Front Seat Boresight issue

[Muskoka]

I can't hit a barn door 100' straight in front of me with the gun. In the pilots seat I can hit a fly from 1000', no issues at all.

I only play in vr, headset is a Quest 2. I'm left eye dominant, and have tried setting HMD Eye Renderer to all three settings with no difference. One issue I do notice is that everything in the front seat is double if I use Both Eyes as Eye Renderer when trying to Boresight, although looking outside the cockpit is fine.

I've adjusted the seat position untill I'm blue in the face, also makes no difference. Aim is still way off.

How are you guys in vr aligning the Boresight from the front seat, I'm at a loss, and have spnet hours trying to get it sorted. Again, Boresighting in the Pilots seat works great, have no trouble at all hitting stuff with the gun, front seat, forget it.

I see this post was moved. I posted this in Bugs and Problems, because something is wrong with front seat Boresighting in vr. Boresighting works perfectly fine from the pilots seat, and not in the front seat, thats a  "Bug/Problem". The issue may be vr headset specific, which I'm thinking it is, but even that is a "Problem". 

Edited March 19, 2024 by Muskoka
Post should have been left where it was originally posted.

[Tholozor]

Are you selecting the gun from the CPG's cyclic stick or the TEDAC?

[NeedzWD40]

Do you have the same problem with a hot start aircraft without boresighting?

[Muskoka]

2 hours ago, NeedzWD40 said:

Do you have the same problem with a hot start aircraft without boresighting?

Works fine hot start, without boresighting. The guns as accurate as when I boresight in the Pilots seat. Anything to do with a cold start, and it's impossible to boresight in that front seat. Moving to the front seat after a hot start, and boresighting after George has done it, is also a no go, you'll never get it lined up again.

Edited March 19, 2024 by Muskoka

[NeedzWD40]

Can you post an image of how it looks when you boresight from the front?

[Kh4]

The only way I have been able to get it to work to an acceptable degree is to first centre the VR view, then without physically moving my head, use the view keys to bring the boresight into alignment and set it. I can then reset the view and I'm in the ballpark at least when using the guns or slaving the TADS to the CPG. I do the same front and back seat and, while not perfect, if I do it carefully it's about the same as I get with a hot start without boresighting. Might just be an issue due to the imprecision of VR

[Muskoka]

47 minutes ago, NeedzWD40 said:

Can you post an image of how it looks when you boresight from the front?

Same as when I boresight from the pilots seat, nothing to see there. It's simply bugged and needs to be fixed. Sure, you can get it close, but nowhere near close enough. I can boresight dead on in about 10 seconds in the Pilots seat, front seat should be the same, yet it's a mess. And no amount of moving your eye point, viewpoint, fixes it. It's simply broken. 

 

No sense discussing it any further, enough people have reported the issue, it just needs addressing. Pilot seat Boresighting is a non issue, works as it should, very accurate, front seat is a totally different story, that isn't fixed by moving your eye/body position, period. The fact it's so easy to do in the Pilot's seat, yet is far off when in the front seat, should tell you something is wrong with the front seat Boresighting mechanics. 

 

The fix is a hot start, move to the front seat, and leave the boresight untouched. Then it's as accurate as the pilots seat after manually boresighting.

Edited March 20, 2024 by Muskoka

[NeedzWD40]

2 hours ago, Muskoka said:

No sense discussing it any further, enough people have reported the issue, it just needs addressing.

We're only trying to help. Oftentimes the solution can be incredibly simple, thus the dumb questions. You can record a quick track and use that to report the issue, as frustrating as it is.

[UncleStains]

When I boresight with the IHADSS set to both eyes, I kind of cross my eyes and the sight picture looks like this: +O+. It helps to lean back as far as you can, too. I wouldn't complain if ED implemented an auto boresight feature.

[KoN]

Have you tried bore sighting with the IHADSS in VR ,go into options and assign to right eye , bring it up and bore sight , even in pilot seat I'm off not unless hot start and it's already set up . I like using both eyes set up in options. But it's always off . Hope I've made sense . 

[Floyd1212]

1 hour ago, Shadok said:

Hi,

Still have an issue to boresight in front seat, hot start or cold start.

It looks like the boresight alignment itself is good, and obviously repeatable with the use of the snapviews, but you are leaving your MANRNG set to 1500 for the PLT and 3000 for the CPG.  For close engagements like that with the gun using the HMD as your sight, I would recommend setting the MANRNG to 500m.

On a side note, in a "hot start" aircraft, you do not need to perform the boresight at all; it is already done (perfectly) for you.

Finally, I think if you give George enough time up front to get everything situated, he will boresight the CPG IHADSS as part of his startup procedure.  Then if you swap seats with him later, you don't have to do it again yourself.

[Shadok]

Thanks, I always forget to set the MANRNG :/