Unsolved Cockpit buttons Missing AV-8B
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@Kavelenko said in Cockpit buttons Missing AV-8B:
@drtbkj Yes this can easily be done, but there’s nothing worse when Voice Attack doesn’t recognize your voice command, and you’re yelling into your microphone as you hit the water lol.
Good idea to map them to a keyboard press or HOTAS button imo.
LMAO, and as someone who has to map such as “Hornet Bowl” for the Ball call , I’m with you.
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@drtbkj - yes, and it doesn’t really have to be modeled in BMS…it’s up to your controller, really…as it’s a physical Stop similar to the Throttle Rail in the Viper.
I’ve seen some really good 3D printed Harrier throttle quadrants both here and around the web…and that’s really what is needed, a decent controller.Not having a good set of Harrier controllers is what keeps most people from operating the current model like a RL Harrier, really. A RL pilot would slam the Nozzles to the STO Stop once getting to Nozzle Rotation speed (which is also a performance calc, and another HUD cue not included in BMS - a Harrier actually has four Master Modes - NAV, A/A, A/G, and VSTOL) and then select UP/AUTO Flaps after establishing climb. The only time he would set CRUISE Flaps is during cross country or long range ferry - not during combat ops. So STO for takeoff/landing, UP/AUTO for combat. CRUISE reduces induced drag by limiting lift, which optimizes max Range and Endurance.
Honestly, there really isn’t any “standard” Nozzle setting for VSTOL ops - the setting required is determined by a set of tables/graphs in the NATOPS pubs (and runway available). Temperature of the day and GWT are HUGE factors for VSTOL ops - you will be either Fan Speed or Temp limited depending on ambient air temp…if you are Temp limited burning water can help. And you only have about 1 min worth of water to burn on a full tank of H2O.
I can tell that there are a LOT of things in error in the BMS Harrier model just from what I read/see in posts…Hover Performance being one of the worst examples. But nothing that doesn’t seem easily fixable, if the effort would be put forth to fix it.
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I would like to say something about what concerns my part of the work (3dpit), but not about the rest …it’s not just a matter of effort. In order to work on this 3dpit again I would have to reinstall windows 7 32bit and use "2009 to be able to edit correctly all my errors (3dbuttons, movement, switches… etc). Simply importing the model in 3ds format would not help me much, I would still have to redo all the cockpit functionality, and it would be a complicated job, given also the changes that were made regarding the avionics of the F16 (which I had to use with the harrier 3dpit). I’m now working on Win10 64bit and "2014 to correct the errors in the F15C 3dpit… but in view of BMS 4.38 I will necessarily have to switch to "2021/23 (or Blender), and work with Susbtance Painter… a complete new way to work. I thank the BMS community for flying the Harrier, and whoever implemented the fixes on my old work (I was not quite at TOP). I hope you can solve the Harrier’s problems somehow. If you want I can give you the model in 3ds format
maybe it would be better to wait 4.38…