Radio for contact ground?

[REDEYE_CVW-66]

How can I contact, say Kobuleti on 133.00 using the F-5 radio?:)

[AnnaNass]

How can I contact, say Kobuleti on 133.00 using the F-5 radio?:)

 

Hello, you can't contact ATC on VHF in the Tiger. You only have a UHF radio, so you have to use the UHF frequencies (around 250 MHz).

[REDEYE_CVW-66]

Well- is it at all possible to contact ground on UHF? Sorry for being stupid on this:P

[razo+r]

Yes it is, set the right frequency, set radio on and then press mic button then you can contact tower

[QuiGon]

Well- is it at all possible to contact ground on UHF? Sorry for being stupid on this:P

 

Yes, ATCs also have UHF frequencies around 250 MHz as AnnaNass explained.

[REDEYE_CVW-66]

Alright- just could not find the freq's. Found them now- thanks

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=127487

[nomdeplume]

If you click on an airport in the F10 map it'll show the ATC frequencies (amongst other things) in the lower left corner...

[AnnaNass]

Well- is it at all possible to contact ground on UHF? Sorry for being stupid on this:P

 

Every airfield has 3 radio frequencies. You can also use the presets

[Andrew-76]

If you click on an airport in the F10 map it'll show the ATC frequencies (amongst other things) in the lower left corner...

 

Can you (or anyone) please add picture of papers (K key) for some airport where in those papers can I find all those informations from your screenshot (F-10 map)? Because, I don't know why, sometimes F-10 map stop show me details of selected items and then I'm blind. There are a lot of numbers and shortcuts in those papers and I don't know which number is what. Thank you :)

[AnnaNass]

Can you (or anyone) please add picture of papers (K key) for some airport where in those papers can I find all those informations from your screenshot (F-10 map)? Because, I don't know why, sometimes F-10 map stop show me details of selected items and then I'm blind. There are a lot of numbers and shortcuts in those papers and I don't know which number is what. Thank you :)

 

Above the red circles: VHF, LF, UHF, ELF

[Ramsay]

Can you (or anyone) please add picture of papers (K key) for some airport where in those papers can I find all those informations from your screenshot (F-10 map)? Because, I don't know why, sometimes F-10 map stop show me details of selected items and then I'm blind. There are a lot of numbers and shortcuts in those papers and I don't know which number is what. Thank you :)

As you've noted, the default kneeboard pages don't have the UHF frequencies. As you sometimes have issues accessing the F10 Map info:

 

You could add this F-86 Chart

to your:

 

... <User>\Saved Games\DCS\Kneeboard\F-5E-3 folder.

 

Create the folder if it doesn't exist already and put any .jpg's you'd like to view in the F-5E-3 kneeboard pages (they'll be added to the standard pages).

 

As well as the F-10 map, there is this source for AIRDROMES DATA

 

Original F-86 ATC List author - uboats

Edited September 1, 2016 by Ramsay
Add link to original file

[Andrew-76]

This is very good tip Ramsay, thank you! Simply by accident, don't you have QNH (barometric pressure adjusted to sea level) data for ingame airfields? I'd like to take them "with me" as well. I do understand QNH may differ in time for same place and one should ask ATC for actual one but ingame there is not this option and game weather is usually static anyway. I can't find those number anywhere - they are not in papers nor in F-10 map.

[emko]

You can't have atmospheric pressure cheatsheet created beforehand, this changes with weather change :) . ATC will tell them if you contact them (they tell the QFE) which is OK for landing. For take off, you can set the altimeter manually - just look up the airport elevation above sea level.

 

The default setting (if you or the mission creator doesn't change it in the mission editor) is

 

29.92 in Hg (American aircraft)

1013 hPa (mostly European aircraft)

760 Torr (Russian aircraft)

 

That's "international standard" and if somebody says "Flight Level" it means altitude with THIS setting. For low level flight or take off / landing you need to set it according to the local weather.

 

Don't know if the weather in DCS can be different for each airfield or is for region. When you create a mission, leave it in the default setting. If you have mission from somebody other, just look to the editor or ask ATC.

 

You can also check if the DCS doesn't set the altimeter for you during mission start - if the weather doesn't change, the atmospheric pressure and therefore the altimeter calibration should be the same.

And QNH can be calculated from QFE, you just need to know the aerodrome elevation.

Edited September 2, 2016 by emko

[AnnaNass]

This is very good tip Ramsay, thank you! Simply by accident, don't you have QNH (barometric pressure adjusted to sea level) data for ingame airfields? I'd like to take them "with me" as well. I do understand QNH may differ in time for same place and one should ask ATC for actual one but ingame there is not this option and game weather is usually static anyway. I can't find those number anywhere - they are not in papers nor in F-10 map.

 

Yea for the QNH you have to calculate QFE +/- elevation (mostly + and 1 HPa per 27 feet).

So QFE: 1000, elevation: 54 feet -> QNH 1002.

 

Or you set the airfield elevation during startup.

[sublime]

Also if you have to contact a FAC/ JTAC you do NOT have an FM so you need to change the FACS freq to something in am ad preset one of your radios for the same am freq

Edited September 3, 2016 by sublime