After I kill AH.exe right green light on trackir is still on. Like something is still using trackir.
If i try to launch IL2 after that, it starts normally but after some time right light turns off. And trackir does not responds to head movements in IL2. If I close IL2 and try to start AH once again - it starts perfectly! I suppose it is IL2 that resets things to known state so AH could work again. Restarting of trackir software helps too.
Three of our members (myself included) have the exact same problem with AH+TrackIR, though it doesn't involve any other games. It even happens during a normal shutdown. I'd say 90% of the time, if I close AH, then reboot the game (for any reason whatsoever), TrackIR will stay illuminated, and then shut down once the game restarts. I then have to restart AH a second time to get TrackIR to function correctly.
Again, this is not just me, this is three separate members of our squadron, with
completely different PC's and configurations, having the identically-same problem. None of the other games I'm familiar with have this problem.
This really becomes an issue when AH crashes to desktop (or a server disco happens). If you reboot the game immediately, TrackIR is disabled. We have to remember to reboot the game, then immediately shut it down, then reboot it again to ensure TrackIR works correctly. If we don't do this and we reconnect, then TrackIR doesn't work at all. We can't exit again with losing a plane to the disco, so you're stuck dogfighting without views set up (as we use TrackIR, so we have no reason to map them to our sticks).