Jacks Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 After a week of flying the sabre, I still a bit confused by the radar gunsight. Once unchanged and locked on target, does the gunsight take into account the speed, direction and closing speed of the target aircraft and automatically adjust the sight to take into account lead and drop? Once locked onto a target in a sweeping turning requiring a deflection shot, do I still have to aim ahead for lead (like on the ww2 gunsights) or with the a-4 can I simply place the pipper over the target and fire assuming the sight has already corrected for this? Gary System Specs: i7 8700k @ 5.0GHz (not delidded), ASRock Extreme4 Z370 MOBO, EVGA GTX 1080 SC 8GB, 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz DDR4 RAM, Samsung Evo 240GB SSD, Samsung Evo 500GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Noctura NH-D15S Heat Sink, Acer VE278H 27" 1080p Monitor, Ocukus Rift CV1. Controllers: TrackIR 5, Thrustmaster HOTAS X, Saitek Throttle Quadrant (with DIY removable collective mod), Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals. Just trying to keep my number of takeoffs and landings equal!
Art-J Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 After a week of flying the sabre, I still a bit confused by the radar gunsight. Once unchanged and locked on target, does the gunsight take into account the speed, direction and closing speed of the target aircraft and automatically adjust the sight to take into account lead and drop? Yep. Basically, the sight works like the K4 in the Mustang in gyro mode but instead of manually adjusting range, You leave this job to the radar (still need to manually preset target wingspan, though). If for some reason radar doesn't want to do it (it's notoriously unreliable when ground or clouds are nearby), You have to adjust range manually as well. Once locked onto a target in a sweeping turning requiring a deflection shot, do I still have to aim ahead for lead (like on the ww2 gunsights) or with the a-4 can I simply place the pipper over the target and fire assuming the sight has already corrected for this? Nope/Yep/Kinda :D. According to the manual, the correct procedure is: cage the sight electrically (pipper goes to the center), aim ahead for the lead, when the radar gets a solid lock, release electro cage (pipper drops back and then moves to computed lead position), put the pipper over target, track smoothly without slip and skid for at least one second, fire. I'd hazard a guess, in DCS, most people don't bother, just get closer and fire at point blank range :D. i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
SUBS17 Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 Pipper on tgt and fire, the sight is much better than the K-14 on the P51D because of the radar, it also removes the sight reticle if you are too close which I think is a safety feature. [sIGPIC] [/sIGPIC]
enigma6584 Posted September 11, 2015 Posted September 11, 2015 Interesting and great thread. Been wondering about this sight myself the last few days since I've been flying this beautiful aircraft.
USA_Recon Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 Just watched some of this - looks like he uses the gunsight very well but I'm not sure how he gets this fixed so well
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