CH-47F Nome Kneeboard?

[ThorBrasil]

What is the acronym used to make the Kneeboard work? I tried the acronyms CH47Fbl1 and CH-47F, but both did not work. Thank you!

[Yurgon]

You've been closing in already.

I believe it's:

CH-47FBL1

(Upper- or lowercase shouldn't matter)

[TonyRS]

On 8/10/2024 at 1:28 AM, Yurgon said:

You've been closing in already.

I believe it's:

CH-47FBL1

(Upper- or lowercase shouldn't matter)

Thanks - Would never have guessed this folder name
Where would we need to look, in our DCS install, to discover the correct folder name for custom Kneeboards for any module?

[Yurgon]

10 hours ago, TonyRS said:

Where would we need to look, in our DCS install, to discover the correct folder name for custom Kneeboards for any module?

Great question! Seems like the name of the kneeboard-folder isn't linked to the name of the module in Saved Games\Mods. If anyone figures out the answer, I'd be interested as well.

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, Yurgon said:

Great question! Seems like the name of the kneeboard-folder isn't linked to the name of the module in Saved Games\Mods. If anyone figures out the answer, I'd be interested as well.

 

It may be a coincidence, but I have noted that the name used to identify the log hours for an aircraft type, on the /Saved Games/MissionEditor/logbook.lua, is the same name used for its Kneeboard folder, for example for the Apache, the logbook.lua stores its flight stats on a section titled:

 

                ["AH-64D_BLK_II"] = 

 

So, for a new type, simply fly it a bit (to have its stats recorded), and then look into the logbook.lua ... then create a kneeboard folder with that same name.

[Yurgon]

24 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said:

It may be a coincidence, but I have noted that the name used to identify the log hours for an aircraft type, on the /Saved Games/MissionEditor/logbook.lua, is the same name used for its Kneeboard folder

Awesome! Not sure if that's the be-all end-all answer, but sounds like a very promising correlation.

[Captain Orso]

Nothing is awesome. Nowhere in my logbook.lua is anything but P-47 and 47 in some string which has nothing to do with the CH-47.

This is the same thing every time a new module is introduced. Nobody knows what the answer is, and ED is too incompetent to publish the information in the Early Access guide since years and years, although the exact same question has been coming up since years and years with every new module 

Great user support ED, many thanks

[Yurgon]

1 minute ago, Captain Orso said:

although the exact same question has been coming up since years and years

So you're happy with Early Access? 

[Captain Orso]

26 minutes ago, Yurgon said:

So you're happy with Early Access? 

I've found out the the kneeboard folder of the CH-47 is CH-47Fbl1 after looking through installation files, trying and guessing.

It should never be a guessing game. ED has had enough experience with the same questions over and over again. At this point I have to guess that ED either doesn't care, or is not capable of learning. If you know other answer, feel free to post it.

[Sydy]

13 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

I've found out the the kneeboard folder of the CH-47 is CH-47Fbl1 after looking through installation files, trying and guessing.

It should never be a guessing game. ED has had enough experience with the same questions over and over again. At this point I have to guess that ED either doesn't care, or is not capable of learning. If you know other answer, feel free to post it.

Correct! CH-47bl1 is the right folder. I already submitted my QuickChecklist to the user files download.

It works!

[Rudel_chw]

14 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

Nothing is awesome. Nowhere in my logbook.lua is anything but P-47 and 47 in some string which has nothing to do with the CH-47.

 

I have not purchased the Chinook, but for my other aircraft this is what my DCS has:

 

 

 

 

[Captain Orso]

On 8/12/2024 at 3:08 PM, Sydy said:

Correct! CH-47bl1 is the right folder. I already submitted my QuickChecklist to the user files download.

It works!

I can't find your quick checklist. Could you please post a link here?

Thank you!

[Captain Orso]

On 8/12/2024 at 3:22 PM, Rudel_chw said:

 

I have not purchased the Chinook, but for my other aircraft this is what my DCS has:

 

 

 

 

Thanks for posting this, but this is a band aid.

The same situation will reappear with the Eurofighter, the F4U Corsair, the F6F Hellcat, the C-130 Hercules (official, not community mod), and whatever else comes along for all eternity, so long as ED doesn't principally publish this information in the Manuals, or some other readily available and obvious location to be found.

[Captain Orso]

ADDENDOM

The directory does not consider capital and small letters. 'CH-47FBL1' is equally as valid as 'ch-47fbl1', or probably any combination of small and capital letters - honest to god, I'm not going to try them all 

[Yurgon]

3 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

The directory does not consider capital and small letters.

Windows file systems have historically been case insensitive. I don't think Microsoft is ever going to change that.

So yes, upper- and lowercase shouldn't matter in the DCS filesystem.

[Captain Orso]

10 hours ago, Yurgon said:

Windows file systems have historically been case insensitive. I don't think Microsoft is ever going to change that.

So yes, upper- and lowercase shouldn't matter in the DCS filesystem.

Honestly, I would have assumed that Windows is case sensitive, but that it probably because I'm used to Real-Files-Systems™ like used in Unix™ and ALL of its derivatives.

Also, just because Windows doesn't pay attention to case, doesn't necessarily mean that an application doesn't. It will depend specifically how the app in the algorithm controls for conformity.

Anyway, now we all KNOW what is what.