Cowboy10uk Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 Hi guys and gals, the title speaks for itself. I’m having a hell of a time getting any waypoints I enter as a Rio in cockpit to get anywhere near the location I want to waypoint. Everything seems to be 1000s of miles off. I’m assuming the Lat / Long format show on my F10 map is in the incorrect format. So should I be inputting the Lat / Long into my computer as Degrees, Decimals or MGRS format? I’ve tried looking through the manual, and all it states is Lat / Long, nothing I can see about which format the F14 uses. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Fighter pilots make movies, Attack pilots make history, Helicopter pilots make heros. :pilotfly: Corsair 570x Crystal Case, Intel 8700K O/clocked to 4.8ghz, 32GB Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3200 MHZ Ram, 2 x 1TB M2 drives, 2 x 4TB Hard Drives, Nvidia EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW, Maximus x Hero MB, H150i Cooler, 6 x Corsair LL120 RGB Fans And a bloody awful Pilot :doh:
Super Grover Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 XXXYYZ, where XXX is degrees, YY minutes and Z is tenths of a minute. If you type less characters, the string is right aligned and filled with zeroes from the left. So if you type 4567 it will be stored as: 4 degrees, 56.7 minutes Krzysztof Sobczak Heatblur Simulations https://www.facebook.com/heatblur/
Harlikwin Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 Better question is what 3 waypoints were used for? Also how is home base defined? New hotness: I7 9700k 4.8ghz, 32gb ddr4, 2080ti, :joystick: TM Warthog. TrackIR, HP Reverb (formermly CV1) Old-N-busted: i7 4720HQ ~3.5GHZ, +32GB DDR3 + Nvidia GTX980m (4GB VRAM) :joystick: TM Warthog. TrackIR, Rift CV1 (yes really).
Harlikwin Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 So you have reprogram it in flight if you need more than 3? Was that typically done IRL? New hotness: I7 9700k 4.8ghz, 32gb ddr4, 2080ti, :joystick: TM Warthog. TrackIR, HP Reverb (formermly CV1) Old-N-busted: i7 4720HQ ~3.5GHZ, +32GB DDR3 + Nvidia GTX980m (4GB VRAM) :joystick: TM Warthog. TrackIR, Rift CV1 (yes really).
Cowboy10uk Posted March 20, 2019 Author Posted March 20, 2019 The reason I’m programming the nav in cockpit, is when I’m on MP servers without waypoints set, I can plan our aircrafts flight route to the target. Appreciate in RL this would have been done at the planning stage and I’m assuming loaded before the aircraft started up. But obviously that’s not practical on MP servers. Thanks for the answers ref the waypoints. Hopefully I can get the darn things programmed right later today. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Fighter pilots make movies, Attack pilots make history, Helicopter pilots make heros. :pilotfly: Corsair 570x Crystal Case, Intel 8700K O/clocked to 4.8ghz, 32GB Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3200 MHZ Ram, 2 x 1TB M2 drives, 2 x 4TB Hard Drives, Nvidia EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW, Maximus x Hero MB, H150i Cooler, 6 x Corsair LL120 RGB Fans And a bloody awful Pilot :doh:
QuiGon Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 Appreciate in RL this would have been done at the planning stage and I’m assuming loaded before the aircraft started up. But obviously that’s not practical on MP servers. Not in the Tomcat, as it did not support any kind of data cartridge: Hey Pikey, The waypoints are loaded into the WCS only when using hot start or air start- it is assumed that the RIO stored them during the startup procedure. However, when you select cold start, the waypoints have to be stored manually, either by a human RIO in multilayer, or you switching to the RIO seat in single player, or Jester doing it for you in both single and multiplayer. Jester will be happy to assist you, and he will input all waypoints after he switches the NAV MODE knob to ALIGN. That's how it was done in real life- the F-14 didn't have any data cartridges which you could use to load some waypoints prepared prior to the flight. Intel i7-12700K @ 8x5GHz+4x3.8GHz + 32 GB DDR5 RAM + Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 (8 GB VRAM) + M.2 SSD + Windows 10 64Bit DCS Panavia Tornado (IDS) really needs to be a thing!
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