Rooster7755 Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 Hey Im in love with the campaign so far and what it offers, Im curious im trying to get awaks to give me air targets but he is only giving me ground targets. My mission is set to CAP and my jet has nothing but amramms and 9xs. When I call awaks my guy says he has gbu12's and guns for some reason when I dont have GBU's. I did have them on when i started but i took them off. Im h aving the issue where i cant change the names of my flight so i have to go with the default setting. But Im just wondering whats going on here. Do I have to do bombing runs? Because they seem to be really wanting me to
gregzagk Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) Hey, thank you very much for your purchase! Hmm the AWACS (Darkstar), should only lead you for air to air targets. Is there a chance that you mean the AFAC? If this is the case, these are UAVs that provide ground units location and it works like the normal JTAC functions of DCS. It starts contacting and informing about your payload and then it gives you instructions on how to attack the target. The issue that you are mentioning about the LGBs could be a potential DCS bug that I will check and report if I can reproduce. Thanks again Greg Edited January 31, 2021 by gregzagk "ARGO" DCS UH-1H DLC SP Campaign 373vFS DCS World squadron (Greece) - www.buddyspike.net "ARGO 2.0 Project Phoenix" UH-1H DLC Campaign - WIP
Rooster7755 Posted January 31, 2021 Author Posted January 31, 2021 Just now, gregzagk said: Hey, thank you very much for your purchase! Hmm the AWACS (Darkstar), should only lead you for air to air targets. Is there a chance that you mean the AFAC? If this is the case, these are UAVs that provide ground units location and it works like the normal JTAC functions of DCS. It starts contacting and informing about your payload and then it gives you instructions on how to attack the target. The issue that you are mentioning about the LGBs could be a potential DCS bug that I will check and report if I can reproduce. Thanks again Greg Its pontiac jtac that is giving me the callouts. But also I dont think i did the code to check in correctly. I didnt know that when he reads the code like Echo Foxtrot Bravo you have to then reply with the correct code. But with that said I have no idea how to read this code chart given. I see the line they are referring to but How do I come up with the answer? That part is beyond me I listened to my flight as they did the read out and code reply and I couldnt find any understanding. Ok I found awaks and Im calling him now for stuff, I guess I didnt have the correct radio channel on. But the code stuff still confuses me
gregzagk Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 Yes, so Pontiac should be used to obtain ground targets in case you decided to execute CAS missions. For the AWACS - Darkstar authentication - check in process: You can refrain to the campaign manual for a detailed example (Page 18 - The manual should be under the path: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\campaigns\FA-18C Operation Pontus\Doc) but I will try to explain it here too. - When the player says "ready to authenticate", Darkstar will provide a code (e.g. ECHO-FOXTROT-DELTA). - You can then go to your matrix check the letters. - The first two letters (E - F from the example), should be read as one and they are located on the horizontal top line of the matrix. - Then you check for the D letter on the vertical left side of the matrix. - If you follow this plan you will find the letter R (based on the manual's example) and this should be your reply to the AWACS call. Please let me know if that helps. Greg "ARGO" DCS UH-1H DLC SP Campaign 373vFS DCS World squadron (Greece) - www.buddyspike.net "ARGO 2.0 Project Phoenix" UH-1H DLC Campaign - WIP
Rooster7755 Posted February 1, 2021 Author Posted February 1, 2021 1 hour ago, gregzagk said: Yes, so Pontiac should be used to obtain ground targets in case you decided to execute CAS missions. For the AWACS - Darkstar authentication - check in process: You can refrain to the campaign manual for a detailed example (Page 18 - The manual should be under the path: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\campaigns\FA-18C Operation Pontus\Doc) but I will try to explain it here too. - When the player says "ready to authenticate", Darkstar will provide a code (e.g. ECHO-FOXTROT-DELTA). - You can then go to your matrix check the letters. - The first two letters (E - F from the example), should be read as one and they are located on the horizontal top line of the matrix. - Then you check for the D letter on the vertical left side of the matrix. - If you follow this plan you will find the letter R (based on the manual's example) and this should be your reply to the AWACS call. Please let me know if that helps. Greg It does thank you very much. Love the campaign so far and A for customer help
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