Landser Posted November 9, 2019 Posted November 9, 2019 Hi everyone. I have a question regarding how track hold functions. Not sure if this is relevant, but my RIO and I play exclusively PVP and bandits are always aggressively notching and/or terrain masking. When we do a TWS launch on a bandit we activate track hold before cranking. The TWS track is now highlighted and has a TTI. When/if we lose the track it remains highlighted, keeps the TTI, but changes to the lost track symbol. This remains on the TID due to track hold. However, when my RIO reacquires the bandit there is now a new non-highlighted track and the other lost track symbol remains, still highlighted, with the TTI. My question is: should we be disabling track hold once we reacquire the bandit? Its unclear to me which track the WCS is guiding the missle to. Is it guiding to the highlighted lost track symbol with the TTI or to the reacquired track that is now not highlighted. Should we be dropping track hold so that the WCS guides to the new reacquired track? Also, I'm a long time forum lurker and first time poster so I wanna take this opportunity to thank Heatblur for the amazing work they have done. The F-14 is a childhood fantasy come true and an amazing module so thanks!
bonesvf103 Posted November 9, 2019 Posted November 9, 2019 It's a good question and welcome to your first post! Not knowing the system TOO well, I would think that if you turned off track hold after reacquisition, it wouldn't hurt. Better safe than sorry, right? I would imagine that the missile is going to the highlighted target provided it was still in SARH mode and hadn't gone pitbull. v6, boNes "Also, I would prefer a back seater over the extra gas any day. I would have 80 pounds of flesh to eat and a pair of glasses to start a fire." --F/A-18 Hornet pilot
gyrovague Posted November 9, 2019 Posted November 9, 2019 It will continue guiding towards the held track, not the "new" target track. If the new track is the same target that the old held one was representing, it means the target changed course/velocity since the previous observations (prior to losing him on radar). The missile won't magically be guided to the "new" target track since the TWS doesn't realize it's the same target anymore at this point. Once the new TWS-Auto is merged in, you'll find that target tracks under missile attack are automatically held, even without "track hold" selected. ____________ Heatblur Simulations [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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