Delta-canard Posted December 21, 2022 Posted December 21, 2022 Yet another noobish question: I am learning the Mirage, I'm generally new to DCS, I've been training with the JF-17 and grinding through the Kursant campaign in the L-39 previously. I was wandering if there were a way to use the HSI of the Mirage (or any other advanced aircraft, for that matter) as the basic gyro plate ("conservateur de cap"). For example, in the Albatros (or a Cessna, it's that simple), I'd dial the heading to follow for the visual low-level nav or the landing course for a visual pattern. It's simple but helpful. In the Mirage I figure I could use the Route Désirée feature but it's somewhat over-complicated, and I cant't do that in any other modern jet
kablamoman Posted December 23, 2022 Posted December 23, 2022 Sounds like you want the functionality of a typical "heading bug" on a classic HSI. The green bug on the IDN (the nav instrument on the panel), kind of looks like a heading bug, but it's really a course indicator and what you use to select a course for the autopilot to follow. It can't really be set to a specific course independently without the autopilot engaged. The closest you could do, is set your IDN bearing pointer to a specific azimuth by setting the mode knob to the ɵ (theta) position. In this position you could use the +/- knob to set a desired bearing and the pointer will depict it. However, it's not really intended to be used for this purpose (it's meant to select an offset bearing from a TACAN station, ie. a "VAD"), but I guess you could use it the way you want in a pinch. With that said I would recommend getting into the nuts and bolts of the INS -- it's pretty fun and quite powerful. Once you're comfortable with it you can start to use things like data cartridges with flight planned waypoints pre-programmed and from there get into the finer points of its use like using the RD function.
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