Conure Posted June 23, 2010 Posted June 23, 2010 Hello guys, I have now watched all of the tutorial videos on youtube, and am beginning to get a bit better with the shark. What I want to be able to do now is select a target, neak up on it, pop out, take it out then get back into hiding...From what I have read and watched, is this the right process? I don't want to get into bad habits! 1: Approach target point and get a visual (from a very safe range) on an enemy 2: set enemy position as a TP on the pvi-800 3:move into covered terrain and approach target 4: pop up with a view on target and shkval will auto slew to the selected TP 5: kill enemy, hide... This saves all the rapid (inaccurate, panicked and out of control!) slewing or struggling to target enemies with the HMS (which is a NIGHTMARE with a hotas and no trackIR!), allowing me to select, say, 3 tanks in a region as TPs and then rapidly flick between them when I am in range...? I don't actually know the whole process for setting a TP yet, but am I heading along the right line with this? Am I inventing capabilities the heli doesn't have, and misreading? Thank you! p.s - is it worth dropping chafs when a tank has a lock on me? I am presuming that its shells are unguided and therefore its useless? Intel i7 6700k, Asus GTX1070, 16gb DDR4 @ 3200mhz, CH Fighterstick, CH Pro Throttle, CH Pro Rudder Pedals, Samsung Evo 850 SSD @ 500GB * 2, TrackIR 5 and 27" monitor running at 2560 * 1440, Windows 10.
nemises Posted June 23, 2010 Posted June 23, 2010 Hiya, Yes you can "auto slew" the shkval to saved target points in the Datalink.... after a target is stored, you can use the "ingress" function to autoslew the shkval when you uncage it to whichever datalink target is currently selected. The BS doesn't have a Chaff dispenser, only Flares, hkwever, as you have suggested, a tank uses a laser range finder and ballistic calculation to judge it's shot, so unless you blind the gunner with your flares, it's probably not going to help.... having said that, where theres tanks, there might also be Igla's / Stingers (shoulder mounted heat seeking AA missles) , so dropping flares is allways a good option! 1
Conure Posted June 23, 2010 Author Posted June 23, 2010 Thank you! Please could somebody link me to a break down of setting a TP on the map then activating it, and cycling between them? In the manual it tells me the buttons (in Russian) which don't translate to my own cockpit! I think the manual was written a fair bit before... If anybody could explain that'd be amazing, Thank you! Intel i7 6700k, Asus GTX1070, 16gb DDR4 @ 3200mhz, CH Fighterstick, CH Pro Throttle, CH Pro Rudder Pedals, Samsung Evo 850 SSD @ 500GB * 2, TrackIR 5 and 27" monitor running at 2560 * 1440, Windows 10.
pakfront Posted June 24, 2010 Posted June 24, 2010 You want to use a Data Link Ingress Point or Target on the Data Link Panel not a Target Point on the PVI-800. I made this mistake too. Read the section from 11-4 in the manual onwards; but realise you want to "Designate Target and Ingress Point" (11-6), not "Designate Target Point". Then see "Automatic Ingress to Target" (11-9) Also, make sure HMS is NOT active, as this seems to confound the systen if it is (Schval cage/uncage button acts differently) Try this in Para_bellum's tutorial mission where stuff isn;t shooting at you (much): http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2626185/Tutorial_How_to_take_off_and_b.html#Post2626185 Good luck - I can only get it to work right 70% of the time. 1
Conure Posted June 28, 2010 Author Posted June 28, 2010 Thanks a lot - I only just noticed this reply, sorry for the delayed response! Intel i7 6700k, Asus GTX1070, 16gb DDR4 @ 3200mhz, CH Fighterstick, CH Pro Throttle, CH Pro Rudder Pedals, Samsung Evo 850 SSD @ 500GB * 2, TrackIR 5 and 27" monitor running at 2560 * 1440, Windows 10.
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