[REPORTED] TPOD: Situal Awareness Cue moving erratic

[Flagrum]

The Situal Awareness Cue of the TPOD, the small square that indicates where the TPOD is looking at - in relation to it's boresight position (= aircraft center line), is not behaving correctly.

The SA cue is supposed to give a top-down view of where the TPOD is looking, with the aircraft in the center of the MFD:

I.e. if the TPOD looks straight ahead at a target designation, the SA cue is supposed to be in the center top of the MFD. If it is looking somwhere at my 3 o'clock, it should be on the right side of the MFD. And so on. This is the behaviour in the Harrier, as long as I fly wings level. But any maneuvering of the a/c causes the SA cue to swing arround at the perimeter of the MFD. Banking and also pitch changes make the SA move to left and right and even seemingly looking at the 6 o'clock position - all while the TPOD reticle is still visible in the HUD and only 1-2 degreess left/right/above/below the acutal flight path marker (i.e. the SA cue should be shown at about the 12 o'clock position on the MFD).

Note: if the TPOD is slaved to the velocity vector (SLV VV), the SA cue is always correctly exact at the center top of the MFD, regardless of any maneuvering. This leaves me with the impression, that the SA cue position is calculated based on the relative position of the TPOD reticle and the velocity vector on the HUD glass plane (instead of where they both are actually pointing at in the outside world).

av8b tgp sa cue.trk

[tech_op2000]

+1

this cue bugs me

[Spurts]

Never thought about it before, but what should it do then when I have it wing mounted as I roll into a target and the pod is looking "above" me?

[Flagrum]

The cameras are aligned to the horizon, so the direction where they are looking does not really change. Only the altitude (and therefore slant range) would change a few feet ...

[AlphaJuliet]

Issue Confirmed and reported, thanks for the diagrams.

Cheers,

A.J.