Helios and P-51D / TF-51D


Using similar techniques i used before width the F-15C profile, i managed to send a lot of data from DCS to helios using just the FC2 interface.
In the future i want to create a new interface for Helios that cover all the clickable data, but for now, i use the FC2 profile to export as many data as posible.

For this profile i exported Radio Indicator Compass, Ias, clock, suction indicator, manifold pressure, altimeter, gyroheading, Flight Indicator ADI, Horizont caged, 
coolant temp, rpm, carburator temp, oil temp, oil press, fuelpress, Gmeter, Gmax and Gmin, VVI, sweep ball, turn needle, back radar light, landing safe light, 
landing unsafe light, high blower light, oxigen flow, oxigen press, hydraulic press, Anmeter, left tank fuel, fuselaje tank fuel, right tank fuel, 
rokets counter and all vhf radio lights and buttons.

I also included switches and buttons for the front Dash, right panel, weapons panel, fuel panel,  K-14 gunsight selector-dimmer panel and the VHF radio.

I included, aswell, a new keyboard configuration of several switches that don't have a key asigned in DCS, so to enjoy at 100% the profile, you need to configure those keyboard in DCS. 

Of course i added the navigation panel from others profiles, so you can check airport charts, tactical maps, ndbs, etc

 

- Profile files:

P51_v1.0_esp.hpf	.....................16:10 monitor resolutions, qwerty spanish keyboard
P51_v1.0_eng.hpf	.....................16:10 monitor resolutions, qwerty english keyboard
P51_v1.0_ger.hpf	.....................16:10 monitor resolutions, qwertz german keyboard
P51_v1.0_ita.hpf	.....................16:10 monitor resolutions, qwerty italian keyboard
P51_v1.0_fr.hpf		.....................16:10 monitor resolutions, azerty french keyboard
P51_v1.0b_esp.hpf	.....................16:9 monitor resolutions, qwerty spanish keyboard
P51_v1.0b_eng.hpf	.....................16:9 monitor resolutions, qwerty english keyboard
P51_v1.0b_ger.hpf	.....................16:9 monitor resolutions, qwertz german keyboard
P51_v1.0b_ita.hpf	.....................16:9 monitor resolutions, qwerty italian keyboard
P51_v1.0b_fr.hpf	.....................16:9 monitor resolutions, azerty french keyboard
P51_v1.0c_esp.hpf	.....................5:4 monitor resolutions, qwerty spanish keyboard
P51_v1.0c_eng.hpf	.....................5:4 monitor resolutions, qwerty english keyboard
P51_v1.0c_ger.hpf	.....................5:4 monitor resolutions, qwertz german keyboard
P51_v1.0c_ita.hpf	.....................5:4 monitor resolutions, qwerty italian keyboard
P51_v1.0c_fr.hpf	.....................5:4 monitor resolutions, azerty french keyboard
P51_v1.0d_esp.hpf	.....................4:3 monitor resolutions, qwerty spanish keyboard
P51_v1.0d_eng.hpf	.....................4:3 monitor resolutions, qwerty english keyboard
P51_v1.0d_ger.hpf	.....................4:3 monitor resolutions, qwertz german keyboard
P51_v1.0d_ita.hpf	.....................4:3 monitor resolutions, qwerty italian keyboard
P51_v1.0d_fr.hpf	.....................4:3 monitor resolutions, azerty french keyboard


- Export.lua:

Important notice !!
Included in the Scripts folder, you can find a new export.lua, ready to export data A10C, KA50 and FC3 at once, plus F-15C, and all the changes needed to implement this new P-51D profile.
You need to use this export.lua to work width the P-51D profile, or the instruments dont show the correct values.
This file is a modified version of the Loophole Updated version from 09/11/2014, ( http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=97222 )
the modifications i made correct some HSI data and waypoint distance to work properly, and all the changes i made to export additional data to Helios when you fly the F-15C and all the aditional data to export the P51D and TF-51
In others words this is the most updated export.lua, so you can fly width any of my actual profiles, ka50, su25t, f-15c and p-51D, also compatible width a10c.

- Buttons and Switches:

I have included in the profile, a series of switches and controls, bindend to their corresponding keyboard shortcuts, so we can handle the most usually systems from the profile. But you have to take in consideration the fact that DCS does not send us the status of some of those switches, so to work properly and keep synchronized, should just activate it from the Helios profile and not from the keyboard.
    Some of the swithes and butons i used, dont have a default key configuration in DCS so you need to configure those keys in the options/controls section of the game, to enjoy the profile at 100%.
You can find the table of keys on the Installation section of this document.


- International Keyboards:

Some switches and buttoms use key bindings that can be different depends of the keyboard you are using.
I prepared 5 diferent setups for spanish QWERTY, english QWERTY, italian QWERTY, german QWERTZ and french AZERTY, so you can start the one you need, but you can change it on the profile, aswell, using the keyboard panel selector.
For other foreigner keyboards, I included on the images/Capt_zeen/docs folder a txt width a keyboard table and the switches that probably you'll need to change if your keyboard assignaments dont work well.

- Monitor aspect resolutions:

For the first time, i made four different profiles aspect ratios: v1.0 for 16:10 monitors, v1.0b for 16:9 monitors, v1.0c for 5:4 monitors and v1.0d for 4:3 monitors. Use the one better fit width you monitor resolution.
If you dont know the aspect ratio from your monitor divide the width by the height of your resolution and compare the resoult on this table:

	width/height = 1.6   you got a 16:10 monitor
	width/height = 1.77  you got a 16:9 monitor
	width/height = 1.33   you got a 4:3 monitor
	width/height = 1.25   you got a 5:4 monitor


- Thanks:

I made the entire graphic art, based on screenshots of the simulator, and the textures from the game.

I used the airport charts from http://www.virtual-jabog32.de and the tactical chart TC-1 created by =MAF=Mongoose and the NDBs list created by Lino_Germany.

For the export.lua i used the Loophole version, compatible width KA50, A10c and FC3.

I want to thanks them all, and of course, I want to thanks Windfire and Guincho, from the KA50 wing from the spanish Escuadron-69, which have been commissioned to test in depth the profile to identify possible errors.

And of course to Gadroc for creating this great software.

 

----------------------------------------Profile Features

- Front Dash Indicators:

	- Radio Indicator Compass
	- Course knob
	- Clock
	- Directional Gyro
	- Airspeed Indicator
	- Altimeter and atmospheric pressure knob
	- Bank and Turn Indicator
	- Suction Gauge
	- Manifold Pressure Gauge
	- Flight Indicator ADI and cage knob
	- Carburetor Air Temperature
	- Coolant Temperature
	- Tachometer
	- Rate of Climb Indicator
	- Oil Temperature, Fuel, and Oil Pressure Gauge
	- Accelerometer, Gmax, Gmin and reset button
	- Oxygen Pressure Gauge
	- Oxygen Flow Indicator
	- Landing gears safe light and test button
	- Landing gears unsafe light and test button
	- Parking Brake Handle


-K-14 gunsight selector-dimmer panel:

	- Gyro Selector Switch
	- Gyro Motor Switch
	- Dimmer Rheostat


-Engine control panel:

	- supercharger blower switch.
	- high blower lamp
	- fuel booster switch
	- oil dilute switch
	- starter switch
	- primer switch.


-Weapons Panel:

	- ignition selector switch
	- bomb-rocket selector switch
	- bomb arming switches
	- cockpit light switch
	- gun safety switch
	- rocket release control switch
	- rocket counter
	- rocket reset knob
	- rocket delay switch
	- horn silence button


-Fuel Shutoff and Selector Valves panel:

	- fuel shutoff valve
	- fuel selector valve
	- landing gear fairing door emergency release handle
	- left wing main tank indicator
	- fuselage tank indicator
	- right wing main tank indicator


-Electric panel:

	- circuit breaker panel
	- right-hand fluorescent light rheostat
	- ammeter
	- generator disconnect switch
	- battery disconnect switch
	- gun heat switch
	- pitot heat switch
	- wing position lights
	- tail position lights
	- recognition lights
	- keying switch
	- Amber Recognition Light switch
	- Green Recognition Light switch
	- Red Recognition Light switch


-AN/APS-13 Rear Warning Radar:

	- Power switch
	- Test switch
	- warning light intensity rheostat switch
	- Volume knob for VHF set


-VHF Radio:

	- OFF button- Channel A Selector 
	- Channel B Selector
	- Channel C Selector
	- Channel D Selector
	- Mode switch
	- Selected Channel lights
	- transmission light

-Radiator air control panel:

	- Landing Lights switch
	- Coolant Switch
	- Oil switch
	- LH Fluor Light Swicth

IFF RADIO and HOMING ADAPTER panels:

	- All switches included even they are not operative on game actualy, but just in case they come one day.
 

- Navigation panel:

	-Airports visual operation charts v4.04
	-Airports diagramss v4.04
	-TC-1 Tactical Chart
	-Caucasus general area map, with airports and table width freq, locations, ids, etc.
	-Airport Circuit Example
	-List of the NDBs


- Keyboard panel:

	- Panel to change internationals keyboards


- About panel:

	- Info about the profile and version.


--------------------------------------------------------------  INSTALLATION

-Install Helios if you don't have it yet. (http://www.gadrocsworkshop.com/helios/latest)
-Copy the profile on the profiles folder, usualy in user/my documents/helios/profiles
-Copy the folder Capt_Zeen on the images folder, usualy in user/my documents/helios/images
-Run the HeliosProfileEditor, load the profile P-51D you want to use, and perform a Reset Monitors from the menu Profile.
-In the profile explorer window, double-click over Interfaces/FC2 line, then enter the path for DCS World, on the FC2 Setup window and click on Setup FC2 buttom.
-Save the profile-Dont forget to use the export.lua i included in the package, that one contains all the commands to work with A10C, KA50 and FC at the same time and the P-51D modifications needed. Copy it in C:\Users\yourusername\Saved Games\DCS\Scripts, but first make a backup copy of your actual export.lua. IF you use Tackview, Tarst or another external scripts, copy the corresponding lines from your old export.lua to the new one.
 

RUNNING THE PROFILE

-Open the Helios Control Center, select the profile and start it.
 

INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARDS

Some switches and buttoms use key bindings that can be different depends of the keyboard you are using.
I prepared 5 diferent setups for spanish QWERTY, english QWERTY, italian QWERTY, german QWERTZ and french AZERTY, so you can start the one you need, but you can change it on the profile, aswell, using the keyboard panel selector.
For other foreigner keyboards, I included on the images/Capt_zeen/docs folder a txt width a keyboard table and the switches that probably you'll need to change if your keyboard assignaments dont work well.
 

UNASSIGNED KEYBOARDS COMMANDS

 Some of the swithes and butons i used, dont have a default key configuration in DCS so you need to configure those keys in the options/controls section of the game, to enjoy the profile at 100%.

		GROUP					COMMAND							KEYS TO ASSIGN

		front switch box		Ignition Switch Left			Lshift END
		front switch box		Ignition Switch right			Lcontrol END
		Right switch panel		Circuits protectors cover		Lalt f
		Engine control			Oil Dilute						Lshift o
		Rear warning radar		Rear warning radar test			Lcontrol f (the default configuration makes the mission to restart!)
		Rockets control panel	Rockets Delay/inst				Rshift f
		Systems					Hydraulic emergency release		lalt o
		Systems					landing gear safe light test	Rcontrol f
		Systems					landing gear unsafe light test	Ralt f


CONFIGURING THE SECOND MONITOR

You dont need to use any special configuration to use this profile, becouse dont use any viewport from the game.

 

KNOWN ISSUES

-As i write before, DCS dont send to Helios the position of some of the switches, so if you change any switch from the keyboard instead from the profile, the Position of that switch can be not coincident anymore until you click again on the keyboard.
In some cases i managed to syncronice some buttons, the radio one for example, so those ones work perfect, from the cockpit or helios.
Other switches have absolute keycommands so if you use it from helios, they auto sincronice width the cockpit ones.
But anyway, to be sure, always use the helios ones !



OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

If you use Helios and TARS or TACKVIEW you can have miss workings due to the way Helios works width the export.lua.
To prevent this, just move the lines for Tars or tackview to the very end of the export.lua in C:\Users\yourusername\Saved Games\DCS\Scripts.

CHANGE LOG  V1.01
 
 - Corrected a problem in the export.lua, now you can use the profiles in multiplayer too.
 - Fixed Starter Switch