Radio menu has Hotas commands like Petrovich

[KlarSnow]

The new Petrovich AI interface is great, an awesome and intuitive way to work through crew coord and complicated scenarios with simple hotas commands and not having to take your hands off the stick or throttle.

 

Suggestion is to make the radio menu navigable in a similar up/down/left/right and context sensitive manner.

 

Up/down would take you up and down in the list, right would select an option and left would go back a level of the menu.

 

This way you could operate the radio menus completely with HOTAS, no need to reach up and hit the function keys on the keyboard.

 

Another option for this that would really help is dual using a hat, for example when the radio menu is up, whatever controls you have assigned to it only perform the commands to the radio menu, and after the radio menu is closed, it reverts to its normal usage. 
An example of this is the A-10C’s 4 way radio switch on the throttle, if the radio menu is open, that switch could be mapped to navigate the menu, after the radio menu is closed, it goes back to normal functionality.

 

Something that would also significantly help is context and frequency sensitivity. Only show receiver options in the menu that are on the frequency you are dialed to, for example. That way you do not have to sort through several options that will not respond to you.

 

There are several other context sensitive things that could also be neat to see, for example if you are in air to air mode in a hornet, when you open the radio menu it has the declare, picture and bogey dope options up initially, instead of having to sort through the menu to find it. Similar to how once you talk to a tanker or the super carrier right now it keeps you in that context until you leave them.

 

All of this should be an option on top of the current functionality. The current functionality is fine, and works, but I think adding additional options like this would make using this stuff much much easier.

[Kayos]

That would be good for us VR users too.

[Mistermann]

Love those ideas!

[sirrah]

This 4-way menu has been wished for many many times already in the past.

 

But with Petrovich showing us this is actually possible within DCS, this wish might have just gotten a bit closer to being granted by ED.

[Fri13]

2 minutes ago, sirrah said:

This 4-way menu has been wished for many many times already in the past.

 

Yeah. Sadly we have not received one. At least we got at one point the clickable radio menu, and I recall it was as well without patch notes why it was little shock for many when it was found. The great thing is that you can as well operate it with Touch Controllers. 

 

But we really need a better 4-5 way hat functionality. 

And smart build-up. Like why would you talk to ground crew when you are in air somewhere else?

Would you be requesting landing when you are in combat?

 

It needs to be a dynamic and smart one. So know the proper procedure and make the correct groups available.

 

2 minutes ago, sirrah said:

But with Petrovich showing us this is actually possible within DCS, this wish might have just gotten a bit closer to being granted by ED.

 

Yeah. Hopefully we get a new UI for it too.