Dudester22 Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 When JTAC tells you they have a target and then says no mark? How then are you suppose to find the target? I see no red mark or anything on the Tad, but I put that down to the fact he says there is no mark.
WildBillKelsoe Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 do you think they'll spare a 203 from helping you without being in close contact? With that said, I agree its stupid, but I think you can set type I/II/III in effect. I just don't remember how. Anyways, you let him repeat the message, create new waypoint on CDU the #? button then convert to UTM mode and punch in. Altitude afterwards, and you're done... Drag it over flight plan (insert) or create new one (NEW FP) and you'll have your Spee. It's good knowing that waypoints do not suffer jitters of TGP.. AWAITING ED NEW DAMAGE MODEL IMPLEMENTATION FOR WW2 BIRDS Fat T is above, thin T is below. Long T is faster, Short T is slower. Open triangle is AWACS, closed triangle is your own sensors. Double dash is friendly, Single dash is enemy. Circle is friendly. Strobe is jammer. Strobe to dash is under 35 km. HDD is 7 times range key. Radar to 160 km, IRST to 10 km. Stay low, but never slow.
kripzoo Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 Just type the MGRS coordinates the jtac gives you to the CDU. Theres good tutorials on youtube how to do that. :)
Yurgon Posted February 3, 2014 Posted February 3, 2014 When JTAC tells you they have a target and then says no mark? How then are you suppose to find the target? I see no red mark or anything on the Tad, but I put that down to the fact he says there is no mark. AFAIK the "mark" only refers to the way of how the target gets marked by the JTAC: Smoke Rocket (Green, Blue, Willi Pete, ...), Laser or IR. I don't think there's any correlation between this mark and the datalink that "beams" target info right into the TAD. As the others have already suggested, if you create a waypoint from the MGRS coordinates that the JTAC always supplies in the 9-line, you can have eyes on target long before any kind of mark gets deployed. In most cases when I do that, I'm ready to run in on the target and have to wait for the JTAC do deploy the mark, then call the mark, then declare inbound, until I finally get cleared hot. You should definitely take the time and learn to do this. :) Unfortunately, I don't know about the prerequisites for having the target sent via datalink, but I guess the JTAC needs to have certain types of equipment or must be a unit of a certain kind.
kk0425 Posted February 3, 2014 Posted February 3, 2014 Doesn't the JTAC need an ELPRS radio or is that only so they can show their positions on the TAD and TGP?
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