Datalink precision

[hmleao]

I used to create some points with the datalink to use bombs eventually and just for keeping some positions. Now the points are kinda off by some meters. Just wanted to know if this is intended behavior. By the way, tested hot start a few km from the target and even already in the air very close to target. There's another thing related to this, if you active pause the aircraft and create the target point, when you try to uncage the shkval on that position it just goes to the right like crazy. I've seen that this new alignment changed a lot of this stuff, so I'm just trying to understand if I can get a better position to the targets.

[LorenLuke]

So, I could be wrong on this, but the way the datalink was explained to me was that it uses the current position and orientation of the aircraft, as read by the PVI800, and then the angle of the shkval and the laser distance, all to produce some point in 3D space somewhere as the target point. 

Therefore, as your INU drifts over time, your relative space is going to produce a difference from your actual coordinates, so when you go to uncage the SHKVAL to the target, it's orientating itself to the target point using your PVI800 coords and orientation as the reference. If your actual coordinates are in line with the PVI800 coords, this is fine, but if they're not, there's going to be an off-set from that point, which should be basically equal to the disparity between your PVI800 and actual coordinates.