Community A-4E-C v2.3 (May 2025)

[Calabrone]

11 hours ago, bluebird2003 said:

@Calabrone I already had the A4 module installed in this folder. I haven´t no mods, (no third party and no DCS modules). I don´t know what is the problem.

Thanks you for your collaboration.

I'm sorry, but at this point I don't know what to say. Have you tried asking on the A4 discord. Maybe they might know the cause. I hope you solve the problem. Hi. 

[DmitriKozlowsky]

If anyone is willing. Please take a look at attached track. My center station mounted ZUNI will not fire. EVER! Just does not do it. Outer wing station station ZUNI fires fine. Belly station. No bueno! Station is ON, Master Arm ON, guns arm OFF. Depr sight -12 for guns and rockets. Weapons mode is ROCKETS. Its confusing and frustrating, and there is no apparent answer. You will need South Atlantic.

A_4EC_center_zuni_wont_fire.trk

[Calabrone]

13 hours ago, DmitriKozlowsky said:

If anyone is willing. Please take a look at attached track. My center station mounted ZUNI will not fire. EVER! Just does not do it. Outer wing station station ZUNI fires fine. Belly station. No bueno! Station is ON, Master Arm ON, guns arm OFF. Depr sight -12 for guns and rockets. Weapons mode is ROCKETS. Its confusing and frustrating, and there is no apparent answer. You will need South Atlantic.

A_4EC_center_zuni_wont_fire.trk 2.89 MB · 3 downloads

.Hi Dmitri. I uploaded your file to the Track folder, but when I launch DCS in the replays it doesn't see it. Try selecting the outer pylons and when you run out of ZUNI put the knob on rippler, deselect the outer pylons and select the center pylon to activate it. Set the Rippler knob to save and the release amount to 2, 4 or 6 as needed.

Edited October 5, 2022 by Calabrone

[Inf]

I really love this module - it's quickly becoming my favourite. The only negative imo is its ground handling - especially during carrier ops.
I totally appreciate that the model this is based on did not have any NWS - but it also had ground crews with tractors that would tow it over the deck and hook it up to the catapult.  Obviously we're not going to get that any time soon (or ever at all), so kind of feel in this case a concession could be made.

Edit: I'd even take a mode where you engage "ground crew steering" from the comms menu, it spawns a little tractor model in front of you (like how the ground power spawns a generator mesh) and we then move it around with nws-like movement.

Edited October 5, 2022 by Inf

[DmitriKozlowsky]

1 hour ago, Inf said:

I really love this module - it's quickly becoming my favourite. The only negative imo is its ground handling - especially during carrier ops.
I totally appreciate that the model this is based on did not have any NWS - but it also had ground crews with tractors that would tow it over the deck and hook it up to the catapult.  Obviously we're not going to get that any time soon (or ever at all), so kind of feel in this case a concession could be made.

Edit: I'd even take a mode where you engage "ground crew steering" from the comms menu, it spawns a little tractor model in front of you (like how the ground power spawns a generator mesh) and we then move it around with nws-like movement.

 

Differential braking. Thats what it has. You need rudder pedals with toe brakes. Same as Mig-21Bis.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

12 hours ago, Calabrone said:

.Hi Dmitri. I uploaded your file to the Track folder, but when I launch DCS in the replays it doesn't see it. Try selecting the outer pylons and when you run out of ZUNI put the knob on rippler, deselect the outer pylons and select the center pylon to activate it. Set the Rippler knob to save and the release amount to 2, 4 or 6 as needed.

 

I tried all that. Does  not work. Outer pylons OFF, center pylon ON.  Wing pylons and center pylon ON. All sorts of ripple fire and single combos. Reset Master Arm OFF/ON. Reset gun arm ON then OFF.  Cycle dials on weps control station. Nada, nothing , never works. Does not work with Zuni on center station. Maybe its a bug, maybe its a limitation of module. RW A-4E certainly fired Zunis from center pylon. Plenty of YT videos on that.  Works with Mk5 2.75 rockets. Center pylon HIPEG pod works fine. But center mounted Zuni, no good. Sucks as Zuni is such an effective weapon, and center pylon can mount 3 pack Zuni launcher.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

This module would be so much more fun in DCS in if A-4E was reved up to LM A-4AR Fighting Hawk of today's Argentine Air Force and Navy. 

[Captain Orso]

22 hours ago, DmitriKozlowsky said:

If anyone is willing. Please take a look at attached track. My center station mounted ZUNI will not fire. EVER! Just does not do it. Outer wing station station ZUNI fires fine. Belly station. No bueno! Station is ON, Master Arm ON, guns arm OFF. Depr sight -12 for guns and rockets. Weapons mode is ROCKETS. Its confusing and frustrating, and there is no apparent answer. You will need South Atlantic.

A_4EC_center_zuni_wont_fire.trk 2.89 MB · 3 downloads

 

18 hours ago, Calabrone said:

.Hi Dmitri. I uploaded your file to the Track folder, but when I launch DCS in the replays it doesn't see it. Try selecting the outer pylons and when you run out of ZUNI put the knob on rippler, deselect the outer pylons and select the center pylon to activate it. Set the Rippler knob to save and the release amount to 2, 4 or 6 as needed.

 

File copied into Open Beta .\Tracks folder. Replays has no problem finding and I can select it without issue.

While loading a whole slew of mods required, like UH-60L, and someone's navy, and someone else's navy, and more stuff and thingies 

Anyway, I wouldn't be able to tell you anything, even if I could load the track; I just wanted to see why Calabrone couldn't load it, so .... Great Success! 

[Calabrone]

7 hours ago, DmitriKozlowsky said:

This module would be so much more fun in DCS in if A-4E was reved up to LM A-4AR Fighting Hawk of today's Argentine Air Force and Navy. 

Yes.

[Calabrone]

1 hour ago, Captain Orso said:

 

File copied into Open Beta .\Tracks folder. Replays has no problem finding and I can select it without issue.

While loading a whole slew of mods required, like UH-60L, and someone's navy, and someone else's navy, and more stuff and thingies 

Anyway, I wouldn't be able to tell you anything, even if I could load the track; I just wanted to see why Calabrone couldn't load it, so .... Great Success! 

Captain Bear I put the file in Saved Games/DCS/Tracks and I can't load it because DCS doesn't see it for me.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

Tried it again. Same results. Center mounted ZUNI does not fire. I don't know if this is a bug, a limitation, or my RTFM, as I am clueless as to what to do. I accidentally overwrote yesterday's trk, with new one. New one is attached. But it looks like TRK is useless for troubleshooting. As it does not load correctly for others. So I am gonna treat it like a restriction. No ZUNI on centerline station.

A_4EC_center_zuni_wont_fire.trk

[silverdevil]

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/former-us-naval-aviator-explains-why-the-a-4-skyhawk-was-the-most-fun-aircraft-he-ever-flew/

[bluebird2003]

En 4/10/2022 a las 11:01, Calabrone dijo:

I'm sorry, but at this point I don't know what to say. Have you tried asking on the A4 discord. Maybe they might know the cause. I hope you solve the problem. Hi. 

Thanks you, I will try on the A4 discord.

[Captain Orso]

8 hours ago, Calabrone said:

Captain Bear I put the file in Saved Games/DCS/Tracks and I can't load it because DCS doesn't see it for me.

The thing is, you have the Release version installed. I have Open Beta. I can select the track file for loading.

That you cannot might be because DCS looks at the file when you click on Replays and sees it is from an Open Beta installation, or from an higher release number than yours (OB is always higher then GA), and decides to refuse to even show you the file. That is my suspicion.

[Calabrone]

14 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

Il fatto è che hai installato la versione Release. Ho la beta aperta. Posso selezionare il file di traccia per il caricamento.

Ciò potrebbe essere dovuto al fatto che DCS guarda il file quando fai clic su Replay e vede che proviene da un'installazione Open Beta o da un numero di versione più alto del tuo (OB è sempre maggiore di GA) e decide di rifiutarsi anche di mostrare tu il file. Questo è il mio sospetto.

I am updated to the latest version of DCS open beta, however it doesn't matter. Thank you very much.

[Captain Orso]

23 hours ago, Calabrone said:

I am updated to the latest version of DCS open beta, however it doesn't matter. Thank you very much.

Must be the gods then.

[Calabrone]

1 hour ago, Captain Orso said:

Must be the gods then.

Oh yeah ! 

[stolzy]

I hope this is the right place to post this . . .

#I've installed the A4E mod and all looked OK,.  I can create a mission with the plance, but can't get into the cockpit  with F1.  When I start the mission I just the see the map display as in mission editor.

F2 works as normal and I can fly the plane, but cna't get in the seat.

Anyone have a clue?

[Rudel_chw]

2 minutes ago, stolzy said:

Anyone have a clue?

Maybe a conflict with another Mod? Cant say for sure without looking at your dcs.log

[stolzy]

4 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

Maybe a conflict with another Mod? Cant say for sure without looking at your dcs.log

Does this help?

dcs.log dcs.log.old

Edited October 8, 2022 by stolzy

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, stolzy said:

Does this help?

 

This is your error:

2022-10-08 14:58:50.889 ERROR   EDCORE: Failed to load C:/Users/johns/Saved Games/DCS/Mods/aircraft/A-4E-C/bin/A-4E-C.dll: (126) The specified module could not be found.

 

Most likely, your antivirus has quarentined the file (or your disk is getting corrupt) .. place a folder exclusion so that your AV does not mess with DCS files and then reinstall the Mod to restore the A-4E-C.dll file

[stolzy]

15 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

 

This is your error:

2022-10-08 14:58:50.889 ERROR   EDCORE: Failed to load C:/Users/johns/Saved Games/DCS/Mods/aircraft/A-4E-C/bin/A-4E-C.dll: (126) The specified module could not be found.

 

Most likely, your antivirus has quarentined the file (or your disk is getting corrupt) .. place a folder exclusion so that your AV does not mess with DCS files and then reinstall the Mod to restore the A-4E-C.dll file

Sounded like a plan, but it's still just the same.

[MAXsenna]

11 minutes ago, stolzy said:

Sounded like a plan, but it's still just the same.

Do you have any free helicopter modules installed? Some of them are incompatible. 

[Rudel_chw]

2 hours ago, stolzy said:

Sounded like a plan, but it's still just the same.

So, your log does not show the error anymore? 

[stolzy]

On 10/9/2022 at 8:00 AM, MAXsenna said:

Do you have any free helicopter modules installed? Some of them are incompatible. 

No

On 10/9/2022 at 10:35 AM, Rudel_chw said:

So, your log does not show the error anymore? 

Yes the error is still there.

2022-10-10 10:30:00.022 ERROR   EDCORE: Failed to load C:/Users/johns/Saved Games/DCS/Mods/aircraft/A-4E-C/bin/A-4E-C.dll: (126) The specified module could not be found.

I have a folder exclusion set for C:\Users\johns\Saved Games\DCS

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