jaylw314

Mountains are a good reason to do the airport->outbound on ILS->procedure turn approach. That way you can stay mostly above the ILS path, which, by definition, shouldn't have a lot of obstacles. It's not perfect, but until we get actually useful ATC in DCS, it should work for most airports. No refunds if you happen to find that one little hill next to the ILS during your procedure turn, though

Even if it existed, the A-10C is too slow for it to be an issue

I'm pretty sure the only way to select a steerpoint by typing in the number of a waypoint is: On the AAP, make sure the STEER PT knob is in MSN (or MARK if you want to select a markpoint) Turn the PAGE knob to STEER. You'll get the STR INFO page on the CDU and/or MFCD Type the waypoint number (or mark point letter) you want, then press the OSB next to the +/- to select it as your current steerpoint

I think the bug happens if you have JDAMs on either the wing or center pylons, even if they aren't in the current program, but I haven't cared to test this

Easy, you can't. You need to type a lower sequence point in the scratchpad and press PB17 on the TPOD if you want to

+1. Not only is the periphery bright, the NVG follows the gaze with eye-tracking, which is definitely not desired or realistic

Known bug, according to RAZBAM discord--if you have JDAMs on the wings or center pylons, pressing XFER can make it disappear. workaround is to cycle through all the stations with NXT STA before transferring coordinates

AOA is displayed in arbitrary "cockpit units" (CPU's), not degrees. If your AOA is about +20, your actual AOA is about 10 degrees IIRC

That depends entirely upon what you're using to measure your altitude. If you're using the altimeter, it then depends entirely on what your altimeter is set to. If it's set to QFE, you don't add the the airport altitude. If it's set to QNH, you do. If it's still set to 29.92, you have some skill issues

Make sure you look in the "Special for Joystick" control layer for A-10CII. There are a number of bindings there helpful for binding non-TM Warthog throttles. In particular, the Left/Right Engine set to OFF needs to be deactivated to move the throttle out of the cutoff position and into idle/start, so that confusingly needs to be bound to something so you can release it.

I can't think of any that don't other than the TWCS? Winwing, TM, Virpil and Saitek all do IIRC?

That's a good point, I forgot the AI ATC can give you that basic vector, I'm so used to it being useless Although 5 nm and 1500' is pretty tight for starting, I'd still think about going outbound first at 2500', especially if there's terrain in the area

To clarify, you need to HOLD the NWS button on the stick to get high gain steering

FWIW, if you have the WW Orion 2 throttle, you should have removable detents, since it doesn't make much sense for the A-10C. While not a game stopper, it makes formation flying annoying sometimes. A word of warning, the screw and nut that hold the detent in place REALLY want to fall into the slots in the base under the throttle arms. Almost impossible to get out unless you flip the throttle base upside down, and I think they're stainless steel so a magnetic pickup doesn't work well. You also need three hands to hold the nut in place while reinstalling the detent. Quick tip is to superglue the nut to the detent to make it MUCH easier to reinstall. Alternatively, you could reduce the X saturation so that full power comes at the afterburner detent, if you're okay with losing the throttle throw above it.

Cockpit flow is cool, even if non-official. I think it's one of those things NASA has been doing research on as an alternative to written checklists in civilian aviation, and given that you don't have a regulatory agency breathing down your neck in DCS, it makes total sense for most sim pilots

Could you just bind it to a ButtonX_OFF so that the Canopy Close command stays on?

My wild speculation is that some of the signal lights themselves might be powered by some of the buses in a way that an interconnect failure would show up with the main gens but not the APU gen, but after trying to figure that out my head exploded so I just left it alone

You posted multiple times, your browser is probably slow In the F-15E you have a bunch of options: You can use these as alternatives to the slider setting. If you set the IDLE and OFF bindings to buttons, it will prevent the slider from controlling the engine state, AFAIK. Note that depending on the joystick, you can set IDLE to buttonX and OFF to buttonX_OFF or vice versa

There isn't anything to learn. ILS are not used for guidance to the airport area since they are so narrow. You would either use a procedure that calls out nav beacons (like TACAN Or VOR) or GPS waypoints, or you'd be getting vectors from a radar controller onto the final approach path. FWIW, a typical ILS procedure at uncontrolled airports (which pretty much applies to DCS) is to fly to the airport (using some type of guidance), fly outbound on the ILS course, pick up the ILS guidance while outbound, and after 6-10 miles make a 45 deg procedure turn back onto the final approach course, aiming to establish around 2500' above the airport elevation until you hit the glideslope from below

The target designation is for the purpose of the pilot's guidance symbology (among other things)--the navigation cues and the AUTO cues. Where the TPOD and laser are pointing can be completely independent. If you designate a point A with the TPOD, and then slew it to point B and engage ATRK, the AUTO cues will guide you to A, even though the laser is pointing at B. Likewise, if you designate point A and then engage PTRK on a moving vehicle, the AUTO cues will guide you to A, even though the TPOD has followed the vehicle elsewhere. the CDES button is supposed to automatically designate after slewing, but it's bugged and doesn't work for PTRK right now In practice, this means for LGB's, you should probably have the target designation pretty close to your actual target, but it doesn't have to be perfect since it's going to guide on the laser. You just don't want it hundreds of meters away. For dumb bombs, the TPOD doesn't matter at all, just the target designation.

Arrrgh. You burst my bubble

It is in the install folder, not the Saved Games folder, DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\F-15E\Doc, and the most recent version is there.

Nice! TIL that CPU is simply AOA + 10! I always thought it was some arbitrary and fancy conversion

It's also in your DCS\Mods\aircraft\F-15SE\Docs (I think) folder. Probably better since I'm not sure whether the one on the website is kept up to date

In Chapter 2 of the User Manual