Ice30

All great posts, i've been checking out the tracks that you've posted viper, really appreciate your help :) I've tried to use some of your strategies against SAMs, I find i tend to panic too much and stall my aircraft while trying to perform maneuvers :P I guess with practice I will get used to it a bit more and keep things under control. I wish I had trackIR so i could look for missile trails and perform maneuvers based on that, seems to really help with everything i've seen so far. I am looking to upgrade soon and TrackIR is definitely a must have :)

Thanks for your response, DEAD strategy is what I have been attempting. I would really love to see a track of an experienced pilot dealing with SAM threats using multiple strategies. Thanks in advance!

Thanks for your input I will check out how to do that. Specific or non specific anything that you guys can share I will read and try to understand and I hope other new guys will read this thread too :) Hows about missile avoidance as well?

So I've been learning loads recently in a-10c dcs and recently started completed missions with mostly good success. But one thing I am still struggling with is SAMs. I configure my countermeasures and set my jamming to the specific SAM type i might encounter on the mission after looking at the threats. I am also trying to identify SAMs from a distance and launch AGMs at them as soon as they come into range. I also attempt flying around them at high altitude where possible... But I still struggle dealing with them. I know I still dont identify SAMs correctly a lot of the time. But I feel even with practice at identifying them theres still something I'm not doing right. Just wondering how other pilots deal with this kind of threat. :)

Yeah I was flying around in my first mission and i got hit by a SAM and got a systems failure and i was trying to see if rebooting the systems would work, then i looked out the window and saw my right wing was missing XD

Thanks I will, at this point i'm trying to get through all the information provided, but it's like going through an entire training module. Its helpful to know where to locate specific things that help me with the basics BTW Eddie, my parents were from lincoln and told me about the a-10s that flew over at low altitude during the cold war period, apparently I hated it when I was young, god what was wrong with me? :) I'm Australian now though.

^ Thanks, this seems a little difficult to someone as new as myself however, is there somewhere where there is screen captures of typical silhouettes? Or something that I can study before I try and throw myself in the deep end?

Yeah, cheers bignewy. I know I still got a lot of flight hours to gain but it's good to know how not to bang your head against the wall with something that is going to make things harder, such as no trackIR and bad screen resolution. Is there somewhere i could look to help me identify different types of buildings\vehicles by their silhouette on the TGP?

It will help me relate things i see with my targetting pod to things i see out of the window though. At this stage I struggle to see anything that relates to what I see up in the air besides rivers and a general town area

The reason I prefer having something on my TAD rather than my TGP is because I find the waypoint or mark point easier to understand than a TGP SPI, because when a target goes out of range on the TGP the scanner starts moving away from the last known point. I suppose the best way to increase my awareness is using TrackIR and getting a higher resolution and bigger screen :) Plus a load of practice.

But the thing is i'm not, i'm looking at the attack waypoint area. For example I was doing the first mission in the campaign and I was struggling to locate the artillery I was supposed to bomb, i was still, however able to find enemy units. But attacking them felt like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to do. I know this is a real simulation, that's why i'm interested in learning, my question is how would a pilot locate the objective target given such general coordinates? Cool I will have a browse, i looked for a bit but maybe not hard enough :P Sorry maybe I wasn't clear, if I am tracking a target using my TGP can I create that as a waypoint that will stick to that target until it goes out of range, so that way I can go to it's last known coordinates?

Hehe Mk1 eyeball :P I guess to use that I might need a better PC with better resolution hehe. I'm considering TrackIR5 and getting 3 monitors. Would this be a good option? (of course with a good system behind it, just wondering about usability of TrackIR5 with 3 monitors for the A-10c DCS)

Hi, I'm new to the forum and the DCS series. I recently got the A-10C Warthog simulator, its been one of my favorite aircraft and I have been absolutely enthralled with the whole experience. I'm still pretty new, however i'm getting a handle on the TGP and EGI systems and I know how to create a SPI at a desired location and survey the area using the TPG using black hot and white hot. I know how to use the HUD and creating a SPI using the HUD and then using all sensors to SPI to find targets that way too. However, my issue is this, even with having labels turned on and having a mission that has a waypoint showing where the targets generally are, I still struggle finding targets. I can do it, with perhaps 2 or 3 long passes scanning areas and setting up an attack run, which kind of feels completely wrong, like i'm missing something. I tried with labels off and it felt like I was trying to find a needle in a haystack, I went out of range of the area so many times trying to find targets until I got bored and turned the labels back on. I know it shouldn't be this hard. I began to wonder what issue it might be, should I be using my CDU better? I noticed my fellow ground forces and wingman tend to spot things from a mile away (or is that just me?) and they announce locations. However, I am not sure how to program them into my CDU so that I can display them on my TAD. Also if I locate a target, is there a way of tracking that target on my TAD when it's moving. I am easily able to create a mark using my TGP or creating a SPI, but when i create a mark on the target it only does it at that location at that moment, as in it doesnt track it. I have difficult relating locations displayed on my TGP to where I am aswell, this is a major issue for me too. Sorry for the wall of text! Thanks for any help.