JATC wingman... Midnight Run

OK lets say that you have received you orders from JATC and your putting in the coordinates in to the cdu the your wing man starts telling you the a missile has been launched. I would like to send him to take care of the problem but the comminution menu is in JATC mode and you cant talk to your wing man. Is there away to get commands to him. In my experence until all JATC targets are gone I cant talk to my wing man. What would you do in this situation.

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In the Midnight Run mission i have put the L/L in to the cdu and named the target. When i slave the tgp to that point and it is in the air. How do you fix the problem either in the cockpit or in mission editor. Started learning A10c at the beginning of april. Loving it:pilotfly:

OK lets say that you have received you orders from JATC and your putting in the coordinates in to the cdu the your wing man starts telling you the a missile has been launched. I would like to send him to take care of the problem but the comminution menu is in JATC mode and you cant talk to your wing man. Is there away to get commands to him. In my experence until all JATC targets are gone I cant talk to my wing man. What would you do in this situation.

You can interrupt the communication with JTAC, and talk to someone else (or even another jtac), by selecting a different radio mic button. This puts you back to the first menu for all the radios. You can then choose the wingman and give him some orders. Do the same again to get back to the JTAC, and continue with your JTAC.

...until all JATC targets are gone...

Don't forget you can 'check-out' from the JTAC at anytime.

You know, when you suddently realise you left the bath running before you left this morning and have to head back to base immediately to help mop up

...slave the tgp to that point and it is in the air...

When entering waypoints (target points) manually into the CDU don't forget to populate the Elevation data field.

If you're sure that isn't the problem then it could be the age old issue whereby the target point is situated in a different 'major grid cell' than the one that appears as default on the CDU waypoint entry page.

There are many threads that can better explain this issue to you because I can't remember all the correct terminology off hand.

Don't forget you can 'check-out' from the JTAC at anytime.

I have tryed to check out I think its option 7 but it never will.

When entering waypoints (target points) manually into the CDU don't forget to populate the Elevation data field.

There are many threads that can better explain this issue to you because I can't remember all the correct terminology off hand.

I will look for Elevation data field to see what i can find

To add all of the way points are in the air in the mission. Thought i could them in the mission editor

If you're sure that isn't the problem then it could be the age old issue whereby the target point is situated in a different 'major grid cell' than the one that appears as default on the CDU waypoint entry page.

By that he means the 37T or 38T on the CDU Waypoint page. Very popular with east coast JTAC..

By that he means the 37T or 38T on the CDU Waypoint page. Very popular with east coast JTAC..

Dont understand 37t or 38t is.

In the Midnight Run L/L coordinates are given for 3 bridges in the briefing. All way points are in the air.

The more i thing about it i remember in a video that there is a fix in the pit to set way points right i just cant find it.

Dont understand 37t or 38t is.

Explanation:

37T and 38T = grid zones.

 

GG, KN etc = grid squares.

 

First character of the grid square designator should be all you need to determine if it is 37T or 38T. Before H in the alphabet - it's 37T. After H - it's 38T.

See also this thread (some elevation stuff explained):

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=72925

Go into Mission Editor and at the target waypoints, set the lowest height it will accept. Save mission and your waypoints should be at ground level

Explanation:

See the attached pics for further info. Those pics were originally posted here by other forum members.

 

See also this thread (some elevation stuff explained):

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=72925

The problem is that 37T/38T only applies to MGRS coordinates, while the thread starter enters coordinates in L/L format.

About the elevation, have you tried setting the altitude to 0 in the CDU? If my memory serves me right, the DTS will know what height ground level is and set that one instead...

Thanks for the help.