New NWS Function?

[Rhinozherous]

Hello! 

It seems I didnt get it... can anyone explain to me what this schematic means exactly?

It says what the NWS button does, i think, but as I tried it inside the cockpit it didnt follow these arrows...

Is there a more simple explaination?

Thank you!

[Thanatos31]

hey - it would be good to explain what you did see / what the effect of the NWS steering button was. 

Generally it also acts as the "deselect" button - the info graphic shoes you how it changes the behavior of your sensor ( TPOD) when it is SOI ( sensor of intrest -- aka you selected sensor that responds to you button inputs) 

the first boxes on the left is what you see when looking at your MFD -  TPOD is turned ON - in the right bottom quadrant. 

[Fri13]

Left is when you have TPOD in specific mode, and each time you press NWS you jump one row to the right to see what it does.

At the moment it likely is wrong as we shouldn't have "MAP DESG" feature that should be only for the A-G Radar MAP function. The EHSD is not a "MAP DESG" but INS designation for waypoint. When you don't have any designation, then EHSD OSB1 "DESG" is unboxed. And if you want to designate a waypoint, then you select the wanted waypoint and press "DESG" to box it. Now you have designated selected waypoint as INS designation. You can't move it any means outside HUD as it is as well HUD designation. On the moment you slave the TPOD to INS designation and then use TDC to move TPOD, it becomes TPOD designation.

 

In a AV-8B II+ the radar MAP mode is its primary mode. And that is when you want to do a MAP designation is that you push SSS Aft to select A-G radar (as you don't have DMT) and you get to designate ground positions, and TPOD would then be slaved to those coordinates as accurately it could (float in the air without contrast lock). 

 

So example the HUD DESG -> HUD DESG -> NO DESG -> SNOWBLOW starts that you have a TPOD tracking something, then you stop tracking but TPOD is still slaved to last INS designation, third press will undesignate it and move TPOD to snowblow mode.