This channel details my journey of learning how to operate the A-10C inside DCS VR, with a focus on realism by following TTP's (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures). Full training and combat sorties are uploaded, screw ups included.
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Hardware: Varjo Aero, 4090, 5800x3D.
October 2023 - Current = 132nd Virtual Wing, 617th vFighter Squadron - Mission Qualified Pilot. May 2023 - October 2023 = 132nd Virtual Wing, 617th vFighter Squadron - MQ Training. April 2022 - May 2023 = 476th virtual Fighter Group, 76 vFighter Squadron 'Vanguards' Line Pilot. Feb 2022 - April 2022 = 476th virtual Fighter Group, 74 vTraining Squadron 'Flying Tigers'. 2020 - Feb 2022 = 378th vEAW Wildcats, 163rd Hog Squadron.
My activity on the ED Forum - forum.dcs.world/profile/119864-ready/ Information about the 132nd Virtual Wing 132virtualwing.org/index.php/page/default
Same question about another your video: the RWR sounds are amazing. I searched on the public download section in the 476th squadron website but are not available. Is it possible to have in any mode?
@@Danguard63 Try this one forum.dcs.world/topic/92508-dcs-world-a10-c-rwr-audio-expansion/ I am not sure if it is the same, but it is public. I can not help you with troubleshooting, not that technical myself. Good luck!
@@Danguard63 Hi sorry I don't want to be difficult but I am not sure if it is okay for me to be sharing these files when they were shared with me when I was with the 476th. If it is not on their public section I think it was for internal use only and then it is best if you reach out to them and ask yourself. Easiest is through their Discord. I hope you don't mind.
Hi I starten on my own and later joined virtual wings where I learned a lot. I am still learning, sometimes feels like I barely scratch the surface. You can see the wings that I flew/fly with in my bio. Best way is to just practice, but I always try to combine theory and practice and try to learn a couple of things every flight, which is easy when you fly in a wing full of similarly motivated guys. I add my learnings to the debrief in the comments.
@@Ready.A-10C my question is because ED encrypted the sounds files (edce exxtension) and the RAE mod doesen't work at all. Can you share this fiiles with me please?
Outstanding content, as always. Thank you for sharing, not much channel has the similar quality content. Are you on the same level with other dcs modules too?
Hi thank you very much. I am focused on the A-10 but on the side I am starting with Helicopters and first will work with the Huey. I love the A2G mission.
openkneeboard.com/features/dual-kneeboards.html I have zoom and gaze turned off. I use a secondary kneeboard which is mirroring the settings from the first kneeboard. On my primary kneeboard (left) I set my procedures folder as default and on my secondary kneeboard (right) I configured my MDC folder. This way the MDC is closest to the CDU, which is easier for copying coordinates while entering waypoints, less travel for the eyes. I put some space between the two kneeboards so it is easier for my kneeboards to figure out at which one I am looking to get the focus so I can use my HOTAS to control the navigation within the kneeboard. If they are too close together I sometimes have difficulty getting focus on the one I want.
FYI - I'm sure you have figured it out by now, but if you get ALGIN RDY error just waggle your wings up down and it will clear. This happens if you fly straight for too long. No need to re-load
Yes it can be done by editing a specific lua. I still have night default color in there. I switched day to black because it otherwise is very hard to read when it is very bright out there in Persian Gulf.
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. I am happy you enjoy watching my flights. If there is anything I can do to make it easier/better to watch (besides developing myself further as a virtual hog pilot and becoming more versed), let me know and maybe I can take it into account going forward. 🐗
GBU-38 and GBU-54 have been reported to be able to get shot down by SA-15. At least that is what I read on the forum. Am not going to get close enough anyways to drop these with an SA-2 nearby. I also engaged the SAMs low too with guns only, but that is quite a tricky ingress, jinking and dodging the incoming rockets. Will make a video on it soon, quite a challenge and a ride.
@@Ready.A-10C thank you. I didn't know that. It seems like they added that in October. It also looks like 500lbs JDAMs might get through unharmed. I'll give it a try and lob some with my F-16 onto a TOR/SA2 site in Pretense. My Mavs always get shot down by TOR
Very nice! Glad to see I'm not the only one doing that. Do you know if that's an actual procedure for the A-10C, or just something that happens to work? The first of my very few videos I uploaded was showing SAM triangulation to the group I played DCS with back then. When I first tried it I was very surprised at the precision that's possible with this approach!
Thanks, I don't think I have seen it in any of the publicly available TTP's and SOP's. I am not sure if this would work or been used IRL, or if the systems are smart enough to do this by themselves. I guess there would also be SEAD/DEAD to take care of the SAMs before the hogs come out to play. I will see if I can get an answer because it is quite an interesting topic. The idea of using triangulation came to me while it was taking us quite some time the other day to find a SAM, we ended up wild weaseling (see my previous video). I practiced VOR triangulation and have seen or read about SAM triangulation on a forum or YT video somewhere in the past, might as well have been yours. All my good ideas usually come from somebody else. :) I have also seen something about finding a downed pilot using radio triangulation, but can't remember how that worked and where/what that was as well..
@@Ready.A-10C In the real A-10C I could imagine the RWR not being entirely precise enough (either the computer, or just the display) so that DCS possibly gives more precise indications. In general an automated form obviously exists (see the F-16/HARM, and all the E-designation aircraft), so an A-10C would most likely get the info from other platforms. But if someone finds themselves in a pickle I can totally see the "poor man's SAM finder" being used, wouldn't be the craziest thing to be improvised during the Gulf wars by far!
Yes you can be JTAC, AWACS, TWR without being a flying pilot. The 23rd Squadron is the place to be. If interested, you are very welcome to join our Discord and start a chat to find out more.
You guys are one of the one other group I have found doing all twelve steps of CAS to the Joint Publication standards. If you can, I would give yourself more time from the "In" call to attack incase the JTAC is busy or can't reply instantly. Good work.
Hey! I like the recording quality on your videos, could you tell me how to record video from DCS VR without shaking? I tried recording from my reverb g2 but my picture is not as smooth as yours.
The open kneeboard is in VR on another API layer. I am using the pen to write on the tablet and don't need to use alt-tab. That is about as far as my technical knowledge goes 😀
Do you know of any public instructions on how to get that API layer setup? This sounds like Greek to me, but this would be a game changer for me @@Ready.A-10C
Nice work! Do you have a physical kneeboard you're looking at? I've been watching Heavy Lift Gaming's JTAC Arma videos for CAS inspiration. Have you seen those?
Nice to see good use of OpenKneeboard, don't see many videos using it. I even put Twitch Chat inside it when streaming, full manuals and even use it in IL2.
Sorry for the Wing's loss, we just lost a member to, not sure if you got to fly with Emmy when you were still part of the 476th but he lost his battle with cancer recently.
Hi bud, thank you, Soran is a great loss for 132nd Virtual Wing. Sorry for your loss as well. Emmy and myself we did not fly together but we chatted some and I remember he made beautiful photographs. Ik knew he was battling cancer.
And something else; thanks to the 476th and 132nd for letting you record your sorties! I learn a lot from seeing missions flown to a high standard and with thorough training. :)
Yes it is getting better. The blur is the peripheral, as configured in QVFR. With my Aero's eyetracking the focus area is supersharp, so inside the headset everything looks clear. But in the recordings the peripheral is very obvious.
@@Ready.A-10C Ahh that makes sense! Does the focus area help improve performance by drawing the periphery at lower resolution? And that explains why I didn't know about the feature as a pancake screen user. Cheers!
Yes this is the purpose of the software. The eye tracking makes sure that wherever I look it is sharp and the other areas are in a lower resolution. So the sharp area is not in the middle, but just where my eyes are looking. By using this software the demand on my system is reduced significantly. The sizes can be configured to best suit any given configuration. I am still tweaking with it. Of course it would be nicest if I would have everything sharp in the video, but it is a tradeoff between performance inside VR and visual clarity inside the recording. I think by time I will find the best balance.
@@Ready.A-10C Like eye tracking in addition to the (TrackIR-style) head tracking? Very clever! Do you notice any delay with the focus area following your eyes? The recording seems perfectly responsive, as far as I can tell without knowing where you meant to look. Most focus lag on RU-vid might be due to the RU-vid compression taking longer to "fill in" detail in the focus area than it takes the software to render it. 👍 The blur is not intrusive (merely noticeable) even watching the recording because I naturally follow your cockpit workflow and look at (more or less) the same places as you do. It actually helps as a highlight for the cockpit interaction in a way, although that's just a side effect of course. Only if I catch myself distractedly staring out the window the blur can seem excessive (for us viewers), and I shouldn't do that to start with ;) Every 6-12 months I catch up with VR progress in DCS and in general and each time I'm surprised how much better it has become again. Really tempted to get a headset myself. Between budgeting for both headset and new GPU, and the lack of contact lenses that fit my eyesight quite right (I need glasses that ain't gonna fit under a headset) I'll have to stay with a regular screen for now. In a few years all this might not be a factor any more! :)
It's called OpenKneeboard and is great for VR users. Even allows for use of a drawing tablet for the ability to write on your kneeboard via the drawing tablet. Pretty cool stuff
@@disaster2master yes I use it, a great tool! I am using a Wacom Intuos mini tablet attached to my knee with a rubber band plus magnet. Works great as well. I have some rotary knobs on my Hotas bounded to the kneeboard for easy scrolling through chapters and pages and even adjusting brightness.
