Questions after having made a few trainingflights.

[Tycor]

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

While I'm awaiting my recently purchased H.O.T.A.S. to being delivered I've made a few testflights with mouse and keyboard, just for fun. The trainingsmissions for the SU-33 to be exact. While taking off and arming my plane are all swell. (Mind you, I have not yet actually fired weapons except the guns), landingprocedures are still a "work in progress" to say the least.

During my test flights I have stumbled upon some things that made me wonder what happened and why it is what just happened. And I am hoping some of you might have the answers to my questions that are as follows.

1. On occasion I get a black screen from within the cockpit. When I press the outside view of the plane with F2 it's fine but from within I only see blackness.
Does this have anything to do with my as a pilot blacking out or is it a hardware issue I need to fix? Unfortunately I don't have any more feeback on this so this is the only info I have for now.

2. On one occasion my wings blew off the plane. I don't remember exactly what I did but it was at high speed and then just all of a sudden my wings fell off the plane.
What is this and how do I prevent this?

3. I noticed the autopilot and that you can order the system to follow a route towards a waypoint. I know how to open the map with F10, but I have no idea on how to actually set a waypoint.
How does one do that while in flight? (Or do you have to do this before taking off?)

4. On one occasion I was in a trainingserver on multiplayer. Keeping to myself. (Only flying around, no fighting etc.)
I browsed through my controls options but I couldn't find any button/binds for radio contact or a chat. How do you activate a chat/radio comms if at all possible?
I did notice that with "\" I could insert simple commands and the likes of that, but that is not what I mean to find with this question.

I hope you guys can help me with these questions and I look forward to your answers! Have a nice day!

Kind regards!

Tycor

Edited April 22, 2023 by Tycor
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[razo+r]

1) what are your pc specs

2) dont overstress your airframe. If you keep within the limits, you should not lose any parts. 

3) waypoints for FC3 aircraft can only be placed in the mission editor. 

4) chat is enter or LCtrl+enter while radio comms is the key you mentioned. 

[Tycor]

1) what are your pc specs
AMD Ryzen 5900X
64GB RAM
RX 6900XT

2) dont overstress your airframe. If you keep within the limits, you should not lose any parts. 
Is there any indication on how not to stress the limits? Or when you are stressing them to the point you have to do something else to save your plane?

3) waypoints for FC3 aircraft can only be placed in the mission editor.
Not familiar with the mission editor. If I make waypoints in a mission editor will these carry-over to any Multiplayer server? No, right?

4) chat is enter or LCtrl+enter while radio comms is the key you mentioned. 
Thank you, I will try that later!

[razo+r]

1) They seem okay. Maybe something software related? 

2) Check your G-meter in the cockpit and know the G-limits of the aircraft. These limits may be in the manual, I don't know them by heart. But in generall they should be around +7 or +9Gs.

3) The waypoints will be mission specific so unless you host the mission, it will not carry over. 

 

[Ironhand]

1) What were you doing, when you experienced the “blackness”? If you were flying straight and level, then it’s likely a graphics issue of some sort. If you were maneuvering sharply, then you probably blacked out because of pulling too many Gs.

2) As noted above, find and use the g-meter. Over g-ing the airframe will be less of an issue, once you have a flight stick. For now, gentle key taps at high speeds.

 

[Tycor]

Hello guys!

Thanks for the feedback. Since I received the H.O.T.A.S. I haven't had those black screens, so I'm guessing I was going to wild on my keyboard and was just generating too many G's.
I believe that I ONCE had a red edge appear around my screen and since I was paying better attention that time and had cautions about "Over-G" going off, I presume it must've been that stuff.

I've run into a new set of questions since doing a few flights in Multiplayer servers. Mind you this is always with the SU-33 since I don't have any other module and I arm myself with both 27ET and 27ER.
I've been trying out the BVR-radar exclusively to "down bogies" but so far I haven't been successful. Not that I expected to be but I've encountered some issues that left me with a new set of questions again.

I. With the 27ET I don't get locks but I understood from one of the Grim Reapers-videos that this missile does not lock-on by using the BVR radar. So my question is how do I lock a target with this particular missile?

II. When using the 27ER I noticed a lot of pilots use jammers, which is obvious ofcourse. But while being jammed I can not lock (again, logical). How long can someone jam radars and what do I do while being jammed?

III. How do I use jammers of my own in a SU-33? The only thing I think I know is that the ECM in the arming-menu are the jammers. If I'm wrong about that, please let me know.

Edited April 24, 2023 by Tycor

[Ironhand]

1) You can rely solely on EOS, when using the ETs or you can use the radar to point EOS in the right direction. For the latter, turn on radar and lock the target. Select the ETs. EOS will now be slaved to the radar (it’s activated automatically because you selected an IR-type missile) and as soon as it can lock the target it will and direct the ET’s seeker at the target as well. As soon as the ET’s seeker has a lock and the target is within launch parameters, you will get the launch cue.

2) You will eventually burn through the jamming—I think DCS uses a range of 25 km for many fighter sized targets. It may be a bit more though, I’m not sure. But if you watch the jamming strobe, you will see the target mark embedded in the strobe, when you burn through. Alternatively, if you have an idea of his range and altitude from other sources, you could just lock the jamming strobe, hit launch override and let it fly. You probably won’t hit anything, but you might make an inexperience attacker sweat a bit.

3) Mount the jamming pods on the wingtips and turn it on (the E key, I believe but you’d better double check). I seldom carry them myself but, if IIRC, they take a few minutes to warm up and come on. You’ll get the flashing indicator during warm up. It’ll turn solid, once active. CAUTION:  Do not fly around with your jammer constantly on. You scream your presence to the world and tell every enemy aircraft where to hunt for you. You also make yourself a juicy target for any number of ARH missiles.

 

As for:

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I believe that I ONCE had a red edge appear around my screen

That would be the effect of pushing the stick forward too quickly and causing excessive negative Gs. Be careful doing that in the Su-33 and Su-27, especially. It can lead to a very surprising result at times.

Edited April 24, 2023 by Ironhand