Point Track - engagement angle

[hancerPL]

Hello

I noticed a change in Point Track's viewing angle. The PT square does not appear when TGP exceeds about 15% of the aircraft heading.

There has never been a PT account this small before.

 

[Yurgon]

Great post, thanks!

Do you think you could generate 2 short tracks showcasing the issue, if you still have an old DCS installation available? Otherwise, just one track would be helpful to be able to at least have a baseline scenario to test against.

Also, can you tell which DCS version introduced the change?

[ASAP]

11 hours ago, hancerPL said:

Hello

I noticed a change in Point Track's viewing angle. The PT square does not appear when TGP exceeds about 15% of the aircraft heading.

There has never been a PT account this small before.

 

I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that you're 10 miles away from the thing you are looking at vs 5 like in the first picture and your SA cue is all the way to edge of the screen in all of them....

[jaylw314]

It's not just the azimuth (direction) that determines the FOV that point tracking works, it's also the vertical angle (declination?).  Somewhere a couple years ago tested the point tracking FOV, as best I could tell it's the same as the laser and gets cut off 10-20 deg below the horizon in a few directions, most notably forwards towards where the AIM-9 fins are in a standard loadout.  I'm guessing it's the same whether you have an AIM-9 there or not.   45 deg off the nose to the right sounds about right

Edited October 28, 2024 by jaylw314

[Victor3]

I believe this is the same issue I posted here:

 

 

[hancerPL]

Thanks, it turns out the camouflage has been changed, this is very important when dealing with moving targets.

It is necessary to test the tilt of the machines in the holding.

Edited October 30, 2024 by hancerPL