Can Shkval point you to Datalink Target from Abris?

Okay, so you know how if you go to the PVI and select Nav target and then uncage the shkval the shkval will automatically home in and point to that nav target waypoint from the PVI? Well if you find a armored target with the shkval and then put it into the datalink memory, then move the shkval around or you fly around and lose the target, can you then select the target through the datalink panel and have the shkval home back into the target similar to the first example? This would be verrrrry useful. If not you have to pretty much use the Abris and the yellow vector line on the Abris from the shkval to iterate unitl you find the target... correct? ::breaths::

Simple... 1. Press tgt type on DL panel.. (blue icon will flash on ABRIS)

2. Press Ingress button on DL panel.

3. Press "O" key to uncage shkval.

The shkval will slew to the DL tgt.

what is the purpose of hitting the ingress button?

what is the purpose of hitting the ingress button?

Because this is how you slave the shkval to a DL tgt. ;)

ahhhhh... the holy grail! :smartass:

It is a bit confusing though since in the manual the button description under page 6-47,

"DLINK automatic ingress to target. This button activates functionality to automatically point the aircraft in the direction of the assigned data linked target. "

Sounds more like the autoturn feature since it says that the aircraft and not the shkval will be pointed to the target.

Think of the DL Ingress button on the PRT panel as the "missing" PVI-800 task button. You have ARFLD, WPT, NAVTGT, FIX... and DL Ingress.

The DL Ingress button works very much like the NAVTGT task button. You can use Route, uncage Shkval onto a point, etc. The difference is NAVTGT is a point stored in the PVI memory (0-9 position) and the DL Ingress is a point stored in the DL memory.

Simple... 1. Press tgt type on DL panel.. (blue icon will flash on ABRIS)

2. Press Ingress button on DL panel.

3. Press "O" key to uncage shkval.

The shkval will slew to the DL tgt.

Rep inbound I did not know that one or ignored it during the tutorials.:doh:

Thx Subs17..:) Don't worry, I just recently learn't something I should have known in the first week of flying this helo... :hehe: too pathetic to mention :cry: .. :P

go on then :)