DCS A-10C QUESTIONS

[JayPee]

If there is no difference that would suggest something client side was causing limited flight model performance which is reset upon updating to 1.2.9...

 

No clue what could cause that tho.

[shagrat]

Maybe just flying against or with wind? Maneuvering at different altitudes? Already used up lot of fuel (reduces weight)?

Axis tweaked and now reseted?

[shagrat]

Did test a little bit yesterday. No difference that is noticeable. Flown the same maneuvers in the same instant action and everything the same between 1.2.8 and 1.2.9, as far as I can tell.

May be just the effect of getting to know your plane.

I remember when I had my first breakthrough with instinctive flying and muscle memory proper trained... ;-)

[JayPee]

Guess I'm becoming a big boy then..

 

No clue what has happened. Only option is messed up sensitivities in the past.

[Zee Pet]

Question about MRFCS and auxiliary gear drop.

 

Ok so I read a thread about braking using the anti skid and the emergency brake was also mentioned. It said that without hydraulic pressure, there is a reservoir/accumulator tank that will have enough pressure for 5 full braking applications. This got me thinking on my main point of how the gear drops without hydro pressure. To test test how it works, I had noticed that when you hit the manual reversion switch, left and right hydraulic pressure goes to zero. Pulling the auxiliary gear handle is supposed to release the locks and allow the gear fall under gravity. Well, after tapping the brakes to make sure I did not have any built up pressure, I pulled the aux handle and watched the gear slowly, controllably, and with the same sound/animation, lower (not drop) from the aircraft. Why does it still behave like its under pressure with the only difference being that I can't raise it?

 

Second question: in switching to manual reversion on an otherwise undamaged jet, I couldn't get the nose pointed down at all, trim didn't work( I know it won't work for ailerons but I thought the elevator were different) and no matter what speed I was at it would just keep pointing up. Does my character need to work on their bench press a bit more?

[PFunk1606688187]

I'm under the impression that hydraulic failures and the need to use MRFCS is basically borked. Its an unrefined part of the simulation that doesn't behave likes its supposed to and likely never will.

[Mallard of Death]

Hello. Could someone tell me how to switch illumination (cockpit) lights off?

[shagrat]

Apart from RTFM it's the bigger switch on the Right Console above the battery switch (emergency lighting), or the dial to gradually dim cockpit lights is also on the right console. Rear end innermost dial, turn ccw to dim... when you start at night (no rampstart), it is usually dialed to max.

[JayPee]

DCS A-10C QUESTIONS

 

P. 28 of ED's 10C manual shows a cockpit with a green TGP feed on the right MFD as opposed to the b/w feed used ingame. What does the real jet and TGP offer, b/w or green?

 

EDIT and p. 84 offers a close up.

Edited July 30, 2014 by JayPee

[shagrat]

B/W - just search a bit in YouTube for "A-10 Straf Run HUD/TGP View" ... only missing the blinding flash on IR modes and heat maps.

[JayPee]

The recording which is sometimes uploaded on YT is BW most of the time. This however does not mean the feed on the jet's MFD is BW as well. Every Apache 'gun cam' is also BW yet the Apache's FLIR MFD feed can be toggled to a green contrast scale according a 64D pilot.

[shagrat]

Didn't find any such setting on the TGP, as everything elseis modeled (including re-focussing) I dare say it is accurate.

We have some guys on the forum working on or very close to the A-10C since the beta and there was never an argument about the color... the AH-64 uses a different sensor anyway.

[JayPee]

DCS A-10C QUESTIONS

 

I know the Apache uses a different sensor suite I was merely using the example to stress the fact that a recording uploaded on YT is not necessarely a 1:1 representation of what the pilot will/can see on his MFD with respect to the feed's colour/contrast.

Edited July 30, 2014 by JayPee

[shagrat]

Yeah, right. That's more than true...

[shagrat]

Maybe it's a SniperXP pod. ED had to model an actually "outdated" Lightnig pod. IIRC most US planes use the newer Sniper pods already. Just a guess, though...

[JayPee]

Very well possible, yes! Hopefully somebody around here has 1st habd experience.

[Eddie]

Both LITENING AT and Sniper XR have black and white CCD cameras.

 

And most of the footage you see on YouTube is recorded by the pod itself and not the aircraft, the way to tell is that the aircraft will record both pod and aircraft generated symbology, while the pod will only record pod generated symbology. So in most cases, it is not a 1:1 representation of what the pilot sees in the cockpit, at least in terms of the symbology.

 

If you see any aircraft where the TGP image is green, it's because the aircraft itself is showing that, be it due to filtering or simply the fact it uses an older monochrome display.

[JayPee]

DCS A-10C QUESTIONS

 

If you see any aircraft where the TGP image is green, it's because the aircraft itself is showing that, be it due to filtering or simply the fact it uses an older monochrome display.

 

 

So, knowing the jet has relatively modern MFCDs, what does it look like in the real 10C? Monochrome grayscale or green, as the two pictures in ED's manual suggest the latter?

 

Thanks

Edited July 30, 2014 by JayPee

[shagrat]

Thanks Eddie!

[Eddie]

So, knowing the jet has relatively modern MFCDs, what does it look like in the real 10C? Monochrome grayscale or green, as the two pictures in ED's manual suggest the latter?

 

Thanks

 

The pictures you refer to in the DCS manual look grey to me, just looks like a colour cast/off white balance from the camera.

 

Look carefully and you'll see the pod generated symbology on the screen which is white has a slight green hue to it as well. That pic is also showing the IR camera image and not the visible light CCD camera.

[wolfstriked]

Anyone know of a sound mod that changes the wheel sound as they travel on the surface?Its the only sound that bothers me and I have looked everywhere on the net and nada. :(

[GripenNG]

Anyone know of a sound mod that changes the wheel sound as they travel on the surface?Its the only sound that bothers me and I have looked everywhere on the net and nada. :(

 

I have never heard of such mod. How can you even hear that through the engines may I ask? ^^

[wolfstriked]

What I mean is the sound when your wheels touch the ground on landing and as you roll down runway.

 

Also,I keep getting a popup on the hud that says note.How do I open it to read it?

[Zee Pet]

Usually on the R MFCD bottom right, usually not anything major, sometimes just a temporary alignment message for WCMDS, jdam etc. At least that's what I normally encounter.

Edited July 31, 2014 by Zee Pet
Too many usually :|

[GripenNG]

What I mean is the sound when your wheels touch the ground on landing and as you roll down runway.

 

Also,I keep getting a popup on the hud that says note.How do I open it to read it?

 

Hmm hard to tell straight out of the memory, but I believe NOTE will flash for a second or two during the re-alignment after landing. If it won´t go away, try pressing CLR on the UFC or FA on the CDU.

 

If you see NOTE on the HUD it advices you to check the CDU status line. Mostly about WARM START message or any errors in the alignment for the computers.