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Last time I tried 4 Harpoons took out a Kirov. Came in frontal aspect, other missiles might've helped straveoff the defenses. Now 4 Harpoons to sink a Kirov doesn't sound right to me, they weren't built to sink large ships. Mobius708

Not referring to PB. Technically PB should all be loaded preflight via the MU. I'm referring to TOO. You have a TGT designation, set the filter for the general emitter type and press the pickle button. This has to do with range known/unknown and you will have a dashed emitter box on the TOO format if the HARM doesn't currently see that radar class at the target point after hand-off. I.e. HARM emitter handoff can be from a ground designation. When there is a designation, range known/unknown will appear as options on stores. Selecting known will utilize the TGT designation from the primary sensor as the source for range. If range is unknown, the HARM CLC will attempt to extrapolate range on it's own. This is my understanding after reading about these systems. Mobius708

I don't really see the issue with this. As the the range decreases with the HARM traveling the straight line, the depression angle of the tracked emitter will increase. The missile should be smart enough to just eventually center the crosshairs on the emitter. (This is what I assume would happen. If the missile can see the emitter and knows it's own altitude, why wouldn't it be able to resolve range?) We are missing TOO fuctions such as being able to select range known/unknown, and designating a waypoint for the weapon to fly to. Mobius708 Edit: word

I have a lot of "cheat" OSBs and what not bound to my stick. First is ECM knob as we lack jammer priority functions. First PB I bind for all displays is PB 18. This allow me access TAC and SUPT formats. (All of these are with modifiers in reference to the Wharthog stick) Trim left for LDDI menu and right for RDDI menu. This allows me to take advantage of the Castle to no priority accepting display logic. Trim up is LDDI PB 5 to select stores from TAC, Trim down for LDDI PB 4 to select HARM TOO. Weapons select rocker left right forward and aft are the top row of LDDI PBs to allow A/G weapons selection. AMPCD PB 18 + 17 is the first and second stage trigger for me. One full press will cue EW as we can't via SCS yet. (We don't know what OFP) AMPCD PB 10 for SA decanter and HSI DATA. AMPCD PB 8 for scale as TDC slew is too slow to use bump. My SCS (TMS) left and right is next and previous waypoint. I would use a depress for PB 14 to WPDSG. Those are just a few of the things I have. A good chunk aren't entirely unrealistic. Mobius708

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But, why? The terrain elevation data map already exists in in the aircraft in DCS. We can "select" it by adjusting the HSI/SA scale. Wouldn't it be quite simple to add the function to select the map? Again, it is already modeled, and can be displayed.

Sounds like a poor excuse to me seeing as winds aloft was added to the Viper.

Huh, I was wondering if the 16 had a waterline reference point like the Hornet. (Top of the IAS and altitude boxes) Good to know Mobius708

Somehow I've been out of the loop on this one. Where would I view the recordings for say the F-5? Mobius708

We could say the same for *many* of the Hornet core systems lol. Mobius708

I was referring to an IRL theoretical scenario where you are facing a better performing opponent. In DCS of course it's not needed as the Hornet will out turn almost everything in a 1C. In DCS I personally never use it in BFM. Last ditch effort to evade an endgame SAM sure. Or to escape a CFIT situation. Being down an aircraft is better than being down an aircraft and a pilot. Mobius708

Pressing ON/OFF with no autopilot selected will engage CSS on it's own. This is the A/P ADV. CSS is a available in all of the selectable A/P modes, thus it is automatically enabled with them. You are correct that pressing ON/OFF is not an A/P modes prerequisite. the manual fails to expand upon the CSS function of the autopilot system. What is says now is incorrect as it seems to try to try talk about two separate functions simultaneously. Mobius708

What is your point? Should the pilot not have pulled so hard in this case? Sure the aircraft was damaged, but it MADE IT BACK TO BASE. I.e, the pilot survived. We put many millions into training each pilot, it many cars they are worth more than the aircraft, outside of them being a human being. In combat, another life or death situation you'd be damn sure that I would pull 12 g to by nose on before the Flanker does. Boo hoo, damaged aircraft, but the pilot survived. Much easier to replace an aircraft than a pilot. (In most cases. Not counting U2s and Black birds) Mobius708

No. It's a capability of the real aircraft. If you have a pod on you do need to pull paddle to get to 7.5g as you would clean. Sure you'd dump the gyro, but you have a better chance of making it back alive. (Winning the fight) Not to mention the paddle switch is you A/P disengage and disables NWS. Also, remember what it actually does... it dosen't disable the G limiter, it gives you 33% more of you available G. Never going to cause a catastrophic structural failure lol. Just crushes a few panels. Mobius708

It's supposed to be like that... Line up the crosses and press and hold cage/uncage. Then you can do a fine alignment. Mobius708

To be fair, the Hornet HOTAS is the same way(or, well should be, depends on what ED feels like implementing), and technically has a *lot* more functionality. It's not really anything special in the Viper when compared to the Hawg or Bug. Even the Harrier has a great system. It really all depends on how much of the aircrafts capabilities are HOTAS-able. A-10 has a ton of system capabilities for being just a CAS aircraft, so it has a system where basically everything is on the HOTAS. (Like even pre set aircraft wingspans for the gun funnel are cycled via DMS lol) The Viper has a higher percentage of systems accessable with HOTAS compared to the Hornet, but the Hornet has much more HOTAS capability due to enhanced aircraft capabilities. I do believe the Harrier is the only aircraft that can cue the TPOD via HOTAS at basically anytime. Real neat system with cuing FLIR and EW too. Mobius708

Once ED fixes the Hornet (and that's basically every system) you'll find that it does everything much better than the Viper in way you never thought possible :) Mobius708

Network limitation? Mobius708

For the second part, to he cockpit lighting must be in night to adjust IFEI brightness. (This will also make IFEI text green) Switch is in the lighting controls outboard of the right console. Mobius708

Yes, everyone on the L16 net. If there's an AWACS, even the A-10 should see it due to the SADL bridge via E-3. Mobius708

All L16 aircraft *should* be able to communicate with each other without a bridge. Mobius708

Not implimented yet. Your set the angle at which you intend to loft so the computer can calculate the point where you should begin the loft to be in kinematic range to hit the target. Again not implimented, but you would have a dashed arc related to your dynamic IZLAR on the HSI indicating when you should begin the loft. Mobius708

It will automatically hold on to tracks in TWS AUTO. Otherwise just adjust antenna elevation as with every other aircraft. You could just center scan volume via AZ/EL TDC if you really don't want to slew elevation directly. Mobius708

Not yet. You should be able to L+S a donor track file. You would also see a circle on the target HAFU symbol indicating that the radar is contributing to the track file. Mobius708

Basically nothing in the cockpit should be readable outside of the HUD as it's infinitely focused. IRL you would peek beneath the nods to read things. It helps if you of course set the cockpit/displays to night and adjust brightness and contrast as necessary. If you lean a bit closer you should be able to read the cockpit displays a bit. Mobius708 Mobius708