jaylw314

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

If so, it's new. Before, the pitot would ice up after 40 minutes of flight with the pitot heat off, regardless of what weather you were in. Obviously, not the sort of thing I'm interested in testing out, but if icing happens in some clouds, that would be an interesting change.

LOL, your response made me think of that movie line: "What are the chance of a guy like me and a girl like you ending up together? ... One out of a hundred?" "I'd say more like one in a million" "So you're telling me there's a chance!"

I recall hearing on the RAZBAM discord that avoidance points only show up on the SID and not the TSD, so they are moot right now.

LOL, nice catch!

Don't forget the different canopies between the Charlie and Strike Eagle, too

I know people have talked about stores and the danger of the laser reflections, and I've not seen publicly available data on the litening pod. OTOH, the limitation for the laser is exactly the same as the limitation of the video tracking functions, so I suspect it's just a hard-coded DCS thing.

LOL, you took the red pill, didn't you?

IIRC, the waypoints over 50 are pre-programmed system waypoints from the navigation database, like airports, georefs and such, and weren't meant to be edited by the pilot

I believe they correspond to the SLEW parameter on the MAV and STAT->Throttle pages, if so that would mean higher values reduce axis saturation (less sensitive). I have not tested this out though.

What is this new layer in the control settings? null

It had been much worse, but I'm not seeing this anywhere near as much as it was 6-8 months ago, even in VR (where it had seemed to be the worse than flat screen). FWIW the incomplete IR textures on a lot of ground units (which was basically an IR cloaking device) has been gradually fixed, at this point I can't recall the last time I saw this (I'm sure there are still some on some rarely used support vehicles)

Both are known and have been reported previously: The TPOD Designate function is known to mess up tracking, if you bump the TDC it will track again.

Yeah, I was guessing the goal was to be level with the top of the HUD, but if you put the top of the front bolt halfway up the aft bolt, that puts you higher. lining up the top of he aft bolt halfway up the front bolt sounds more correct

If there are further issues, don't forget the SRS discord. The dev is very active and a good resource

The HOTAS mic bindings stopped being connected to the cockpit animation of the switch moving a few updates ago. SRS reads DCS mic states in most modules by looking for cockpit animations, so that meant it couldn't tell anymore. SRS hotkeys has always worked, though.

I don't know that a changelog would be necessary, but at least highlights or black bars like they do in actual flight manuals tagging the changes in the last revision would be nice

Doing that puts my head waaaaay up to the point where I can see most of the nose. Are you sure it's not the other way around?