jaylw314

Yeah, tough to get by in DCS on anything without curves on most consumer joysticks, unless you have stick extensions of some kind

LOL, I'm okay for now, until they introduce the FCR, then my HOTAS will go into a corner a silently cry

Aside from being generally not recommended, the parking brake also disables anti-skid, so it will actually take longer to stop.

It changes to ALT, but if the LAAP is still engaged, it won't change until you disengage and reengage it.

I'm starting to think you're trolling here, and your English is too good to chalk it up to some kind of language barrier, but I'll give it one more try. The DCS function is called "Coolie Hat Left". That function can be bound to any key or button. By default, it's bound to the keyboard 'H'. So if you press and hold 'H' for more than 1 second on your initial image with the TAD on the left MFCD, you should see the TAD become SOI. You appear to have "LCtrl + POV1 left" also bound to "Coolie Hat Left." So if you press and hold LCtrl and POV1-left on your joystick together for more than 1 second, you will get the same effect. Your lack of the Thrustmaster HOTAS is irrelevant. The names of the switches refer to the functions in DCS, not the switches on your controller.

Looking at your video and reading your response, it is not clear to me that you have read any of the other responses from others. At least 4 people so far have mentioned to you that SOI is selected by pressing the keybind for Coolie Hat Left or Right long.

In thinking about how people learn, that does work, but it's not very robust. Think of it this way--you NEED to learn how to completely lose where you want to be and how to recover. If the tanker starts turning, for example, you quickly have to shift your pitch, bank and power to aggressively return to position. Keeping sight of the BIG references helps you do that, but keeping the numbers and throttle/stick position don't.

I don't think focusing on the velocity vector is a good idea. It's just not sensitive enough to show small changes in vertical motion during formation flight. Even a couple pixels up or down is a significant vertical speed. It's kind of like how in primary pilot training students tend to look at the artificial horizon to control their pitch and roll. It's just not precise enough to adjust attitude by a couple degrees. They should be looking at the REAL horizon, which is much more precise.

If you short-press 'H' or 'K' it should cycle the left and right MFCD pages, respectively. If they don't, you've borked your keybinds somehow. If you select a TAD, MAV or TGP page on the MFCD, then press the highlighted OSB on the bottom row, it should make that page SOI. In your first image, that means pressing the highlighted "TAD" OSB on the left MFCD. If it does not, you've borked your install somehow. If both the above do happen, you have some major operator error

Those can only be done by the ground crew, so there is no keybind. You have to use the comms menu. I spoke with someone who worked on A-10's, and he said the pilots should not extend the boarding ladder, the ground crew should. I suspect they're worried about the ladder getting damaged from dropping

AFAIK the canopy is on an essential electric bus that does not require the battery switch to be on. There's an external canopy switch next to the boarding ladder.

With the battery on and no APU, the UHF radio works (the VHF radios do not). With the APU and APU GEN on, all radios work As mentioned above, with the canopy open, you can still bring up the comms menu with the any comms keybind and request from the ground crew.

Pinky switch is a 3-way switch on the throttle forward - Default lights (position on solid, strobes off). lighting controls disabled center - all lights off aft - Lights according to controls If you want strobes on or position lights flashing, you need it in the aft position, the controls don't work in the other two positions. I can't remember if formation lights are included in the forward position

Ooooh, I see, sorry to butt in on the conversation The A-10 is MUCH better at CAS, not just better. The priority goal of CAS is not to blow up bad guys, but to AVOID blowing up friendlies. As such, the ability to see EPLRS beacons on the A-10 give you worlds more SA than the Hornet. Likewise, the ability to stay on station long enough to build up SA of where the good guys and bad guys are is something the Hornet will always have less of. Even after you're out of weapons, you can be a tremendous asset to other flights by staying on station, since you have built up the SA to help others avoid blowing up friendlies. In DCS, A-10's will practically never refuel because of the small theaters and time limitations, but IRL would be a different story

'Rudel"?? brrt CBU-97's APKWS better HMCS endurance/less refueling helping guys on the ground

Good point, the 'Make HTML' can also be accessed by clicking on the dropdown arrow next to each controller name

It's not clear if this is the specific reason, but people have gotten the "GUN UNSAFE" warning before. I've never seen it myself

It is always at the bottom of the screen in the settings->controls tab (or pick Adjust Controls from the ESC menu in game)

Many thanks for that, I've had the first version for a long time but didn't realize it got updated!

I'm not sure, but I suspect they mainly do that because the wings are NOT self-sealing, they're just integral fuel tanks, unlike the fuselage tanks, so you don't want to get shot at until the wing tanks are empty. 'I don't always get shot at. But when I do, I prefer empty wing tanks.'

There's a float shutoff switch in the wing tanks when they're empty

click on "Make HTML". It will put all the devices' bindings in html format in your Saved games folder in InputLayoutsTxt

Random bits of info I've gleaned: Mode 1 is a 2 digit (octal) code Mode 2 & 3 are 4 digit (octal) codes Mode 3/A gives no altitude info, Mode 3/C sends altitude info Mode 4 is encrypted. Presumably, you only have two preset Mode 4 codes, A & B which the code dial selects. Apparently these codes go bye-bye on power loss, so you set it to HOLD before shutting down if you are keeping the codes There's also Mode S that can only be controlled by the MFCD COMM page No idea when Mode 1, 2 and 4 are used. Mode 3 & S are universally used in civilian aircraft, EMER sets the Mode 3 code to 7700 and the Mode 1 & 2 to codes on the MFCD IFF page that we don't have. Among other things, ejecting also automatically sets it to EMER (handy). Edit: typo, Modes 2 & 3 are 4 digits, not 5 digits

Note the last line in the description from page 147

What, do you mean this dial from page 148 of the manual?