Rainmaker

I don’t wanna kill your’s or anyone else’s vibes…haha…but more weight doesn’t equal more kaboom.

CDES does not properly update designations in real time on movers. It's a known issue. So yes, in a way, if all other things are being done right, it's likely a contributor to the issue or the main cause. As has been mentioned earlier, the designation needs to lead the target to get the bomb in the right 'basket' to track the laser.

There is not.

I’m gonna throw guess out there that it might be talking about ECS exhaust temp, but I’m not gonna claim to know that to be true. If the cockpit air feeds the cockpit displays, you’d wanna know it so you don’t inadvertently fry them pushing hot air across them. At the same time, I could be totally wrong and the apache has some sort of climate control system built into it. And maybe so since you are so consumed with hands on stick and collective so much to be fiddling with environmental controls.

Is the gauge supposed to read internal cockpit temp (not that common in aircraft), or is supposed to be giving you AC supply temperature (whole lot more common)?

Indeed. And certainly, hopefully that is a overall ‘weapon’ improvement as it will aid everyone across the board with ‘realistic’ weapon function if its a global enhancement to JDAMS and not just something that is relative to the -16. BOC can certainly work out badly in terms of meeting the proper release point with enough drift present Edit: I dunno if RB has any control over the weapon targeting itself. With enough error, you might find that the bomb can still miss if you are relasing outside of the limits for the bomb to make it to the right target Your biggest problems are likely going to come from high drift and using Seq or BOC and the jet being too far away from the actual target The radar is sending the bomb to where its looking because its using bad target coordinates essentially, its just the right az/el away from the jet. That’s rel in a nutshell. If the jet drifted and the radar didn’t, it would be giving bad coordinates and the bomb would go to the wrong place. The secret recipe is making the radar and the jet both drift, not one but not the other edit # 2: i think I get what you are saying now I think that comes down to one of two things Either RB did give the bomb correct coordinates to fly to the correct point on the map orrrr the bomb has been capable of relative targeting for a while now. I dunno which is true. That answer would have to come from a dev and if XFER SEQ is in there already, then I was wrong, cuz I didn’t think it was in there yet.

You are trying to overlap two systems that are mech’d differently. I am not talking about the weapon self correcting after launch…I’m talking about your previous statement of absolute vs relative targeting not existing. It does. Example. BOC via CC mem vs sensor (radar in this case) targets. Nav coord transfer doesnt even exist in the SE in DCS, you are using sensor xfer in that case, so comparing that with how the -16 releases is apples and oranges here. But this is all getting well OT to the original report…that’s in a -16 forum so…

The SE very much has absolute vs rel targeting. How do you think you can make a JDAM target with a target point in the SE? That should help you answer the question.

That’s an incorrect statement. The one sensor lacking is SE is the TGP, and that’s because its still using ‘unadjusted’ coordinates as the pod always knows true coords. The other sensors are tied to the nav info provided by the jet.

GBUs have quite a bit more range IRL than their slick counterparts. Beyond that, yes, a lot of issues are being made bigger than they are due to everyone wanting to release at the edge of the envelope vs waiting for the ‘in zone’ cue which allows for the additional maneuvering. The aft stations exhibit some additional problems vs the others, but again, can be mitigated by not trying to send them at max ranges. Convincing people to do it is another story though. As far as dumb weapons are concerned, can be lots of things. Can also be improper designations, lack of proper use of AGR ranging, etc which falls on the user. Just saying they fall long or short is almost like saying nothing at all.

Actually no, it doesnt really sound that way IRL. It does dissipate too much in game too quickly, but wouldnt do it in the way you describe. The sound is vary much impacted by line of sight. Current operation is also very much a DCS-ism.

There isn’t a button bind to enable steering…only disable.

That’s due to a long-standing bug where you can’t have axis inputs when designating. The work around is to lead the target and let the vehicle come to the crosshairs.

Durandals are and have been bugged since the beginning. They have tons of internal core issues. Until some of that stuff is resolved….wouldn’t even bother with them.

I am not a member of RB, so not sure why you are tagging me. Lol.

Doesnt exist. Wont ever come. This kinda stuff is not a ‘bug’ either BTW.

Sta 5 gets a -10. No reason to go 4k on a side when you have a perfectly good cererline.

1. Known issue. Literally one of the last types of bugs to even worry about. 2. Correct as is. NLG does not retract unless handle is cycled.

Bottles recharge. You ‘do not’ need to always use the second bottle.

Yeah, IIRC, the light and VW have never been enabled to this point. I don’t think they have ever come on.

Looks kinda like you are on stable judging by the caret in the center of the screen. Stable currently has a known bug where the radar does not scan.

In a way, yeah. The CFTs and tanks can both be thought up as external gas. Fuel goes external to internal. It should do either the CFTs or tanks and then the other once empty. It doesnt currently, but I wouldn’t say its an issue, just needs more development.

They are designed to be that way. One holds more fuel than the other. They would eventually balance out, but not until they are draining below full. Its a known thing/not implemented yet.

Just post it here so the devs and ED testers can use it.

For that potential issue, a track is needed. No way to understand what’s happening or what the trigger is/isn’t without it.