EcceHomo Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Activate FCS DEL: 1.PITCH RATE GYRO 4 CHANNEL FAILURE 2.ROLL RATE GYRO 4 CHANNEL FAILURE 3.YAW RATE GYRO 4 CHANNEL FAILURE 4.NORMAL ACCELEROMETER 4 CHANNEL FAILURE But in the game there are no such failures. So there is no way to start FCS DEL? There is no FCS DEL in the game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David OC Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Not sure what your after here, start FCS Bit test at startup? Download Chuck's F/A-18C Hornet Guide and see if you can see the problem. Little more info what your doing or want to do would be good. i7-7700K OC @ 5Ghz | ASUS IX Hero MB | ASUS GTX 1080 Ti STRIX | 32GB Corsair 3000Mhz | Corsair H100i V2 Radiator | Samsung 960 EVO M.2 NVMe 500G SSD | Samsung 850 EVO 500G SSD | Corsair HX850i Platinum 850W | Oculus Rift | ASUS PG278Q 27-inch, 2560 x 1440, G-SYNC, 144Hz, 1ms | VKB Gunfighter Pro Chuck's DCS Tutorial Library Download PDF Tutorial guides to help get up to speed with aircraft quickly and also great for taking a good look at the aircraft available for DCS before purchasing. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Are you by chance looking for the FCS Reset button on the left panel, next to the rudder trim, just aft of the throttle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EcceHomo Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 F-18C FCS has three control modes: CAS, DEL and MECH. DEL is a backup of CAS. Del cannot be enabled without the four failures mentioned above. DCS F-18C has no way to set up those four faults and can not enable DEL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EcceHomo Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 Are you by chance looking for the FCS Reset button on the left panel, next to the rudder trim, just aft of the throttle? Not sure what your after here, start FCS Bit test at startup? Download Chuck's F/A-18C Hornet Guide and see if you can see the problem. Little more info what your doing or want to do would be good. F-18C FCS has three control modes: CAS, DEL and MECH. DEL is a backup of CAS. Del cannot be enabled without the four failures mentioned above. DCS F-18C has no way to set up those four faults and can not enable DEL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flamin_Squirrel Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 There was no ability to set failures at all when the Hornet first came out, now we have some. Hopefully we'll get more as time goes on, and you'll be able to simulate this scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtySanchez Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 OT: In some parts of the flying world - primarily the parts which dont have ejection seats - painstaking systems knowledge is sometimes all that separates the good from the dead. There is no detail too small to tuck away in the back of your mind for that unlikely day when you have cascading failures and dwindling options. But then, maybe things are different if you're "flying" from the inside of a CONEX container at 0ft and 0kts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EcceHomo Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 This is not something that would be deliberately done in the fleet (you might have na experimental software for testing at Pax River or EDW), so it stands to reason that you wouldn't be able to force this mode in DCS either. That's not for the 300-hour nugget (that's you). It's more likely that if this mode is modeled at all, it would be accompanied by a loud bang, fire and immediate ejection. That stuff is in the NATOPS because it's fun to write NATOPS exam questions with it. I know this because I used to be the evil bastard writing NATOPS questions for the RQ-2, and -10 exam questions for the RQ-7 and MQ-1C. All these questions do is bread out the grades to find out who that A, B and C, D and F students are. Rarely is it actually useful stuff in an emergency. DEL is not an emergency mode, it exists as a DEGD of CAS. And ED simulates MECH, which is really used as an emergency. The focus of the problem is that RATE GYRO is not given in ED. And now there are problems with FCS pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wait4It Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 (edited) ...And ED simulates MECH, which is really used as an emergency.... Would you mind explaining how you triggered the MECH mode in the sim? I was trying to do the same, but couldn't manage it. Edited April 10, 2019 by Wait4It Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G B Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 (edited) I have never heard of DEL occurring in the actual airplane. Never heard of an instance of it. You’d need to remove some of the feedback loops in the FCS logic to cause it. I don’t think that’s possible to do intentionally. That said, DEL flies very close to CAS according to the sim, so unless it’s just for a novelty I don’t know why you’re that excited about it. That being said, MECH has happened in a couple of very rare occasions. Needless to say that is a very serious situation and the jet is much more challenging to fly. If you want to try to induce MECH, shutdown an engine airborne. When it’s done spooling down, reduce the other throttle below 85%. Then start maneuvering more aggressively (place a demand on the hydraulic and FCS systems). Obviously, you never want to do this in a real jet. If MECH occurs it means a lot of things have gone wrong, and your bad day went to even worse because of the challenge of flying in that mode. MECH is something that happens TO you; not a mode that you invoke. Edited April 10, 2019 by G B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wait4It Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Thank you for the detailed explanation. I'm just curious how the plane will handle in this situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G B Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 DEL is very benign. Very much like CAS. MECH is a very sensitive, and unstable feeling mode. It is very difficult to control precisely in pitch. Roll is not as responsive either. Join us on Discord to get more questions answered. https://discord.gg/QJRCM6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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