Nav Points

[CaptMac]

On my second deployment mission I could only auto nav back to waypoint 4. I tried to put nav point 4, 5, 6, but none of them were recognized.

 

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

 

CaptMac

[d0ppler]

if the flight plan doesn't contain more than 3 turning points you obviously can't go to point 4, 5 or 6, but that's not probably the case?

[Acedy]

On my second deployment mission I could only auto nav back to waypoint 4. I tried to put nav point 4, 5, 6, but none of them were recognized.

 

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

 

CaptMac

 

Let's say you have set 6 waypoints, 1 and 6 refer to the same take-off and landing airfield, 2-5 are for enroute navigation. In the ME your take-off and landing points have the number 1 and 6. However, in the PVI they will be Airfield 1, while waypoints no. 2-5 from the ME are nav points 1-4 in the PVI. The PVI only counts enroute waypoints as nav points, take-off and landing points are stored as airfields.

[Frederf]

Yeah I was going to say that with the PVI-800 the route generally looks like this for a 6-fix plan.

 

Airfield 1

Waypoint 1

Waypoint 2

Waypoint 3

Waypoint 4

Airfield 2

 

It is poor word choice to say that "The PVI has 6 waypoints maximum." It should say that it can store 6 positions maximum which can be of the various types (waypoints, airfield, etc).

[EvilBivol-1]

It is poor word choice to say that "The PVI has 6 waypoints maximum." It should say that it can store 6 positions maximum which can be of the various types (waypoints, airfield, etc).

Incorrect. The INS can store up to 6 *waypoints* (Nav Points), in addition to 2 Airfields, 4 Fix Points, and 10 Target Points.

 

As explained by Acedy, the reason you can only cycle through 4 waypoints in Deployment mission #2, is because the route only has 4 waypoints. The other two points you see on the map are the take-off/landing points, i.e. Airfield #1 on the PVI-800.

Edited December 26, 2008 by EvilBivol-1

[Frederf]

Thanks. I find the best way to get information is to state a fact which may be incorrect and secure that if there is opportunity for someone to correct me, there are very likely to do so compared with answering a simple question.