ABRIS Uses

[LastRifleRound]

I'm becoming quite the prolific poster, but I just can't get enough brain food for my 'shark, so I apologize in advance for my tom noobery.

 

I honestly don't use it all that much aside from managing D/L targets. Just wondering what other simmers are using ABRIS for, i just don't ever really seem to need it in your average mission, unless i'm intentionally playing around with it for the sake of playing around with it.

[EtherealN]

I use it mainly as a navigation and planning aid. It lets me get an overview of where known air threats are, it can help me decide on what is a safe ingress route (as opposed to slavingly following the exact nav routes) as well as safe egress routes.

 

But it's not so important as to be impossible to be successful without it - Su25 pilots, older Cobra models, older Mi-24's etcetera did their jobs fine without a similar system. BUT when you have it it does become an aid in doing your job even better (and with less risk) than was possible without a system like the ABRIS.

[Frederf]

If you want to program your PVI-800 with custom waypoints then it's great to make a flight plan in the ABRIS (set the stupid thing to use the same lat/long format as the PVI by the way, which it doesn't by default unless you edit LUAs) and then blindly copy from the flight plan page of the ABRIS into the PVI using the numpad.

 

The ABRIS ERBL function is handy for measuring a distance of say 10km from a nasty threat so you can get a good line up as well. Again the lat/long readout is good for making a quick TGT point in the PVI.

[Safari Ken]

I'd suggest you take a look at the Producer's Note for the ABRIS. Very, very informative, as are all those video notes.

[Strekaya]

If you want to program your PVI-800 with custom waypoints then it's great to make a flight plan in the ABRIS (set the stupid thing to use the same lat/long format as the PVI by the way, which it doesn't by default unless you edit LUAs) and then blindly copy from the flight plan page of the ABRIS into the PVI using the numpad.

 

The ABRIS ERBL function is handy for measuring a distance of say 10km from a nasty threat so you can get a good line up as well. Again the lat/long readout is good for making a quick TGT point in the PVI.

 

Do you happen to know the particular LUA file that can change it to default to DD'MM.MM? While unlikely for me to happen during a mission, I have practiced to manually add target/ingress points to the PVI, but I have to change the units on the ABRIS first every time. It's not a huge hassle, but it would be nice not to have to change that every time I intend to input new target points manually.

[Frederf]

I should clarify. You can change the ABRIS preferences every time you fly in the ABRIS or you can do it once using the LUA edit and forget it.

 

I reinstalled windows and lost the file but this thread should help: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=37116

 

I find myself entering TGT points into the PVI during flight all the time. It's really easy and fast to do once you program the PVI keypad to your keyboard numpad. Put ABRIS marker on the point of interest, stretch out an ERBL line to your ingress point, note the lat/long and punch away.

[Strekaya]

Thank you kindly, Frederf, worked like a charm! I did the same thing, tying all the major navigation mode buttons (minus the INU reference), mode selector and digit buttons to the numeric keypad. (In my case I use the right arrow key as a toggle so I don't lose the Numpad view keys I instinctively keep using.) As long as I don't look at the keypad in the sim (which has the 123 and 789 groups inverted), I can type coordinates from the ABRIS fairly quickly. Anyhow, many thanks!

[Hobnail]

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