Red and Green Smoke Pods, anyone get them to work?

[Sickdog]

I apologize if this has been discussed before, I did my best to search the forums and came up empty, as well as searched through the manual with no success.

 

When I select the load-out "show" (red and green smoke pods) I'm able to get the red smoke to work on the the right wing but not the green smoke on the left. I noticed the DSMS page incorrectly thinks it's an AIM-9 (IFIRC), but the left pod is incorrectly listed as the ECM pod (IFIRC too!). So, I'm able to select the profile for the aim-9, hit the pickle switch, and voila- Red smoke! But I'm unable to highlight the ECM pod (makes sense since there's nothing to shoot)...

 

Perhaps where I'm going wrong is reprogramming the inventory, and I haven't had any success with that yet. Still begs the question, why would the DSMS inventory be incorrect when you jump in the pit if it's a load-out that is selected in the GUI? Never had that problem before.

 

Ok, I realize I shouldn't be wasting time putting on airshows and I should get busy plinking tanks, but hey, it looks like fun to pop off red and green smoke! (the red smoke looks awesome!)

 

Thanks for any help in advance!:)

[Crosser]

goto your DSMS, and in inventory for stations 1 or 11, goto the missiles page, it'll be CATM-9. However, I do not believe you can select both at the same time. The way around this is to manually select one on the dsms turn it on, and then select the other and turn that one on. Both will puff.

[Le0kong]

Yes, you can use them and both simultaneously too. Like Crosser said just select them manually, it will say 'Air to Air' mode, use the 'Weapons Release' on the HOTAS to turn them on and off. I tried blue and red and works ok.

[Sickdog]

Thanks for the help guys. Ok, this might be turning into more of an issue with setting up my inventory than anything else. I was still unable to find the answer to my problem with a search of the forums and reading the inventory section in the manual.

 

When I goto the inventory page I'm able to select the AIM-9 OSB for station 11, and I'm able to change it to the CATM-9 (tried both the 1xCATM-9 and 2xCATM-9), but didn't make any difference since I was able to fire off the station 11 (red) smoke when it was set to AIM-9. The problem is still station 1. When I highlight it in the inventory page and goto the subpage, I'm not presented with any of the weapon type options (rack, pod, missile, bomb, CBU, and GBU) on the left and right side OSB buttons as shown in the manual on page 279 (in old manual, sorry). And, if I clear the AIM-9 on station 11, again I'm not presented with the above weapon type options (and for that matter, none of the stations give me the options when I clear out invalid stores). I've tried setting master arm to safe, arm, train, and also tried setting on the ground vs. in the air with no luck.

 

Also, the OSB's on top giving the options to INV STAT and HOME TER don't do anything when I have a cleared out station, nor do they give me any options to change that listed ECM pod on station 1, where the smoke pod is that I can't get to work.

 

What am I doing wrong? Is this a basic thing and should I feel stupid? ;)

 

Thanks again for the help!!

 

** Edit**

 

Ok, so I tried loading a different mission where I start on the ground, called ground crew to rearm with the "show" load-out, then I was able to successfully see the options in the inventory page to set my stations up properly. Then I was able to get both the smokes to activate. I'm not sure why the first mission (that I created and it starts in the air with the show load-out) didn't allow me to see those options in the inventory page. Whatever.

 

Thanks again guys!

Edited February 28, 2011 by Sickdog