We know that the JTAC system needs a thorough re-work, but a small band-aid solution would be a mission editor selection to determine if a JTAC provides coordinates in MGRS or lat/long. If JTACs could read lat/long coordinates, the Tomcat would become a very decent CAS aircraft almost immediately, with the ability to have Jester input the coordinates and cue the TGP to that point. Right now, CAS in the tomcat requires use of the F-10 map, conversion of MGRS to lat/long, and THEN inputting the coordinates in via Jester/RIO. Flying in VR makes that very challenging. I'm assuming that there are other aircraft that can also accept lat/long coordinates and not MGRS, and this simple tweak would open CAS up to these aircraft as well. Obviously dynamic laser-codes and better ordinance selection would also help, but I imagine these fixes are more challenging to implement and would take longer. For the meantime, options for coordinates would provide a pretty significant leap in capability.
