bunraku Posted November 8, 2014 Posted November 8, 2014 Hi As you can see in the picture I am pretty much straight in line with the HUD, but the most of the HUD display has went to the left and hidden. So I have to sort of lean to the right to see the display. I am using TIR5 Pro with clip and centre often, but this still seems to happen. Maybe it's my poor posture. Any advice appreciated.
cichlidfan Posted November 8, 2014 Posted November 8, 2014 Wind. Turn the plane around 180 degrees and the pitch ladder will go the other way. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
sobek Posted November 8, 2014 Posted November 8, 2014 The ladder always stays vertically aligned with the FPM. You were probably flying in sidewind. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
P3CFE Posted November 9, 2014 Posted November 9, 2014 yep ...looks normal, You are flying low on speed, so youre track over ground is influenced greatly bij the wind. This can be very anoying when landing with crosswind. In the F16 you can center the Hud info by a "Drift Cut Out" switch. The only downside of this function is that the FFP marker is not giving the right "here are you going to" information anymore for lateral flight path. Greetings,
Aginor Posted November 9, 2014 Posted November 9, 2014 Yep, it is the wind. When you fly the instant action mission "east georgia spring" you see it perfectly when flying towards waypoint 4. DCSW weapons cheat sheet speed cheat sheet
bunraku Posted November 9, 2014 Author Posted November 9, 2014 Thanx for all replies. I had no idea it is sim related and not me being me. :huh: Why don't the plane designers just let you use your windspeed indicators and leave the HUD nice and central?
Harzach Posted November 9, 2014 Posted November 9, 2014 (edited) Why don't the plane designers just let you use your windspeed indicators and leave the HUD nice and central? In most aircraft, they do. However, in a ground-attack aircraft such as the A-10, an acute awareness of the plane's (or rather, the gun's) orientation relative to the direction of travel is more important. Edited November 12, 2014 by Harzach
WildBillKelsoe Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 There is an option to boresight dynamic elements of the HUD in IFFCC submenu for 30 mm (or thereof).. Haven't tried it but worth taking a shot in the dark. Also keep in mind that what goes out of view is just the ladder and datum. Relatively and strange enough, I've seen real hud videos of A-10C using the gun bore line (+ at top ) for aiming the gun. What followed through doesn't happen in DCS. the pipper just slid into the bore cross and the pilot shot immediately after. Here is the video I'm referring to Can anyone tell why master caution sounding as he rolls out? Overspeed limit? 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.
PFunk1606688187 Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 I don't think he's aiming the gun by the cross, he's just using the Bore Cross as a mark for orienting the aircraft on roll out. He was well under 1nm slant range when he fired and at greater than 30 degrees of dive so bullet drop at that point is going to be negligible. Being a pro he can make it look that way though, where he rolls out perfectly set up to fire basically the moment he means to fire. I've seen the pipper climb up to the bore cross in DCS. You probably won't notice unless you're paying attention though since its occluded by default. Turn off gunsight occlusion and see where the cross ends up on a high angle strafe. Watch this. You can clearly see the gun cross disappear behind the occlusion area of the pipper. No idea about the master caution though. 1 Warning: Nothing I say is automatically correct, even if I think it is.
Rusty_M Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 Those two videos are remarkably similar. Great stuff. The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine! http://www.twitch.tv/rusty_the_robot https://www.youtube.com/user/RustyRobotGaming
WildBillKelsoe Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) actually I think he is: Put a dot on the screen with an erasable marker where the cross is, and you'll see he IS aiming by the cross. The CCIP gun reticle just slides into the cross just as he squeezes the trigger. perfectly executed! Edited November 15, 2014 by WildBillKelsoe 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.
Mike5560 Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 I can't tell either way if he's using the bore cross or the pipper. They both seemed to track nicely along that lazy "S" road though. I don't understand the symbology on the lower left HUD. Doesn't seem to indicate ammo type/count. Might be a result of one of the many suite upgrades from 3.1 to present.
Thick8 Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 I will use rudder control (crab) to align the ladder when needed in heavy wind conditions. it takes a little practice to master but is quite effective. All of my posted work, ideas and contributions are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0,) which precludes commercial use but encourages sharing and building on for non-commercial purposes, ©John Muldoon
PFunk1606688187 Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 actually I think he is: Put a dot on the screen with an erasable marker where the cross is, and you'll see he IS aiming by the cross. The CCIP gun reticle just slides into the cross just as he squeezes the trigger. perfectly executed! He's flying the aircraft by the gun cross. Its a real technique as far as I know to place the gun cross at the target on roll out then adjust the pipper to track the target once it stabilizes. Given the range he's rolling out at he can basically make zero adjustments. The gun cross is stable while the calculated elements of the HUD are on some lag usually. If you orient rollout by the pipper you can end up with the see sawing effect of chasing it so you align the cross, let the pipper stabilize, then move it onto it or let it climb into position. In this case the pipper snaps into the same spot as the cross so he doesn't even aim. Perhaps its just a bit of technical semantics but I think its worth noting the technique as I perceive it. It would be wrong to draw incorrect conclusions based on a situation where we perceive his behavior inferring a methodology he isn't actually using. There are people who know better than me but I think its just a case of Roll out on the Cross, Adjust Pipper to Track, Fire, but with the middle step not being required owing to the situation ie. slant range and dive angle leading to near zero firing solution off the gun cross. Warning: Nothing I say is automatically correct, even if I think it is.
WildBillKelsoe Posted November 16, 2014 Posted November 16, 2014 can we ground stabilize the CCIP reticle though? If you look at this: you'll see the same principle. The bore. anyways where is paulrkii? he can verify I'm sure. No I dont use rudder at all now. In windy conditions I usually gun downwind using LASTE as reference. I set markpoint and dial in the required to-from wind, circle crosswind and rollout downwind or upwind. 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.
PFunk1606688187 Posted November 16, 2014 Posted November 16, 2014 I don't see any conclusive evidence that he's aiming with the bore cross. If you watch closely you'll see that a moment before he fires the cross is above the road while the pipper is on the bottom half of the road, if thats a road I'm seeing. Frankly the video is so low in resolution that you can't even see what he's actually shooting at so we can't say. Warning: Nothing I say is automatically correct, even if I think it is.
WildBillKelsoe Posted November 18, 2014 Posted November 18, 2014 Maybe dynamic elements could be boresighted to the bore lines? At least CCIP gun reticle with its 20 kt crossing indices? 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.
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