different Harpoon stations don't show different HPTP in HSI

[Rongor]

In the current manual on page 304:

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Boxing the HPTP option copies the currently selected (via HSI) waypoint/markpoint into the selected
Harpoon delivery program. To change the turnpoint, the HPTP option is unboxed, the waypoint is
changed via the HSI, and then the HPTP option is re-boxed.

I found out that in fact whenever I do that, I overwrite the HPTP of all other Harpoons too.

 

If I interpret the manual correctly, this should copy the currently selected WP into the selected Harpoon delivery program.

But, instead it in fact copies the currently selected WP into all Harpoon delivery programs, which already have a stored HPTP. So it's impossible to specify different WPs to different Harpoons aboard. All the Harpoons with activated HPTP will receive the last WP copied into any of your Harpoon delivery programs.

 

So is this bugged or is the manual misleading?

 

I intended to do a nice pincer attack with 2 Harpoons closing in to the target from 90° different directions. For this I pre programmed 2 waypoints at 6 NM distance from the target, but the one E and the other S of the target, intending to use each of them as a HPTP for a single Harpoon

Now I could only pull it off by changing the HPTP for the second Harpoon after the first one was launched. I tried to launch at approximately the same distance from both intended HPTPs, so the TOT would be about the same. Needless to say, it was pretty annoying to have to manually switch WP for a new HPTP designation in the few seconds between both launches...

Edited July 14, 2021 by Rongor

[Rongor]

could at least anybody confirm it's working like this on his end? Afterwards we could discuss if this is the way it should work...

[Rongor]

As already found in this thread, different HPTP aren't displayed in the HSI.

If all programmed Harpoons received different waypoints as HPTP, the HSI will still only display the most recent waypoint assignment on the HSI for all the Harpoons.

This lead to my assumption in this thread that every new HPTP designation for another Harpoon seems to overwrite the HPTP for all the other Harpoons on board which have HPTP activated at this moment.

 

I have attached a short track file showing the assignment of 2 different waypoints for 2 later 4 different Harpoons. Eventually, all show the same HPTP on the HSI, only their target BRG (from the HPTP) is kept correctly in the display.

 

After launching, all 4 Harpoons correctly steer towards their individual HPTPs.

 

Verification of correct distribution of different HPTP (for example pincer-attack or any other off-angle tactic) to specific Harpoons is impossible right now. Only the correct BRG can be verified, as it is displayed correctly in the HSI and of course in the stores>HPD programs...

 

 

dcs.log debrief.log Harpoon.trk

Edited July 17, 2021 by Rongor

[Rongor]

While noticing that apparently few people do mess around with Harpoons at all, I now reported this in the bug section