Tried the F-16's TGP today for the first time.
(Mostly motivated by the nostalgia, of droping LGBs from 25.000 ft on North Korean vessels at another sim some 5 years ago, and also to compare the F-16's procedures against the F/A-18C.)
After a while writing the 31 steps for LGBs employment at Chuck's guide into paper sheets, I decided to try, and within an hour I could consistently employ the LGBs on the given targets.
Either using waypoint or boresight mode; not without some quirks though.
Might be wrong, but got the following impressions:
- trying to change waypoints (by the increment/decrement switch on ICP) after tweaking with TGP / FLIR page seems a bad idea... because one is 'calling' anything other than the expected waypoints from mission editor;
- also, sometimes the TMS Down (re-center line of sight to boresight) didn't work, really don't know what I was doing wrong;
- some other time, I believe the procedures didn't work (couldn't find the waypoint), because I didn't press the "GB10" pushbutton, although the SMS page had it visible already;
But overall, I liked the current status of the TGP, it seems WIP but doesn't look that bad already.
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By the way, using the "cage / uncage" command seems to mess all up.
Anyone knows which command un-designates the target / point / area ?
Thank you.