Is it possible for someone to take control of your jet?

[IC333]

I've had issues with what seems like someone else controlling my jet. The first time i kinda got a kick out of it when i was a noob on one of the 4ya servers in my F15 still am lol But the most recent was the other day and i am furious over this. my hornet would not steer. totally useless. I presumed it was my T16000 joystick that was the problem so bought a different one. well i logged in under a different callsign early this morning and it worked flawlessly. I am disabled and cant afford to shell out money for someones idea of being cute or laughing about it. I have spent a  ton of money (for me) on everything i needed to have a good experience on DCS. fiber optic all the way to my router line the whole 9. several modules. im already at a disadvantage as i only have the  use of my left limb due to bad stroke. but im slowly getting used to ways to mitigate this disadvantage but ya know this sucks. How can they do that. i ran everything through my mind like maybe a game glitch or something like that. has anyone ever experienced this?

Edited December 15, 2020 by IC333
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[QuiGon]

Uhm no, this is not possible. I guess it might be a mismapping of your keybinds, causing unwanted control input in flight.

So I recommend to check all your control mappings again

[IC333]

Ty for the reply. Are you certain of this? When in the f15 it taxied down to the runway and stopped then i had control again watched f2 view and it taxied just as pretty as a picture. this happened 2 or 3 more times. like i said i didnt rly mind... broke the monotony. but as i slowly learn hifi jets i want to emulate procedures blah blah blah..... I dont know what i would di without auto start/stop lol Also quik ? In your opinion say you have mastered the F18 could you hop in a real one and know how to fly it? seems to me the answer is no question about it so dang realistic. 

Edited December 15, 2020 by IC333
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[IC333]

Goat sim of all time

IMHO

 

[G.J.S]

Could be your control mappings, after several DCS updates I have found - for instance, flight control being assigned to more than one device. So for example right rudder would also give right roll, back stick elevator, and full throttle!

could be worth checking after every update, as I now do.

[Mars Exulte]

No, nobody's hijacking your plane. You most likely had conflicting mappings. Reppacing your controller reset your mappings, likely resolving the issue. Alternatively your old control may have been defective.

 

Regarding autostart, most planes can be started in 5-10 minutes tops, even if you gotta wait on the INS to align. I usually am able to memorise a startup after doing it a few times. Once you make the connection 95% of planes are doing basically the same procedure for startup (bats, fuel pumps, apu, engine start) it makes it reallly easy.

 

Regarding sim experience being useful for real life... well yeah, of course it's useful. That's why they use them for training in the real world. As for climbing in a real one, in principle, yes, provided it was the exact same variant. In practice, you're going to be limited to just basic maneuvering, though, lacking any exposure to Gs, and needing time to acclimate to a ''new'' plane.

 

While a sim can teach you the basic procedural nature of things, it's different from physically sitting in (which may be disorienting) and it definitely doesn't do anything for the difference in physical sensation. VR improves on that significantly, but even the most ''1337'' full motion pit or centrifuge doesn't provide proper physical feedback, so at some point you still gotta get used to the real thing.

Edited December 15, 2020 by zhukov032186

[IC333]

ty fellas for the excellent replies. yes it can be disorienting especially flying at night. also my instructor put shield on and did a few turns and asked me which way is the aircraft oriented. i had no i dea so i guessed. wrong by a mile. have you ever experienced a 0 g or negative g? that is a strange feeling. I just thought about it and how cool it would be to take controls of exotic craft that can pull way more G that a pilot can withstand sitting at a computer.Even with that major hurdle out of the way AI mayy be just as good if not better. Sadly I believe pilots will become almost nonexistent. that sucks major too. i absolutly love flying anything it dont matter. think about that for a min. manned flight may go down as a small wrinkle in time that we got lucky to experience. So thankfull I got to participate in that wrinkle with the rest of us. I consider my time on earth wonderous. look how far we have come in such a short time. Shhort of an asteroid or we destroy ourselves imagine 100 years from now. We wouldnt recognize it. thats how fast technology gets better and  better. Mind blowing if you think about it....

 

[IC333]

"No, nobody's hijacking your plane. You most likely had conflicting mappings. Reppacing your controller reset your mappings, likely resolving the issue. Alternatively your old control may have been defective."

 

nah man... lol when i started dcs i saw my f15 taxi by itself down to the runway then i had control..... the other day i was afk and my Hornet was climbing with the gear down! I had just rarmed n stuff and was takin a break. LMAO(i dont think a defective controller would do that) especially since i had the brake on and throttle off cuz ive noticed that can make your jet move ... so i always make sure the brake is on and throttle idle. Can you explain that lol? ty for your thoughts lol

[QuiGon]

12 hours ago, IC333 said:

"No, nobody's hijacking your plane. You most likely had conflicting mappings. Reppacing your controller reset your mappings, likely resolving the issue. Alternatively your old control may have been defective."

 

nah man... lol when i started dcs i saw my f15 taxi by itself down to the runway then i had control..... the other day i was afk and my Hornet was climbing with the gear down! I had just rarmed n stuff and was takin a break. LMAO(i dont think a defective controller would do that) especially since i had the brake on and throttle off cuz ive noticed that can make your jet move ... so i always make sure the brake is on and throttle idle. Can you explain that lol? ty for your thoughts lol

Both, conflicting control mappings as well as a defective controller can actually both cause such behaviour. So that's very much possible or even likely.

What is impossible is, that someone else took control of your aircraft. That's just not possible.

 

If you share your track replay with us, we can take a look at what exactly happened there.