Hey guys,
maybe a noob guestion, but I struggle when on CAS mission, cause I have problem to find targets. Let me picture you my problem. I play DCS with Liberation camapign and when I´m aasignet to a CAS mission, I get waypoint where I can search for enemy ground targets, its usually very rough position, units are very often just somewhere nearby (logically). Usually I fly with atflir, use mavericks or something similar (guided).
Then there are situations - if the enemy units are pushing (on the move), I can use A/G GMT radar mode and find my targets without any problem, only issue is that I must visually identify the unit if it is friendly or not. But if units are defending, they are static, I can´t find any small targets like tanks etc. GMT mode is of no use, cause units are static, map mode is useless, cause small units are well hidden in terrain and cannot be spotted on the radar (at least I don´t recognize them on the radar). Only way I could from time to time find any targets is by pure luck. If I was shot at, I could navigate my atflir on the spot and then engage the unit, or if I was lucky enough that enemy units where very near my waypoint, I could spot them by atflir. By this is usally not the case.
Can you help me what is your way of spotting enemy ground units on CAS missions, when you have no specific coordinates where to search for enemy units? It is easy to engage units if you have labels on, but that is not realistic to me, I refuse to use them in any variation. And also it is easy if you get specific GPS coordinates where you can find some units, but what if they moved and then they went static somewhere else?
I just think I´m missing some certain way of searching for ground targets using onboard systems on my F/A 18C. Yea, I forgot to mention JTAC, of course I can find units marked by red smoke on the ground, but I don´t see it very realistic, cause in real life, the smoke would be only somewhere near the unit and enemy would be stupid to stay exactly on the spot after he gets marked by JTAC smoke. Using laser MAVS is one way of searching/eliminating enemies, but there must be some other way.
Can you help me with this?
Also a simple addon to my question - what is your way of making all hud symbols visible when using headtracing system? I use Delanclip and usually if I zoom out when in my cocpit, my HUD symbology stays like if it is still zoomed in and I can´t see all the information on the HUD (cause the symbology exceeds the HUD after I zoom out).
Thx for your help.