AvroLanc Posted June 17, 2020 Posted June 17, 2020 Requesting/suggesting a slightly more involved and therefore immersive simulation of the MIDS/LINK 16 start up/log on procedure. I appreciate that simulating the AIC, F/F 1 and F/F 2 channels would be complicated coding wise, not to mention all the other settings for MIDS radio we can see on MIDS page. However, I suggest adding one more step to the procedure - at the moment you just turn on either TACAN or MIDS and you've magically got datalink all configured.....There's more to it than that...... What about a requirement to go into MIDS page and select OSB 16 'Net Entry', as per RL, as an additional step. Once pressed, maybe a short delay and then the 'Sync Status' field on same page goes to 'Fine Sync'. And you've logged in to datakink. It's one additional step and would add immersion, making it a little closer to RL without a huge coding effort. The current, TACAN ON = full datalink functionality is too simplified. Adding the MIDS voice channels would also help. (Mentioned in manual, but not on roadmap?) Cheers.
Bagpipe Posted June 17, 2020 Posted June 17, 2020 The FA18 just received a large poll for priority of future additions/updates. I reckon they will be working from the results as were posted a few weeks back. It's on here somewhere :)
PL_Harpoon Posted June 17, 2020 Posted June 17, 2020 However, I suggest adding one more step to the procedure - at the moment you just turn on either TACAN or MIDS and you've magically got datalink all configured.....There's more to it than that...... Acutally, this is exactly what this pilot does. :D https://youtu.be/yeij-YX9MdY?t=625
AvroLanc Posted June 17, 2020 Author Posted June 17, 2020 Acutally, this is exactly what this pilot does. :D https://youtu.be/yeij-YX9MdY?t=625 You can't really see what he's doing there. Is the flight planned to fully use a Link-16 net? We don't know. Granted, most of the MIDS settings are likely contained in the data cartridge upload / MUMI. Minimal extra setup required. However, I would expect an extra step to be as I described. F-16 (RL) works this way.
PL_Harpoon Posted June 17, 2020 Posted June 17, 2020 What I can see is that he is just turning on everything. Anyway, this was not a serious post as I'm aware that MIDS/Link 16 isn't fully simulated.
Wizard_03 Posted June 20, 2020 Posted June 20, 2020 AFAIK all those settings are pre-configured with the MUMI data cartridge. DCS F/A-18C :sorcerer:
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