nick10 Posted January 16, 2024 Posted January 16, 2024 Hi going a bit mental here. whenever I set up an air start in the viper using mavs the mav always misses its target when using pre planned. Usually by a small margin. I’ve gone through all the procedures. I use gmt to plot the target. Slew tgp then lock up and autohandoff. always a miss. what gives?
TAIPAN_ Posted January 16, 2024 Posted January 16, 2024 8 hours ago, nick10 said: Hi going a bit mental here. whenever I set up an air start in the viper using mavs the mav always misses its target when using pre planned. Usually by a small margin. I’ve gone through all the procedures. I use gmt to plot the target. Slew tgp then lock up and autohandoff. always a miss. what gives? Do you boresight it first to put them in sync? I'm not sure what state airstarts are in. Are you sure the auto-handoff actually locked, and didn't just place the crosshair over the target? Pimax Crystal VR & Simpit User | Ryzen CPU & Nvidia RTX GPU | Some of my mods
nick10 Posted January 16, 2024 Author Posted January 16, 2024 (edited) Do i have to bore sight even in the air? Edited January 16, 2024 by nick10
TAIPAN_ Posted January 17, 2024 Posted January 17, 2024 12 hours ago, nick10 said: Do i have to bore sight even in the air? I thought that's how most people do it? Boresighting on the ground is hard to find something at a distance, and I've heard is not realistic. As for airstarts, I don't know how they work: if boresighting has been pre-done by the system or not (eg like the HMCS is already aligned). Pimax Crystal VR & Simpit User | Ryzen CPU & Nvidia RTX GPU | Some of my mods
twistking Posted January 17, 2024 Posted January 17, 2024 When doing air-starts, the Mavs should already be bore-sighted. I'd advide to double check, that auto-handoff has actually worked: After handoff, check the weapons page (WPN) to see if the MAV really has a solid lock on the correct target. Use the FOV toggle to "zoom" in the MAV video feed. 1 My improved* wishlist after a decade with DCS *now with 17% more wishes compared to the original
void68 Posted February 13, 2024 Posted February 13, 2024 I think almost all pilots miss the reason why we have to boresight: Think of it as gun convergence. Guns in wings were / are converged or centered into a distant point, in WW2 fighter usually at 400m or so. That's where both guns hit into the same spot for maximum destruction. Same with TGP (almost in centerline) and wing mounted guns Mavericks. If you do a (useless) ground boresighting on a ground structure 1nm ahead of you, the TGP and Maverick difference or divergence is converged into that 1nm distance. That means that - ideally - in flight you look with your TGP at the target 1nm ahead of you the Mavericks on both hardpoints exactly know how much to turn their "eye" to match the 1nm distance. Problem is that you usually acquire your target at 10nm or so. The Maverick does not know how many degress it has to slew its eye to match the TGP's sight. So boresighting distance should be usual acquire distance and that's why ground boresighting almost always leads to a mismatch. Since I do an air boresight at a realistic distance (7-8nm) the divergence is much smaller and PRE mode with MARK points #26-30 and switchting them let me shoot 5 Mavericks in one high speed low alt assault with 100% hit rate in favourable situations, i.e. flat ground, no SHORADs and stationary targets. In missions the hit ratio is worse, of course. Airstart-Mavericks are also automatically boresighted at that 8nm range, I think.
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