angrysilverbeard

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to see if I can not screw it up when I get off work lol it's been a long silly night already so who knows how it'll end up. But thanks for that though. It'll definitely come in handy Edit: Just got home and tried it. Didn't seem to want to take. Keep getting "unknown command error" I'll keep at it for a bit

I think one thing I'd like to see is an option in the VR menu to be able to select or deselect something like an "Always start in VR" check box in the settings. With it checked it starts in VR, if not checked starts with a main menu button that becomes active to start VR on your own. I know for me personally right now I'm still tinkering with a lot of settings and binding my hotas, and forgetting to turn of the VR option just to do a quick check on some new controls, or trying something from a tutorial in a quick 2D flight kind of makes it a pain to have to get the HMD out and on enough to turn off the HMD, just for a 5 min thing. Just my $.02 though

Thanks for the welcome. I suppose I could have mentioned location better, but considering the world wide net DCS has and the fact I hadn't been to bed yet, it sounded good lol

Hey everyone, From the West Coast of the United States. Marine Veteran from the F-18 community. Also worked on AV8Bs, UH-1Y and AH-1Z a bit, some F-16s unfortunately, and a few others thrown in there. Been a military aviation fan for a long time, played a variety of flight sims over the years and figured I would get back into it a bit more seriously this time. Played it a long time ago, but PC at the time wasn't up to the task. Not so anymore and finding it an enjoyable experience, especially when I can manage some decent time in VR with it. Mostly working on my Hornet qual right now, but plan to expand as I become more proficient. Still learning a lot so I might have silly questions that I can't understand from google lol

I think it started from the knight hawk pod just being called the FLIR pod. It was sometimes used (once upon a time lol) to describe the 3 pods you listed. When I was active duty it was a generic term for which ever targeting pod was installed on the aircraft. Now days I hear t-pod, L-pod, tgp mostly used for the same thing. Its easier to say than AN/AAQ-28 when talking to someone about what's on the plane. Just my .02 though lol

Yeah, I don't think the Marine Corps is all that big on the ATFLIR any more. I did a bit of looking around as well and I think I might have been confusing myself between the FLIR and ATFLIR pods as well. From the pics I've looked at they are fairly similar in exterior appearance, so that might be contributing to my misidentification. That and we weren't to specific when we referred to them probably didn't help either. If it was on station 4 it was a FLIR and we didn't go beyond that much, regardless it was a FLIP or ATFLIR, at least in my shop. Sorry for stepping out of my lane. I'll stick to ordnance related subjects lol

Hmm, I don't remember us having litening pods on our jets until the 2003-04 time frame, but I do remember a FLIR pod. of course I could be thinking of the standard FLIR and not the ATFLIR. Been a long time since I've seen the FLIR or ATFLIR pods, and memory isn't what it was lol Thanks for the info though, gonna have to do some reading and try to remember what we used to fly so I get it straight. All I do remember for sure is one of our jets was one of a couple of active fleet jet test aircraft (not a VX squadron aircraft) for the center line Litening (not sure what gen pod, but it was first time I'd seen one) pod mod. That was a boring 6 weeks in China Lake lol. Shortly after my time was up lol Thanks again for the information though

I think you have it backwards. I'm pretty sure ATFLIR is the older generation of pods, and the LITENING is the latest (for F-18s at least) . At least I don't remember us flying Litening pods until my active duty time was almost up. Let me know if I'm wrong though, and I'm not sure about the other aircraft communities since I was 18's my whole career.