Hello Everyone,New here,Need Advice about issue w/A-10 in FC3

[hickory]

Right to the point, When in the A-10,in instant mission. There are no stores, not even cannon. I have opened all of the other aircraft in FC3 in same instant miss. and all of those ac have the full compliment,including fuel tanks. Don't know what to do besides re-install of FC3? I do have several of the other modules and have no problem with those,other than they have a learning curve which is not a problem at all.Very pleased with DCS overall.It is my hope that i can only one day become efficient enough to go online or join a squad.Once again in the A-10 instant mission no weapons at all . All other AC are loaded out. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks in Advance,

Hickory

[kingpinda]

Right to the point, When in the A-10,in instant mission. There are no stores, not even cannon. I have opened all of the other aircraft in FC3 in same instant miss. and all of those ac have the full compliment,including fuel tanks. Don't know what to do besides re-install of FC3? I do have several of the other modules and have no problem with those,other than they have a learning curve which is not a problem at all.Very pleased with DCS overall.It is my hope that i can only one day become efficient enough to go online or join a squad.Once again in the A-10 instant mission no weapons at all . All other AC are loaded out. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks in Advance,

Hickory

 

Hi!

 

You could open the mission editor and go to the following map:

DCS World\Mods\aircraft\Flaming Cliffs\Missions\EN\QuickStart

 

open the A-10A CAS.miz file and change the loadout of the plane. then save it. Make sure the name remains the same. To be on the safe side, in windows copy that file to somewhere else if you unintentionally muck things up in the file you can copy the original back.

[hickory]

Thank you for the quick reply sir. It just seems that this AC in this module alone is fubar, I mean no stores,and the throttle is not there,weird. I will look into Mission Editor...That too me is,well a novice at best,a daunting task . Thanks again.

 

 

Sincerely,

Hickory

[kingpinda]

I Will check to see if I have the same problem. Also what do you mean with: The throttle is not there?

 

Its not responding to your throttle input? What joystick and or throttle are you using?

 

edit: its working fine here. You selected the FC3 instant mission A-10 CAS right? close air support.

 

Be sure to bind the following:

 

in modes - > 7 air to ground. this will switch your weapons and HUD to air to ground

in weapons - > Cannon. This will not fire the weapon it will only show you the cannon targeting reticule when you are in a different mode

in weapons - > Weapons fire. bind this to your trigger. This is CANNON FIRE only. and will work always i think in every mode.

in weapons - > Weapons release. this will launch rockets or drop bombs. be sure to hold them longer than 1 second. In fact hold it untill released

in weapons - > Change weapon. when you enter (7)air to ground, you can change the weapon untill you got what you want. for instance GBU's or mavericks. When a maverick is selected you will see a cross appear on your right MFD. then you have to slew the box around a target in there. binds are located in sensors i think. be sure to bind a button to lock so you can lock her up and then hold down weapons release to fire the missile.

Edited September 13, 2015 by kingpinda

[hickory]

HI,

IN instant mission I have stores,but no engine. In create fast mission,no stores,but I have power. I did go to the miss.ed., I need to read the read me to learn how to use that.And since im a weekend warrior, it will be a while untill I can fully get my head wraped around that tool. But thank you sir, for the help, Yes FC3 instant mission no throttle, in create fast mission, no stores. I am using A CH fighterstick,Prothrottle and CH Pro rudder peddles.

[kingpinda]

Hi the problem you have is weird.. Try posting a track from both missions. Fly the mission and when you get in the debrief screen select save track. Then upload on here by going to advanced messaging and clicking on the paperclip. Be sure you don't fly too long or the track will be too long to attach on these forums.

 

In the mission editor you do the following. You find the plane which is yours. if you click on it you will see in top right corner if its the A10. you will also see player.

 

Then middle/bottom right panel you will see something like 5 pictograms which are tabs.

 

The second tab is the loadout I believe. Sometimes it will say when you click on it: Loadout not saved. Save it now? Click yes then to the left of the panel a new loadout will be created at the bottom (below all other loadouts) you highlight that loadout and change it or leave it at that. Then save the mission and fly.

 

If it doesn't say loadout not saved you can create a new loadout. For the CAS mission 4 agm's is a good idea. These are the anti-tank missiles (mavericks)

[Sanguchito]

Haven't you tried reinstalling FC3? There is an option to restore DCS to its original state, also if you have Steam you can verify the files in order to redownload those damaged files.

 

Seems a weird problem and it may have to be with data corruption.

[hickory]

Hello again,

 

Well I have again tried to figure it out,prob. something dumb that im not doing right lol.Update, I mispoke about the throttle in both inst.miss., and create fast miss. there is throttle, I still have the same story with the stores though.I have not bound the weapons to my fighterstick with the A-10 as I did'nt have to with all the other AC, I just used the keyboard bindings.With all the other AC, the keyboard bindings worked cannon, missles worked fine, wierd.

 

I guess the A-10 in this simulator is just not meant to be for me. I have a CD copy of the A-10C sitting here in front of me. I tried installing that and it gave me fitts trying to set it up! so I uninstalled it with the hope of the A-10 in FC3 would work. Go figure.

 

As a matter of fact, the Warthog was the first AC i purchased for DCS.I guess it just will take time to figure this out.I'll never give up :)

 

Thanks for the suggestions,

Hickory