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I figured that the reason for its omission would be that beacons would be taken down and the design philosophy would be to have the Viggen as an autonomous strike delivery vehicle. It was coming from the MiG-21, F-5 etc: which feature beacon nav embedded that I found it a little odd. I was surprised it was not an implemented option into the nav arsenal. Not least to have the possibility to obtain a fix and correct drift in the inertial nav. The Viggen is just so different in so many ways. It would appear that SAAB started with a design specification and a clean sheet of paper. Went back to basics and ignored all historical precedents. The cockpit just oozes Scandi style with its clean functional ergonomics and design. I'm loving it!!!!

Thanks RaXha That put's that to bed then. I spent a while cruising up and down the manual trying to find where the beacon nav was. I just could not believe it did not have any. You Swede's certainly do things differently and that is in many ways a good thing. Long before flight simming the Draken, Viggen and laterly the Grippen were my fave aircraft

I realize the Viggen was designed to have the capability to operate from roads etc: and in an hostile environment, where you may not have any beacons. I just found it a trifle strange that the aircraft doesn't, unless I'm missing something, appear to be able to utilize any form of beacon nav, with the exception of TILS. No biggie I'm loving the Viggen but I just wondered about it. I freely admit I'm only starting to get my head around the Nav and have not read the manual in detail. The reason for asking here is not laziness but that there are some guys who have intimate knowledge of the type and even more who are more informed about aviation in general than me (although that would be nothing to boast about) I'll probably get dog's abuse for asking this but it struck me as odd.

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Thor77 I thanked you on the download page, but I never realized you had posted up, so forgive me for not catching this earlier I thanked you there and I thank you here, its very good of you to do this :worthy: Wooo Hooo I owe you :beer:

I just recorded a short file, total track time around the 10 minute mark (or a little more) in SP (not MP, no servers involved) landing the MiG-21, in 1.5.4 Went to the replay and although it recorded a track when I play it back there appears to be nothing in it which is a annoying because I wanted to include it as part of a video. Track replays in the MiG-21 are completely broken so I cannot repeat it. Is it me or is there bugs in 1.5.4 regarding the 10 minute lag timer? Vyrtuoz, I can post up a copy of the track if you want to look at it

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That made me laugh and took me back to series shown here in the UK a looooong time ago It was about RAF trainees undergoing training to get qualified as fast jet pilots. One of the quips I remember when one of the guys got assigned to Jaguars was "Jaguars? You need reheat to taxi"

Easy way to check if prop pitch is in auto on the ground is to rev the engine a little, if you don't see the prop pitch indicator moving, the dial that has hands like a clock, then its off. I often have difficulty trying to see that switch position as the 109 pit can be like a coal hole. No tail lock, no wonder you were having trouble :o)

Nice looking forward to seeing them released Something different is always welcome to the seemingly endless USAF skins. Don't get me wrong many GREAT USAF skins..............but these make a really nice change Thanks

Frantz maybe not the best place for me to post but I thought I'd add a "wish" I don't do so much combat, but love just conquering the aircraft, to be able to takeoff, navigate and land them. So a couple of things I'd like to be able to do in Tacview 1) As well as locking onto other objects, aircraft etc: it would be great if I could also use this function to lock, runways or beacons relative to me and get distance, course, height, flight path angle etc: 2) Another thing that might be nice would be a free measuring tool, like something in the DCS Editor to make measurements between objects without having to lock onto them Unless there is something similar there already and I'm just too stupid not to know how to implement it Don't get me wrong I love this tool "as is" and a real time function is awesome. These were just things that would help me in navigation when analyzing what went on

Thanks AGAIN!! Frederf & also Redglyph As usual I'm guilty of NOT being specific, all my inquiries, relate to RSBN mode and the Horizontal Position Indicator, the top horizontal bar on the KPP, for last couple of posts. Ferderf your explanation is going to take a few more reads in order that I can fully absorb what you are trying so patiently to impart. That said I think I understand now what to use the Horizontal Position Indicator for. Apologies for my sloppy terminology, I'll try to improve and in future, include a description of where the relevant needle is located to make it clearer. In case I botch it again, which is highly probable. :poster_oops: It's great when somebody who has went through the pain of acquiring this knowledge imparts it freely to the rest of us without having to first decode what the hell the question is

So looking at the video and rotating the course heading pointer, when on the runway at Kobuletti it would appear that the gaps between the dots represent 1 degree deviation between the beacon pointer and the course heading pointer. Moving the course setting pointer to the left relative to the beacon pointer throws the localiser bar to the right and vice versa. I can see how it would inform me if I was flying with course pointer and beacon pointer aligned or slightly off, but I'm still a bit unsure of exactly what is trying to tell me and how to interpret these instructions

This just gets more and more interesting. Last night I completed a short hop from Kobuletti to Batumi in the evening over the water using the RSBN & PRMG nav and recorded it on video. So I get the NPP and all the needles doing what I'd expect, the director vertical needle also provides me course indications as well. I go back and check the KPP course indicator on the video and its moving around too. At first I thought it was mimicking the director but its not, it's mimicking the vertical localiser bar on the NPP. The manual states its course deviation and should be used to fine tune the course heading. I understand course deviation, so should I just ignore these indications until on my desired radial and then use them to fine tune my heading as required, or can it be used in some other way? One more question is what is the scale? On the NPP there are 4 dots again mimicked on the KPP course indicator. Anybody any ideas what these dots represent?

You answered another question for me on a related topic in another thread Frederf. The explanation was clear, and in great detail, helping me to understand the director. It was that explanation that led me down the road of learning how to manually intercept a given radial using the NPP. As a work of fiction which I rarely use though, the director was still bothering me. It should work (of sorts) therefore I was probably doing something wrong. Hence the further testing and ultimately this thread. As mentioned in the previous post if I do get around to a video on it, then its nice to show all the features that are implemented, fictional or not. Total pain that the Track Replay function isn't working either, although its far from the only module that suffers from this problem. I'm grateful for all (and any) help, I get.

Nice to know I was not the only one. I think I might try to make a video to explain how to set it up and do a simple interception. That might clear it up a little for others. The manual, Chuck's Guide, JohnXXX's videos and above all you good people here, especially have helped me. Thank You for that

Ok that seems to clear it up, Redglyph, I re-read the manual pages and yes I agree now what it states makes sense. Initially on the first read that's not what I took from it all ...............guess that's just me though :doh: Thanks guys for the confirmation

Thanks for the confirmation doom Yeah I read Chuck's guide, but in that he has the course heading arrow around the other way, so he is including the 180 degree offset. Of course what added more confusion was when the needles were then swapped around in an update, some time ago. The conflicting info was getting me very confused (which is easy to do). So I just started to experiment using different headings for the course arrow and BINGO setting it the way I started to behave like it should.

I have no idea if its because of changes or if the manual is a bit out of date but I was tying myself in knots trying to understand the KPP director, the NPP needles, Directional beacons and the associated radials. From what I understood from the manual and posts told me Radials were always from the beacon The "Leatherneck" implementation of the director providing solutions to guide you to a radial, could not be used if the radial was behind the beacon Based on the above to fly to a given beacon, you selected the radial 180 degrees from your desired heading, to use the radial on your side of the beacon. After a bit of experimentation my experience so far is You select the course pointer to point to your beacon at a desired heading, in the case of a runway that would just be the published heading for it (example Batumi 126 degrees, Kobuleti 70 degrees etc) If flying to the beacon you fly the "heads", or arrows of the pointers If flying from the beacon you fly the "tails" of the pointers The director does not seem to care if you are flying to or from the beacon and will issue directions to place you onto the desired radial. While I normally do fly a manual interception, I could not help but notice that the director seems to be issuing similar instructions If I'm correct its very simple but there seems to be so much conflicting and wrong information on how to use the system If I'm wrong, I'd love to be placed on the path of spiritual enlightenment

Wow the splinter, winter camo is fantastic, also really liking the bare metal and aggressor. Personally I'm hoping for a raft of fictional skins as well as historic.

Ahh Ok I got it wrong, I thought it was lock. Thank you for the replies. I just read up some more, that is a strange system, so it either uses the nosewheel and main gear or just main gear to brake and the nose wheel is free castoring the whole time. So with the nosewheel brake on, you are more stable..................but not guaranteed that the nosewheel won't turn. Now you have explained it..............I understand, its no biggie at take off..........she just kicks a little and rudder application corrects. I'm wondering how crosswind landings are going to be, I'm guessing challenging Grateful for the explanations

I can get the nose wheel to lock in SP However in MP on the On Line Caucasus Training Server no matter the position of the steering lock in the cockpit the nosewheel seems to refuse to lock I am locking then taxing straight to allow the wheel to engage with the lock but when I brake to get ready for take off run the wheel just castors Anybody else, or am I doing summit that's just incredibly dumb ass?

Not sure if this is related but I cannot in SP after selecting "visor down" in cockpit (F1) then going to external view (F2) see the pilot with his visor down However a brief jump into MP and when selecting visor down in F1 view then jumping to external F2 view shows the pilot with his visor down I don't know if that allows other players to see you with your visor down or not though.

Anytime I get a track & I'm viewing on a monitor, it always starts paused every time So once I' in I just hit pause then wait for minute or so for the track to take me into the cockpit I don't know if others are having problems but the whole track thing is pretty fragile and frequently falls over. In SP it seems to work for some aircraft and not for others, don't know how that holds for MP What I'm doing now is saving a copy before I replay it. Then if it screws up after viewing once or twice I have a backup