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Hey guys, just to add to this drama, I've recently discovered that if the buttons grey out, if you hit the windows key and type STORE and open the Microsoft store that way, they come back... What a wild ride.

Great, I'll have to catch you all online soon then! I usually get back home around 10 on Thursdays, so it'd just be the last half.

Hello everyone, long time no see! I've been off playing Warhammer 40k recently, playing on Thursday nights, and now I see Thursdays are FC nights too! Starts at 9:15 EST, about how long do you all play for?

Ha! And I’ve definitely tried to set real world objects down on VR surfaces 😫

So for those of you with a VR headset, what's your weirdest sensation you've experienced so far? Flying or not? I definitely remember the weird sense of experience-proper vertigo I had the first time I flew in it and started doing hard turns, but I just had one of my weirdest experiences yet. I came in for a landing in 109 in IL2, and I'm applying the breaks to stop rolling, and at the moment the plane stopped moving, my body involuntarily leaned forward, as if I'd hit the breaks in real life. Very strange!

Yeah, so I have no self-control when spending money so I got both FC and Kuban. Buzzing around in VR in a Dr.1 is almost too fun to be legal, but where I’m going to get killed in MP is how hard it is to see behind me now. I can reliably -almost- see the vertical stabilizer, but only for a few seconds. I really have to jerk my torso around, And I inevitably move the stick too. Any exercises to help make that movement smoother?

@AngryGoat Don't worry, I haven't ordered it yet either, but I came here to see what people where saying. It's either FC for $60 with the discounts, or Kuban for $37. What do you all recommend right now? EDIT: Okay, I talked myself into FC first...

The map is definitely a chore in VR. How do you switch between VR and non VR? Is there a quick and easy way to do it?

I am a little miffed about having to re-build my plane collection again, especially if they're doing the bundle approach rather than a la carte like RoF. Buuuuut... having just recently gotten an Oculus Rift, I have to say that I'm very excited about jumping back in with you guys on a server and playing in VR. The relatively uncomplicated nature of WWI planes (without all the switches and buttons) should make VR flying an absolute blast!

So I recently built a new computer. GTX 1070 Ti, the newest coffee lake Intel i5, 16gb of memory... and I got an oculus rift. I’ve been busy playing a bunch of rift games and haven’t really flown much, but tonight I’ve been playing Elite in VR and I do t think I can go back to TrackIR with it! The VR graphics aren’t spectacular, but I’ve been bounty hunting in resource extraction site, and moving my whole body to track targets is just freaking amazing! I don’t know how well some serious DCS will work with it, but I’m looking forward to playing some IL2!

This is vital for flight simming! I don't know how many times I thought I'd seen something off in the distance, only to discover it was just a dirty screen!

Downloading now!

I didn't realize it wasn't working with the newest DCS version until I went back to look at a flight that I really wanted to review

Yeah, so the fix I posted in the OP didn't work. I'm not sure what CMStart is either, so I guess maybe I don't use it? Also, this happens even without TS loaded up.

[For all guests - disable the Microsoft Store (either temporarily or permanently). This is the best possible fix. - @Klaiber] . . . Alright, I think I might have found a solution to the problem that some of us are having with CH Products Control Manager after the Windows 10 update. The issue that I myself was having was that after downloading a profile to the stick, the buttons that allowed me to switch between direct mode, mapped mode and off mode would grey out, and the stick would become unresponsive. Sometimes this was resolved after numerous reboots, but then only until the next profile download. Using the instructions found here I've been able to successfully switch profiles a number of times without encountering the problem. Here's the steps: You need to prevent your computer from saving information to boot faster upon shutdown (you need to turn off fast startup in windows) so that it treats the controllers the same whether you cold boot or restart. 1. Click the start button and type "CONTROL PANEL", then choose Hardware and Sound then Power options. On the left side click "Choose what the power Buttons do". Now click "Change settings that are currently unavailable". Lastly UNcheck "Turn on fast startup (recommended)" 2. Now when you boot from cold boot or a restart it will treat the controller the same way. 3. Boot/reboot the computer. When it comes up DO NOT DO anything related to games or control manager loading scripts. You must open Control Center, or Control manager and wait for about 2-3 minutes until you hear the last chirp of the USB being recognized. Once that last chirp happens you can then load scripts or change whatever. If you do not wait for the last chirp (2-3 minutes) and you try to manage your controllers then you must reboot and start over. 4. Instead of manually opening control center upon startup. You can add the CMStart.exe (CH startup program for the 5 sec delay) shortcut to your SHELL:STARTUP folder. Here's to hoping it holds! S!

Tacview now works with Box?! Anyone had a chance to try this out yet? Tacview 1.6.3 is out! Time to debrief your @il2bos flights!

Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations is about to release it's second stand-alone dlc/campaign, called Shifting Sands. This campaign is going to explore Arab-Israel conflicts, including the Six Day War and beyond. Should be really fun, if anyone is interested! More details here.

For those Ka-50 lovers among us, take a look at this video from the 2 seat version, the Ka-52... https://theaviationist.com/2017/09/19/watch-a-russian-ka-52-gunship-helicopter-accidentally-fire-rockets-at-spectators-during-exercise/

I mentioned this in a post a while back, but I finally finished developing my pictures from the weekend that the Commemorative Air Force was here. Enjoy! http://imgur.com/gallery/65XQt EDIT: Some of the pictures are showing broken in the gallery, but when you click on them, it pulls up the image

Beautiful pics, and that's quite the collection! Slightly off topic (on topic?) there's a neat documentary series called "Plane Restoration" where it follows people who restored various planes including a Dr. 1, P-51, Hurricane, and T-6. Pretty interesting!

That's really neat! The reporter said that to fire the guns, the pilots would have to stand, and fly with their knees? Is that right?

Thanks Barton, I'm continually learning things from you!

We just recently had an event here in Greenville, SC where they had a P-51D, B-29 and an SDB Dauntless on display. You could also pay for rides in any of the three, so they would fly around occasionally too. I live literally right up against the airport where they were at, so I had an amazing few days where I could look up and see a P-51 tearing through the sky. Really quite awesome. Anyways, one of the pilots told a few people asking him about the planes that if we took care of our cars like they did their planes, we'd only ever buy one car in life, and just keep replacing parts. I hope that we can keep seeing these planes flying around for many years to come! And I'll eventually post pictures of the planes, once I get around to processing them!

While we're admiring the scenery, let's remember what the guys on the ground had to live in. This is a really interesting article on the the "Muddy Hell" of the Western Front. https://modernconflictarchaeology.com/my-academic-work/ma/muddy-hell-the-realities-of-the-western-front-conflict-landscape-during-the-great-war/

Great video! I wish that more pilots would have this attitude (including myself!). The kill isn't the most important thing, it's making sure that you're flying in such a way that you're being EFFECTIVE, rather than a maverick. Thanks for the reminder!