info was too complex for me to implement. I have installed new SSD and copy/pasted all teh Eagle dynamics folder & files over to it. Now I also want to move all the DCS stuff in the 'yourname' > savedgames > dcs.openbeta folder, but its location will be referenced within the game, so is there a way I can tell DCS that I moved all the savedgame content (about 20gb)?

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Im sure this is prob in wrong section so apolagies in advance, did not know where else to post. So I ran out of space on my SSD boot disk, bought a new larger ssd to house dcs stuff. Have moved over all the main root directory Eagle dynamics stuff tot eh new drive now want to also move about 20 gig of the username>saved games>dcs.openbets folders to same drive, but how will dcs be able to recognise Ive moved all those files & folders? Is there some way it needs to be told where to look for all the saved game content?

@Zappa that is really cool, next step - complete custom cockpit?! Hers the start of my mapping on the Korg Nano for the F-18

this one: But it just covers his stock panel profile

I took everything out and reinstalled following your video instructions step by step, and it works fine now, thanks!

Brilliant - I came across this earlier after a few frustrating hours trying to get other jstk emulators working under Win 10, this guys github and script got it working pretty easily, now I have 8 sliders, 8 knobs and 35 push buttons to play with along wiht the 12 on my hotas joystick. Best thing for me is a rotary knob for rudder trim, a decent slider for view zoom (my hotas rocker was falling apart) and I need to decide what to do with the rest now ;)

@Zappa : Would love to make use of my Korg NanoKontrol2 for extra buttons & sliders in DCS, but cannot get freepie to recognise the controller.

HI, I created an F-18c dashboard using just the AMPCD and the left DDI, both screens and surrounds show up fine but I cant get any of the buttons to work. I checked the install and the lua scripts were all in the right place as per your dialog in the first post, but nothing seems wrong and there are no errors in the dcs log after exiting a mission. How can I get th ebuttons working please?

Now that is useful - thanks for sharing

INstall didnt work for me, I had to copy the lua file from the chinese pit and edit it to get the ENG dds files to workedit

Thx - I read the thread from the real ex-yak guy, but I just like to tinker...

Just found this: They changed the procedure of how to operate the MK108 to a more realistic behavior. After you armed the guns, you have to press the MK108 safety button on the stick, you will hear a "whoosh" sound until it's "loaded". The MK108 is pneumatic, so the airpressure must be "charged". Yep, new procedure without any notice in the Update Notes. Button on the stick is not clickable with the mouse either (at least I could not find the spot for it) Default key assignment is LAlt + SPACE for the Control option: CHARGE MK 108 (D)

How about cannons? I see no option to arm cannons in a server mission or own created mission. Cannons only seem to work in the base tutorials/instant action

I only have 23gb left on my SDD where DCS World is installed, but want to get another terrain - Normandy - needing 60 Gb. I have 150Gb left on my HD, can I install the map on the HD and access it from the game running on the SDD? Dont really want to buy it unless I know I can install it ok.

thanks, works nicely, what would you tweak for the rolling resistance? mainWheelRollFricK = 0.022 mainWheelGlideFricK = 0.69

theres also LAlt+comms key to use radio commands, and LCtrl + comms key - give them a try or remap in options

Appreciate this post, I thought radar was broken or settings were incorrect when I couldnt even detect a bomber 20-30 miles ahead of me with me chasing it. At least I know its limitations now; after installing the radar graphics fix I thought I'd broken something.

Whats with this civil airplane park on the west coast?

You can find the cockpit texture dds file in the mods/aircraft/a-4e/cockpit/textures folder, its part of the zipped textures file a4e_cockpit_boards, called inst_panel.dds. Just add your text or image to this then resave as a dds file.

April fools ;)