15:28...well guys never do a disconnect after refueling like this, just reduce power to idle , close tank doors and safely separate from the tanker, then....move to stern right side of the tanker (right back side), man , pretty close, anyways cheers my friend and good job despite that unsecure separation...is the easiest part
Good Tutorial, I specially liked that you show what are your control inputs (using the small Windows to the left), makes much easier to see what are you doing to keep the aircrafts joined. Thanks a lot, its a really helpful video and also you have a clear voice and diction, which is important to those of us that are not native english speakers :) Cheers!
Hey JP, I just got my HOTAS system a few days ago and tried DCS again. Since A2A refueling was way to hard before with my old 3D Pro i never managed it till now. So i wanted to try that again and watched your video to prepare myself. Total time on tap was 8:15 (40% Take off fuel) , and with all the disconnects about 20mins until i got that refuel complete message :) Thank you for all the helpful tips :) Cheers!
I'm glad this 7 year old video was still able to help someone😊 Brings up good memories. You've got some nice relaxing videos too with beautiful scenery and graphics. I know nothing about trucks though but I will check them out later.
Please clarify this "missile step button". I see it nowhere. There is a "pinky switch" on the warthog hotas, but it is on the throttle. It is not a lever. There are two inputs on the joystick that are near the pinky, but nothing to do with "missile step", which doesn't exist on this aircraft. Are you talking about the nosewheel steering button or the paddle? You said, "Paddle" "Pinky Switch" and "Button" all in the same tutorial.
On my HOTAS COUGAR the missile step button corresponds to the MASTER MODE CONTROL BUTTON on the WARTHOG stick. It's the button that is at the top of the stick on the right side, operated by the right index finger. At the time I started DCS, the WARTHOG HOTAS was not available yet. Hope this helps.
I've just tried with my Thrustmaster Warthog.. it's Indeed the Nosewheel Steering button 😉 Thanks to you JetPilot, it helped me à lot "resetting" after one disconnect
Can you press escape and then click on briefing? Or you can bring up the kneepad while flying with CTRL+K and use your keyboard commands to cycle through the pages until you see the briefing file. Hope this helps.
Talking about rudder, may I ask do you use the curve setting on the rudder to make small physical rudder input translate into even smaller input in the game? When I do very small rudder movements on my physical rudders (less than or up to half a cm I would estimate) the plane in the game already swings like it got kicked in the side, especially the DCS WWII planes and the choppers. I am not sure if that is a feature of my rudders (Thrustmaster Pedals) or if it's me being clumsy...
Sorry for the late reply but my pc has been in the shop for weeks now due to a defective water cooler. I have the combat rudder pedals by Thrustmaster and if I remember well I said something about rudder sensitivity being too high in one of my videos. So I am guessing (I cannot check until my pc has returned) I setup the rudder curvature in DCS to be less sensitive in the beginning. So not linear but exponential. It is true that they are sensitive as hell and no airplane that I have flown in my career has such sensitive pedals, not even the aerobatics ones. Secondly, I do not use the rudder pedals when refuelling in the air because it causes a tendency to over-correct. I have no idea however if real A-10C pilots use it during refuelling or formation flight. I do know that on airliners the rudder pedals are never touched except for aligning the airplane during crosswind landings/takeoffs, for taxiing and braking and also for single engine flying of course. But in flight the rudder pedals of an airliner are too sensitive and could even cause oscillations. Even lightly touching the pedals less than half a cm in cruise flight (and I've tried it!) causes flight attendants in the tail of the airplane to loose their balance a bit). You do not need rudder pedals in flight for turn coordination since flight spoilers take care of that and there is also a yaw damper. On small general aviation airplanes and gliders however you will always have to use rudder in combination with stick to have a coordinated turn (ball/turn/slip indicator centred). Lastly, rudder sensitivity increases as airspeed increases as you probably already know. And the A-10C has two rudders and two tails so I'm guessing it's quite sensitive. But then again, it has SAS.
No worries and many thanks for the detailed answer. That's great input to set up the sim a bit more towards realism. Without first hand experience those are details that are difficult to learn about, so very valuable that you share. Thanks again and hope you get your pc up and running soon again :-)
Donte Anka SAS does all the work no need for yaw adjustments when aerial refueling just trim for altitude and make small roll and throttle adjustments.
Jet Pilot like on the a-10c when you press Left alt and C you can click buttons and they activate/ deactivate things. But on the a-10a the. You click the buttons for the navigation like you said they are not able to be clicked. Sorry if this doesn’t make sense but I am still trying to put the problem into words.
I know, in the beginning it looks almost impossible and it can be frustrating. But the more you practice, the more your skill will improve. Until you reach a point where it suddenly works every time. Then it's really rewarding. Do not expect it to work with a few hours of practice. It's perfectly normal that you fail at it every single time in the beginning.
150 MHz?? Bwahaha 😂 not even close!!! Our AR Track here is 352.6,(AR Primary) 260.2 MHz AM mode 150mhz is land mobile radio,local police,fire,emergency,also its FM
15:28...well guys never do a disconnect after refueling like this, just reduce power to idle , close tank doors and safely separate from the tanker, then....move to stern right side of the tanker (right back side), man , pretty close, anyways cheers my friend and good job despite that unsecure separation...is the easiest part
Good Tutorial, I specially liked that you show what are your control inputs (using the small Windows to the left), makes much easier to see what are you doing to keep the aircrafts joined. Thanks a lot, its a really helpful video and also you have a clear voice and diction, which is important to those of us that are not native english speakers :) Cheers!
Thank you very much for your encouraging words, Rudelchw!-) I am glad you liked it.
How do you pop up the controls diagram?
Hey JP, I just got my HOTAS system a few days ago and tried DCS again. Since A2A refueling was way to hard before with my old 3D Pro i never managed it till now. So i wanted to try that again and watched your video to prepare myself. Total time on tap was 8:15 (40% Take off fuel) , and with all the disconnects about 20mins until i got that refuel complete message :)
Thank you for all the helpful tips :)
Cheers!
Great job, I'm glad it worked out well for you;)
Good video, my man. I appreciate it.
I'm glad this 7 year old video was still able to help someone😊 Brings up good memories. You've got some nice relaxing videos too with beautiful scenery and graphics. I know nothing about trucks though but I will check them out later.
Great tutorial. Great more so for the formation hints. Thanks
Well done sir, great tutorial, thank you.
I do not really comment on TH-cam but, I did like your video and you also have an extra subscriber now too :)
Thank you very much for your kindness;)
Please clarify this "missile step button". I see it nowhere. There is a "pinky switch" on the warthog hotas, but it is on the throttle. It is not a lever. There are two inputs on the joystick that are near the pinky, but nothing to do with "missile step", which doesn't exist on this aircraft. Are you talking about the nosewheel steering button or the paddle? You said, "Paddle" "Pinky Switch" and "Button" all in the same tutorial.
On my HOTAS COUGAR the missile step button corresponds to the MASTER MODE CONTROL BUTTON on the WARTHOG stick. It's the button that is at the top of the stick on the right side, operated by the right index finger. At the time I started DCS, the WARTHOG HOTAS was not available yet. Hope this helps.
I've just tried with my Thrustmaster Warthog.. it's Indeed the Nosewheel Steering button 😉
Thanks to you JetPilot, it helped me à lot "resetting" after one disconnect
I thought the HSI needles showed the way to the tanker
+Jet Pilot How do you get the mission details to appear while flying the sim?
Can you press escape and then click on briefing? Or you can bring up the kneepad while flying with CTRL+K and use your keyboard commands to cycle through the pages until you see the briefing file. Hope this helps.
Talking about rudder, may I ask do you use the curve setting on the rudder to make small physical rudder input translate into even smaller input in the game? When I do very small rudder movements on my physical rudders (less than or up to half a cm I would estimate) the plane in the game already swings like it got kicked in the side, especially the DCS WWII planes and the choppers.
I am not sure if that is a feature of my rudders (Thrustmaster Pedals) or if it's me being clumsy...
Sorry for the late reply but my pc has been in the shop for weeks now due to a defective water cooler. I have the combat rudder pedals by Thrustmaster and if I remember well I said something about rudder sensitivity being too high in one of my videos. So I am guessing (I cannot check until my pc has returned) I setup the rudder curvature in DCS to be less sensitive in the beginning. So not linear but exponential. It is true that they are sensitive as hell and no airplane that I have flown in my career has such sensitive pedals, not even the aerobatics ones. Secondly, I do not use the rudder pedals when refuelling in the air because it causes a tendency to over-correct. I have no idea however if real A-10C pilots use it during refuelling or formation flight. I do know that on airliners the rudder pedals are never touched except for aligning the airplane during crosswind landings/takeoffs, for taxiing and braking and also for single engine flying of course. But in flight the rudder pedals of an airliner are too sensitive and could even cause oscillations. Even lightly touching the pedals less than half a cm in cruise flight (and I've tried it!) causes flight attendants in the tail of the airplane to loose their balance a bit). You do not need rudder pedals in flight for turn coordination since flight spoilers take care of that and there is also a yaw damper. On small general aviation airplanes and gliders however you will always have to use rudder in combination with stick to have a coordinated turn (ball/turn/slip indicator centred). Lastly, rudder sensitivity increases as airspeed increases as you probably already know. And the A-10C has two rudders and two tails so I'm guessing it's quite sensitive. But then again, it has SAS.
No worries and many thanks for the detailed answer. That's great input to set up the sim a bit more towards realism. Without first hand experience those are details that are difficult to learn about, so very valuable that you share.
Thanks again and hope you get your pc up and running soon again :-)
Donte Anka SAS does all the work no need for yaw adjustments when aerial refueling just trim for altitude and make small roll and throttle adjustments.
How do you do it for the A. when i click things they do nothing...
I have no idea what you mean. Could you be more specific please? What are you trying to do and what are you clicking?
Jet Pilot like on the a-10c when you press Left alt and C you can click buttons and they activate/ deactivate things. But on the a-10a the. You click the buttons for the navigation like you said they are not able to be clicked. Sorry if this doesn’t make sense but I am still trying to put the problem into words.
Do you mean this: forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=93252
He seems to have a similar problem and it has been solved in the forum
Thank you man!
You’re welcome;) I’m glad it works for you now.
without auto throttle this task is almost impossible
I know, in the beginning it looks almost impossible and it can be frustrating. But the more you practice, the more your skill will improve. Until you reach a point where it suddenly works every time. Then it's really rewarding. Do not expect it to work with a few hours of practice. It's perfectly normal that you fail at it every single time in the beginning.
X-ray band. Sure. Lol.
Bwahaha! Also 150 MHz??? 😂
that's what it's called
@@Pisslizard no idea what you are saying.
150 MHz?? Bwahaha 😂 not even close!!! Our AR Track here is 352.6,(AR Primary) 260.2 MHz AM mode 150mhz is land mobile radio,local police,fire,emergency,also its FM