F/A-18C Basic Course (DCS)

Here you will find detailed and illustrated Step-by-Step instructions for the F/A-18C.

In the Exercise Missions and Checklists section you'll find the appropriate exercise missions. Start the appropriate mission and work your way through the instructions. If you wish you can print them out for use later if necessary.

In later advanced courses you will start the F/A-18C according to the OFS Full Checklist. Here in the basic course we use, as already mentioned, only the BOLD set of checks within the full version, which is Insufficient for carrier operations. 

Conventions used

• Action - with explanation (short name/label) [key combination], 
• Optionally, a picture follows with additional remarks if necessary.

Shortcuts and key combinations are rarely used, but are specified here. Mainly we click the buttons in the cockpit. This is due to the fact that you can assign the keys to yourself and occasionally have to, because some are unassigned.

Unless otherwise mentioned, the element is activated by left-clicking with the mouse.

Switch locations are referred as shown in the following picture:

Animated pictures

In the instructions we use images with mouse-over effects. This means that if you move the mouse pointer over the image, it will be replaced by another one. If you move the mouse down from the image, the original image is displayed again. This allows you to make a before and after comparison.

Unfortunately this effect is ignored when printing and on tablets. Therefore, we decided to display the target state and the original state at the mouse-over. This is actually the wrong way around, but the printouts and the view on the tablet are useful for this.

Here is an example:

And we have recently started using properly animated .GIFs. These are images that display a sequence of images one after the other and run in an endless loop.