Coordinate System

[Valtime]

Hi all,

 

I’ve just noticed that the coordinate system is not the same in all pages of the hornet:

- the HSI and TGP use degrees and minutes only ( xx° xx.xx’)

- the JDAM and JSOW use degrees, minutes and seconds (xx° xx’ xx.xx”)

also the GRID system can only be used for the HSI.

This makes it very difficult to ensure the JDAM will launch and target the correct point as allocated by the TGP.

is it really like this in the real hornet or did I miss an option to display other coordinate system?

 

bonus question: by default every WP elevation is given in meters. I would expect everything to be feet by default for an american fighter... 

[Swift.]

HSI and TPOD display DDMMSS or DDMMSS.ss or DDMM.mm or DDMM.mmmm depending on what you have HSI>DATA>AC>LATLON set to. And if you have precise boxed.

 

The TPOD might show GRID with ATFLIR, idk whether that's universal or version based.

 

JDAM always uses DDMMSS.ss. so if you want to drop a jdam on a target of opportunity, use the TOO modes.

[Valtime]

Thanks @Swiftwin9s.

I was using TOO for the first time and wasn’t sure that I did the handover from TGP to JDAM correctly. That’s why I was trying to compare the coordinates and was totally confuse to not see the same thing. Now I know how to do it.