Hi, Complete newcomer to BMS (and study sims). So I'm going to post here from a very naive perspective. I'm following the training manual and I'm finding it good, but at times a bit "frustrating" with some omissions that leave the reader a bit lost. I'll give a couple examples later, although watching some of the videos has also helped significantly, so I might have missed other things. But before that, I'd like to suggest something a little more profound. Judging from my experience, and lots of threads online, one of the main challenges a newcomer faces is actually doing the key mapping. It's overwhelming to map dozens of buttons when you don't know what 90% of those do and if they even matter at all. I think each of the training missions could have a preliminary section where the user can incrementally be informed of what new bindings are now necessary to add. This might be particularly useful when it gets to advanced stuff like weapon systems (I haven't gotten there yet). I don't know if this follows the "spirit" of this training manual, as I can appreciate if it's written to emulate a real life training guide (and you don't bind keys in real life! :P). But I think this would make BMS much more approachable to complete beginners, as they'd be guided both on how to use the systems, as well as to what they need to bind at that point in time, without being overwhelmed by things they don't yet need to understand. With that said, here's a couple more tactical pieces of feedback, following the template: Document: BMS - Training Manual Page: 41 Original sentence: “Passing 14000 feet set your altimeter to QNE: 1013 Mb or 29.92 inHg.” Corrected sentence: “Passing 14000 feet set your altimeter to QNE: 1013 Mb or 29.92 inHg (use the barometric setting knob, located at the lower left corner of the instrument. Refer to section 29.1 of the -1 flight manual for detailed information about the altimeter)”. Rationale: As a newcomer, it's not obvious how to adjust the Altimeter, and which units does it use (Mb or inHg?). Reading the -1 clarifies it, but one needs to know what to look for (e.g., there's no mention of QNE on the -1). This also fosters a closer relationship of the user to go back and forth between the training manual and the airplane manuals. ==== Document: BMS - Training Manual Page: 55 Original sentence: "In this training it is recommended to take seat #2 or #4 of the flight." Corrected sentence: “In this training it is recommended to take seat #2 or #4 of the flight. " The image could look something like this:

@ohommes said in [F4TS and Windows 11](/post/340434): >

I am planning to upgrade to Windows 11 but fear my pit will have issues with regards to specific drivers and devices.

I know BMS 4.35.3 works fine on Windows 11 but what about the following:
1) F4TS (Falcon4 to Serial)
2) TrackIR
3) DEDCapture ( Really the FTDI 2.X drivers)
4) vJoy and Joystick Gremlin

Does anyone have any experience with these on Windows 11?

Can only speak for #2, TIR works perfectly.

@airtex2019

1. If I set display #2 (HDMI) in windows to main display and launch BMS in windowed mode(with BMS set to #1) it works fine (on Display #2 albeit windowed).
2. If I switch BMS to Full screen no sound. If I switch back to windowed still no sound.
3. If I launch BMS in full screen with it set to either #1 or #2 (leaving WIN main set to #2) No sound.

If I launch BMS set to Display #1 and WIN set to Display #1 the sounds comes out Display #2 the only way I can get sound back to laptop D1 is to unplug D2.
I tried multiple combinations it seems not to like Full Screen on Display #2 regardless of the setting combinations.

@arbush
I have a same issue with the BMS. If I want to use it on my laptop when I connect with HDMI to my 55" lcd TV. There is no sound. If my settings are clone the displays or extended. Only I have sound if I change my settings that the TV would be the first display. I have no other connection plug on my laptop just only one HDMI for external display. The top of that I have 2 GPUs in my laptop, one of in my CPU like an IGPU and one dedicated . the picture is hand over to the secondary display, but the sound seems to be not. And also have a problem, to not can be set the resolution different then on the first display
This issue happen for me since 4.34.

if ATC told you that you are #2 that means you are #2 which means you must take off behind the J11

yes, i already know

the problem is therefore that you are placed in #2 instead of #4
can u confirm that it is a taxiway arrangement problem (only in Osan)?
i can't choose start position freely, so i can't test all parking lots 1 by 1.
i tested other airports, seems some parking lots don't have this problem. but i m not sure. I don't have the tools or ability to test more.

how many times will I have to repeat it
you have to wait for 4.36
Not only code has benefit from fixes but all airbases have been redo

if ATC told you that you are #2 that means you are #2 which means you must take off behind the J11

yes, i already know

the problem is therefore that you are placed in #2 instead of #4

can u confirm that it is a taxiway arrangement problem (only in Osan)?
i can't choose start position freely, so i can't test all parking lots 1 by 1.
i tested other airports, seems some parking lots don't have this problem. but i m not sure. I don't have the tools or ability to test more.

you call taxi ok
the you are granted taxi ? Yes or not ?

if yes after you start taxiing the other aircrafts don’t continue taxiing ?

yes, i m granted taxi, in number 2 in queue (in the pic above).

no, they don’t continue taxiing. only J-11 continued taxiing and takoff, all other AI flight stop.
now Mig-29 stop at taxiway before me, so i can't takoff too, (unless i go into grass land, overtake him, which not real life action)

if ATC told you that you are #2 that means you are #2 which means you must take off behind the J11

the other AC stopped to let you overtake

the problem is therefore that you are placed in #2 instead of #4

this has been fixed in 4.36

@Gear5 Hi, which TE mission works for you ?
Could you make a quick video of how you setup your flight for a simple campaign mission with AI ? I just retried on a fresh 4.35 install and it still does not work.
I'm on UHF 6 and VHF 15. I can communicate with awacs and wingman with radio and DLNK page is set to intraflight UHF with XMT10 OWN 11 and #1=11 and #2=12 but I still can't get the CONT mode enabled or DMD.

@Freejack

Hello, dear mate.

About your question #1: sorry, but you can't "port" a TE (i.e., mission) created for a theater (Nevada, for example) straight to another one. The result would be a real mess at the end, to keep the talk short.

About your question #2: if you are currently flying Nevada (a theater I love, by the way) have you ever tried to fly one of those custom ones (two! ) I gave? Please give a look to the last page there, IIRC. If you couldn't download them, please give a call, by PM.

Hope these helped.

With best regards.

<p>@Amadeus75 yepp indeed he did. <img src=“/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f60a.png?v=1g16vn91q2r” alt=“😊” class=“not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji–blush” /> </p>

<p>@philip40912 I already noticed some issues with FMAP generated from F4WX and above all, saved in BMS : <a href=“https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/21137/weather-issue-visibility-changes-after-saving-te” target=“_blank”>https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/21137/weather-issue-visibility-changes-after-saving-te</a><br /><br />recently, I noticed some discrepancies with FMAP always generated from F4WX & Weather commander & 3D : <a href=“https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/22103/weather-discrepancy-weather-commander-briefing-with-fmap-generated-from-f4wx/2” target=“_blank”>https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/22103/weather-discrepancy-weather-commander-briefing-with-fmap-generated-from-f4wx/2</a></p>

@airtex2019

I agree, current quality of speech is fine, it gets the job done.

My basic thoughts for if this is doable is the fine work that has been done on the ATC comms part. In comparison this seems like minor additions.

Basically hook into what the lead is doing and have that transmitted as text-to-speech: when he switches to tanker freq he says so. When he switches to tactical he says so. When his state machine has figured out what degree turn to take, express that vocally (ideally a few seconds before he actually turns 🙂 )

I often have AI #2 and #3 report higher fuel than me and #4 about equal on initial climbout until I call for the first formation change.

@mav-jp As a lead of a 4-ship with 3 AIs, it would be realistic to be able to tell the element (#3+4) to go and refuel, before #1 and #2 refuels later on. With 4 humans, this works flawlessly as long as #1 and #2 stays more than 10 nm from the tanker when the element calls into the tanker. Has that been considered as an element command ?

@alfred said in [Tanker question](/post/336585): > thank very much you for the responses. How can we make the element refuel before the wingman, say for example the wingman is half empty but the element is bingo. I was thinking rejoin call to the wingman If your element and/or wingman are AI, the refuel sequence doesn't allow the swap among flight ship. When I get other members running on vapor, I use to call the tanker for refuel and, once received the clerance, call again for "done refuel". This let the #2 to go at precontact position and take fuel. Same for elements if present. Then, I contact the tanker again to take fuel on my own. When refueled, I call "rejoin" to my flight to determine the end of refuel. Don't forget to call the tanker for "back to pre-contact position".

@alfred Usually the tanker has a 5 hour refueling window so that should not be a problem. If you are flight lead you can choose to do so no problem since your flight does what you want them to do. So any time you check in with the tanker they follow. If you are flying as #2 (or #3 or 4) with an AI flight lead, your flight lead might not consider refueling outside the given steerpoint sequence.

There are a lot of variables when it comes to AAR so let me present a possible explanation. Any additional info you can provide might help to narrow it down. First, I personally have never tried the scenario I think you are presenting; a 4-ship flight made up of human, AI, human and human in that order (so 1, 3 and 4 are human but 2 is AI). I don't think that will make a difference to the tanker but again, I have never tried that. One possible explanation could be in when the tanker was initially contacted. If, for example, #1 and his AI wingman were within the 10nm bubble of the tanker but 3 & 4 were outside the bubble then only 1 and 2 would have been entered into the queue. There would be no way for you to know or recognize this until #2 finished in which case the tanker would think it was done (this appears to be what happened). If #3 would have called for the tanker at that point (using Y1) the tanker should have put him (and #4?) in the queue and possible even 1 & 2 since they would all be inside the bubble. The only thing strange we are seeing on a consistent basis is that if you need to refuel more than once, on any AAR after the first one you will likely need to press Y2 after being cleared to precontact in order to get cleared into contact position. First AAR works fine but second, third, fourth, etc. all require this extra step.

@kenguan said in ["Tips & tricks" / Tactics to be used with AI](/post/335302): > I'm flying campaign missions as a single player with AI wingmen, starting off with AA missions (BARCAP, SWEEP, ESCORT). > I realise that real life tactics with wingmen will not work with the AI wingmen, so my question is - is there any tips & tricks on how to deal with AI in such missions? > > Cheers! First I make sure to keep them in close formation using the "Close up(?)" wingman (and same to Element in a 4 ship) command over and over. until very tight. Unless all hell breaks loose I will assign a target to #2 and give the "Attack my target" command. Unfortunately you can only give *one* command to the Element lead for #3-4. Keeping you wingmen close and on "Weapons Hold" assures when you are in range, he will be also and not flying off into the oblivion. it's not uncommon that given a "weapons free" command to find your wing 25 miles away, not so good when your next command is "Clear my 6".. Now if I find myself in a big mess, it's Weapons Free and say a prayer... :face_with_rolling_eyes:

@gusva said in [Some suggestions for improvements for the next versions \-4\.5 ?](/post/332743): > Gentlemen, > > With the new technologies in graphics cards I see that we have many new graphics effects that should be implemented in the next versions of the BMS, not only that, we should think about improving the graphics beyond the simulators that have no title competitors, but are not even close the degree of maturity of this beautiful project that is the BMS. > > I'm going to put below 3 items that, in addition to improving the graphics engine, it would be desirable to have in the BMS, thus we would be far from these pretentious competitors. > > 1 - Global World > > We have many sets or theaters of war, KTO being original is the greatest example of efforts to always be very well done, and it really is a great setting. But we have several scenarios that share partially or totally the same maps, this is very isible in scenarios across the Mediterranean where each scenario has to make another map. > > My suggestion would be to make a code core where the base is a global scenario, a globe, without graphics, and each map generated creates the 3D of those conflicts in that region. For example, Balcans takes Italy and part of Greece, so the Greece vs Turkey war scenario shares the same map. It would be visible the sum of efforts of the developers of these two scenarios creating separate theaters of war but improving the same region of the 3D map. This would increase development efforts in the same location without re-mapping the maps and still give you better control over the approval of code to enter the BMS without making errors. > > The difference would be the choice of the theater of war, which you choose by geographic coordinates the conflict zone on the map already developed or under development. Gulf War, Israel, Greece x Turkey, show a complete zone that all these developers together would make the same map and would have several separate theaters of war each with its history and its conflict. > > 2 - Weather system > > We have a simple weather system in the BMS, where graphical improvements should be focused here, but reality can also help us. It could implement in the BMS code base the weather forecast based also on real information in NOAA. Below is the topic I wrote about this topic. > [Wheater Suggestion](https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/15529/suggestion-for-improvements-in-bms-meteorology?_=1635269169885) > > 3 - NPC crew participating in the simulation > > I'll be clearer here, it would be very interesting to have in the BMS code (in GTA5 it's called NPC) I don't really know the name, but people controlled by the AI that would be, for example, airport ground crews and/or the Aircraft Carriers that would participate in the RAMP like for example would remove the shocks, the red flags of the landing gear and armament among all the preparations for takeoff. Of course, in the future it could include soldiers in the battlefields as there were in Falcon 4, but in Falcon 4 they were in 2d. > > that's my 5 cents of opinion For item #2 On The graphics side YES definitively we need to improve clouds massively But we have a weather model , with temp , pressure , humidity , clouds types , turbulences , wind , wind aloft , convection , clouds elevations , number shape and sizes. , icing conditions , fog , everything evolving in time ,and space I wouldn’t say our model is so simple …..but that’s my POV. We need much nicer clouds drawing but our weather modeling is already way ahead some -erm- “competitors” And for your information we do have real weather modeling in BMS based on GFS forecasts , maybe you don’t know how to use it ?