RyanR

Hi guys, I think I got it. I managed to mix up things from two different videos. I noticed after re-re-watching the Gaffer vid above that he does not "unlock" the vehicle that he boresighted on afterwards. He just goes on. That seems to be the trick. I put a Jeep about 1.3nm downfield. Boresighted on that. Put the plane back in NAV master mode and went off to find some things to blow up. Locking on a vehicle with the targeting pod and then TMS right pointed the MAV right at what I was looking at with the TGP. Then you have to chase the vehicle with the MAV in the WPN page to get it locked. Gotta keep playing around with it, I suppose. Should the MAV "auto lock" after the TGP handoff? I'm well within range (6nm) of the MAV. Thanks all. -Ryan

Not knowing what I don't know is a great point! Thanks for telling me how to save a track, too! -Ryan

So far, I've been doing cold starts exclusively, and using my own little home made practice/learning missions. I've been trying to have a controlled environment so I can see the connection from unit placement to how the avionics picks things up. I dunno if continuously repurposing the mission and/or rearming the plane is causing trouble. From another recent thread, it seems there's trouble with the 3-Maverick pylons. The boresight apparently only "takes" for the "first" missile on each station. For me, a problem is that if I boresight the Mavericks, the seeker cue in the HUD is completely off kilter from the WPN display when I have it in VIS mode. If I don't boresight and don't use the targeting pod, the Mavericks work OK, but their ability to discriminate targets from far off is super limited. Anytime I use the TGP with the Mavericks, everything goes wrong. The targeting pod works flawlessly with the AG radar and every other type of munition. TGP with Mavericks has been nothing but trouble. -Ryan

Thanks for the response! This is one of the videos leading me astray. I thought it would be the cure! No luck. I've tried putting dummy vehicles at several ranges to eliminate parallax. If this is working for everyone else, then there's a problem on my end. I'll give it another go. See if I can figure out where the missteps are. Thanks again! -Ryan

As far as I can tell, every DCS update makes every tutorial obsolete..... and the F-16 manual is basically non-existent. Every time I try to use the TGP to hand off to the AGM-65 (TMS right), I get nothing. The Maverick seeker head is just not aligned with the TGP. I'm guessing that the Maverick boresighting needs to be done. The rub is that all the tutorials I've found to boresight the Mavericks not only don't boresight the Mavericks, they decouple the Maverick seeker head from the HUD symbology. What's the fix? After decades of WWII and Korean sims, I'm finally getting back to scratching the F-16 itch. The original Falcon got me started in 1988, and the Viper in DCS is sooooo much better, and a worthy successor to the original Falcon. The last release of that was pretty iffy. DCS is quite good. I fully expect the learning curve to be huge, but it's just frustrating trying to figure out if I'm simply being an idiot.... or if there's something not right in the sim. For example, I spent hours trying to figure out the HSD datalink issue, to find that it was a bug..... then I found the work around.... but then the last update fixed it. All within a 3 day period. Thanks! -Ryan

Seems the single AGM-65 launcher is a no-go as well. If it works for you, maybe it works for a single Maverick variant. So far, no joy with any variant of the IR Mavericks Really frustrating. I can train the TGP with the FCR on a truck convoy I made in GMT mode with TMS up. The TGP immediately picks up the target. Then any attempt to TMS up or right breaks the TGP lock and switches to the WPN page.... Is this a bug, or am I just wrong here? So far, the only surefire "workaround" is to dump a GBU on the lead vehicle in the convoy. That stops the whole convoy, then you extend.... circle back..... and snag each remaining vehicle with the Mavericks in VIS mode. The plume of smoke from the first vehicle making it easy to snipe the remaining targets with the Maverick seeker. -Ryan

I, too, can confirm this behavior. Good to know that it's not just me. As a newbie to DCS, I've been going bonkers with things like this. The learning curve is steep enough! -Ryan