DCS Mosquito Radios and Navigation Tutorial

Here's a high level overview of the radios and navigation aids in the DCS Mosquito. I'll show you the standard radio control unit, the T1154 and the R1155 radios in the back, how to use them for direction finding, and also demonstrate the A.1271 Beam Approach system.
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Pilot's raido
2:29 - Back Radios
6:40 - Direction Finding
10:25 - Setting up beacons in the editor
12:17 - Beam approach landing

[@ReflectedSimulations]

As it turns out, I was wrong, you can actually use the T1154 radio for built-in radio comms too. You just need to use the push to talk button next to the navigator. Cool stuff!

[@ChuckOwl]

Which one? The type F button?

[@sloppydog4831]

@@ChuckOwl It is a button on the right hand side aft of the bomber/navigator. In the following video, it is shown at 7:45. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnasgKmLfp2Je6c

[@ReflectedSimulations]

@@sloppydog4831 Indeed. I wonder why it's called 'Morse button' in game, though.

[@sloppydog4831]

@@ReflectedSimulations yep, it is a F Type button. The Morse button is located forward on the right wall. May be a misnomer by ED or something that is not correctly pointed in the real manual. Anyway, would be good to report this to ED.

[@No1sonuk]

@@sloppydog4831 Isn't that forward morse button for the recognition lights? As for the one next to the #2 seat, that transmit button _IS_ used for morse transmissions in CW mode. Though it's not really a good morse key... Try it: Set the T1154 to "CW" mode and press the key. I've just been reading the manual, and it looks like you're supposed to be able to "back-tune" the transmitter to the receiver frequency, but that doesn't seem to be working.

[@williamplayfair364]

my grandfather was a mosquito navigator. Amazing to see what he got up to in there.

[@godsofthemachinegotm8075]

Recently, you asked questions about why people buy campaigns. The answer on this one is why I bought this plane - Because of you - When I listen to your videos I see we think alike about realism. I would not of bought this plane just now if not for your mastery and skills. DCS can become boring in single player after you get your skills dialed in. It will be like my first deployment after training when I start your campaigns.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Thanks for the kind words. Yes that’s exactly why I started making them. Once I master a module I want to pit my skills to test in a realistic environment

[@igorkratka]

Navigating and radio operating is really 2 people`s job in multiplayer where Active pause can`t be used. Thank you for the tutorial!

[@prometheus4130]

great video, isn't it fantastic that these aircraft have been modelled to this level of detail - when I started flight sims in the late 80s this would have been unbelievable level of detail and immersion.

[@timmy3822]

Great tutorial, thanks. Eagerly awaiting your campaign! I’m surprised they didn’t add an auto-level function whilst not in the pilot seat, a sort of “auto” pilot if you will.

[@williamstilgoe61]

What a fabulously clear set of instructions. Well done and thank you.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Thank you!

[@sparrowone471]

Fantastic tutorial. Thanks! Hope there will be a few more videos about the mosquito as soon as more functions are available ...I have already subscribed to it carefully!

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Thanks, much appreciated. I'm just uploading a new one as I type this :)

[@tomaszwota1465]

Great tutorials, mate. Thank you, I enjoy your way of presentation.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Thank you!

[@radoslawbiernacki]

That's great video. I looked for something like this since Mosquito premiere!

[@jakey-poo401]

Excellent video and tutorial! Can't wait for this Campaign!

[@astralnut6313]

Wonderful job on this tutorial! Thank you so much.

[@TheMikeification]

Really great video and details. Thanks for making it.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Thanks!

[@10percenttrue]

Fantastic tutorial. Thanks!

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Thank you!

[@waltergreif4836]

Very cool & thanks!!

[@Ian-zb3rp]

Outstanding

[@js312raf]

Great video. Try using Active Pause when you don't want to bother trying to fly straight, you can still operate everything that way.

[@igorkratka]

That is good to know! Was wondering what Active pause actually means. Thanks.

[@mitchr8481]

@@igorkratka Another name for it is "cheating." LOL

[@lankypilot778]

Bonus props for doing it in the air haha. And with dodgy track ir! I kept wanting to jump in & take the stick for you so you could concentrate. Hopefully they add a hold attitude feature from navigator seat. If you can steer from there I can't see any reason not to add it.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Yes, that would be a most welcome feature. Like what we have in the Huey. I'm using facetrack btw, and it's super dodgy as soon as I turn my head more than 90 degrees...:(

[@lankypilot778]

@@ReflectedSimulations crikey I'm actually impressed it works as well as does from your vids, never tried it. I've seen people be very crafty with their head tracking setups, hopefully you get a upgrade soon. Flight sim gear is only thing in world that bloody triples in price over a decade 🙄

[@MrBob6939]

Totally agree… when Navigator we need an Attitude hold to represent Pilots actually doing his job while Navigator does his!

[@kaptenalgysson8540]

Very nice simulator for using the R1155 and T1154 transmitter and receiver, i have owned tree of this receiver in my long life, the first was 1955 in complete original box direct imported from surplus-shop in UK. the two later was already rebuild by radioamateurs, and was many years later. Anyway i use them a long time for amateurradio-communications. Do i have to buy DCS world to use this simulator?

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Wow, you owned real ones? That's pretty cool! DCS is a free game, but you need to purchase the Mosquito in order to fly it.

[@weswheel4834]

Great video thanks :D I've seen the T1154 and R1155 modelled in a bunch of WW2 era aircraft in various flight sims but this is the first time I've seen them actually working. Really fun to see how they work. Hopefully we can have a very basic AI wing-level/attitude hold functionality for it soon (Please ED, and I wonder what they'd call it?) Also would be good if ED add A1271 Beam Approach functionality to the Normandy and Channel maps. I wanted the Mosquito before, this video increased that a lot, thanks.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Yes, very cool stuff, super detailed. I'm not sure beam approach would be realistic for all airfields though, like the ALGs in Normandy. It would be great if we had an option in the mission editor though.

[@colderwar]

It really needs a straight and level autopilot for when the pilot is setting up navigation and radio tasks. But if you mention it on the ED forum there'll be a million people screeching " NOOOO ! muh realism !!! " and that's about as far as it will get

[@weswheel4834]

@@colderwar Which seems a bit mad to me. Maybe the problem is that the Mossie is simple enough for people to understand that it didn't have an autopilot, but the Hind isn't. Maybe they could make the autopilot a bit rubbish at flying (but not as bad as having no autopilot at all).

[@ImpressionismFTW]

I'd happily run navigator all the time in MP, I love being the less-glamorous multicrew member

[@colderwar]

@Terry Dactil It makes sense, but believe me, there are some very loud ( but minority ) voices in DCS who will cry and scream to stop it happening. I call them the Realism Taliban :)) And ED is happy to listen to the lunatics because it means they don't have to do any work on the Mossie. ED have a proven track record of letting bugs fester and leaving promised updates undone for years

[@crunchieRL]

Fascinating

[@spitfire4sergi]

Finally getting to learn the Mossie, thanks so much!! Curious, do you think they’ll model the navigator’s map table (I think that’s what it is) forward of the escape hatch on the floor? Looks like it should fold out with an E6-B style slide ruler

[@ReflectedSimulations]

I didn't know that but it would be really cool!

[@spitfire4sergi]

So I was way off, it turns out that thing sitting at the feet of the navigator/in front of the escape hatch is actually kind of a bomb site the navigator would use to track your position over water.. sorta? Regardless so cool that ED even put it in there to see.

[@colderwar]

@@spitfire4sergi It's a drift sight, lets the navigator find out how much effect that wind is having on the aircrafts course. Except that it isn't implemented yet, and unless ED come up with a straight and level autopilot ( before the heat death of the universe ) you won't be able to use it single crew anyway.

[@rembratt]

Is it possible to set up a primitive ILS (like your showing on the Georgia map) anywhere? As I understand it night fighters (and night bombers) used those to be able to line up and land? If not, how do ED imagine we'll do night missions in WWII (when there's not a full moon and somewhat clear skies)?

[@ReflectedSimulations]

As I said in the video, I'm not aware of a way to do that. As for night missions, I'm uploading a video now that you'll find interesting ;)

[@rembratt]

@@ReflectedSimulations Just checked out "Oboe". Brilliant! Can't wait for the "V" campaign! :-)

[@Redadeg72]

Nice vid like always. Can you tell me where to find such old BBC radio broadcasts?

[@ReflectedSimulations]

I found them on KZbin

[@nexus888]

Do you know if airfields in ww2 had any lights to help with landings for the mosquito or they always had to land in complete darkness?

[@ReflectedSimulations]

I think there was a flare path that they could turn on for a short time

[@flyboy5168]

Hi @Reflected Simulations do you consider adding more Mossie spots on your server? 4x Mossie is almost full all the time 🙁

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Sorry, not at the moment. I know there's a Mossie hype currently, and everyone wants to fly it, but I wanted to maintain a balance between plane types.

[@flyboy5168]

@@ReflectedSimulations I understand maybe after the hype I'll fly on the server :)

[@rageaholist2201]

Amazing video, and amazing Fortress Europe mission btw! Quick q: how do you listen to the BBC's music? I played with my buddy (who hosted the game and played as radio and nav guy in seat two), while I flew. He could hear the BBC, but I couldn't. Any suggestions? Thanks for your amazing content!

[@rageaholist2201]

To clarify, when buddy sat in the pilot seat, he could hear the BBC on channel C. But he couldn't hear it on the big radio in the back. But when I then sat in the pilot's seat, I couldn't hear the BBC. I couldn't hear it in the back as second seat either.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

@@rageaholist2201 Great example of how some triggers are not fully MP/ Coop compatible, and why I want to steer clear from those kinds of missions :(

[@rageaholist2201]

Ahhh, shoot! That sucks! I want to jam to Tex Beneke, Glen Miller, and Marion Hutton when I cross the channel! Guess it's back to static for me! Thanks for your response, and great work with your channel and missions!

[@BlueBaron3339]

A heavily wingloaded twin, like the Mosquito, in calm air condtions such as you face here with fog and haze would not be bouncing around like that. But you didn't create the flight model. What you did create, however, as I've said in comments on your other videos, is beyond impressive. And I just know some joker is going to host a mission with a heavy metal radio station easter egg. 😂 At last, now I know where that period music is coming from in those Mossie videos!

[@romainlerallut1409]

"You have to play it by ear" :D

[@TheConqueror1453]

03:30 you can use active pause for this :)

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Yeah but no. With active pause only your plane stops, the others will fly on

[@darbz2k]

Intradesting!

[@Twelve.O.Clock-High]

Do you set the music the same way as the beacons?

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Yes, either that or you can set a radio transmission on a trigger zone.

[@blockheadgreen_]

The Spit IX should really have the A.1271 Beam Approach system too :( would add more depth to that module which it could really do with.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

17:46 You must be kidding, all white there :D 18:07 Now it starts popping up... :)

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Haha, KZbin compression...

[@mitchr8481]

Is the campaign you talk about the V for Victory or a new one?

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Yes it’s that one

[@mitchr8481]

@@ReflectedSimulations I may have to break my rule about DCS sale item for this one. Thx dude.

[@heylookabigmac9454]

Does the T1155 only go up to 18.5 Mhz? I tried setting up a vehicle for 118 Mhz and it doesn't want to work

[@No1sonuk]

From the manual, 18.5MHz is the max for the 1155.

[@kaptenalgysson8540]

T1154 is only used for shorwave or HF as they call it today, 118 Mhz is VHF

[@Ragoo14]

Is the campaign going to be single player or multiplayer?

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Mainly single, but maybe, if al triggers and functionalities work properly in MP, I'll offer a multicrew version too. Fingers crossed.

[@SVTL4799]

All that buzzing in your ears… no wonder they called it the Mosquito!

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Hahaha, brilliant! :D

[@crunchieRL]

I've now got tinnitus!

[@gmangnall]

I have set up a vehicle transmitting as you say and after 3-4 minutes the transmisison simply stops. Anyone else getting the same?

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Are you sure you set it to loop?

[@gmangnall]

@@ReflectedSimulations Yup. A 2 second morse code loops happily for 2-4 minutes then stops. I have tried it on the channel map and caucauses (ruling out a map issue). I have tried it on 4Mhz (red) and 350khz (yellow) channels, I have tried ogg and wav files (probably ruling out a file issue) and always the same. If however I change to say 125Mhz and use the pilots TR1143 then I have no issue and it works OK...it's just on the T1155. It's also not a sound issue as the direction finders stop working at the same time that the sound stops. Maybe ED have modelled blown valves lol. That is works on the TR1143 and not the T1155 makes me think that it's a bug. I do have some mods so I guess it's possible that they are the cause though.

[@ReflectedSimulations]

@@gmangnall Not sure why that happens, I've been using beacons like this for hours at a time and they work. That's in SP, mind you.

[@Wolfhound_81]

@@ReflectedSimulations Yeah MP has tons of beacon issues, like only one aircraft being able to find a beacon etc.. such a pity, also similar issues keeping you and other campaign builders to bring us great MP campaigns with voiceovers.. how much would I love to fly the Zone 5 campaign in Multicrew with my pilot :(

[@bones10145]

Dang. hopefully there'll be some kind of AI navigator just for direction finding.

[@rhysgoodman7628]

You can set up triggered, automatic cockpit controls in the Mission Editor but it’s quite a hassle. So you can make it so an F10 radio option will automatically press buttons and flip switches in the cockpit. I’m unsure if it’s good enough to set a radio frequency though…

[@julianmorrisco]

Bon Jovi song? Shudder. I was young in the 80s, can’t stand hair metal - esp with added Oberheim OB8 (synth) as with these plonkers. But you do you!

[@pinmeister987]

Where's the option to allow BBC radio in the mission editor?

[@ReflectedSimulations]

You have to set up a radio transmission coming from a trigger zone or a ground unit, select a music file of your choice, then tune in to that freq in game.

[@pinmeister987]

@@ReflectedSimulations do you know any reason why the mosquito hard pulls and rolls to the left upon takeoff. Over 80 percent of our takeoffs result in crash. We've calibrated the Hotas as well

[@ReflectedSimulations]

@@pinmeister987 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWnEkmyaacyYetU

[@jep1103]

Ridiculous that ed didnt add autopilot when u are setting up in the nav seat

[@hoofed]

Active Pause would help with the lack of pilot. ;-)

[@ReflectedSimulations]

Yeah true! Although you can only use it if you fly alone, otherwise your wingmen would go rushing ahead.