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I love the Harrier, but every time I fly it SOMETHING confuses me especially with all the changes. Real world pilots say it is a very stable platform but I find it really hard to keep in trim. Still when it works, it is a great bomb truck!

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Hmmm I just tried it and did NOT see this behavior. Reticle stayed where it was after slewing in TV mode. Do you have TDC Action/No Action selected? In that case, IF you slew without holding TDC Depress, it will snap back to the previously Designated Target as you haven't made a designation. If you are HOLDING TDC Depress while slewing, it will re-designate when you release. I thought that was what you meant by "letting go of the TDC Slew Axis). If TDC Action/No action is NOT toggled on, then you will designate a target wherever you stop the slew.

I usually leave it off since that is how I learned the Harrier before this feature was available. Sometimes it is confusing as in the F/A-18 I am used to mashing TDC depress for every desgination so there is muscle memory there.

Double tap SCS Down to go into TPOD mode. You can sweeten the lock to your heart's content. Otherwise it remains SLAVED to whatever designation was originally made. There is the added complication of turning on TDC ACTION where you need to re-deisgnate with TDC Depress, but with it off, after slewing the TPOD, the new location will be effectively DESIGNATED. I know there is some hating on GR, but this video lays it out. NOTE there was a recent change around needing to box DESG in the EHSD, but otherwise this should get you the basics.

DUHHHHHH... Thank you... My Bad... Sorry...

Anyone seeing the Marianas map? I don't see it or the Instant Action Missions mentioned for it.

This happens to me too. Fix is to go to the Window on the monitor and do an ALT-ENTER to make the DCS window Full Screen. Then you greatly minimize or completely remove the "clicking out of bounds" that loses focus.

Have a look at this: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3300819/ Might be somewhat out of date, and I personally found it hard to follow, but it made more sense after getting familiar with the various DDI pages.

Take a look at your AXIS commands as well as the button bindings Edit: You beat me to it!

Check your Radar Elevation Caret. I noticed in the TRK that after your initial selection, when you returned to the RADAR, the caret was WAY down the screen so it wasn't seeing the surface any longer. Maybe you have radar elevation mapped to something that got moved around. Happens to me often as it also controls the FLIR zoom.

No problem., This stuff changes so often it is hard to keep track!

Make sure you are in TV mode (DMT) or TPOD mode (for Litening). Slew is much slower in INS mode and faster when in a dedicated sensor mode. That said, I have always had issues slewing with the COUGAR ministick. For awhile I had it working OK with saturation and curves, but now, DCS will ONLY recognize ONE axis on my mini stick and not both, but it is working OK with the one axis, and I had to program the OTHER axis elsewhere PAIN in the AFT...

Not true. Pickling with MAV-E selected will auto fire the laser. - One press of Pickle fires laser -PRESS and HOLD fires laser and fires missile when it picks up the spot. The issue where the TDC could not be assigned to the MAV-E page and have the missile acquire the laser got fixed some time ago.

The way I remember it working In the past, a Simple Undesginate allowed slewing of the MAV seeker (while holding TDC DOWN) It remained Ground Stabilized in that position after the Undesignate which made it easy to slew to a new target. After the second time, though the seeker caged to boresight. To be honest I have always been confused by the PTRK behavior of the TPOD. When engaging moving targets, it seemed that after PTRK, another TDC depress was needed (Offset cross appears) to really keep the laser on a target (when using Echo Mavs or GBU, that is). It always seemed to me that the PTRK should serve as the target designation without the extra TDC depress, but I always did it. I haven't tried using the Maverick Slew recently...good to know this new step is needed.

What helped me is learning to do a STABLE approach with On Speed AOA. There are numerous videos. Here are 2 plus Matt Wagner's original VFR landing Video Practice lining up from a fair distance and trimming to On Speed to land with the Velocity Vector (Flight Path Marker) where you want it, On Speed controlling your descent with throttle only. Then you can progress to circuits. A good rule of thumb is to try and maintain 3 degree glideslope, so about 300 feet altitude for every mile from the runway. Start at 10 miles and 3000 feet, trimmed to on speed and take her down. Then progress to shorter approaches keeping this in mind, then circuits. Honestly, it is pretty easy to make your own mission. Open the Mission Editor, place an aircraft where you want it on approach to a runway so you start more or less lined up and practice on speed approaches. I think there are some Instant Action missions that get you more or less in the right place as well. The Missions are located: X:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World - Open Beta\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Missions where X is the drive your DCS is on and the DCS folder (DCS World or Open Beta or whatever you named it) If you edit the mission, be sure to save it under a different name, and preferably in your X:\Users\<username>\SavedGames\<DCS>\missions folder, usually on C drive, but you may have it somewhere else.

It seems like I have seen this oddity if I plotted a CRS line through a TARGET and then selected a TACAN without UNDESIGNATING I would either NOT be able to create a TCN CRS line OR I would end up with TWO of them (TGT and TCN). Didn't really pay attention at the time, just UNDESIGNATED since I was finished with the TGT point anyway. But it is odd.

Also, FYI since you are new to the Hornet, in order to toggle between Area and Point Track on Litening or Scene and Auto on the ATFLIR you have to move Sensor Control Switch in the direction of the FLIR DDI ONCE for Area/Scene and again for POINT/AUTO. The ATFLIR can be slewed in SCENE mode, but the LITENING cannot be slewed in AREA track

Do you have a LItening Pod or an ATFLIR? That symbology is for the LItening. The ATFLIR will say "SCENE" or "AUTO" in the bottom of the DDI for the equivalent ATRK/PTRK

Previously, right or wrong, you could populate each station. Pressing UNDESIGNATE would remove the current designation, but leave the stations already populated in the JDAM. This seemed to make sense, when a station with 2 GBU's had a TOO1 and TOO2. If DESIGNATING populates the JDAM coordinates and UNDESIGNATE removes the designation completely from all JDAM, then what possible use is it to have a TOO1 and TOO2??? The Workaround is to use MarkPoints to recall the coordinates for each bomb, but If it is ONE bomb at a time based on Designated target then the TOO1 and TOO2 options are useless. Maybe they don't exist in real life and it it has been wrong all along? I think we are all just looking for Clarity on whether the change was INTENDED or not.

This is current behavior. Probably a bug.

Holy smokes!! I never knew this. THANK YOU!!!! I cannot count the number of times I set up a station and forgot to hit STEP and enter the code, and, of course first drop is off the station without the code. I just tried it, and it worked for all GBU stations, but I also had some Laser Mavericks, and still had to set them separately, but still, this is a HUGE improvement to the armament setup!!

Well, there is currently a bug where the FLIR won't slave to the Waypoint if the TDC is assigned to the FLIR. Workaround is to move TDC to another DDI, Designate and then return TDC to the FLIR page. MAYBE this is happening here, but it doesn't seem like the FLIR should STILL be pointing at the old target if it was undesignated.. BUT give it a shot.

IMHO there are 2 show stopper bugs: At least there is a workaround for the second one, but the first really breaks GPS guided TOO use.

Do you mean the Paid Virtual Desktop App or the built in Oculus Virtual Desktop option that pops up when LINK is established? I never knew there were settings for the latter. Here's a funny anecdote regarding the Cable: In another thread there is a discussion of whether turning on the Pilot Body helps or hinders immersion. For fun, I turned it on. In the AV8B the Pilot Body includes an oxygen hose hanging on the chest area. It was almost exactly where my LINK cable was lying and I honestly felt like I was feeling the oxygen hose from the Pilot Body!!