Hornet TACAN database

[Corsac]

Hi,

I've started flying on CW:Germany with a date before GPS, so having to rely only on INS navigation. There's obviously some drift after a while and the advice from the manual is either to update position using a waypoint over a recognizable feature, or use the tacan database.

It seems that the Tacan database is only populated on Caucasus and unpopulated on all the others I could test (Cold War Germany, Marianas, Persian Gulf, Sinai). Manually adding a TACAN at the beginning of each flight will rapidly become old, so is there a way to populate that database differently? I assume at some point there will be a DTC interface for that but it's not yet the case.

I can see the maps have a Beacons.lua (or beacons.lua) file defining those so I'm unsure what would be needed. It'd be really useful for those CW scenarios.

[MAXsenna]

The in game airfields will only have TACAN according to their real world counterparts. No TACAN in real life, no TACAN in game. You also won't have TACAN on civilian airports IIRC. Hence the lack of TACAN in The Marianas/Persian Gulf. Sïnai? Not many NATO countries there.

[Tholozor]

What he means is that the Hornet in DCS has a TACAN database page in the HSI submenus that is populated with the TACAN stations on the Caucasus map (which IRL doesn't have TACAN stations in Georgia), but not the other maps.

Edited 13 hours ago by Tholozor

[MAXsenna]

What he means is that the Hornet in DCS has a TACAN database page in the HSI submenus that is populated with the TACAN stations on the Caucasus map (which IRL doesn't have TACAN stations in Georgia), but not the other maps.

Ah, I see. Thanks!

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[Minsky]

17 hours ago, Corsac said:

is there a way to populate that database differently?

I presume it should auto-populate this list with TACAN and VORTAC entries found in a map's "beacons.lua" file.

However, this feature seems broken or was never finished. The only two maps where it "works" are Caucasus and Nevada, and only because their beacons were manually added into this file:

(DCS)\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Cockpit\Scripts\Computers\MC_No1.lua

My attempts to add other maps to that file were unsuccessful.

[Scotch75]

Hopefully, this will integrate far better into the mission computer as the DTC is fleshed out more.
Cheers!


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