cannot bring up comm menu in flight

[wolle]

I have not flown the Anton in a couple of months, but I flew it many times prior to that. I used to have two communications buttons mapped: "backslash" and "Ralt-backslash", one I used to bring up the comm menu on the ground, the other in the air. I can still bring up the comm menu on the ground, but not in the air any more. What am I doing wrong?:helpsmilie:

Edited December 21, 2019 by wolle

[Bearskin]

I have the same problem in the F18, I can bring up the comms menu on the ground to refuel, re arm and choose a mission, but I cannot bring the comms menu up whilst in the air. So if I manage to kill the enemy plane, I have to land again to set up another mission. I have mine bound to joy 4 (the pinky lever on the joystick) plus the top thumb switch on the throttle, (the one that works the speed break).

 

 

Just to add, I have the same setup in the Hog and it works flawlessly.

Edited December 23, 2019 by Bearskin

[Cunctator]

It works for me. In the Fw 190 A8, the "COMM Push to talk" button (Ralt + \) brings up the com menu while being airborne. I've mapped it to my stick, but the default key command functions too.

[Frederf]

I have not flown the Anton in a couple of months, but I flew it many times prior to that. I used to have two communications buttons mapped: "backslash" and "Ralt-backslash", one I used to bring up the comm menu on the ground, the other in the air. I can still bring up the comm menu on the ground, but not in the air any more. What am I doing wrong?:helpsmilie:

 

Nothing as far as I know. There are different methods of transmitting verbal information. Speaking aloud by itself is not productive for example when airborne. The act of keying an electric radio may be. You can think of the '\' as simply shouting words to the few meters around you and certain modules make things like engine noise and canopy state factors in communication. A lot of modern aircraft have ground intercoms where a telephone is plugged into the side of the vehicle overriding such engine/canopy state concerns.

[Rolds]

I have this same problem, my push to talk keybind sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. When it doesn't, fiddling with seemingly unrelated things (such as auto/manual prop pitch governor, clothes heating circuit breaker) eventually results in it working again but not in a consistent way so I am not sure if any of these are related to the problem.

[LeCuvier]

I have not flown the Anton in a couple of months, but I flew it many times prior to that. I used to have two communications buttons mapped: "backslash" and "Ralt-backslash", one I used to bring up the comm menu on the ground, the other in the air. I can still bring up the comm menu on the ground, but not in the air any more. What am I doing wrong?:helpsmilie:

I have deleted my earlier post because I had only tested airborne. I simply did not know that the command "COMM Menu" (keyboard command "\") is only supposed to work on the ground.

I have re-tested the command "COMM Menu" (keyboard command "") on the ground and in the air with Bf-109, FW-190A, FW-190D, P-51 and F-5E. The command works on the ground but not in the air. And I think that's how it is supposed to work.

In the air, the command "COMM Push-to-talk" (RAlt + "\") works for me. That's where Wolle seems to have a problem.

So Wolle might have a problem somewhere in his setup which can be tricky to find unless the good old "Repair" helps.

Edited December 24, 2019 by LeCuvier

[LeCuvier]

I have the same problem in the F18, I can bring up the comms menu on the ground to refuel, re arm and choose a mission, but I cannot bring the comms menu up whilst in the air. So if I manage to kill the enemy plane, I have to land again to set up another mission. I have mine bound to joy 4 (the pinky lever on the joystick) plus the top thumb switch on the throttle, (the one that works the speed break).

 

 

Just to add, I have the same setup in the Hog and it works flawlessly.

In the F/A-18 you should set up the appropriate channels for Radio 1 and Radio 2 and use the switches COMM 1 and COMM 2. I won't go into detail because this is a FW-190A thread. The flight manual covers the subject well.

[Bearskin]

Thanks LeCuvier, I guess I should have RTFM. My bad for talking about the F-18 in the FW-190A thread, I followed the link from the DCS home page and thought it was a generic comms thread.

[wolle]

Thanks guys, I'll hopefully be able to do some more tests over Xmas!

[wolle]

This is what I found. If I map "" to any other HOTAS button other than throttle-mic-switch-depress on my Warthog, it works. There must be some conflict with this button. Since the problem only appeared after a recent update, I assume the conflict is possibly with the new game-integrated voice-over-internet-protocol or SRS....

[LeCuvier]

This is what I found. If I map "" to any other HOTAS button other than throttle-mic-switch-depress on my Warthog, it works. There must be some conflict with this button. Since the problem only appeared after a recent update, I assume the conflict is possibly with the new game-integrated voice-over-internet-protocol or SRS....

check bindings under UI_Layer! I had a binding to the MIC switch depress button there that conflicted with bindings in other modules.