great series. I highly recommend watching.
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Iâm glad they updated this one, itâs fun to fly around in and useful to backseat newcomers with little flght sim experience so they can start to see what things should look like on approach et cetera⊠and along with the basic DCS with the Caucasus map being free it certainly helps get people involved compared to having to convince them to fork out for IL-2 and then also the DLC you actually all want to fly!
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I have successfully the VNAO V1.2 T45 and successfully exported the MFDs. My issue is no head tracking in V1.2 .
My head tracking is running fine. It is working with every DCS aircraft I own except for the T45. When I launch the Carrier Day scenario, I get to the flight selection list and my head movement is seen in the carrier overhead background graphic. I select a flight and launch and once on the deck in the cockpit the head tracking is blocked. My tracking software is running fine as I can monitor its movement in the software on a second monitor. However there is no head tracking in the T45 itself. I can move the view with the numpad keys. Never seen this before and head tracking worked in the V1.1 version. Something n the V1.2 is stopping head tracking. Hopefully someone knows the answer to this issue.
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Is the Track IR assigned in the axis? Itâs per module so something might have gone wrong with the Goshawk.
I do not check the TrackIR boxes in any of the aircraft. The AIMxyZ software is detected automatically by all of my sims. It is and has been working fine for all other DCS aircraft including the F16, F18, P51, and others. The T45 does not stop the head tracking from runningâŠI can monitor movement in the tracking software itself while the sim is running. None are manually configured for TrackIR.
You might want to check in on the VNAO Discord.
That was my first thought tooâŠ
Normally you donât have to, but the Goshawk is a community mod, so maybe itâs different? Itâs easy to check though. Just have a look at the view assignments in the controls.
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I understand, but have you checked?
Itâs the simplest solution and possibly the only thing that could be going wrong.
In DCS, I always fly in VR, but the question had me curious.
I loaded a T-45C mission and my TrackIR works fine. I looked in the T-45C, the UI Layer, and the General control profile and there is no place to enable/disable head tracking. Searching brought up the answer that head tracking is automatically enabled in DCS and if it is not working, to either have DCS scan for input devices again, or check your head trackers software is enabled or toggled off.
I was able to toggle tracking on/off in the TrackIR software v5.5.3.317.
So I would check with your head tracking softwareâs support or the VNAO Discord to see if anyone else has encountered to problem. Since you indicate that you can see heading tracking enabled in the trackerâs software, your best bet might be VNAO Discord, or an LLM AI.
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Hm⊠Isnât there a command for enabling and disabling this in DCS as well? Donât know if itâs module specific or if itâs sticky, but worth a look.
I couldnât find one. It might be module specific, but there isnât one on the T-45C.
Gemini:
The short answer is no, there is no built-in, single-key command within DCS to toggle head tracking on and off during a flight.
Because DCS detects head tracking as a specific input device, it âlocksâ the view axis to that device. Even if you turn off your tracker, DCS usually wonât automatically hand control back to your mouse or POV hat unless you change a setting in the menus.
Then for a work-around it instructs you to go to controls, find your head tracker, and disable the input device.
Or I guess you can use the Marine version, unplug it to turn off, plug in to turn on. 
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Hereâs the thing, he mention this software which is not native TrackIR
So all to me points to the fact that DCS somehow only with that mod cannot assign it to what usually is TrackIR.
But unless we get more data or a screenshot of the axis assignment I canât do more.
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It might be in the UI Layer commands, Center, Pause and Toggle Track IR, but those shouldnât be module specificâŠ
But as @komemiute says, itâs hard to advice without more info.
Itâs not. I said GUI, when I meant UI Layer. Itâs not anywhere in DCS.
I probably remember it wrong. Been ages since I used TrackIR. Or maybe the control mappings have changed?
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According to DCS forums the issue has been resolved: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/203816-vnao-t-45-goshawk/page/69/#findComment-5765982
from the original poster, @machtoo :
Your post led me in the right direction to check. I set this configuration manually for the T45 and it worked. I checked my other aircraft and saw that DCS had set them automatically for the DCS modules in the past after detecting my AIMxyZ tracking software running at the start. I had not set them manually. Apparently the VNAO T45 as a mod did not detect my head tracking software and I needed to set them manually in the axis section. So many thanksâŠissue resolved.
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Well, then he got the help he needed! 
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MF! I KNEW IT!
Iâm the best.
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V1.2 Cold Start training mission stuck at trim check. Have run the trim to both extremes -3 to 8 degrees using the HOTAS trim hat and using the keyboard commands. It is not detecting that the step has been completed. Hitting spacebar does not bypass the step. Any clues?
I found a solution on an old post in the DCS forums. The mission was modified shortly after initial release to only require -2 to 8 degrees for pitch trim check. After downloading the modified mission, the cold start training workedâŠexcellent!
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