How do I IFF in SP

[Garfs74]

Hi guys

 

Fairly new to dcs & very new to Apache - absolutely loving it so far - The Apache is my favourite military aircraft

I'm still getting to grips with flying - but am fairly competent getting George to find, lock & fire at targets

But how do i know if they are friendly or enemy? Half the time i'm killing my on troops 

[LooseSeal]

I'm afraid there is no guaranteed way at present. In future George will supposedly have an IFF function. But at present, use situational awareness in combination with identifying the unit visually.

[S. Low]

Well don’t quote me but I thought I saw a bug report about George ai targeting friendlies when he shouldn’t be.

Besides that, whether you’re using George ai or you have a multicrew, you need good situational awareness

[Garfs74]

6 minutes ago, S. Low said:

Well don’t quote me but I thought I saw a bug report about George ai targeting friendlies when he shouldn’t be.

Besides that, whether you’re using George ai or you have a multicrew, you need good situational awareness

Ah i'm hoping its a bug

Oh I agree & understand that - but its nigh on impossible in some missions  

[S. Low]

23 minutes ago, Garfs74 said:

Ah i'm hoping its a bug

Oh I agree & understand that - but its nigh on impossible in some missions  

Have George laze a target, infantry or apc or whatever. Look at his target through the vid - tads screen and ID it yourself 

[frostycab]

1 hour ago, S. Low said:

Well don’t quote me but I thought I saw a bug report about George ai targeting friendlies when he shouldn’t be.

It's not really a "bug" as such, just a planned/WIP feature that isn't ready for implementation yet according to ED.

Unless things have changed since I last flew the Hind dear old Petrovich suffers from the same limitations when searching for targets (which is much more serious as you have no video image to help you ID for yourself.) I'm sure that once it's all ready it will work very nicely indeed.