MP servers blocking the use of Tacview? That sounds rather paranoid and is, to my knowledge, also futile. As DCS automatically records a track of every MP session, you could simply disable Tacview while actually playing, but reenable it for the replay of the track. A bit tedious, but unless servers can also forbid the recording of DCS tracks, there is nothing keeping you from using Tacview for flight analysis if you really want.

There are of course legitimate reasons for disabling the data export functionality which Tacview makes use of.

Actually no. You can keep it for free, but some things become disabled ... typically things that no one uses anyway.

Hmmmm... Does sound great, however I'm totally clueless on how to use it.
Installed it this evening, icon looks real cool on my desktop. Can't find an instruction manual in my install.

How to make it work, and how to "read" missions off my fav sims?

Cheers,
Slug

Just start it up, and explore its menus by clicking on the big icons at the top. Very small icons in the lower right corner indicate for which sims recording is enabled. Just fly a mission in your favourite flyable, and you should find an ACMI file in the recording folder (which you can set from the menus). Or just download a demo ACMI file from the website. Open it and explore!

I gave this a shot and I think it's really good. The bubbles showing anti-air threat ranges is one of the things that really makes it great!

Be that as it may, it isn't free-ware.

You can turn the standard 'mist' effect down within one of the menus, so that you can see further on the map too.

I downloaded this after reading this thread, and i think this tool is amazing. Having a chance to take a look at what went wrong, why you got shot down etc is extremely valuable. I can see this improving the performance of any player who bothers to review their sorties after the fact.

As well, i discovered another handy use... I was just playing on the =STP= server, and after spontaneously blowing up on the runway, i wanted to know what killed me. Lo and behold...

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Hmmm, what steps do I need to take to enable it on my own server?

I works just great in single player but I want it to track in mp for the coming weekend where a friend and I have a weekend of A-10 flying

Thanks in advance
Mark

You don't need to enable it on the server. It will automatically record on each client it is installed on.