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clanitho

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Hello, I don't understand why the standard JTAC of DCS gives me wrong coordinates of my targets while the CTLD script gives me the exact coordinates.
In the mission editor, the coordinates of SAM 13 are 36SYB57966833, CTLD gives me the same coordinates, but the standard JTAC gives me YB 580834.

On the Caucasus map, I don't have this problem, the standard JTAC works correctly.

Is it related to the Syrian map?

I attach my test mission (AH-64D), if you can test it and give me an explanation thank you very much. 

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On 4/18/2022 at 3:07 PM, clanitho said:

I attach my test mission (AH-64D), if you can test it and give me an explanation thank you very much.

I had to install the "SAM Asset Pack" mod to test and use the ME to find the JTAC's radio frequency (VHF 133 MHz) but otherwise the JTAC's coordinates seems good.

 

On 4/18/2022 at 3:07 PM, clanitho said:

In the mission editor, the coordinates of SAM 13 are 36SYB57966833,

You've missed off the last 2 digits of the northing. The co-ordinates in the mission editor of the SA-13 are "36 S YB 57966 83389" 

 

On 4/18/2022 at 3:07 PM, clanitho said:

JTAC gives me YB 580834

This is correct and simply the previous 10 digit MGRS rounded to the nearest 6 digit MGRS (3 easting and 3 northing) = YB 580 834

AFAIK IRL MGRS coordinates are truncated, not rounded (as 6 digits "define" a 100m grid square where the target can be found) - perhaps this changes for stuff that you are going to drop a bomb/missile on.

With regards to the Apache, it takes 8 digit MGRS coordinates, so YB 580 834 --> YB 5800 8340, and is input/edited as "36SYB58008340".

Here, I used the TSD cursor to create a target point near the target area and edited it's coordinates to match the 9-line, before "placing it"

DCS’s JTAC Co-ordinates in Syria, as given to the Apache, Screen_220426_153152.jpg


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@Ramsay, Thank you for responding and spending time on my problem.

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