Data cartridge for A10C

[skypickle]

When we 'load al' in the DSMS, what are we loading? Why can't we configure the things in it. For example, HMCS profiles, waypoints set in F10 map (like the JF-17 sort of). Why can't we have cartridge files and load them into the jet through a screen like the refuel and rearm screen. 

[Frederf]

You don't LOAD ALL in the DSMS page, you load in the LOAD page. LOAD ALL simply does all the individual items on the LOAD page. Pressing all the items to load except load all does the same thing as load all.

The idea of editing the cartridge contents was never implemented except by the mission editor/planner which is a feature of single player.

[Tippis]

11 hours ago, skypickle said:

When we 'load al' in the DSMS, what are we loading? Why can't we configure the things in it. For example, HMCS profiles, waypoints set in F10 map (like the JF-17 sort of). Why can't we have cartridge files and load them into the jet through a screen like the refuel and rearm screen. 

Because the A-10 is an ancient module and it wasn't necessary to build a complicated system (beyond what mission planning allows) for it when it would just affect this one plane.

Now, on the other hand, when a third of the planes they have use some kind of mission data transfer functionality, they've come around to the idea but last they made any mention of it (many moons ago), they were talking about going for the catastrophically expensive false-economy option of doing it module by module rather than by creating a common interface and API that all modules could hook into. With a bit of “luck”, it's one of those things tied to the creation of a dynamic campaign engine (because such an engine would require this kind of functionality to be even remotely sensible), but then that just means that it's even farther off in the future.

[skypickle]

I asdked Bailey (author of the DCS CMS editor) if he could expand its functionality to include these settings but he said the ED team does not make those settings available.