Getting back to base

[BigHairyGobbler]

I'm curious how everyone finds their way back to their base after a sortie without using the F10 map. Do you set a way point to the base before you fly, use TACAN, use the ATC option and ask for heading or something else?

[Darcwaynard]

I usually use homebase tacan or my first waypoint.

 

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[claud]

follow the lead :)

hehe.

[RuskyV]

i know the theatres to well these days..

[txmtb]

If you are close enough to radio the tower you are inbound, they will give you a heading to fly.

[Mikeck]

I set home as my last waypoint. If I’m low on fuel and have to divert, I use Tacan. I write down the tacan freq. for all airbases enroute

[BigHairyGobbler]

I set home as my last waypoint. If I’m low on fuel and have to divert, I use Tacan. I write down the tacan freq. for all airbases enroute

 

For frequencies, I've found this on the DCS User File Section (author = asherao)

[regards]

i know the theatres to well these days..

 

 

Or take a course on using a sextant and stow it in your flightbag:book:

[RazorTM]

I look outside my cockpit for Polaris, then I start calculating... OK, I'll stop there :lol:

 

I actually don't like how there are very few TACAN stations at the airports, so it's hard to find your way back unless you set up a waypoint. That sucks, too, because in a lot of multiplayer servers, the waypoints are already set up to correspond with specific mission spawn points, and none of them seem to correspond with any of the airports :doh:. Not a problem in scripted missions where your last waypoint is the RTB waypoint.

 

Calling ATC for the particular airport and reporting inbound always causes them to assign a vector to the final approach course.

[KelGun]

IIRC AWACS can give vectors to various places, including homebased.