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OK, I'll take a look...

WC

The Revised and Graphically Upgraded Skate Zilla Version:

Thank you

DOH

Fixed... Late Start was set. Should work now for Client Hueys 12-15.
( secret -- the cargo transport isn't needed, yet. Just get the Hueys into the cargo drop zone and that'll do)

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Mol -- Bast and you have my written permission to run Red Square Parade on Bast's server. That mission is his. Take it from there, or let me know if you want changes.

Wrecking Crew

So we just need to take the Huey to the green smoke on the hill overlooking Zug Bridge? SHHH Sorry I didn't know it was a secret.

Me and Crowley tried the Sling Loads (External Loads) but its still really buggy. Since 1.2.9 came out the slings had issues. In 1.2.8 they worked great. What happens is the pendulum effect gets exaggerated for whatever reason and you end up beating the helicopter to death with the load. Sounds crazy but it does. Its like the sling load and the client Huey are not in sync. I will give Zug Bridge another shot.

Oh and sorry for the Surprise Shilka shot last night... I am not very good with CA but I was trying to hunt you down... LOL

I want to enhance the clues for the Huey paths to the drop points. Maybe smoke or flares. Need to account for which drop points have been reached, so the Huey pilots know which ones are still 'open'.

I expect the Hueys won't do well on the red side of that hill -- not with the Shilkas and Tunguskas.


I did add more red armor. Those units will need to be driven to the combat area around the bridge.

WC

The map that the Huey has is fine but it needs to be zoomed in you can see the way points for navigation... I am not sure how that's done but if you open the knee board and look at the way points they all run together with the labels and looks like chocolate and vanilla swirled ice cream... oh man ... be right back heading to DQ.

Work in progress... Blue smoke will appear for Huey drop zones that still need supplies -- smoke changes to Green when delivered.
... still need to finish to logic.

Meanwhile... IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT!


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From my F-15C kneeboard experience -- my F-15C kneeboard is mapped to the DMS switch on the Warthog. It is setup so that I can increment through all the kneeboard views, and there is an icon update so when I switch it that shows my current position as a purple arrow thingie. As I do the update the arrow advances to my current position and from that I know where I am and where I'm going. (If life was soo simple...)

WC

Ok, on Southern Storm for the red SU27's it says "YOUR FLIGHT IS DELAYED TO START, PLEASE WAIT".

OK COPY THAT

Friday night flight --



"What is the fire extinguisher key?"





Skate and BEANS get some action --





Fly Me To The Moon --


Clear skies --


The Bridge!


Red is winning...


WC

Someone replay the track from the bridge mission and get a video clip of me shooting down Neil in his SU33. I chopped throttles and hit the airbrake and gunned him down when he shot by.

I opened the track up and finally figured out how to un-pause it DOH That's the first time I've looked at one. Didn't have the patience to sit through it, though


I *did* make F-15C control changes. Added T/O Trim, messed around with the engine start/stop controls, and added a Mouse_Btn_1 modifier to the mouse camera views X, Y & Z so the mouse won't fight my TrackIR. Looking through all of the F-15C commands, there doesn't seem to be one for a fire extinguisher.


That was a fun session in Air Bridge last night -- we had a good crowd. The mission should have reset after Blue got to 6 points, but there was a logic error that is now fixed. I thought about taking out the Radio Menu item to reset the scores but did not; hmmm, I can add a delay to that with a Cancel option.


WC

Good God, playing on other servers is a real experience. Some very childish folks out there. A big thank you to WC and Eno!

Where's the screenshot of me with 3000+ points from the A-10C Mission with No TGPs or MAVS!?, lol.

I'll be scarce the next month or 2, the Pots on my Pedals have all gone bye bye.

The Rudder Pot sticks and jumps, the Right toe brake skips and jumps.

Which makes taxi, take off and landing a big problem.
(trying to taxi, and then keep it straight on the runway, and right after take off.)

Originally I was gonna take apart the CH Stick and take the POTs off the 2 Trim wheels, but I dont think they are the same, and I dont really wanna cannibalize from the stick.

So at this point, just by looking at my testing/calibration last night,

I need 3 new POTs for the Pedals, Also need to check the USB Wiring at the entry point of the pedals as it looks pretty rough.

I need 1 New POT for the Throttle, which has been jumping up and down randomly as well.

Hopefully I can find them online cheap, I had a link to buy them directly from CH, but the link no longer works and I cant find it on their site, seems they offloaded parts to other sites.

Anyone have any Links to buy them? (Save me a week or two of searching, lol)

I'm not registered at CH-Hanger, it'll be a few weeks before I can budget anything, Hockey Skates just took the rest of my spending budget.

Hey Skate, forgive me if you have done this already but my Pro Pedals had bad spikes in the curves as well. It wasn't the pots though. I took them apart and recrimped all the wire connectors to all the pots, both the toe brake pots and the slider pots in the base using a photo guide off of CH-Hanger.

Voila - no more spikes at all in any curve. Make sure to do that first before going the $$$ route. I really should have thrown some solder at them while I was in there but they have been accurate ever since so I will wait and see.

Hope that helps and sorry if knew that already.

Tankerwade

you have link to that guide?

I've taken apart my pedals once already and swap pots from left to the right toe brakes and cleaned them and it didnt resolve the issue,

At first it was not a show stopper, I just increased deadzone so it would jump and flicker in the deadzone, and jump a lil in the active range, but now it's jumping from 0-50% of the axis. and very twitchy, so I think the POT is finally going.

Skate - PM sent

You are welcome, Sir!
You are an admin on HP, BEANS, you have control of the horizontal and the vertical...

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I hadn't seen a DCS Stopped Working message in quite a while -- but there was one just now on Hollo Pointe, and BEANS was frozen in a slot... Don't know when it happened or what mission. Hollo Pointe has been running for many days with nary a DCS stop and restart -- instead doing Select Mission, just to see how it would hold up, and I'm pleased with how well it is doing on this v129 release.