Slave TGP to a waypoint without designation?

[eFirehawk]

Hello everyone,

Prior to the Hornet, I was learning the F-15E (RIP), and the LANTIRN pod had a pretty handy function, which allowed you to quickly and easily slave the TPOD to waypoints without having them turned into designated targets.

As far as I know, the only way to slave the ATFLIR or LITENING to a waypoint is the actually turn the waypoint into an active designation.

For example, if I'm following a flight plan/sequence, and before IP or TGT I have 2 or 3 more waypoints to follow, by designating the TGT in case I want to have an overview of the target area and check for other threats way before I get there, I lose the range and ETA for each waypoint ahead of me obviously. So what I do usually, is designate the TGT waypoint, move the TGP slightly and then go back to selecting the NAV waypoints. This however is tedious and cumbersome to do, and leaving the TGP in free track mode can be unreliable, since for no reason I can think of, sometimes it slews itself off its previous position slightly, especially if I move the plane around.

Is there any other way around that, perhaps similar to what the F-15E had?

Edited Monday at 08:51 AM by eFirehawk

[Muchocracker]

In the current implementation no, there isn't. And i don't believe we're missing it either as far as im aware. I'd be shocked if it wasn't an added to the rhino later on. 

It's just a quirk of how "Designations" work in the hornet. You're not really slaving to the waypoint you're just creating a designation on the waypoint. Once you de-slave the TGP off of it(track modes) then the TGP becomes the designation source. 

Edited Monday at 12:51 PM by Muchocracker