I hope you won’t mind if I ask a couple of real noob-type questions, even though I’ve been flying on and off since the original Falcon 4.0 emerged. I began with a TM F-16 TQS, then a TM Cougar, modded it with U2NXT hall sensors, and so on, and I’ve just bought a TM Warthog.
In the beginning you had to program the TQS yourself using James ‘Nutty’ Hallows ‘Foxy’ programming language. Made your brain hurt. As BMS developed it got easier and easier, until in the last iteration I flew (BMS 4.32?) I just loaded the keyfile which Dunc had so kindly made, and lo and behold I had a fully-functioning F-16 HOTAS.
The only downside was the wretched Cougar forever losing its firmware, and having to re-instal it and recalibrate stick and throttle, which was a right pain especially the radar cursors (you could never figure what was ‘up’ and ‘down’…).
OK here’s my questions:
1. So if inside BMS 4.35 I load the ‘BMS-BasicDX TM Warthog.key’ file kindly provided in the ‘Docs’ folder, and assign axes appropriately (my Warthog seems to be missing a Radar Antenna Elevation knob but I guess there’s something else there on this impressive chunk of hardware), is that it - I mean have I got the equivalent of Dunc’s proper F-16 HOTAS, and nothing else to do? I see by the way there’s a very neat routine for assigning both afterburner and idle/cut-off detents.
2. If I’ve done this I don’t need the BMS Alternative Launcher, right?
3. Finally, and I feel even dumber at this point, is it right that I don’t need to instal any TM drivers for the Warthog, and I don’t need to calibrate it?! If so, it was worth the money before I’ve even plugged it in.
Last couple of years I’ve been flying 1930s & '40s propliners in FSX (the old version which works properly), and I am pretty excited about BMS 4.35 and getting back to shooting things down and blowing things up - oh, and being shot down. Thanks wonderful BMS developers, my heroes.
Alan