Can not get datalink to work for the life of me...please help.

[CptJocco]

Hi all, 

I just finished the Raven One campaign, AWESOME job. That was amazing the amount of work that went into that. I now downloaded DF and am starting that. Right away on mission one, I'm encountering my old friend, a problem where no one from my flight shows up on my SA page. When I do a cold start, I always make sure datalink is on (I don't know the difference but I turn on both options, the Ch 127 one and the other). After I take off and I'm looking for Cajun, I assume I should see him on the SA page as per the kneeboard, but he's not there. In fact I dealt with this all the time in the original Raven One campaign. I would often see members of other flights, but never my own. I've even now gone into the mission planner and I notice that the default only ever has your own aircraft listed in your datalink section as members of your flight, so I've been adding people manually. I do that for all members of the flight, but 9 out of 10 times, they don't show up. Sometimes I'll have them finally show up on the SA page late into a mission, but for the most part nothing. I've looked up as much as I can online, watched numerous videos and still can't figure out why no one shows up on my SA page (unless of course they're a radar contact). 

 

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Thanks

[Kleist]

Not all the missions are updated for DCS TNDL I think. Sometimes you have to add you flight to members and AWACS to donors on the SA page after everybody is airborne.