I just did my first run-through of the BMS Ground Ops training mission with the Virtual Crew Chief, and it was a lot of fun!
Yesterday evening I watched Bogey Dope’s YT video (in which he uses VCC in DCS), and took detailed notes of the sequence of actions and the dialogue from the pilot and the crew chief. Then I modified the BMS ramp start procedure a little bit (from the GroundOps training mission) so as to match and incorporate the VCC dialogue and timings.
I used the procedure described above by @Kavelenko (and approved by @SemlerPDX ) to use the VCC VA profile as a “secondary” (my term) profile alongside / at slightly lower priority than AVCS. I made a few edits to the VA profile, such as the ones @Tomcattwo described above.
It took all yesterday evening to modify my stack of index cards (which is my checklist for ramp starts), so that “my” dialogue is written in red ink, the crew chief’s is written in black ink, and the switchology is still written in pencil. But for me, it was worth it! The procedure went pretty smoothly I will get a little better at “playing along” with some of the timings, but overall everything went pretty much according to plan.
When I got to the end and the crew chief told me to “bring 'er back Code 1”, I was well pleased! This will be fun to practice some more and use on a regular basis. I’m glad that Bogey Dope guy posted his video and his file, and I’m glad it “plays nicely” (with only a little modification) with BMS and AVCS 4. Thanks to everyone who gave advice on this thread, too! I think other BMS users will have fun with this, if they enjoy ramp starts.