Slewing target designator after ground stabilizing

[number3]

I can't remember which update changed this ability.

 

When in air-to-ground mode, a laser guided missile selected and the laser turned on. Using the "; , . /" keys slews the target designator.

 

However after you ground stabilize the desginator, The target designator cannot be slewed anymore. However I remember being able to slew after ground stabilizing, but at a much slower rate than when it's not ground stabilized.

 

Now it appears that any attempt to slew results in either:

 

1) the target designator is no longer ground stabilized while one of the slew keys is pressed, but goes back to stabilized once the key is no longer pressed

 

2) minor movement of the target designator, but in a diagonal direction (I can't quite determine the pattern but it moves in other directions, just not in the direction desired)

 

Is anyone having this issue?

[Rider1]

Same here. I think this was reported after some patch broke it a while back.

[Paganus]

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=133780

[Dr_Arrow]

It works for me, but as the thread linked by Paganus suggests you need to keep the aircraft steady when in ground stabilized mode. I am also attaching a track showing that it works (with S-25L). In the track I ground stabilize the laser move it to the target and fine tune after launch and a small drift. After the hit I deliberately move the ground stabilized designator to show that it still works.

S-25L.trk

[Abburo]

I also found slewing is definitely changed and more hard to put it on spot. It might be either broke code or changed its behavior deliberately.

 

I have analogue axis set for slewing and after stabilization if I am trying to correct position at first it start move in opposite direction and then I somehow have to predict it's movement.

 

It will be good to know if is just a correctable bug or a change for this behavior.

[Dr_Arrow]

It is certainly a bit harder than it was. But I suppose it could be realistic. Remember it is a technology of late seventies. As I calculated if you are ground stabilizing the laser while flying at 2000 meters and the target is distanced at 8000 meters only one degree of shift of the ground stabilized laser would produce an error 520 meters on the ground and the system does not jump that much at all, so it must be very very precise for such an old stabilizing technology even if it moves/jumps a bit when the aircraft changes attitude.

[number3]

It is certainly a bit harder than it was. But I suppose it could be realistic. Remember it is a technology of late seventies. As I calculated if you are ground stabilizing the laser while flying at 2000 meters and the target is distanced at 8000 meters only one degree of shift of the ground stabilized laser would produce an error 520 meters on the ground and the system does not jump that much at all, so it must be very very precise for such an old stabilizing technology even if it moves/jumps a bit when the aircraft changes attitude.

 

If it's realistic I can live with that. The part that is concerning is that it used to work one way and now it's been changed, without any explanation as to why.

 

This leads to speculation that such a change could be a bug. And with no official word on the issue, it's just frustrating.

 

While some people cannot reproduce the issue. I'll try to make a track using different factors. As I usually adjust the height of the ASP-17, so it might be the height adjustment that messes up the alignment.