Must calibrate Mavericks every time?

[Sparc]

I like to start my missions on the ramp.  After startup do I have to calibrate my Mavericks to the TPOD each time? Is there a way to have them already aligned? 

[GrEaSeLiTeNiN]

I think only air starts have them already boresighted.

[_SteelFalcon_]

Hotstarts too IF you set the loadout in the mission editor. If you spawn clean and load mavs, you gotta align them

[Furiz]

When you cold start you have to align them every time, but lucky for us we can do it by targeting taxiway signs and its only one Mav per pylon you don't have to align every Mav.

[vctpil]

As far as I understand :

1. The boresight is not required in any mode to be operational

2. The boresight is highly recommended in PRE mode when the TGP is AUTO and you want to handoff to the WPN page

The handoff improve accuracy and shorten the time to achieve a tracking

[Eagle7907]

Yep. Bore sighting is completely optional. You only need to do it when using the t-pod for target acquisition and hand-off. You can still use the maverick itself for acquisition if desired, however I think it’s a bit more difficult and tends to put you lower into the enemy’s WEZ.

I too like to fly missions like the OP. However, the bore sighting is tedious. Hence, I rarely take mavericks.


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[idenwen]

3 hours ago, Eagle7907 said:

I too like to fly missions like the OP. However, the bore sighting is tedious. Hence, I rarely take mavericks.

Yea. Came from the Hornet and was sooo happy about the multi-maverick loadouts of the viper. And then I discovered boresighting...

[Deano87]

57 minutes ago, idenwen said:

Yea. Came from the Hornet and was sooo happy about the multi-maverick loadouts of the viper. And then I discovered boresighting...

Just do it on the ground while the INS is doing it’s thing. It’s hardly that big of a deal. You don’t even have to get it right, last time I checked it just worked no matter if you even intentionally locked different objects while doing it. And you only need to do one maverick on each pylon.

[Crptalk]

1 hour ago, idenwen said:

Yea. Came from the Hornet and was sooo happy about the multi-maverick loadouts of the viper. And then I discovered boresighting...

To be fair, every other aircraft that perfectly slaves the Maverick LOS to a SPI should need to be boresighted too. It's just the Viper is modeled in higher fidelity in that regard.

Edited January 31, 2022 by Crptalk

[Eagle7907]

To be fair, every other aircraft that perfectly slaves the Maverick LOS to a SPI should need to be boresighted too. It's just the Viper is modeled in higher fidelity in that regard.

Really? I find that hard to imagine that ED implements boresighting on the Viper but not the Hornet. Also the Warthog. Man, if that’s the case they should fix that then.


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[Deano87]

4 hours ago, Eagle7907 said:

Really? I find that hard to imagine that ED implements boresighting on the Viper but not the Hornet. Also the Warthog. Man, if that’s the case they should fix that then.


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Yes Really, And the reason is because they don't have good publicly available information source on how the process is done on the other aircraft, where as with the F-16 the process is pretty well known and public.

Edited February 1, 2022 by Deano87

[Frederf]

The A-10C has the ability to change the boresight calibration, has for a very long time. The inherent misalignment at start was just never introduced.

[Marklar]

If you don't care about RL procedures and want to boresight mavericks quickly without using TGP, just lock any target in either BORE or VIS mode and hit BSGT. Maverick will boresight magically to all the sensors, including TGP.

[Chaos_Out]

I pointed this out in another thread too, but if you want to re-arm mavs, as long as you don't jettison the racks, you won't have to boresight again.

[Dragon1-1]

I don't think the info for the Hornet is any harder to find than for the Viper, it's just that people come to the Viper from a certain other sim (which does have boresighting) and they complained about that.  It's more or less the same in every aircraft (so Razbam's Harrier and F-15E should have to do that, too), you lock an object with your sensor of choice (usually the TGP, though you can boresight to radar or the HUD IRL, and it's not always the same thing), you lock it with a Maverick, then press a button to tell the missile it's looking at the same thing as TGP is. Of course, you only need to do it if you're planning on using one of the modes that allow you to bypass fiddling about with the Maverick video.

Edited February 5, 2022 by Dragon1-1

[Hulkbust44]

I don't think the info for the Hornet is any harder to find than for the Viper, it's just that people come to the Viper from a certain other sim (which does have boresighting) and they complained about that.  It's more or less the same in every aircraft (so Razbam's Harrier and F-15E should have to do that, too), you lock an object with your sensor of choice (usually the TGP, though you can boresight to radar or the HUD IRL, and it's not always the same thing), you lock it with a Maverick, then press a button to tell the missile it's looking at the same thing as TGP is. Of course, you only need to do it if you're planning on using one of the modes that allow you to bypass fiddling about with the Maverick video.

Remember that the Hornet's weapons manuals are all classified. Only one has been leaked. For what it's worth the TAC-300 says nothing about boresighting the MAVF but does detail things like HARM TOO Range Known/UNK.

[AngryViper.101]

On 2/5/2022 at 2:14 AM, Marklar said:

If you don't care about RL procedures and want to boresight mavericks quickly without using TGP, just lock any target in either BORE or VIS mode and hit BSGT. Maverick will boresight magically to all the sensors, including TGP.

Hi

Do I understand this correctly:

using MAV video, lock onto a target, click the BSGT MFD button and done?

Then in future if pointing TGP and handing-off to maverick it will be aligned correctly? 

(I will test this also next time ....)

Edited February 15, 2022 by warford

[WobblyFlops]

4 hours ago, Hulkbust44 said:

Remember that the Hornet's weapons manuals are all classified

While off topic, they aren't. Like most platforms in the Navy, the Hornet also has a classified NATIP and an unclassified NATIP. Plus, there's the Graybook, the Legacy Hornet avionics manual from Boeing, which also details combat avionics and symbology. The unclassified NATIP for the Hornet is the same thing legally as the unclassified -34 for the Viper. An unclassified, export controlled, CUI manual, which, while isn't classified (and wouldn't cause serious damage to national security was it leaked), it's still not meant for public dissemination or export.

 

35 minutes ago, warford said:

using MAV video, lock onto a target, click the BSGT MFD button and done?

 

Yes, this workaround definitely works. The other procedure is that you can boresight on the ground as well and the issues associated with that aren't simulated either. The very simple, magical instant boresight will likely get fixed one day, but I'd suspect that boresighting on the ground will never become a problem in any way.

[dorianR666]

On 2/5/2022 at 1:14 AM, Marklar said:

If you don't care about RL procedures and want to boresight mavericks quickly without using TGP, just lock any target in either BORE or VIS mode and hit BSGT. Maverick will boresight magically to all the sensors, including TGP.

lmao

thanks for the wisdom