Rongor Posted November 9, 2021 Posted November 9, 2021 There is this vessel on my SEA radar. I intend to Harpoon it. To make the job of its missile defensive system a bit more difficult, I want to use several Harpoons on different attack paths. We have a feature for this: Harpoon Turn Points (HPTP). So we need to create a necessary waypoint to define it as HPTP. Having a radar lock on the ship's location, pressing Mk creates a static Markpoint at the location in that exact moment. I want to have the Harpoon attack this area but via an off-angle attack., using HPTP. Now I select the Markpoint and select DATA on the HSI. This brings up the usual waypoint page, representing the Markpoint in this case. Pressing UFC opens up the editor. On the UFC I press the OAP to define bearing and range of an Offset Aiming Point. The idea is to then select this OAP in the HSI, and designate as the HPTP on the stores>Harpoon>program page. Unfortunately, all my entries for the OAP are ignored. I can enter BRG and RNG and so on on the UFC scratchpad. But the O/S data block for for the Markpoint remains filled with zeros. Is this correct behavior? Or is this bugged? Doesn't the system allow to create OAPs for MKpoints? Why wouldn't it? It would be the logical and intuitive thing for employing the HPTP function. Or is the HPTP meant for static prebriefed targets only? If it is not allowed to create OAPs for MKpoints, why does the UFC offer the OAP data entry? This smeels like "should be possible but is bugged" It would be a bummer to not have this functional. Basically it would then demand for us to take rulers and protractors on charts to readout suitable coordinates for the HPTP and then enter them by hand to create a new waypoint. Seriously, this can't be true. Is it? 1
Tholozor Posted November 9, 2021 Posted November 9, 2021 AFAIK markpoints are read-only. REAPER 51 | Tholozor VFA-136 (c.2007): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3305981/ Arleigh Burke Destroyer Pack (2020): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3313752/
Rongor Posted November 9, 2021 Author Posted November 9, 2021 That would be sad. Any way to copypaste Markpoint data into a new WP?
HammerUK9 Posted November 9, 2021 Posted November 9, 2021 More infuriatingly perhaps, there's a way you could do it in the real A/C (slewing cursors on the HSI to the desired waypoint position), but that doesn't seem to have been implemented in the DCS version.
Swift. Posted November 9, 2021 Posted November 9, 2021 4 hours ago, Tholozor said: AFAIK markpoints are read-only. There is an interesting image floating around of a Markpoint with an offset applied to it from a real hornet, but no idea the OFP of said hornet. 476th Discord | 476th Website | Swift Youtube Ryzen 5800x, RTX 4070ti, 64GB, Quest 2
Rongor Posted November 9, 2021 Author Posted November 9, 2021 It's just hard to believe they would leave out this obviously helpful function in the RL Hornet. We are basically restricted to define HPTP waypoint pre flight. How is that realistic? Most targets will be mobile and the coordinates will be outdated... Locating the target by radar and then defining offset HPTP would be the obvious way to go.
Swift. Posted November 9, 2021 Posted November 9, 2021 To your problem, you should be able to offset the designation itself from the radar, and then drop a Mark on that. Theres no need to mark the initial radar contact first. 476th Discord | 476th Website | Swift Youtube Ryzen 5800x, RTX 4070ti, 64GB, Quest 2
Rongor Posted November 9, 2021 Author Posted November 9, 2021 12 minutes ago, Swiftwin9s said: To your problem, you should be able to offset the designation itself from the radar, and then drop a Mark on that. Theres no need to mark the initial radar contact first. I disagree. With that method you would have to guess the bearing from the HPTP. With the simple possibility to define the OAP of a MK, you would know the bearing. The MK data page even offers the UFC pushbutton. Only saving the entered OAP data doesn't work. Seems rather buggy than intentionally left out.
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