Wired logbook flight hours in self created missions

[Komet_82]

Hi community

I had this issue already quite a while ago.

Build my own practice mission for the Mosquite, mainly take-off cold and dark. I had about 30minutes in air and when I checked after the flight my Pilots logbook, the flight counted about 10hrs flight time, some 7hrs day and 3hrs night. And it was a purely day flight.

Seems pretty strange to me. I do not use mods.

Any Idea what went wrong?

Many thanks

Cheers

Markus

[Flappie]

You mean you had never flown the Mosquito before flying this 30 minute-long practice mission?

[Komet_82]

Hello,

No, I already had 5hrs on the mosquito with this pilot in the logbook, and after the mission it jumped to something like 15hrs.

Is this a bug from the mission editor?

Thanks for helping me out here, I really like to track my flight times in the logbook of my pilot charakters

Cheers

[Komet_82]

And another question that rises now, can I somehow delete that Buggy flight? That the faulty flight hour count does not anymore show up in my logbook? or is this logbook now complelty wrong forever?

thanks

[TEMPEST.114]

On 4/6/2024 at 7:12 PM, Komet_82 said:

And another question that rises now, can I somehow delete that Buggy flight? That the faulty flight hour count does not anymore show up in my logbook? or is this logbook now complelty wrong forever?

thanks

Close DCS.

Download either Notepad++ or MS Visual Studio Code.

Go to your SAVED GAMES/DCS/MissionEditor/logbook.lua

Make changes in there to correct the mistake.

Save 

Reopen DCS to confirm changes.

You may want to make a backup of logbook.lua before you hack it about just to be safe. 

ETA: The times in the logbook are in decimal seconds. 

Edited April 8, 2024 by Elphaba

[Komet_82]

Thanks, that sounds like a hack. Will give it a try soon.

But my question is why does this happen? It isn't that great that I canot count on the logbook hours. Anyone know why this can happen?

Many thanks

[Tom Kazansky]

It is useful to keep backups of the logbook.lua regularly.

OT but I once had a reset of almost every module's flight time. I could recreate those only with a good backup.

[scoobie]

It is a hack, because there are no in-game tools for tinkering with the logbook, and that's because the logbook normally just works, no need for tools.
You SHOULD be able to count on the logbook. If this weirdness happened to you, it's probably some kind of a bug or maybe there's something strange going on in your computer, with you DCS installation or something of this sort. BTW, I don't think it has anything to do with Mission Editor - flight time logging must be a separate thing (I think).

Maybe you're just the first guy to have stumbled on a new bug?
I'll try to check when I'm home today.

PS. There used to be (briefly) a bug where day flight hours would be counted as night hours and vice versa. I can't remember if it was module-specific or global for DCS.

[scoobie]

No joy

I don't know what happened on your side. I took the Mossie for a super short ride, daytime, 5 minutes in the air, but the book logged time properly.
However, looking at the screenshots closely... I don't know if "44h 60min" is an OK hour on the clock. The last time they tought me clock it would have to be read as "45h 00min", but that was long time ago  
Anyway, the book added new flight time properly.

No idea how you got that effect, sorry.

EDIT: For the record. The mission was of my making. First I flew it from main menu -> "Missions" -> "My Missions" (it's an old mission of mine), then I ran Mission Editor, modified the mission (added a new Mossie hot on the runway), and launched it without saving changes. Both times logbook was correct.

Edited April 11, 2024 by scoobie

[TEMPEST.114]

1 hour ago, scoobie said:

No joy

I don't know what happened on your side. I took the Mossie for a super short ride, daytime, 5 minutes in the air, but the book logged time properly.
However, looking at the screenshots closely... I don't know if "44h 60min" is an OK hour on the clock. The last time they tought me clock it would have to be read as "45h 00min", but that was long time ago  
Anyway, the book added new flight time properly.

No idea how you got that effect, sorry.

EDIT: For the record. The mission was of my making. First I flew it from main menu -> "Missions" -> "My Missions" (it's an old mission of mine), then I ran Mission Editor, modified the mission (added a new Mossie hot on the runway), and launched it without saving changes. Both times logbook was correct.

 

the 60min bug is due to the decimal seconds rounding up when displayed. If I remember correctly the time has about 8 decimal places (for some unknown reason) so when displayed here it's a rounding issue in the UI. 

[Komet_82]

@scoobie yes this is what I expected it to look like, but it made a huge time difference what I defenitely did not fly

I will fly it again soon with a another pilot in the logbook and post the logbook screenshots and mission here. then maybe someone could have a look at the mission

Thanks for your support