I used to use Mic In but sometimes would "accidentally" press Mic Fwd/Dwn as well so changed to Mic Up.

Einstein... had a great time flying last night. Like I was telling him- I haven't flown MP since LOMAC first came out and I thought THAT was a learning curve. I asked (begged) for a ramp start (because I really haven't been practicing my cold starts) and got my wish... and we took off in formation. I discovered during my solo flight JUST before we left that my wheel brake activation was reversed (if you can imagine every prior air start landing I'd ever done put me in the spinnach each and every time as a result). That and I'd mixed up my wheel steering engaged button... Fortunately I stumbled onto those two lessons before our cooperative flight. I had a chance to ask about the seat height adjust button which I'd seen in a youtube video somewhere but could never find again...


We decided on a combination of formation flying to and from the target and a couple of target runs. I'm big into the formation flying now that I have the track IR and proper control devices to make the most of the occasion. I was very happy to see that the pilot's head moves along with your own- which looks pretty awesome when the track IR is on. Only reason I mention it at all is because it REALLY helped with the suspension of disbelief. I looked over my shoulder and there he was- doing exactly what I'd expect a guy to be doing... looking right at me.

Unfortunately one of the other things that has taken me some time to configure properly is the trim control switch. Apparently it's defaulted (even on the Warthog HOTAS) to view control. I do remember seeing somewhere that you only trim a couple times per flight while you might view control more often (with and without TIR). I appreciate that advice but I think I'll go about changing it. Can a person change it so that it's view control while you're outside of the cockpit or do you need to set a modifier?

We did a little formation flying but really I was working full time just trying to keep steady on his side. He had his aircrafted trimmed out all nice and purdy like while I'm banging around like donkeykong with no trim settings. (He did mention the default keys to me at one point but I didn't mess with it for this flight). He taught me about hooking targets through TAD once we were properly configured so I got to do that for the first time.

I soon learned why you're not supposed to use the "Slew button push" as a PTT button because each time I tried to capture a target I would wander off almost every time I tried to talk. This makes that mic up button suggestion even more clear to me.

I made the pretty common rookie mistake of going through DSMS to set up a profile for GBU-12s and then selected them manually. When I dropped on target of course most of you will assume correctly that the bombs stayed stupid and ostensibly "dug up the rose garden." I immediately knew my error and got another shot at it... Einstein took the next run in at a row of large bunkers and dropped a pair of 10s on one of them. To both our amazement, it was as if he'd hit the structure with a water balloon. I set up my own 10s (but forgot to change the drop to pairs) but we quickly found that one was enough.

We did a quick experiment with TACAN and got it working in the ranging function with the (63?) proper number of channels difference as is required. We were pretty close at that point so the range number wasn't even 001 when we tried it out. Point is that it worked as advertised. I think used in combination with TAD it would help to give you some perspective on distances. I was having a bit of trouble interpreting distance on the TAD- perhaps there's a number figure there somewhere that I wasn't seeing.

We both had other commitments to attend to so agreed that we'd do a formation landing. I got to take the lead in and overall it wasn't TOO bad. I touched down a tad on the hard side resulting in a blown L side tire. On reflection I probably should have dropped off the remainder of my groceries before I landed. I had a 10 and maybe a couple more 12s all on that side.



So after that a couple things I'll sort out is the mic switch (mic up is probably the best option), the trim settings... and get a bit more familiar with the cockpit.


Thanks again Einstein! Had a great time. See you in a week!

Great times here too, Eno. Looking forward to flying with you again when you get back.

Lies. All lies. Sim pilots may only trim infrequently but, in real aircraft, the strain of holding pressure against the controls can get pretty tiring pretty quickly.

The groceries were fine - I'm wondering if you blew the tire on takeoff: a takeoff roll with full brakes applied will do bad things to tires in real life - wonder if it's modeled in the sim?


I'll be here!

Seems like you guys had a fun time! Nice to see a new pilot being "welcomed" properly.

Eno, I do advise to re-map that trim hat back to trim (instead of view control) if you have TrackIR and a TM Warthog. I trim a lot during flight, at take-off to get the nose level, after ordnance release to compensate for decreased drag on one side, and so on. External views can easily be controlled with the mouse, ie when you move the mouse the view moves too.

You shouldn't have to adjust your seat height each time you fly -- just re-center your TrackIR. Unless you've edited your FOV settings in the .lua file?

Thanks Ice... I think that sounds like the right way to go. I do occasional recenters as well but for some reason I find I tend to drift downwards in the seat. Perhaps it's just bad posture?

And Einstein- Fortunately for another one of my many oversites (not activating steering in the first place) I think I was able to avoid the "take-off" blowout because the steering needed to be activated to (reversely) apply the brakes. In truth, I may have understated my "...a tad on the hard side." What I probably should have said was "I rolled in like a $#%#'n meteor and my left rear ate most of it."

All I can say is if this is the way the community welcomes all of its new members... Wow. Awesome.

Glad you have that sentiment. Hope to be able to fly with you guys sometime. I wonder when the next Fly-In is going to be...

I'm ready, too... But we don't have a server to invade. The 104th hasn't run theirs because of the 'stopped working' issues in mp, and I haven't heard from stallturn in a few weeks, he's prolly have too much summer fun down under in Kiwi land. But I'm ready to take a Friday vacation day - we could try to shoot for the last weekend of March...?

I'm running a small server on occasion - but still up to my eyeballs in mission design flag logic. I started my server last night before retiring but, once again, the puter had rebooted during the night, there's something in the sim that is causing this, I'm afraid. I did not have time this morning to check the Event Logs.

I will have my server up tonight, Friday, after work. It is on a DSL connection and so far it's limited to 4 A-10C slots.

If there is another squadron with a great internet connection and a DCS server and you want to help with a Fly In, please let us know!

Hope to catch some of you guys on SimHQ TS tonight - in about 7-8 hours.

Wrecking Crew

What time are you on, WC?

I have a huge connection, 980x machine with 6gigs that could probably host games with ease. If all that needs to happen is configuring it as a server with certain settings I could probably act as a hub? Is it that easy or is there more to it? What all is required?

Well, the server needs to run a big-ass mission (lots of targets for the many pilots) and needs to be online for two days to allow those on the other side of the globe to visit and blow stuff up. Aside from that, I'm not sure.