You’ll know in 3-4 weeks I guess 🙂

@Dracfalcon:

There is a Balkans theater. Verify which one you are flying in. Is it “Balkans” or “Battle for Balkans”.

“Battle for Balkans”

Happens to me all the time, only way to get it to work is to change master mode, for example to AA and then back.

Right click-join sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. I find it always works for F-16 types but can fail on other airplane types. However if they are airborne and you just double click on the map plane icon it’ll change you to their squadron&flight reliably.

@Stevie:

I get it from Navy guys that do for a living…and doing it in the trainer myself. Yes - the ship steers into the wind. But when you break across the bow and fly a circle vise box pattern the ship/touchdown point have moved to be in the position of your baseline course by the time you get to the groove - which is why it works, and works very well.

You could also manipulate a rectangular type pattern to arrive at the start in the correct position, it would just require too much space and would not enable small adjustments. Fixed-wing recovery procedures are designed for efficiency and precision, hence the racetrack type pattern. Let me know if you can back up your statement, because CV NATOPS does not (to my knowledge. I’ve read it a few times.)

@Frederf:

It’s actually possible to steer the boat such that the vector addition of the ship’s motion and the wind vector combine through vector addition to make the wind aligned with the angled deck. If I remember the deck is angled 17°. If the ship goes forward 25 knots and the wind is 11 knots then you steer 44 degrees right of the eye of the wind. The total wind would be aligned with the deck.

Absolutely, but if there is not sufficient wind over the deck, the boat will “make its own wind” by sailing faster, which it cannot do along the angle deck. That necessarily introduces crosswind for the pilot to counteract. See page 4-10 http://www.cnatra.navy.mil/pubs/folder5/T45/P-1211.PDF I don’t think Stevie’s T-45 sim ride involved this.

@-Wizard-:

The aircraft will jump the chocks without afterburner quite easily at most combat gross weights. That is why you hold the brakes down (toebrakes) whilst checking engine primary and secondary controls.

This reminds me of my days in SAC during alert force exercises. Normal alert exercise starts involved starter cartridges in the #1 and #4 engines, and once they were started, #1 was run up to MRT (or thereabouts) to provide enough bleed air to start the inboard engines. If the pilots didn’t hold the brakes sufficiently, it became darned difficult to remove the forward (of the main gear) chocks. All too many times I darned near broke my toes kicking 'em loose.

@Mower:

Flare to land = squat to pee.

What’s wrong with squatting to pee? Some of the best pilots at my local club have to. It’s not 1950, dude. Get with the program.

Ah, I see…. well practice it anyway, pilots who disobey orders in the air are a liability…

@donw43:

Try this… seems to work for me anyway…
With the mission brief screen up… press the “Prt Scn” button on the keyboard. This action saves a copy of the screen image to your computer’s clipboard.
Alt/Tab out of the SIM… and open the image viewing/editing program of your choice. I use Paint Shop Pro.
Select Edit and “Paste as new image” This should open the image you had saved to the clipboard.
Then resize if necessary in print options

If you press Prt Scn in BMS, it will automatically save a picture in Falcon BMS 4.32\User\Pictures.

@Dayglow:

Realism? What is your external sound level in cockpit set at?

That sorted the problem. Thanks!
I didn’t believe there could be a problem with sound setting 'cause there was engine sound in F-16 even with external sound level in cockpit at 0.

And yes, there are some other issues with A-10. For instance, it pitches nose down quite hard, so various trimmming has to be implemented according to various flight speed

Yes, this is exactly what is happening. It seems to be recording during dogfights only. Thanks

Exactly. IIRC, I use SimTriggerSecondDetent, which again IIRC is the one with the correct avionics. This gives me somewhat an advantage on some when dogfighting, but having the gun fire in NAV mode is simply not an option for me - and I understand its not an uncommon position among a number of the “professional” elite BFM/ACM practitioners at FO.

Should be this:

@Dash1:

VV/VAH – VAH – OFF switch refers to the vertical velocity scales found on the HUD. In addition to the scales, in VV/VAH there is a bank
angle indicator tied on the FPM: 15/30/45/60° and in VAH, there is a roll indicator below the heading tape (if the DED is not displayed in the HUD)
with 10/20/30 & 45° cues. In OFF, no scale or bank/roll indication is displayed.

It is possible but not very forgiving as youll need those brakes to kill speed. Dont think i ever did a landing without them.

worked ok for 500 guys and still is ok just click the correct download.

@lightswitch94:

What exactly is the reason for having to set the channels 63 apart?

The channels are frequency pairs, one receiving and one sending. To get communication with “client type” equipment you have to miss-set both ends so that the sending frequency of one channel matches the receiving frequency of another (both directions). In fact the X-band and Y-band use different schemes for how the frequencies change based on channel number so this will only work in real life on the Y-band.

http://www.e-haf.org/PublicFTP/320/UPLOAD_FOLDER/Charts/VOR%20Frequencies%20to%20TACAN%20Channel%20list.pdf

Compare the frequencies of (N)X and (N+63)X followed by (M)Y and (M+63)Y in the list above and you’ll see why only Y band works at 63 channels apart for suitable values of N and M.

Dedicated “host type” ground-based (TACAN station) or airborne equipment (some tankers) is constructed a different way so it’s able to be a suitable source for whatever channel client. But equipment typical in fighter jets has to use this “client to client” trick to get ranging between them.

@EggsNFries:

You could use the Kneeboard Updater (….) much anything.
Cheers,
Eggs

Ok, All works well. But how does one change the Kneeboard page in another Theatre? I installed the kneeboard mob in the new theatre, using the Korea.HDR of that specific theatre. Opening the mission in WDP, and then using Kneeboard updater does not result in the new kneeboard. Also, when I have two pictures scaled correctly and I want to get it on the kneeboard, it works in Korea, but not in for instance Balkans/Sinai.

So if anyone can shed some light on it, please do! 😄

Another thing to make sure is that you are using the 2nd trigger detent keystroke.

By the way, could you fire the gun successfully in AG mode? Are you just having problem in AA mode?

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking it would be cool to have NK hovercraft flank the DMZ and drop off some tanks and infantry:

This would be done for theme only, although the lack of control of naval units and the inability to program custom triggers (e.g. to spawn a regiment of tanks behind the ROK defenders) makes it mere wishful thinking.