No AWACS Contact

[rico]

Hello...

I think im doing something basically wrong.I cant get any contact to existing AWACS (E3...) in my missions.Though i tuned my radios to the right freq and band,no submenu appears pressing F7 (AWACS) in the CommMenu...How to make it right?...

 

Sincerely,

Rico

[KKR75]

What I understand from your post is:

 

Say AWACS freq is 124.0 on the VHF/AM radio, as defined by mission briefing.

 

1. VHF/AM radio is turned on.

2. Freq is adjusted to 124.0

3. HOTAS Mic switch FWD to bring up the VHF/AM comms menu.

4. Select F7 (AWACS) submenu

 

At this point, no options appear?

 

Is this a custom made mission, or a system mission / system campaign?

[rico]

Yes,exactly...It is custom made.

[KKR75]

Then it is definitely a problem with how you setup your AWACS flight to operate, inside the mission editor. As I haven't yet created a custom mission with AWACS, I can't help you further, but that's the area you need to concentrate on (there's probably some actions you must define, for specific waypoints).

 

I suggest you open up a mission that already has AWACS operating properly (say mission Push-1.1.miz from the Georgian Hammer campaign), and take a look at how that object is setup.

[CEPEGA]

I had exactly the same problem, but figured out why this happend. I guess you use TrackIR (TrackIR 4 Pro here), because this was the reason for my problems! I solved this problem by remapping the TrackIR F-keys to the numbers wich are above the keys on the keyboard. Then i was able to contact the AWACS. If mapping the TrackIR keys back to the F-keys (TrackIR standart are the F7, F8, F9 and F12 keys), the AWACS (and ground crew of course) don't work again.

 

Hope this will solve your problem too :)

Edited July 27, 2011 by CEPEGA

[rico]

Thanks...Yes. TrackIR5. I'll give it a try...