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Depends which procedure your using, the English procedure are a bit different then NATO standard. For the Dutch, a CFF starts with : - Callsign - FFE or AF (Fire For Effect or Adjust Fire) - Grid/coordinate - Altitude of the target - IF using AF direction - Type of target and amount - Shape and size (converge, linear, circle etc) - What result you want to achieve (destroy, neutralize, suppress, haress, smoke, illum, mark etc) This a CFF for ground based (indirect) fire JTAC use either 9 or 5 liner procedures, or DELR (don't ask me what it stand for, I forgot)

FO is indeed Forward Observer TIC = Troops In Contact Blue Force = own forces OPFOR are the bad guys DC = is indeed Danger Close : it means that there are enemy forces within close range of own troops, and that any Air-To-Ground, or Ground-To-Ground attack COULD actually harm (aka kill) own troops CFF = Call For Fire, which could be for either ground base, naval or air units The guy (or woman) who calls in air assets to attack ground targets is call a JTAC (Joint Terminal Area Controller) In the old days a FACer was air born, and a JTACer ground base : nowadays those lines is very blurred.

Got the steerpoint working... but now the pod doesn't want to slew to the steerpoint And after manually putting the pod on the target, it won't pass the info to the maverick. Then, after manually putting the maverick seeker head on the target and locking it ... the Maverick does a stage dive : going every where except were it's suppose to go. This s#!t is driving my bats#!t crazy. Gonna switch to something else for the time being : play kamikaze pilot or something.

Just did a quick-and-dirty, just to get a track. And offcourse, now it works : now it converts the MSGR grid to long/lat, stays in the correct map grid AND keeps showing the inputted correct MSGR grid Don't asked me what I did differently because I can't tell you. LastMissionTrack.trk

I just compared the coordinates you get from the JTAC during the 9-line against a real MSGR map of the area and they're correct. (It does have it's advantages, working as civilian in the army)

I'll try to do it next weekend. Found out there's something not right with DCS after the update from thursday : keeps crashing when I try to use the HB F-14 and the AV-8BNA keeps disappearing from my module list. Need to figure out what's going on first.

Did it precisly like you said, yet the same story as with mark : It changes right back to grid coordinate 31U ****

Thanks, I'll give it a go

Sorry people for the late response. Okay, this is clear : no MGRS in Mark, use steerpoint 21-25 : got it - Button 4 on ICP (Mark) - put Mark display on HUD - scroll to the end and fill in the MGRS coordinates (which Nineline pointed out can't be used in Mark) - Then TMS right long to switch the Mark point to steerpoint (which it doesn't do because the grid coordinate is change to somewhere over the Atlantic)

No, I didn't see this on the mark screen (button 7) on the ICP. Isn't this the sep screen ? (button 4? )

Did that, still the coordinate changes to a totally different grid. Elevation was 300 feet, inputted that as well : again changes to a totally different grid.

So I'm trying to do CAS missions, with a JTAC, using AGM-65H Mavericks. Long story short : I suck because I just can't find the targets with the TGP or the 65H head. Enter new idea : Input JTAC 9 line coordinate as Mark and change it to steerpoint. Idea good, but that's about it. Every time I input the MSGR coordinate, it changens to a totally different map grid. For instance, I'm using the Cold War map, and put some training targets in Berg Höhne. Grid is 32U ND 5490 5392 After inputting this, the Mark coordinate changes to 31U ND 6690 5392 ???? What is going on here ??

So I found a topic which explains how to add specific callsigns to a aircraft's/helicopter lua : Yet for the CH-47F I can't find the right lua file and/or entry in the lua file so I might as well make it a wish : Please add some dedicated callsigns for the CH-47F, both text and voice, to be used in missions. I already found a couple that are still being used for US CH-47F's : - Airwolf - Denim - Freight train - Hooker - Hurricane - Kong - Mustang - Nomad

Bin playing with the Mig-29A, and really loving it... ... BUT it would be really realy nice if a K version could be added (or sold seperatly) The K version is the maritime version (like most of you know) with a reinforced frame and gear, better radar , improved smokeless engines ... and is able to do aerial refueling. It feels like a bit of a wast not to be able to the hook this baby up with a IL-78D at FL300

Thta's what I thought, yet the CH M270 was out of ammo at the start of my self made mission. That's one of the things I dn't understand, because the regular DCS assets were fully loaded. Same at the CH vessels, they were loaded as well.