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Yeah it seems the Bug is that Player radars behave differently to AI radars. If either one goes either way you can excuse it as DCS not modelling real life perfectly or DCS modelling RWR ambiguity, just so long as players and AI behave the same way.

Tagging onto this post, an ON else OFF bind for the exterior lights master switch would be nice to have aswell. So that it can be bound to something like TM Warthog

I think he's asking how STD HDG is available on the carrier, because on land you need to do the post flight update it would seem, but how would that work on the carrier where the position and direction you update with after the flight is different to the startup position.

Nice! I think technically using the AC position readout from the HSI data page as the update location probably isn't a good idea, as those coords are the very thing you are trying to correct. A better practice would be to know what the coords of your parking position are and use those. I think at Nellis they have the coords written on the inside of the sun shelter thing, but don't quote me on that. I'm glad to hear that there is at least some attempt by ED to add the logic though.

OPs images do show a DSU-33, but I think the focus is on the BSU-85 fin. It's the inflatable parachute thingy that retards the flight of the bomb.

LAU-127 can be directly mounted onto a SUU-80 pylon, as you see on superhornet and on some swiss hornets. Legacy hornets (except the swiss one) use SUU-63, which can't directly mount LAU-127. So as they do IRL, we have to first mount the LAU-127 onto a LAU-115 and then onto the pylon.

The Offset symbol is orientated differently between the SA and HSI formats. Offsetsymbol.trk

IIRC, for the stored heading function to be available IRL, the jet must have completed a Post Flight Update for the INS prior to engine shutdown. I'm not sure if this works in DCS, but the process is effectively an Overfly Designation Update conducted whilst stationary and with WonW. The aircraft should be within 0.01NM of an appropriate waypoints for this update (one can be programmed especially for this purpose). I'm not sure if that works in DCS, or even if it does work if it does anything to allow the STD HDG option. What's very likely is its just WIP, but worth testing I think.

Its probably worth remembering here that sensors IRL aren't as perfect as they are in DCS. I don't know any details but I wouldn't be surprised if the TOO box in the real hornet is a lot less precise and stable than it is in DCS. Current DCS TOO is acting more like an HTS.

They are all still part of the 11S GZD, and they are the adjacent GSIDs to my current position, so they should show on the first page of the ODU

Razbam and Alpha Juliet specifically have been great about communicating the progress of harrier. You have, as others have said, just happened to ask this question on literally the only time of year where a response would not be expected.

I've heard the 130 and 135 don't have bearing either. I think its just KC-10 that has bearing.

Laser seekers in DCS are very simplified, so long as the designator is within 8NM slant range of the target, the actual weapon can lock on a lot further away, I cant remember the exact number but afaik you can lock on further than you can shoot.

As shiroka said above. A side note, the one odd thing I have noticed with the flap BIT is how it cycles once on the depress of the button and once on the release of the button

Yeah AIM-7s can mount directly to the LAU-115. So where an AMRAAM needs to go Pylon>LAU-115>LAU-127>AIM-120. Sparrow can go Pylon>LAU-115>AIM-7

The real hornet cant mount single LAU-127s directly to the pylon. The way it is now, where the LAU-127 mounts onto a LAU-115 and then onto the pylon, is correct.

Which is odd right, because it used to work and then just stopped all of a sudden.

For the elevation data thing, there are other sources of elevation than just TAMMAC. Radalt, Baralt, AGR. All provide elevation data to various degrees of accuracy. I remember that coming up when the JHMCS designation drifting thing was raised, because if you designate outside of the 140 degree forward arc then you cant AGR so the elevation will be off.

Perhaps the solution here isnt to potentially artificially snap an aircrafts gear, but rather to FOD the engines.

Needless to say, there were orders of magnitude more aircraft with TAMMAC than there were with ATFLIR. For comparisons sake. As Wobbly has said, there are lots of things that point towards our aircraft being one of those lucky few hundred equipped with TAMMAC, everything except whats indicated in this thread: the HSI MODE layout and the actual CHRT/CIB/DTED cycle

Where are you guys getting these hornet DI numbers from? Its almost like you are an entire order of magnitude out. A hornet with nothing but pylons on it, has a DI of about 50

There's more to CF-188 than just ILS Vs ICLS. It would take a lot of work to make one from the other. Also afaik the newest modules in DCS are more like ~2015 range. Harrier I know is at least 2012, probably several years later. Hog is 2012+ aswell

Oh there is certainly info about it, I guess it just wasn't in the design spec that ED had for hornet

I don't know the exact reason, but its that way IRL too. I think its something to do with the release sequence when hung on those CVERs

But the AV8B+ which is very closely related has a radar.