For those of us that have bad necks and find it hard or painful to see your six while flying, and the rear side panels when starting the F16 while in VR, I managed to get the free utility called VRNeckSafer going within Falcon BMS.
The link for the utility is : https://gitlab.com/NobiWan/vrnecksafer

The author does not officially support Falcon BMS VR, but some of the issues and solutions that users of other VR flight sims have reported seem to work on BMS.

This information is from testing on an HP Reverb G2 version 2.

VRNeckSafer setup:
Did not use autorotation. Used hotkey rotation.(autorotation will probably work, did not test it)
Under settings : Game mode is “Force Seated” and Position Compensation is “In Seated Mode”.

Also cleared environment data from WMR window and redid the seating calibration:
From the top menu “Set up room boundary”, choose “set me up for seated and standing”. Make sure you are holding your headset just like the cartoon before pressing “Centre”.

The author also has an OpenXR version called XRNeckSafer, which of course does not work with the current Falcon BMS VR implementation.

The replies you already have should see you on your way to installing and operating OpenKneeboard in Falcon BMS.

Regarding the question of displaying the briefing:

1. Create a new tab in OpenKneeboard and point it to the file /Falcon BMS 4.37/user/Briefings/Briefing.txt
2. When you are in the mission screen within Falcon BMS, click on the Briefing icon and click on “Print” at the top of the resulting screen. This will refresh the Briefing.txt file with the latest briefing, and it will echo to OpenKneeboard.
   You need to check your settings under Launcher, config, General, Briefing/debriefing to get it to work properly. “1. Briefing output to file” must be ticked, “2. Append new briefings” and “3. HTML briefings” should be blank and “Debriefing output to file” is your choice (you could set up another tab for this file if you wish).
   The Briefing.txt file page width is a bit wide for Open Kneeboard so you get wrap-around, but it is still readable.

If you want a nice kneeboard of the comms ladder then
3. Create a new tab in OpenKneeboard and point it to the file /Falcon BMS 4.37/user/Briefings/DTC_Comm.txt
4… When you are in the mission screen within Falcon BMS, click on the Data Cartridge icon, go to COMM tab, click on Comm Plan then Save then Load and lastly Print . This will refresh the DTC_Comm.txt file with the latest briefing, and it will echo to OpenKneeboard.

Document: TO 1F-16MAM 34-1-1 BMS
Section 2.1.6
Page 63

The picture labelled as “Multifunction Display with OSB 1-20” labels the buttons in yellow blocks in the following clockwise order from the left hand button on the top row:“1 2 3 4 5 11 12 13 14 15 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20”

The labels should read: “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20”

This manual is version 4.37.5 Is that correct for latest release?

@Zeus Turns out it was a short between the pilot’s ears. Your suggestion worked perfectly, I just had to wait a little longer as I had slightly messed up the start time of the package.

@Kiwispirits After finding that my experience was not the same as other users I eventually uninstalled and then reinstalled BMS. The inconsistencies in the missions disappeared, so my original post can be disregarded.

@delenda If you change the rendering API under OpenKneeboard, Settings, Games, Game Setting from your quoted Steam VR to Auto-detect then you will be able to use your openkneeboard in VR and in non-VR modes.

Document: TO 1F-16MAM 34-1-1 BMS
Section 2.1.6
Page 63

The picture labelled as “Multifunction Display with OSB 1-20” labels the buttons in yellow blocks in the following clockwise order from the left hand button on the top row:“1 2 3 4 5 11 12 13 14 15 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20”

The labels should read: “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20”

This manual is version 4.37.5 Is that correct for latest release?

@Zeus Turns out it was a short between the pilot’s ears. Your suggestion worked perfectly, I just had to wait a little longer as I had slightly messed up the start time of the package.

@Killroy Thanks for the idea, will try that

@Zeus I tried this, but it did not work. Initially I had a solo flight with just me in it, and it did not take off.
I tried a package with 2 elements, 4 planes but same problem. Wondering if this is because I cannot get AI pilots to be assigned to the planes, even if I establish a squadron at the takeoff base before adding the package.
Does this make any sense? Sorry for the newbie questions.

In DCS you can set up missions so that the plane starts off in mid-air.

Is there any way in the Tactical Engagement editor to do the same? With the flight starting at a waypoint along the flight plan?
I am building a bombing range practice mission and although I have the starting airfield and target quite close it would still be good to remove the need to takeoff each time I change loadouts to try different weapons.

I noticed that some of the training missions have managed to do this.

Many, many thanks for making this tool. Locating the information in the manuals was the biggest roadblock for me to learn Falcon BMS. You are a godsend.

@Kiwispirits Never mind, just my memory gone to lala land. No issue here.

Been away for a while and just trying out the new version.
My memory might be suspect, but I thought when doing the data cartridge click dance that there should be lines of settings in the comms tab, but it is empty for all the training missions. Am I delusional please?

I finally fixed this with a very subtle approach: I reinstalled Windows 10 and Falcon BMS.

@airtex2019

Thanks for the reply.

I ran this in the cmd window under admin privilege:
C:\Windows\system32>logman stop HolographicShell -ets

It generated the following error:

Error:
Data Collector Set was not found.

I am using windows 10