HOW TO CORRECTLY MAKE A DESIGNATION AND DROP JDAMS

[AlphaJuliet]

HOW TO CORRECTLY MAKE A DESIGNATION AND DROP JDAMS
(to avoid dropping on your current waypoint)

First, get into your sensor HOTAS mode:

-SSaft twice (you will go throught the LST mode upon first press first, you'll see TV in the MPCD confirming you're in the right mode)
- or double tap SSDown to go into TPOD HOTAS mode (confirmed by the TPOD writing in the MPCD) Find your target and designate it.

 

To ensure good designation, always complete a T.A.C.L. :
-TDC down (designates with the current sensor)
-APS (name of the throttle button on the radar bird that fires the laser to refine coords, not always applicable. In the N/A, fire the laser using the OSB button)
-Cage/uncage (not always applicable )
-Long WINC (will match steering and targeting cues)

So now you have designated your target with the sensor you've slewed on it.

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Now, the JDAMS, have two modes of release :

JDAMs Direct Attack :

Select the JDAMs in the store or EHSD page if you are in A/G master mode.
Long press on the WPInc button or on the EHSD arrows to bring up the Quick Access menu.
As you have a designation with the TPOD it will select TGT on the ODU and 0 will populate on the UFC, T0 will be selected between the EHSD arrows. The T0 is a peculiar target point, it stores the coords of the current designation.
The entering in the QA ( Quick Access) menu will summon the Direct Attack symbology
Your JDAMs are now in direct attack mode and targeting the T0 coords.
You can slew the TPOD, the coords will be what you are designating through it.

Master arm, pickle, one away.
 

JDAMs Absolute Attack :

You'll need to use a targetpoint from the system (you can of course use target points you entered manually).

You can make one with the TOO. Push TOO on the UFC, then select tgt in the ODU, enter a number in the UFC (or leave the one displayed, it is usually following the last one you made), press enter, you just created a target using the designation source : the TPOD/DMT/System Des.

You can now select the JDAMs, it'll bring the WPN menu in the ODU. If it disappears you can summon it again with the WPN UFC button.
Push on TGT on the ODU, then select the target numbers on which you want to drop.

Master arm, pickle, one away.

Edited January 15, 2023 by AlphaJuliet