Heading Tape shows wrong headings

[ZeeMan90]

Hey guys,

 

when I play the campaign I do the startup procedure as it has been explained in the training mission. Yet after alignment my heading is messed up. When I am at Vaziani RW it shows me heading 210. The right heading should be around 310. So far so good, changing from January will help according to other threads, but changing the Month to something else is not possible as the option is greyed out.

 

So only flying with cV NAV will help me out?

 

Another thing I have noticed. The briefing material does not provide me coordinates and altitude for INS aligment whereas in some youtube walkthroughs people go through their briefing material and they have all the information for INS on page 8. Why is this information no longer given in the updated version of the campaign?

I ask because the information seem to differ. In Mission 3 the coordinates in the walkthroughs are: N 41 37 29, E 045 02 10 with 1490ft altitude. As this information is missing on my briefing maps I set up the plane with the data the F10 view gives me, which is 1493 for altitude. So a difference by 3ft.

Edited May 10, 2017 by ZeeMan90

[Zeus67]

Hey guys,

 

when I play the campaign I do the startup procedure as it has been explained in the training mission. Yet after alignment my heading is messed up. When I am at Vaziani RW it shows me heading 210. The right heading should be around 310. So far so good, changing from January will help according to other threads, but changing the Month to something else is not possible as the option is greyed out.

 

So only flying with cV NAV will help me out?

 

Another thing I have noticed. The briefing material does not provide me coordinates and altitude for INS aligment whereas in some youtube walkthroughs people go through their briefing material and they have all the information for INS on page 8. Why is this information no longer given in the updated version of the campaign?

I ask because the information seem to differ. In Mission 3 the coordinates in the walkthroughs are: N 41 37 29, E 045 02 10 with 1490ft altitude. As this information is missing on my briefing maps I set up the plane with the data the F10 view gives me, which is 1493 for altitude. So a difference by 3ft.

 

What is the mission date? There is a DCS bug that gives the wrong magnetic declination values in the month of January.

 

For mission bugs please go to the mission bug subforum.

[ZeeMan90]

Thanks Zeus,

 

mission date is January 27th 2009. When I try to change the month the game won't let me. I can only change the year.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Also make sure your HSI is set to magnetic (the leftmost setting). That, and proper INS alignment *should* show you the correct heading.

Once I knew how to do the manual INS alignment, I turned it off though in the "special settings" menu. It saves time in multiplayer as well, otherwise my squadron members would have to wait too long since we do formation take-offs etc.

Edited May 11, 2017 by Elysian Angel

[myHelljumper]

Also make sure your HSI is set to magnetic (the leftmost setting). That, and proper INS alignment *should* show you the correct heading.

Once I knew how to do the manual INS alignment, I turned it off though in the "special settings" menu. It saves time in multiplayer as well, otherwise my squadron members would have to wait too long since we do formation take-offs etc.

 

On the HSI the leftmost setting is for true heading.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Ok thanks for correcting that :)

[whaaw]

Ok thanks for correcting that :)

 

also dont forget to grab the newest updated Mission from baltic dragon, if its still january in yur missions then its the old ones i think. this is critical otherwise mission 1, 6, 9 and 12 wont work

mission 1 ,9, 12: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=178599

mission 6: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3105538&postcount=257

Edited May 12, 2017 by whaaw

[ZeeMan90]

Thanks,

 

so I just have to copy the .miz files into the mirage campaign folder?

 

When aligning INS, do I use the kneeboard information for longitude, latitude and altitude or the information provided in the Ctrl+Y bar. I ask because the are a bit different from each other.

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=173159

 

As in the thread by gospadin wrong altitude is displayed on my HUD, too. Fixes available? The campaign always requires you to start up from cold and dark, so it would be nice if

it will display me the right barometric altitude :D

Edited May 12, 2017 by ZeeMan90

[myHelljumper]

You have to set you altimeter to the QNH -> 1013.

[ZeeMan90]

To do this I just have to set mbar stat to "1013" on the Altimeter?

 

The briefing says 1033.

Edited May 12, 2017 by ZeeMan90

[myHelljumper]

To do this I just have to set mbar stat to "1013" on the Altimeter?

 

The briefing says 1033.

 

Yes

 

1033 is definitely not the QNH, that is the standard pressure at sea level.

[Azrayen]

1013 is not QNH, it's standard pressure.

 

And Mirage mostly uses QFE for take off ad landing.

Set your altimeter to zero. You're at QFE setting. Easy peasy :)

[ZeeMan90]

Wilco :) Thanks Azrayen :prop:<3

[whaaw]

Thanks,

 

so I just have to copy the .miz files into the mirage campaign folder?

 

yes

[Nealius]

Setting to QFE doesn't sound good when flying between two airfields of different elevation.

[Azrayen]

Perhaps that's why I wrote it's used for T/O and Landing.

;)

[Nealius]

Is this actual French SOP? From what (little) I know, USAF pretty much sticks to QNH when below TA. I figured most air forces would be the same.