Fuel tutorial mentioned half way through for F18 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNdxksab1c_VZY0.html

you skipped the HMD alignment. Very important.

Outstanding, haven't played DCS in 18 months or so, last time we were using stored hdg, looking forward to giving this a try.

Thank you for all the time and effort that you have put into making this informative and up-to-date tutorial showing us how to get the F/A-18C ready for air to air combat.

Couple things I want to mention First, you crank the right engine first. This is very important. Provided hydraulic pressure to you brakes system and powers the proper generator first. It took much longer for the gen to come up when you started the left engine first. For the INS, just no. Bad way to do it and will bite you in the ass when ED does finish the INS simulation. Just put her in GND, box STD HDG and wait 90 seconds, thats it. in that time you do all of your admin stuff like HMD alignment and radar presets. With a fully optimized startup the Hornet goes from cold and dark to ready to taxi in 2.5 mins. That includes rearming, just got to time it right. For rearming change the admonition to SAPHEI 21:25 don't ever do that. You will have to realign the HMD... just use the RECEE event mark switch on the stick to toggle the HMD on and off. 22:17 SCS aft twice here will swap to SA from HSI 23:48 this is all incorrect. Image is pointing to the wrong switch, should be the small grooved hat on the bottom left side of the stick. Forward-Sparrow, Right-AMRAAM, Depress-Sidewinder, Aft-GUN What you have it pointed to is the SCS, which definitely needs to be on that top hat. 24:25 and the most import one is on the DATA page. The hit age out needs to be at lest 8 as it is currently affecting the deletion of trackfiles which is incorrect. 27:53 HSI on LDDI here is a waste, use the AZ/EL at least 28:53 you can see the offset TD boxes, effect of not aligning the HMD

This is the best no nonsense F18 video I have seen. Well done! VERY useful!

Thanks for this tutorial! I just started learning how to actually fight in the F18 (after spending weeks learning to land on the carrier) and this was very concise and clear instructional video. Just a FYI, there is a quick INS alignment mode that takes 90 seconds. On your HSI page, during the CV or GND alignment, press on STD HDG (Standard Heading) and it will align the INS in 90 seconds. In real life, it uses a known heading (plane must be placed at specific spots and headings) to align the INS. In DCS I think it works anywhere.

Thanks a lot, being new to DCS it's really satisfying to have such a comprehensive tutorial

Great breadth. Comprehensive. Thank you.

I just got dcs with a hornet, a viper, and that new apache 😎....without this vid I would be lost, thank you sir 👍👍👍

Great video. I have been flying the F-18 for quite sometime and am a bit lazy with setting up the various systems. Your tutorial made a lot of sense and will adopt your approach to mission setup. Thanks very much and I look forward to more.

Thanks! Needed a refresher after a very long break from DCS. It's NOT like riding a bicycle when you get back in the saddle.

This was great. What an awesome one stop shop video. Thank you

I love watching people walk through this game because I don't know if I'll ever have 1000 hours to learn how to fly a jet that I'll never actually fly (doesn't mean I don't want to!). Thanks.

Just what I need! Thanks!

Great video mate very helpful. subbed

So this is what I'm looking for in a tutorial except for the fact that I'm going to have to watch this frame by frame to follow along

Before getting in the battle space you would generally fence in which includes turning tacan and lights off among the emitters config

Just got my first gaming pc and x56 to learn f18..to be honest its the hardest thing I've played 😪 I've still not been able to bind my x56..but thanks for this video..its helped alot.. Thank you

Watched four of your videos now and am very impressed with content and delivery; you are in my opinion ranking with the best I have watched thus far. I realise people want different levels of immersion and maybe the order you turn the engines on doesn’t matter in a game. However you are the first you tuber I have seen turning on left then right engine. I did see a vid that explained why right then left but can’t recall why. Could you maybe comment as to why you fire up left then right as opposed to right then left? 🙏 and great content and delivery. I am sure if you keep pushing out similar content, your numbers will just grow n grow. Thanks.

In real life, Bitchin' Betty will say, "Mode 4 reply. Mode 4 reply."

Lovely. You took off with the nws on which is not standard.

Noticed that when you pressed the fcs reset you need to have the fcs page open to check if all the x's have been removed from the flight channels

Great video!!! Have you done one on the F16 Sir, i don't seem to be able to find one.....

FCS Bit (the thing with holding the y key) is not needed (for sim quick start)

if u made an excel/notepad checklist i would be amazed

Question. Do you need to set up your nav and radios like this EVERY time you start a session? Or will they save to the server once set? That to me is super intimidating...

How is it that your ASE dot is working? Mine floats about all over the hud and my shoot cue never shows up because of it! its been reported more times than I can count! is there a fix or somehting I don't know about? Amazing video btw!

I must be missing something. I still cannot get proper IFF to work. Every aircraft shows up yellow and ambiguous.

u didn't adjust stab didn't turn on Ur oxygen or bleed the air intakes but great vid love ur channel keep up the great work

Is the decimal point GPS coordinates something newer than 8 months? Or is the waypoint coordinates less accurate than weapons coordinates? Meaning today we enter another set of GPS coordinates after the decimal. I've only been using the jets a few months and things seem to change drastically by the month, lol. It is very confusing ;)

I cant turn on the apu for some reason

Leave the runway, get shot down 5 minutes later, run through another 45 minute starting procedure

huh

This is great but never have and never will play PVP.