A little help please

Didn't know whether to put this here or one up so please move this if it's in the wrong place.

So I got Op Piercing Fury, have to say its great (the voiceovers are AWESOME), but I never really learned how to do 9 Lines so this is a learning experience for me. So I get to the point in the first mission where BelGeode the JTAC contacts for assistance. So at the time that I'm ordered to orbit I was at WP7. JTAC tells me to go to WP5 and fly HDG 290 to the target. I went to do that but then my character says that I will be on target in 120 seconds which is impossible as to get to WP5 and subsequently to the target would take longer than that. So i cut it short and turned to fly straight in at 290, I requested smoke but when I got to the target I couldn't see it on my TGP, so I hit the warehouse closest to the target coordinates (LM 19797 59710) and got nothing, no indication of wrong target hit, no indication of correct target or anything. Does anyone know what I did wrong other than guessing the target? If you need any more info just ask. Any help would be appreciated.

On your CDU:

Make sure the rotaries are set to MISSION and OTHER.

Hit the "WP" key below the screen

Press the "Steerpoint" OSB (button on the side) on the menu that comes up.

Press the ?number that comes up on the right side. This will create a new steerpoint at the number specified next to the ?

Press the OSB that says "L/L" this will change to "UTM" and put your CDU coordinates into MGRS.

Enter the coordinates from your JTAC into the CDU.

Press the bottom left OSB, the coordinates should store into the CDU in your new steerpoint.

Set HUD as SOI.

Use DMS up/down to select your new steerpoint

Press China hat aft long to set steerpoint as SPI (in this case, your target coordinates)

Press China hat fwd long to slave all sensors to SPI

Kill it! :)

Good luck.

On your CDU:

Make sure the rotaries are set to MISSION and OTHER.

 

Hit the "WP" key below the screen

 

Press the "Steerpoint" OSB (button on the side) on the menu that comes up.

 

Press the ?number that comes up on the right side. This will create a new steerpoint at the number specified next to the ?

 

Press the OSB that says "L/L" this will change to "UTM" and put your CDU coordinates into MGRS.

 

Enter the coordinates from your JTAC into the CDU.

 

Press the bottom left OSB, the coordinates should store into the CDU.

 

Set HUD as SOI.

 

Use DMS up/down to select your new steerpoint

 

Press China hat aft long to slave all sensors to steerpoint (in this case, your target coordinates)

 

Kill it! :)

 

Good luck.

Well said!

On your CDU:

Make sure the rotaries are set to MISSION and OTHER.

 

Hit the "WP" key below the screen

 

Press the "Steerpoint" OSB (button on the side) on the menu that comes up.

 

Press the ?number that comes up on the right side. This will create a new steerpoint at the number specified next to the ?

 

Press the OSB that says "L/L" this will change to "UTM" and put your CDU coordinates into MGRS.

 

Enter the coordinates from your JTAC into the CDU.

 

Press the bottom left OSB, the coordinates should store into the CDU in your new steerpoint.

 

Set HUD as SOI.

 

Use DMS up/down to select your new steerpoint

 

Press China hat aft long to slave all sensors to steerpoint (in this case, your target coordinates)

 

Kill it! :)

 

Good luck.

That's basically what I did, I'll give it another shot tomorrow and report on how it goes, I probably messed something up somewhere :lol:

The building should look like a large factory with smoke stacks. :thumbup:

It's important to note if you aren't approaching at the prescribed heading the target will be masked by terrain until you're fairly close. Your TGP may appear to be looking at the side of a mountain but as you clear the hill you should be spot on.

Also don't just fixate at the TGP screen, look out the canopy often. The red smoke isn't very obvious on the black & white screen, but very visible looking out the window if you are at least near the right town. ;)

Also, you can request additional smoke using the F10 menu. This will make it very clear which building they want you to hit.

Also don't just fixate at the TGP screen, look out the canopy often. The red smoke isn't very obvious on the black & white screen, but very visible looking out the window if you are at least near the right town. ;)

Also, you can request additional smoke using the F10 menu. This will make it very clear which building they want you to hit.

I only had the additional smoke option once and thought that it was required, I was looking out the window but couldn't see that smoke, maybe it ran out? Like I said I will try it again today.

SUCCESS! Thanks for the help guys, turns out the first time I had messed up the coordinates, this time I got it right and successfully destroyed the target and RTB'ed. Unfortunately my wingman decided to park himself on the runway so 3 and 4 couldn't land causing me to lose a couple of points.

Unfortunately my wingman decided to park himself on the runway so 3 and 4 couldn't land causing me to lose a couple of points.

Don't park your aircraft yet, leave it running and sit on a taxi way waiting for the aircraft to land. For some reason there is an issue where AI will stop on a dime when landing and not move if you have already parked in a parking spot.

problem with GBU-12?

Just did mission 1 of the campaign, very nice. But my GBU-12s seem to impact considerably (maybe 50m) off the target point locked in on the GBU. Obviously not an issue with the mission, but I was wondering if anyone else noticed GBU-12s missing since the last update?

Old tutorial I made to input coordinates in relation to a 9-line request, hope this helps:

Just did mission 1 of the campaign, very nice. But my GBU-12s seem to impact considerably (maybe 50m) off the target point locked in on the GBU. Obviously not an issue with the mission, but I was wondering if anyone else noticed GBU-12s missing since the last update?

One thing I noticed is that the TGP does not lase when slaved to a SPI. You have to put it in point or area track mode. This happened to me the first time I dropped a bomb in that mission, maybe it happened to you?

One thing I noticed is that the TGP does not lase when slaved to a SPI. You have to put it in point or area track mode. This happened to me the first time I dropped a bomb in that mission, maybe it happened to you?

Unless you set up auto lase you will also have to hit the pinky switch

Don't park your aircraft yet, leave it running and sit on a taxi way waiting for the aircraft to land. For some reason there is an issue where AI will stop on a dime when landing and not move if you have already parked in a parking spot.

Thats what i did, tried mission two and it worked fine even though I started taxiing to parking before the flight recovered.

One thing I noticed is that the TGP does not lase when slaved to a SPI. You have to put it in point or area track mode. This happened to me the first time I dropped a bomb in that mission, maybe it happened to you?

This also happened to me, just something to be aware of in mission 1.

Don't park your aircraft yet, leave it running and sit on a taxi way waiting for the aircraft to land. For some reason there is an issue where AI will stop on a dime when landing and not move if you have already parked in a parking spot.

Ah, I was wondering what was up with that.