Pre Designate

[AeriaGloria]

So, I’ve seen a lot of confusion about Pre Designate. None of the ED material or videos explain what it’s true purpose is they just say “do it if you have time.” 
 

I made this short video to explain its true purpose and other random air to ground things. It is actually for wind and target movement compensation, and seems to work very well on both accounts. 
 

I almost completely sure Wags demo in his video was slightly misunderstood, you don’t need to track the target for 2-4 seconds with pre designate before releasing lock button. You only need to put pre designate reticule on the target and release, and it’s 2-4 seconds AFTER you release lock button that you have max accuracy (there is minimum time of 2 seconds after releasing lock button before corrections can be completely computed.) 

This is why if you pre designate and move nose away, the reticule lags because it’s compensating lead for target movement. 
 

Anyways no need to watch my video, but if you want every scrap of air to ground knowledge go ahead lol 

 

[IvanK]

To give the system a chance you need to be very controlled and Track the target whilst pre designating. Same goes for flying the Dive Toss smooth steady application of G. A wild snatch doesn't give the system a fair go.

The Russian manual actually states Pre designation not required with wind < 5msec. It also sates that the Pre designation period needs to be a minimum of 2 seconds.

[AeriaGloria]

1 hour ago, IvanK said:

To give the system a chance you need to be very controlled and Track the target whilst pre designating. Same goes for flying the Dive Toss smooth steady application of G. A wild snatch doesn't give the system a fair go.

The Russian manual actually states Pre designation not required with wind < 5msec. It also sates that the Pre designation period needs to be a minimum of 2 seconds.

But whenever I read combat employment it never mentions tracking target, only releasing lock on target and waiting 2 seconds? 
 

Huh, in German manual I see “hold pre designate on target for 3 seconds.” I wonder why it’s not in combat employment? 
 

Thanks for info on wind speeds!

Edited 31 minutes ago by AeriaGloria