IR Mavs & DMT funtionality on a dark night

[Dr Zaius]

Is it me or is the IR imagery impossible to dial in (both gain and brightness) so you can see targets at night? The targeting pod works well and I think the DMT is primarily a daytime system so that can be excused however the IR sensors on the Mavs should be able to find my target yet it seems impossible to do so - the display is either way to bright (first uncage / default setting) or completely dark, either way it’s useless.

[Ramsay]

It depends, over water DCS's IR is IMHO overly bright but inland it's not usually too bad unless there's red smoke or a burning vehicle/flare (that gets combined with DCS's intermittent FLIR bug).

 

 

Do you have an image or track to share ?

[Dr Zaius]

Thanks Ramsey, its the ir mav quick training mission at night, targets are supposed to be located on the mini-airfield but i cant pick them up, ill give it another try - whats the FLIR bug you speak of?

 

 

[Dr Zaius]

I think running in from feet wet may have saturated the display, I changed direction to target so I came in over land and they showed up a little bit better, it’s still a fine margin getting contrast and gain just right and the targets seem to glisten a little when approaching head on, I'm outputting the MPCD's to a separate monitor (TM cougars) that for whatever reason doesn't have the same contrast and brightness settings as what's displayed on my main monitor so maybe thats compounding the issue, thanks for the help though.

[Ramsay]

- whats the FLIR bug you speak of?

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/englis...52#post6444552

 

It's problematic as TPOD and IR Mav can be blinded i.e. a black screen., without one realising and frustratingly looking for targets at night (during the day the faulty/blinded display is easy to recognise). As it's a fault on ED's side there's little that RB can do - it's hoped that ED's FLIR rework will fix it but AFAIK there's no time line on when it's due.