Comms Menu Aid
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As the title says “Comms Menu Aid”. This is a simple PDF with all the Commands laid out in an easy to navigate “clickable” manner, and easy on the eyes.
It’s very helpful in VR if you use voice command tools. I use it to keep handy the comms commands that I don’t typically use often. I put the PDF on my Openkneeboard app and reference it in VR.
I don’t use the in-game comms menu in VR because it makes me crosseyed and if you use voice command tools the automation of pressing ttt4 when the comms menu is glued to your right or left eye is very distracting and bothersome.
This is the first iteration and was developed post Falcon BMS version 4.37.u2. So that is the version it is compatible with until the comms menu changes again.
All comments and critiques are welcomed.
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@Todd1215 nice. how do you avoid doing the ttt4 tho?
does g_bDisableCommsMenu not work for VR?
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This is a really great radio menus guide!! Thank you very much, @Todd1215 !!
example image:
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@airtex2019 disable comms menu does work for me, its just that I can’t remember all the voice commands cuz’ I’m old…So I need a reference tool like this PDF and some good glasses for my VR headset to be able to manage it all as I can’t see the menu any longer.
Also typing in the chat while in VR is a bit cumbersome to say the least. I did create a custom voice command to do it for me but it is brutal to write out and doesn’t always work.
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@Todd1215
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@Todd1215 Sweet, thanks! Why are there “tabs” on the left side?
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@Atlas To easier get to those sections.
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@Todd1215 Thanks. Nice idea and very usefull
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@Todd1215 said in Comms Menu Aid:
I can’t remember all the voice commands cuz’ I’m old
I can identify with that!
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@Todd1215 these work in Openkneeboard? How do you access these aside from Openkneeboard’s own “tabs”?
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Beautiful!!
Just one small thing. There is no
Request Overhead Approach Heavy
, I guess if you are heavy (with ordnance) you’d want to be doing less manoeuvring. -
@CriticalMass I suppose you are right on that point - the BMS Radios Menu doesn’t have an entry for that one…
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@CriticalMass Hmm you are correct and makes sense. I will make the correction. Thanks for the input.
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@Atlas Using in open kneeboard you have two methods. If you have a compatible drawing tablet you can just use the pen to click the tabs , or if you don’t have one you can map HOTAS buttons to next page or previous page and then navigate back and forth through the document that way. It’s the same thing if you where to use the new BMS checklist for tablets. There’s links you can click to jump to the proper section or just page through the document.
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@airtex2019 I use VoiceAttack and AVCS for Falcon BMS.
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@Todd1215 I don’t have a tablet. Can you please elaborate more on that other method you’re describing?
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@Atlas goto Openkneeboard documentation look at getting started. it talks a little about bindings. If you open the app and go to settings->Input you will see that it shows your HOTAS devices. There you can bind buttons to show / hide the in game window, page through the docs or change to different docs.
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@Todd1215 Yes so in the bindings window, it can only let you go to next tab or previous tab…
Is there a way, for example, to go from the ATC section of your kneeboard to the Flight section without having to go through AWACS - WINGMAN - ELEMENT to get to Flight?
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@Atlas I want to know the same,
I divided the checklist pdf in 3 parts (pre-engine start, start flow and emercencies) and added to 3 different custom tabs in OpenKneeboard. But the EP part is arranged in a way that it is not fast and not easy to navigate. So is there a way in openkneeboard to create tabs and quickly navigate to it, or to interact with the links in the document directly in game?
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@Atlas Only with a compatible tablet and pen