TID IFF

[CBenson89]

I can’t figure out how to use the TID to mark targets as friendly or hostile. I will use the computer when I have hooked a target and mark it hostile or friendly. However once I deselect the hooked aircraft my designation goes away. What am I doing wrong? There’s no use in marking aircraft on the TID as friendly or hostile if the marking dissaoears once the target is unhooked.

 

 

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[Spiceman]

It shouldn’t disappear when you unhook. It will disappear if the track file is lost, even if it’s the same target just being tracked again. The AWG-9 doesn’t remember from one track file to the next, even if it’s just for a second.

[CBenson89]

If I pull the hcu trigger and I lose the track on the DDD there is no way for the symbol to remain? I’m just trying to figure out if I can mark everything on my TID at once so I know which targets to worry about and which ones to ignore. Thank you!

 

 

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[Spiceman]

DDD? Now I’m thinking you’re not in TWS. Designating the targets on the TID is a TWS thing. If you then go to the DDD and start locking targets in STT, now you’re going to lose the track files you’ve built (and you’re designations you’ve made).

 

I’m also thinking now about what you mean when you say “hook”. Hooking a target is done on the TID, not the DDD. When you bracket a target on the DDD and go full action, you’re not hooking it, you’re STT’ing it.

 

While in TWS, put the HCU into TID Cursor, then select the target on the TID, and go full action and it will brighten. That’s hooking. Now designate it as friend, hostile, what have you, and it will stay that way.

Edited March 6, 2020 by Spiceman