pre-defined weapons profiles

[peachpossum]

Hi ,

 

I am curious if anyone knows of a way to pre-define or pre-load weapons profiles & inventory properties for weapons on the A-10C or A-10C-II?

 

In a training mission we have specific weapons profiles and height of functions for the CBU-97s and it would be a time saver if we could pre-load or pre-define these and then do an air start to practice our ingress, attack, and egress.

 

Can this be done via LUA, mission editor, or mission planner?

 

Another area that would be handy is in setting up special attributes for the HCMS in the STAT page.

 

Thanks,

 

peachpossum

[Northstar98]

Probably will come when/if the DTC gets implemented.

[Captain Orso]

Hi ,

 

I am curious if anyone knows of a way to pre-define or pre-load weapons profiles & inventory properties for weapons on the A-10C or A-10C-II?

 

In a training mission we have specific weapons profiles and height of functions for the CBU-97s and it would be a time saver if we could pre-load or pre-define these and then do an air start to practice our ingress, attack, and egress.

 

Can this be done via LUA, mission editor, or mission planner?

 

Another area that would be handy is in setting up special attributes for the HCMS in the STAT page.

 

Thanks,

 

peachpossum

 

 

First you have to understand the each payload profile has a task stored in it. If you add an A-10C II group and select task CAS, you will only see CAS payload profiles.

 

If have a profile you want to be able to use in other tasks, copy the profile and save it under a different name.

 

EG:

-- You have a group with CAS task. It has a profile named 'Iron Hand 01' loaded, and you want to use the same loadout in a group with the Ground Attack task.

- Create a group with task CAS and click on the profile 'Iron Hand 01'. The payload will appear at the top of the payload profiles page with the name 'Mission payload".

- Chang the task to Ground Attack, or any task with which you wish to use this profile. The makeup of the payload stays at the top of the list with the name 'Mission payload'.

- Select the 'Mission payload' and click [COPY] at the bottom of the window.

- A popup will appear, enter the wished name and click [OK], for example 'Iron Hand 01 GA (it must be different than the original under CAS).

 

If you just want to have similar payloads under the same task for the same aircraft type:

- Add/Select an aircraft of the correct type and give it the correct task.

- Create from scratch, or copy and rename a new profile - insure the profile is as required.

- While the profile is selected for your aircraft, it will appear at the top of the payloads page under 'Mission payload'.

- You can modify and then copy this and rename this profile as often as you wish, as long as the payload makeup and names are unique (you cannot have two payloads with exactly on 4*AGM-65K's but stored under two different names, nor can you have two different payloads for the same aircraft and task with the same name). I suggest adding a task identifier to the name for clarity EG 'Iron Hand 01-CAS' for CAS tasks, and 'Iron Hand 01-GA' for Ground Attack.