Jester fiddling with the armament during carrier approach?

[stingray77]

I don't know if this is intended (realistic) or a bug, and/or related to 2.7 (I still have only limited experience in DCS - sorry):

on my carrier approach, Jester seems to fiddle around with the armament - like (most noticeable) activating Sidewinders. Then I hear the growling for a wile, which is "not really helpful" when concentrating on the approach... If I'm lucky, he switches to other stations, so I don't have the growling in my ear any more...

Now, IS that intended? Is it realistic? 

 

Thanks for sharing your views/experience.

Edited April 26, 2021 by stingray77

[draconus]

Afaik RIO has no control to change A2A weapon - only the pilot does that from the stick. It's not Jester. Check your bindings. It might be yet another ghost input from your faulty stick.

Edited April 26, 2021 by draconus

[Q3ark]

Check that you don’t have some weird double key bindings, the RIO doesn’t have the ability to select weapons. 

[stingray77]

vor 24 Minuten schrieb draconus:

Afaik RIO has no control to change A2A weapon - only the pilot does that from the stick. It's not Jester. Check your bindings. It might be yet another ghost input from your faulty stick.

 

Thanks both of you - yeah, draconus, guess you are spot on......

 

IF it's a ghost input, then I should see the weapons selector switch on the stick moving....... Something to check! 

Edited April 26, 2021 by stingray77

[RustBelt]

No, the Tomcat's Stick switches aren't animated.

[draconus]

13 minutes ago, RustBelt said:

No, the Tomcat's Stick switches aren't animated.

Yes, they are.

[Snappy]

6 minutes ago, draconus said:

Yes, they are.

The Trim hat is moving?

 

 

[draconus]

1 minute ago, Snappy said:

The Trim hat is moving?

That probably not afair - but the buttons, trigger, switches, lever are animated last time I checked, including moving and pushing weapon selector.

Edited April 27, 2021 by draconus

[stingray77]

Can confirm, too! Most prominently the weapons-selector switch DOES move between Off-Guns-SW-SP/PH!

 

So, coming back to my question: should I expect this switch to move following the ghost input? I tend to expect that...

[draconus]

7 minutes ago, stingray77 said:

should I expect this switch to move following the ghost input? I tend to expect that...

Yes. Ghost input is an elctronics short/signal that is not done by your action, it gets into the game as a normal input so it will be visible. It can come from faulty hardware, bad switch, too long cable, USB hubs, low power... etc.

[stingray77]

Thanks for the confirmation and clarification... I will have a look for the switch moving without me touching it.

[stingray77]

Short update:

On a quick hop (Case I) yesterday evening, I found Sidewinders miraculously becoming active on approach to the carrier - checked the "in-sim-stick" showing the weapons-selector in SW without me having touched it / without my "real-life-stick" having the weapons-selector in SW! - paused and switched to DevCfg running in backgound and the button was NOT active. I understand - as it is a switch and not a momentary button - that that one should light up in the testing, and not the "weapons off"-switch (as was the case)! That should suggest, my prob is more DCS-related than a VKB-thing!

I'll keep on testing...

Edited April 28, 2021 by stingray77