Fishbreath

Thanks for the heads-ups. I'm out of town for a week or so now, but I'll roll those changes in when I get back.

Nearly three years after the last release, there's a new one up in the first post.

The standard takeoff is rolling. Set the flaps to STOL and your nozzles to 10 degrees, then hold the brakes and run the throttle up. When the plane starts to roll, release the brakes. When you get to the end of the deck, set the nozzles to 55 degrees. That's a simplified version of the by-the-book procedure, and might not work with takeoff weights near the maximum, but it should get you off the deck reliably in most circumstances.

After selecting a course with the CRS switch or the CSEL entry on the UFC, is there a way to unset the selected course without changing waypoints or TACAN station?

Thanks!

Seems to be a known problem: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=218683

No. Calibrated airspeed is not true airspeed. CAS is IAS corrected only for instrument and position errors, not for air density, temperature, and wind.

I set up a quick little mission last night with an SA-2 site as a bombing target. I had the Fan Song radar in, along with the ground-based search/EW radar in the Iran unit list (I forget what it's called off-hand), and the Tarawa. All three showed up on the RWR as 'UK'. Is that a problem with my installation, expected behavior for the real aircraft, or missing entries in a Harrier table somewhere pending an update?

Reduced power makes sense—if you have the throttle set too high, the brakes don't work very well, because there's very little weight on the wheels.

Nope, not implemented yet. (Congratulations on the carrier landing! It's a great day, taming the Harrier.)

Yup! Thanks, that explains some behavior I saw when playing around with waypoint editing, too. I did note that the markpoints started at 0 for me when hitting the EHSD MK button, counted up to 10, then went to 1, then 10 again, as I hit the button repeatedly. On a three-waypoint flight plan, the next waypoint I could enter manually was 24. (Which would make sense if there were 0-10=11 plus 1-10=10 markpoints in the computer.) I also saw the same thing as you, where the markpoint number displayed in between the up and down arrows was always MK0.

How do you place a markpoint?

Yes, known issue.

Sure thing. I'll probably fly another few later. If I see it again I'll let you know.

Thanks for this! It's working great so far. I have noticed that sometimes the American AWACS is an A-50. The mission planner says it's on 251MHz, but I wasn't able to talk to it when I tuned the Harrier's radio to 251MHz, either AM or FM.

Edit: wrong thread!

I had the same problem after making two waypoints—both said 00.00.00 on the MFDs, selecting them didn't move the moving map, and the TDC moved the aircraft symbol. In another mission, I had a three-waypoint flight plan, but had to enter 24 or greater to make a new waypoint. (Paging through on the MFD, there were a bunch of markpoints in between.)

I've enjoyed my time with the single-player missions, but stepping up to the server for the first time tonight was a real hoot. I'll definitely be back. I noticed that I took off from a public Tarawa slot, but TACAN channel 9 (public Tarawa in the kneeboard) took me to the other one, and 10 was the one I took off from. Have they gotten mixed up?

If you're dropping in AUTO mode, try using DSL and dropping from slightly further away. AUTO drops right at the very end of the allowable release range, so at 10,000 feet you're already pretty close to the target. If you bank away at 30 degrees, you might end up with the target behind you, and the TPOD as mounted on the Harrier doesn't have a very good field of view in that direction. If you stick with AUTO mode, maybe try a steeper bank to keep the target abeam of you. I've been dropping using DSL mode, however; GBU-12s will easily fly 5-6nm from the release point starting at 10,000 feet and 350+ knots TAS. That allows for a shallower bank, and it seems like an easier profile with respect to the TPOD limits.

Not yet. I believe RAZBAM is currently working on the INS and associated UFC functionality, so I would expect to see coordinate entry coming before too long.

1. I believe SLAVE mode is supposed to point the TGP at the A/C CMD LOS. It doesn't currently work; I think that's a known issue/not-yet-implemented feature. Note that the manual isn't super clear on this one. The section on SLAVE says: While the section on the default mode (TDC, non-underlined, on the PB 14 legend) says this, making no mention of SLAVE mode: It's not evident whether enabling SLAVE mode is required, or whether it just forces the TPOD to move if there's no designated target. 2. I just started a thread on this, as it turns out. The manual says that when the TPOD is loaded, SSS Down 'assigns the TDC to the TPOD'. I don't know if that means it brings up the page, toggles between TDC and TDC modes, or just sets the A/C CMD LOS to the TPOD's position. 3. See #1. 4. The NWS button will only fully and correctly reset the TPOD's position in TDC mode. Sometimes it works in HTS mode, but other times it jumps back toward caged without getting there all the way. Presumably this feature isn't finished yet.

The pocket guide says this: It sounds like SSS Down should change the TPOD control mode to TDC, but it doesn't do that. The LITENING II chapter doesn't seem to say anything about the TPOD TDC assignment besides the TDC/TDC toggle with the OSB pushbutton. I have noticed that, if you hold SSS Down for >0.8 seconds, it seems to toggle some kind of mode in which you can't double-click SSS Down to enter or exit HTS mode. If you do SSS Down long while already in HTS mode, it seems to enable a mode where the AC CMD LOS moves to the TPOD's current point whenever you move the TDC. (You can see the AC CMD LOS diamond on the EHSI moving around. Move the TDC, then tap the TDC in any direction, and the CMD LOS shows up at the pre-tap position.) That doesn't seem quite correct to me, but I figured it was worth mentioning in case it's useful to anyone in the interim.

Nope, waypoint entry is not currently implemented.

I think the ARBS target-from-nav is a planned feature but not released yet. The TPOD can be slaved to the ARBS target point.

Yes. You need to designate a target with the DMT to calculate its altitude for CCIP modes. I believe the weapons delivery system uses sea level otherwise, which works for most of the Georgia theater but not a lot otherwise.