Chipwich Posted April 13, 2016 Posted April 13, 2016 I'm flying Wavehopper's Medevac Campaign and he's added FM beacons to home on. Referencing Chuck's excellent UH-1H Huey guide page 82, he mentions set Sensitivity on high. Not sure how to do this. Also, I guess that in this mode the OBS doesn't do anything? In other words, since it's not a VOR, no sense tinkering with the OBS? Just turn the aircraft until the CDI is in the center? TIA R7 5800X3D / 64GB / MOZA AB9 Base / TIANHANG F-16 Grip / VPC T-50CM3 Throttle / Ace Flight Pedals / RTX 4080 Super / Meta Quest 3
sublime Posted September 20, 2016 Posted September 20, 2016 I never had to set the sensitivity. That said theres a little switch by the fm thing. When u set the freq and set it to home.. the first mission i velieve he has you do so you hear the national anthem for america playing. Of course you can turn down the volume. Fm homing really just tells you to go left or right and you basically fly to wherever your going that way. It works well though - especially since usually theres one thing to home in on and you know what your action at that points supposed to be. I greatly prefer it to people trying to use the adf to find downed pilots. Ive had alll kinds of problems with that simply not working in missions that other wise woulda been great. In particular there qere 2 that would have pilots get downed and you could do casevac and also resupply casevac groups of troops. However i could never do the csar for the downed pilots - the mission relied on tuning your adf to them and for whatever reason they were never on the correct frequency. However it always seemd my adf would pick up something about 5 off the actual suppsoed freq. So i ti kered thinking maybe it was my POV to the radio thing... but no the adf would send me on wild goose chases The medevac campaign is the best uh1 campaign there is IMO. I only wish all campaigns had the F10 to skip to next mission option.
wolf5 Posted September 20, 2016 Posted September 20, 2016 On your dashboard, you should have a switch Low/High sensitivity. Your FM homing can only tell you if the beacon is on your left or right side so you need the OBS. Center the needle and you should go to the beacon or not. To be sure, turn slowly to the right. If the needle go to the left, the beacon is front of you. If the needle go to the right, the beacon is on your six. Sorry for my poor english. People fly planes, pilots fly helicopters
FalconPlot16 Posted September 20, 2016 Posted September 20, 2016 On your dashboard, you should have a switch Low/High sensitivity. Your FM homing can only tell you if the beacon is on your left or right side so you need the OBS. Center the needle and you should go to the beacon or not. To be sure, turn slowly to the right. If the needle go to the left, the beacon is front of you. If the needle go to the right, the beacon is on your six. Sorry for my poor english. sounds like its too complex i never done fm homing adf is better but the conditions..
sublime Posted September 21, 2016 Posted September 21, 2016 Its really way less complex than adf. I prefer it over adf everytime. Forget hi lo sensitivity i dont even bother. Tune it to fm home. Set the freq. Theres a gauge for the am and basically a line will swing one way or anotheras you go to the left or right of the signal. You just fly it so the lines on the middle. And adjust ad you fly. 99% of the time you knowthw fm your homing on you have to land or csar or attack -whatever. But even if not and ur using multiples its rlly easy to tell when you overfly because the line swings drastically to the left or right as you over fly the beacon. And as i said usually the beacon theres only one and its at a missoon objective so firing will start or smoke will get popped etc.
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