RIFLE_JTAC_TRAINING

My pleasure Andy, Ive been enjoying DCS since 2010 with the A-10C module. Looking forward to a life time of great sim experience. 63

Hi, Wasnt that long ago the J'Fire was updated and a lot of Marine aviators sat at the round table and I love Marines dont get me wrong. But man do they love check lists and a solid plan. So they agreed to implement the below cut and paste as a guide. Its great for beginners but also great to look back at if youve been busy for a few hours and dont want things to get out of hand. 1. Routing/Safety of flight 2. CAS check in 3. Situation Update 4. Game plan 5. CAS brief "9 line" 6. Remarks/Restrictions 7. Readbacks 8. Correlation 9. Attack 10. Assess 11. BDA 12. Routing/Safety of flight Now this is written so that all members can play off the same sheet of music so to speak but situation on the ground will dictate where you may have to "cut the fat". Cheers. 63

Thanks Menessis, I hope you had a great Canada day as well! I would like to do a tutorial that begins with the bare bones Aircraft check in all the way through the 12 steps of CAS as it is now dictated in the joint pubs and J-Fire. Keep it real regimented for beginners and then get flowing with missions or lessons that would be "friendly centric" CAS where you are really just completing a 5 line and moving fires along faster with those that are proficient. At this time I am currently moving from Base to the city of Ottawa and dont have access to my computer cause Im living at a friends place until the house sells. Its an insane transition. But it is for sure on my radar. Cheers. 63

Hi All, After communicating with Maple Flag productions I was encouraged to approach the community to offer JTAC consultation to any users that required assistance creating missions. I have just retired from 14 years of military service with the CAF (Canadian armed forces). 3 years with Field artillery as a forward observer attached with a infantry parachute company and 11 years with the CANSOFCOM with the Canadian special operations regiment CSOR. 8 of those years were spent as a JTAC and JTAC-I. I have been apart of 3 tours in Afghanistan, central america and 1 tour in Iraq against ISIS. My motivation is what the community has done for me with the A-10C module. Some of my brothers and sisters have found less attractive means to help with their stresses and mine I found in this great simulation. Now that I am no longer serving I would like to contribute where I can helping others have a great and realistic time. I also look to learn from others where I can within the community. My experience is heavy on the SOF side of things but in general they are to aide conventional forces accomplish thier goals. I have executed and created a significant amount of real and dry exercises at home and abroad with numerous peer units employing most CAS aircraft in small exercises all the way up to LFE (large force exercises). I can aide with CAS with the J-Fire and 3.09-3 as well as 3-3. I have little experience with NATO specific TTPS and what some of those nations do. I will not discuss any TTPs that CSOR or other peer units deemed their go to TTPs however that shouldnt effect creating real, effective mission sets you would like to create for the community. My experiences include CAS with A-10, AV-8B, B-1,2 and 52, AC-130H/U/W and J, KC-130 HH, F15E/16/18 (CF-188, US navy and marine )/22/35,OV-10, British Harrier, Tornado, current french aircraft, dutch F16. RW. Canadian Griffon in a CCA role with 7.62 and .50 cal side firing. OH-58, AH-1,64, UH-Y and Seahawk. Field artillery. mortars to 155mm. Naval gun fire. Canadian frigate and destroyer. American DDG. I have vast experiences planning integrated attacks with all combat arms to achieve simo or sequential effects and the planning is truly a strong point here for me followed by its execution. Please note that I dont preach to have the 100% solution but I aim to achieve the ground force commanders intent and that can be obtained numerous ways. With that said I understand other Jtacs will achieve this differently but I am quite confident I can bring value added to your mission of campaign development. Thanks for taking the time to read through this and because I am quite busy anticipate a reply every three or four days. I look forward to improving anybodys simulation experience. With so many aircraft on the horizon and so much talent on these forums it looks like a very exciting future. Thank you. 63

Deadpoetic I find your lack of faith distrubing!

nu-NRG. Thanks. After deleting the folder in Saved games and running a repair this worked! Stepping! 63

Hmm. I did not disable the TF-51 but I dont see it. Standby working.

Hi, Just updated to 1.5.5.59744 Was gonna fly my monday night vul with the 5evc and nothing works. Single missions dont work. The adds on the left side dont work. Multiplayer asks for my login however I can press enter all day nothing works? Any direction would be great. Thanks. 63

I think the sim does a good job of recreating a combination of kit and human error when grabbing target coordinates offset from the target. Obviously the best location to PULL grids is from on top of the target. In reality on PGMs fin lock can be an issue. Just something going wrong with the guidance kit. The sim does not do a great job at all as to how far you can actually chuck smart weapons from the target. This would allow being outside weapons envelops. And while we are on the top I would like to see proximity fuse settings!!! 63

Hey B, Kippy has great points and the one you hit on the head is experience. There are many things you can do here. Situations aside it'll vary. Is there an air threat. Do you need to mask your sound? conduct a first strike pass? Keyhole works great for me and the easy solution is Echo 5. 5 nm from target essentially doing a great big old circle around the target. Make the target a mark point and a lazy figure 8 can help maximize time of eyes on target. Im a big fan of training with no TGP and keep the head outside the cockpit. Of course this helps if there is a large man made or geographical feature or mark. i.e. A tank already on fire can be used as a mark. I hope that helps and dont be afraid to fly into harms way! 63

Quote from Boeing. Perhaps this is what you were thinking about. Using 3-D modeling provided the baseline engineering foundation for the A-10 Wing Replacement program. http://www.boeing.com/defense/support/a-10-wing-replacement-program/index.page Hope that sheds light on all this. 63

Cool to see you guys got this sorted. You could make life easier on yourself as well by just calling this a Bomb On Coordinate release. Essentially your dropping the bomb in a laser basket and it will acquire the laser energy on its last legs of the drop. No need to get into LSS to visually acquire the target cause then you might as well self lase anyways. These methods are exceptional for any time you can not see the target. For example a medium threat area with clouds above 6K. Drop LGB on coordinated and let the JTAC do the rest. Last note for this is to remember to inform the JTAC of all standard laser brevity calls during the execution. Just food for thought. Cheers. 63

Yes, We are still selecting/recruiting at this time. The skins are self made in house by one of our Pilots/artist. 63

Regarding the downed 117, Enemy forces say they tweaked the wavelengths of their radars to acquire the aircraft at its most vulnerable point, when weapons bay was open. Also, information suggests some communications were intercepted and allowed Enemy forces to focus their SAMs in a certain area. With that said B-2 strikes minutes after the 117 was shot down continued and they were not engaged during the period of "vulnerability". Take it for what its worth. 117s continue to fly today in some capacity. (source Combat aircraft) They may just be maintenance flights. 63

This is great work!!!! 63

Yes. It would be great to see this be amplified in its use with AH-1s and Huey teams to supplement the AV-8B.

Thanks Stuge. Our squadron likes to play for fun but we always strive for continuing excellence. I agree documentation doesnt make you good but its a foundation we can build for our "exercise sets". I.E. air start head to head, on the perch, 2 v 1 etc etc. The documentation we would most likely stream line as we sometimes talk to what our goal for the night is. Essentially a mission brief that speaks all execution points during a nights vul. Im sure we will take you up on your offer. THanks 63

Thanks. That Navy pub helps! 63

Hi, Our Sqn the 5th EVC out of Eastern Canada is a strong A-10 CAS unit however we are slowly building an air to air capacity with F5s and Mirages being available. We plan a shift to the F18 when it is released in two weeks and we are looking for as much training information as possible with regards to BFM and BVR. We have your basics "art of the kill" type stuff but we wanna cover all the basics to be able to set up our pilots for exceptional training before we fight others. Thanks in advance for any assistance. 63

Awesome Eddie that sums it up. Threat area dependant. Ill just get the commander to accept the risk in medium threat areas. Thanks ALL 63

Thanks for that. My question from here on in is how he plans for mutual support or assess intel and stays where presumed safe until CAS coming station can be that mutual support. Thanks for the supporting documents and RIFLE is my favorite callsign. That guy with great video editing is a BOSS! 63

For those of you that may be in the "KNOW". Can a FAC (A) plan and execute as a single ship? I.E. Shows up on sta single ship. Employ other CAS assets to achieve the ground force commanders intent. OR. Do FAC (A) ALWAYS plan and execute as at least a pair of ships? This will help me with future mission planning. Thanks for your time. 63

Thanks, We are weighing putting so much effort into this and potentially having someone give us a lawsuit later. Thank you for your input RUDEL. 63

I understand royalties are to be paid to ED. No question. However! If we make a model. Lets pick a B-52 for example. Do we need to pay the manufacturer of that real aircraft? I know some guys may have. Some do not and refuse to. Thanks 63

Thanks Buzzles. I have PM'd some peeps and the left and right of these arcs are really wide open which is interesting to say the least. 63