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I just started A-10 from years of IL-2 and months of RoF. I looked for these on the forums but could not find answers yet.

 

1. In the training missions. The narrator says I will place the plane in autopilot. Not only does that not happen, I cannot seem to set autopilot at all, in any manner. Is it more that depressing the button on the left panel?

 

 

2. I wanted to try the refueling mission downloadable from the web site. The mission does not show up. I changed the name to the .miz file, it shows up as selectable, but when I do the game goes to the main screen. How do you use the mission files from the site?

 

3. When I use bombs or Mavericks on the training missions, I get the target point lined up and fire/drop the first weapon. After that I cannot seem to get the TV screen/targeting pod back on target. It gives me a gimbel error and I can never seem to get it back on target, even when I am setting the soi. What am I missing?

 

Thanks for your time!

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I don't know about 1 and 2, but for 3 - the cable in the pod can be twisted, and so the pod needs to rotate to untangle it. Make sure you back up your SPI by dropping a markpoint there (because if you just center the pod, you also change the SPI to wherever the pod is looking if you set the SPI using the pod), then center the pod. After it's centered, set that markpoint as SPI and slave the pod to SPI.

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For the autopilot to work a few conditions must be met.

 

First, if you're starting the airplane up cold you'll need the four SAS switches to be engaged, the CDU must be aligned, your navigation mode must be set to EGI, and your EAC switch must be on.

 

Second, before you engage the autopilot, make sure you're in relatively straight and level flight. It won't engage if you're bank/pitch is +/- 5 or 10 degrees. You should hear a chime and see which mode is engaged at the bottom left of the HUD.

 

Edit: China Hat Aft short should slew the pod to boresight; it should also reset your SPI to the steerpoint as stated above.

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It's China Hat aft short.

 

THanks is there a center the pod command?

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Thanks,

 

Love the learning curve. So I'll try setting A/P in flight, but I wonder why it does not work in the training missions. So when I start the airborne ones I have to trim the heck out of the plane to get it stable then can follow directions. But when he says I will engage Autopilot in the middle it does not work. I do get the girls voice saying autopilot but no change.

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Thanks,

 

I do get the girls voice saying autopilot but no change.

 

If you hear "Warning, autopilot" that's Betty telling you that the autopilot was on but now has been disengaged. If the autopilot is on and you try to bank the plane, it will be sluggish to respond at first since the aircraft is trying to maintain the pitch/bank/altitude/attitude that it was set at. The autopilot will disengage and Betty will let you know with that message.

 

If you want ALT/HDG hold (which is what is needed in the training missions IRC) just trim to maintain roughly straight and level flight, doesn't have to be perfect, set your speed and let it stabilize, and hit the button. You'll hear the chime and should see the plane settle a bit.

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2. I wanted to try the refueling mission downloadable from the web site. The mission does not show up. I changed the name to the .miz file, it shows up as selectable, but when I do the game goes to the main screen. How do you use the mission files from the site?

 

 

What are you changing the file name from? It almost sounds like you aren't extracting the zip files, and just renaming them.

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Just tried the refueling mission located here: http://files.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/59524/

...and didn't have an issue running it.

 

1. Download .miz file

2. Copy it either to DCS A-10C\Missions or to USER_NAME\Saved Games\DCS Warthog\Missions

3. Launch DCS: A-10 and play.

 

You can rename it as long as it still has a .miz file extension.

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But when he says I will engage Autopilot in the middle it does not work. I do get the girls voice saying autopilot but no change.

 

I think the narrator is supposed to activate the autopilot. Not you. If you press the autopilot button, then you disable the autopilot which narrator just activated.

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On the A/P the Narrator says he is going to engage, while I let go of the stick the plane rolls right hard and will crash.

 

Will try the mission now. I extracted it and placed it with the other files but it did not load up.

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On the A/P the Narrator says he is going to engage, while I let go of the stick the plane rolls right hard and will crash.

 

Hmm, you might want to try pressing CTRL+PAUSE/BREAK in game to see how the sim is recognizing your controls. Unless the trim is way off it shouldn't "roll hard" at all.

 

Will try the mission now. I extracted it and placed it with the other files but it did not load up.

 

Sorry I couldn't help you with this. IRL I'm an operator not a technician, so I suck at fixing things.

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Posted (edited)

Hi Sluggo,

 

There is a Radio Tutorial in my sig line. It is set up for Realistic Radio settings, not Easy Communications.

 

It may help you get things sorted.

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Radios are a beast in their own so segment out your learning method that best suits you. If you prefer the easy communications mode you just press "\" to bring up the comms menu (make sure the radios are on) and the function keys to select the options. I personally wouldn't recommend that for very long since I believe full control over the radios adds to the realism/immersion if you're into that kind of thing.

 

Full control will take slightly longer to master since you have to manually enter frequencies and select the correct radio in order to communicate. It's great if you have a HOTAS with an extra hat available to map your mic switch to fwd, aft, and down.

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Thanks for all the help. Got the mission running. Even edited it. The Hawgs started too far away and I could not catch up to the tanker. So I edited the mission! yeah. Still have to try the new one. The Radios got mapped to the stick (X645).

 

Just have to solve the autopilot thing.

 

Thanks again!

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As previously mentioned, you really shouldn't have any issue with a/p. If you let go of your controls and the plane veers off, then either you trim isn't right (and it should be in the tutorial missions) or something with your controls is off.

 

As an example, I use a TM Cougar with the ant. elev. rotary for my rudders. I had accidentally bumped it without realizing and plane kept diving towards the ground. Took me a few minutes to figure that out. You should check the centering for all your axes.

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Just have to solve the autopilot thing.

 

Does the autopilot work OK for example in normal fast missions?

 

In TM HOTAS Warthog there are two buttons which can activate/disactivate autopilot:

 

1. HOTAS Left Throttle Button (keyboard Q)

2. LAAP Engage/Disengage (keyboard A)

 

But I think the training mission use only one of those, cannot remember which one? I might be wrong too...

 

Are your keyboard A and Q with defaults?

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On the A/P the Narrator says he is going to engage, while I let go of the stick the plane rolls right hard and will crash.

 

Do you happen to have rudder peddles? if you do go into options and clear everything out that isn't needed for toe brakes and x and y axis, you'll also likely need to invert the toe brakes

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CHeck your controls calibration in windows before loading sim.

 

Mine (rudder axis) has started going hardover and seemes to need calibrating before most sessions. Never used to do it, not sure if its the sim , windows or the controller.

 

Having said that you really do need to use lateral trim in the A10C but as already posted it should be in trim in the training sessions and is usually only after you drop a bomb off one side.

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This is great info! Thanks again for your time.

 

I just made a nice chart on all the controls, That helped me bring all the different represenations together. I will post.

 

So back to the two remaining issues.

 

The Autopilot. Are the keys to assign it called LAAP Path Hold, LAAP Altitude heading Hold etc? (And corrispond to the 2,3,4,A keys?) if so I will check to see if anything was mapped to that.

 

The Trim keys. Trim button works. But any air start mission If I left the stick alone the plane will immediatly pitch right and rolls reletively quickly. Thus maybe I am trying to correct and it is hitting with autopilot? You would think that if a mission starts in autopilot (training) it would be stable.

 

So I will check the calibration of the stick. Check the Rudder to see if anything is mapped to it. and place the A key to an empty stick button.

 

That brings up one more thing, with the brakes are they either "On or OFF" it seems that way. I tried to map the brakes to the rudder toe, but it seems not to work until I use the W button.

 

Thanks again.

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To turn on the Autopilot press "A". "2"/"3"/"4" will switch between the different mode of autopilot. Easier to do it with the mouse I think. Try turning on the controls indicator which will show what the sim is receiving from your controller.

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That brings up one more thing, with the brakes are they either "On or OFF" it seems that way. I tried to map the brakes to the rudder toe, but it seems not to work until I use the W button.

 

With my Saitek pedals it is Axis. Gotta invert the axis as well.

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