Cougar1606687825 Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 It say enter area coordinates for correction (within R~18 km of the fix point) In real life you do this only one time before moving the plane by entring the cordinates to the FMS .
Frederf Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 Procedures for in-flight INU update are listed on FM 6-23 and 6-24. These procedures do not direct you to enter coordinates manually, but directs you to use prepared fix points made prior to take off. In real life you may perform an in-flight position update many times during the course of a sortie due to the continuous problem of INU drift. Do not confuse in-flight updating with entering (into the PVI-800 or simply PVI, not FMS) the initial coordinates/ heading prior to alignment which is separate from in-flight updates.
zamboni Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 To continue with this (instead of starting another thread), is the Shkval method borked? Situation (finally bought the sim couple of weeks ago and just started getting into a campaign): Took off from airport, expended my munitions. Went back to AP to rearm/refuel. Went back to the front and after firing off a missle got the EKRAN message to do a Nav Fix. Since I was hovering in good position towards the unprotected nme, I tried to do the Shkval method and it would never take. I never got the KOPP message that the manual says. The nav fix point was about 4km away, is that too far? Am I doing anything wrong? Bug? I soon gave up and then did the flyover method and that seemed to work. But I ran into another problem. When I got the EKRAN warning for nav fix, I could no longer auto-fire, and if I did a manual fire, it was like the laser wasn't lasing. I had read on the forum here that the laser will burn out, but I had only fired off 17 rockets and it shouldn't have burned out (never got any warning to that effect either). I tried various things to get it to work, but never could. Is there something I need to reset in this situation? or is it some kind of bug?
Cougar1606687825 Posted February 22, 2009 Author Posted February 22, 2009 Try to keep the laser off most of the time, and use it only when u need it, I think it got some kind of time limit.
Frederf Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 The Shkval method does work if you follow the procedure. Make sure to flip the overfly/Shkval switch which is labeled "INU Update" to the up (Shkval) position.
zamboni Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 I think that the reason why I couldnt do the Shkval method was because the laser was on the fritz. It just happened to go on the fritz at the same time I needed to do a nav fix update. I think this is due to the laser bug and not because I used it too much.
Frederf Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 Certainly a good troubleshooting step is to see whether or not you have a range on the Shkval screen. You need a number to do nav pos fixes in Shkval mode.
zamboni Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 Yea...at the time I was getting a range, but it still wouldnt do the alignment procedure. Weird. Another question about Shkval mode... Is it ok to slew the Shkval so the tracking lines on the ABRIS is over top of the nav fix point and align it that way? Supposedly it is linked to a landmark, but In a couple of the campaign missions it is over the water, no landmarks there. Since the ABRIS is calibrated by the satellite, it should be accurate doing it like this....right?
Svend_Dellepude Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 INU alignment does nothing to your position, it's just a procedure. try to align to any of the the fixpoints and you will see that your position does not change. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Win10 64, Asus Maximus VIII Formula, i5 6600K, Geforce 980 GTX Ti, 32 GB Ram, Samsung EVO SSD.
JG14_Smil Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 (edited) if the Shkval stops working, be sure you switched back to OPER mode from EDIT. Edited February 22, 2009 by JG14_Smil
Frederf Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 Yea...at the time I was getting a range, but it still wouldnt do the alignment procedure. Weird. Another question about Shkval mode... Is it ok to slew the Shkval so the tracking lines on the ABRIS is over top of the nav fix point and align it that way? Supposedly it is linked to a landmark, but In a couple of the campaign missions it is over the water, no landmarks there. Since the ABRIS is calibrated by the satellite, it should be accurate doing it like this....right? In the game probably this works alright. In real life the ABRIS error can be 500m or more pretty easily (check RAIM values). Of course in real life you wouldn't have your Fix points out to sea :lol: and you would know exactly where they are in the brief.
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