RADIO

[TIGEREAGLE]

 

Radio preset selection?

If you switch through the radio devices with the joystick button (PTT/RTS switch) instead of the RTS rocker button, the preset selection will not be accepted!

Why?

Edited October 8, 2022 by TIGEREAGLE

[Scaley]

There is a bug with the radio selection where DCS actually remembers two selections, the one you chose with the rocker and the one you chose with the button on the cyclic. If you start with radio 1 selected, then cycle to radio 3 with the rocker you would expect the cyclic button to then progress to 4 on the next press, but it doesn't. Instead it will go to 2 (because the last thing you selected with the button was 1).  If you then press rocker down instead of going 2>3 as expected it will go to 4 (since the last thing you selected with the rocker was 3).  Essentially DCS is maintaining 2 versions of which radio you are using. Only the most recent one is displayed and transmitted on, but the pre-set button always access the one that was selected by the RTS rocker, regardless of what is displayed. 

The fix is to map the physical button you are using on your stick to the RTS down button. That keeps everything in sync and working as expected and as displayed.  This has been a bug since initial release and has been reported but not acknowledged the last time I checked.