Auto Lase

[ryguy101077]

OK, here is what MAY be going wrong and is usually a messy topic to talk about since it's a bit wonky how it works.

 

 

OK, let's say on your A-10 you have two weapons, your GBU-12's and then rockets.

 

You went into your profile, and you did everything right, saved it, done. You did this while on the ground, or in the air shortly after take off, then you switched to something else, like NAV, or to your guns, or to your rockets, whatever. Basically you clicked out of the DSMS.

 

Now after you did your thang you said, OK time to go and select my GBU 12's!!!

 

Yey!

 

 

IF you select your GBU-12s MANUALLY by pressing the OSBs to select them from the DSMS, then what you are ACTUALLY doing is selecting the DEFAULT profile for that weapon.

 

It doesn't matter if you have a profile saved for it. Just by manually selecting the weapon you have entered the default profile. Hence why the bomb will be in CCIP and no auto lase when you select it.

 

 

Sooooo... what do we do?

 

 

We actually need to select our GBU-12's with our HOTAS commands.

 

So with the DSMS page up on the left MFD (just to see what's going on), you are going to make your HUD SOI.

 

Then you have to make sure you are in either CCIP or CCRP mode (Not in NAV or GUNS mode), and then you can press DMS left or right. By doing so, you will scroll through your different weapon profiles, you will have 2 of them, your rockets and your GBU-12's.

 

Whatever profile you saved for your GBU-12s will be there with the auto laze, once you select your GBU-12s this way.

 

 

It's a bit of a pain in the arse, but that's what you have to do.

 

Obviously though, if you go into your DSMS, and make the GBU-12 profile, press save and then leave it there, meaning you still have the GBU 12's selected, then you should be able to just proceed from there. So basically, you are flying along, you see that you need to drop a GBU-12, so you quickly go into your DSMS, and set up the profile for it and then right after you press save, the GBU-12s should be still selected with it's profile now engaged.

 

 

 

 

 

Hope this helped.

 

 

PS: Lase time of 15 seconds is the general average most A-10C DCS users use without fail.

Ralfidude,

 

I am a noob to A10C. Can you please offer a youtube video providing how to avoid using the default profiles for GBU12s when the user has a saved profile and wants to use auto lase?

[ENO]

Use your equivalent of selecting HUD as SOI and the use dms left short to cycle through the options in your desired targeting mode (ccip / ccrp etc).

 

Let's say you save your profile to ccrp- when you get to that weapon type with dms it will switch to ccrp automatically.

 

If you watch your dsms as you switch through weapon types it will highlight all stations. If you select the station via dsms Osb then you'll drop default- if memory serves. Haven't dropped default (on purpose) for awhile.

Edited June 8, 2014 by ENO