investigating Harpoon HPTP mode immediately activates at turnpoint instead of waiting the specified SRCH distance

[Hippo]

Bump... is this supposed to have been fixed?  Because, afaict, the issue still appears to be there.

Edited April 16, 2023 by Hippo

[BIGNEWY]

50 minutes ago, Hippo said:

Bump... is this supposed to have been fixed?  Because, afaict, the issue still appears to be there.

Was fixed, if it is broken again its new. 

Please attach a track replay and I will ask QA to take a look. 

Edit: I have split into a new thread for the latest issue to be checked. 

thank you

[Hippo]

On 4/14/2023 at 8:50 AM, BIGNEWY said:

Was fixed, if it is broken again its new. 

Please attach a track replay and I will ask QA to take a look. 

Edit: I have split into a new thread for the latest issue to be checked. 

thank you

Thanks for getting back to me.  On further checking the issue is a bit more complicated than I thought, but I still believe there is an issue.

In the mission below, the aim is to attack the enemy ship to the west, but neither your aircraft or the harpoons can go into the (purple) no-fly zones and the aircraft can't go north of the red line (or attack friendly ships)...

... so I want to launch the harpoon from WP1 so that it flies to WP2 turns to 260 (to attack the enemy ship to the west), then activates after 20 nm.  Instead the harpoon just attacks the northernmost friendly ship (see track 01).   However, it doesn't appear to be an HPTP issue per se, because if I remove the friendly ships to the north, then it works as expected (track 02).  I'll add that I'm almost certain the harpoon did work as expected the last time I flew this mission around June 2022.

EDIT:  I think that what's happening is that the Harpoon is activating its search immediately at the turnpoint and have changed the post title to reflect this.  Apologies for any confusion caused.

 

 

harpoon_htpt_02.trk harpoon_htpt_01.trk

Edited April 16, 2023 by Hippo

[BIGNEWY]

Hi,

if you are setting the SEEK to MED it will start to search before the turnpoint, try using SML option for SEEK

Let us know if it helps

thank you

[Hippo]

21 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi,

if you are setting the SEEK to MED it will start to search before the turnpoint, try using SML option for SEEK

Let us know if it helps

thank you

Thanks for replying but that option is not available with BOL, which is what I am attempting to use.  I am specifying a SRCH of 20nm which, if I understand things correctly, means the harpoon should activate its radar 20 nm after the turnpoint.

[BIGNEWY]

On 5/6/2023 at 9:56 AM, Hippo said:

Thanks for replying but that option is not available with BOL, which is what I am attempting to use.  I am specifying a SRCH of 20nm which, if I understand things correctly, means the harpoon should activate its radar 20 nm after the turnpoint.

sorry I replied to the wrong thread. 

 

[Hippo]

15 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

sorry I replied to the wrong thread. 

 

For either thread it seems to me very likely that the issue is that if HPTP is selected, the logic for when the harpoon starts its search is not affected (when it should be).