A way to edit waypoints when on ground for FC3 aircrafts just like the Harrier does with target points

[Surfingnet]

I know some of these aircrafts lack the capability of editing their route/waypoints mid flight etc. but on the ground, not being able to do it is just so sad, painful and unrealistic. (we can't just rely on mission makers to make a slot for every possible mission type and for each FC3 aircraft)

Also I know there is no tech issue which would prevents to do so because the AV-8B can make use of player made map markers (orange circles on the map) to create target points ! So the code is already there in the game. We could just add these waypoints as markers on the map and as long as the plane has weight on the wheels and doesn't move and as long as the markers follow some sort of name normalization like "wp#01" or "route01" or idk. These waypoints are added to the flight computer just like it could be done irl by the ground crew when they transfer the flight plan to the aircraft's flight computer after the briefing is done. As long as you remain on the ground not moving, adding a map marker with the right naming refreshes the flight plan with all the right markers sorted alphabetically added as waypoints. Simple. It would be some next level QoL improvement but it also looks quite simple to implement because the majority of the code is already there, unless it's part of the code which belongs to Razbam? (Idk if the code of a module belongs to ED or to the maker of it once it's in DCS maybe someone can enlighten me)

 

ps: relying on the F10 map isn't a solution imo.

Edited January 6, 2023 by Surfingnet
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[Rudel_chw]

2 hours ago, Surfingnet said:

So the code is already there in the game.

 

I know that third parties like Razbam, can make use of the DCS core functions created by Eagle Dynamics ... but I'm not sure if it can work the other way around, so that ED can make use of Harrier functions.