Anyone available for a DCS Combined Arms MP session on Saturday, 21 July, at around 20:00 GMT?

Magnum's complaints about having useless A10s overhead not doing proper CAS got me to thinking. I never really considered DCS CA because as I've found out from DCS A10C, what makes it fun is the human beings I fly with. I almost never flew with an AI wingman, and found JTAC procedures to be a pain. But with the possibility of human JTAC, and real human players "down below" calling for help, that puts a whole new level of coolness to flying a dedicated CAS aircraft.

I am re-installing DCS A10C and DCS World now in preparation for this event... I don't need CA if I don't want to do ground troops, right?

Eno, WC, any chance of you guys creating a simple mission and hosting it on Eno's server?

Magnum has expressed interest and availability for this event, so we at least have one guy on the ground. I'm guessing Eno, WC, Tomcat, and myself can do the CAS flight. Anyone else interested in either ground ops or airborne CAS?


EDIT:
A10 Drivers:
-Ice
SkateZilla
Weaponz248
Sethos88
komemiute
Revelation78 - did not specify so I assume A10

P-51
FearlessFrog - tentative

Ka50 Pilots:
jdbecks

SU25 Pilots:
Domestos
Richardg

Ground Ops:
Magnum
Sethos88
alenax

i'd do it in an A-10 if you dont mind being an instructor on how to operate the weapons, lol..

I got the Startup and and parts of NAV down, if not i do it the old way (Take off, and use map to navigate instead of playing around with the Computer inputs, get to target, find a way to arm weapons (which is most likely like 4 button presses), deploy weapons efficiently, head back to closest allied base.

I was hoping to get the weapons systems down this week, but its been TOO hot, depending on temps in my house I cant run games on my PC or my GPU will overheat.

you need DCS World and the A-10C module, if your not doing the ground vehicles or JTAC then you dont need combined arms.

I would love to get in on some action! I would prefer to be in the air in a A-10C.


Skate what issues you having with the weapons systems?

He just needs "training" in the weapons systems. Should be easy enough to do, if I can remember.

Skate, how are you for a training session maybe Friday evening or Saturday afternoon? 20:00 GMT Friday or so? I hope to get my copy of DCS A10 re-installed over the next few days (just waiting for the World torrent to finish, 3 hrs to go) and maybe an hour or two for me to remember the finger acrobatics... never got to anything fancy so don't think I can teach anything about the CDU, but if you just want to put steel on target (or bullets!), then I can teach that.


Erm, I need to interact with JTAC though. Get lased targets and home in on his laser signature and stuff like that, but no "control ground troops" sort of thing.

Ice your good to interact with the ground guys without CA. World has everything you need in it for all the DCS modules. Each module just adds a few things and "activates" a few others. So without CA you will be able to interact with the ground. Example would be guy with CA on the ground calls out a TGT and marks it with smoke and a laser. You will be able to see the smoke and pick up the laser with the TGP. Also coordinates can be given via TS and you can input them into the CDU and get the same effect. So long story short your good without CA.


As for weapons hell yeah easy as 1 2 3. Four separate missions and Skate would be good to go. A Gun Mission, a GBU mission, MAV mission, and a GP mission. Could throw in a fifth mission with a combo of munitions and night time. However four missions and skate would be good.

I just had one training mission wherein you load up what you wanted to practice with, flew, dropped ordnance, then back in. I wonder if I'd need to change anything with that.

Mavs, CCRP, CCIP, guns, sorted! All others are just variations of these basics. It's the finger-dance that needs practice. BTW Skate, you flying with a TM Warthog and TM Cougar MFDs?

You could just go with a mixed loadout. The only reason I went with Four was GBU's drop different than and other bomb. Also there is a bit more to a GBU then the release.

I haven't touched them yet.

I bought DCS A-10 in Feb. PC broke, when I got everything back up and running, summer decided to show up, and this old house dont have AC, so I havent been able to log many hours, I ran through the start up and taxi tutorials.

havent touched any weapons or navigation tutorials

So

So.... I can,
Radio Tower,
Startup,
Radio Tower,
Taxi,
Radio Tower,
Tack Off.


after that, everything from Navigation coordinates entry and arming weapons systems is non existant,

then landing Im good, I dont need ILS or instruments, its about touching down softly.

Weapons are fairly easy. If you cant run the sim I would suggest reading the manual. It goes into what you need to do to release bombs. I do understand that reading might not help but it could give you a better understanding of what to expect.

If you can radio tower you can radio pretty much anybody.