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Button 2, button 2... where are you? :D


M-Flux

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Just wanted to do a little confession on my stupidity... It took me a while to figure out what the campaign wanted me to do. Pressed 2 on the keyboard and all buttons on the stick. Reread the briefing several times.

Had to check a YouTube Video and then had to face palm hard when I realized it's the channel 2 preset on the radio :D.

I'm not from the avionics field, but a programmer instead, specialized on network and WiFi. So I'm familiar with channels, frequencies, bands, modulations etc. But in all these years I had never had anyone calling a (wifi) radio channel a button there :D.

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But after my initial "takeoff trouble" I was blown away by the voice coms. It felt very immersive, great job!

(If there is any recommended campaign one should try before Zone 5, I'd also be curious to hear.)

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Edit: I'd also be curious where the term button in this context comes from. Is that because early radios had one dedicated button for each channel?


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Earlier aircraft certainly did have buttons for pre-sets. So POGO button 6 means change your radio channel to preset 6.

Of course there were also MANY other ways to switch frequencies: Line numbers on a standard COMPLAN (POGO line 216), actual frequencies (POGO 248.2), code names (POGO Freight Train), and MANY others

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