DCS A-10C QUESTIONS

[Specter1606688147]

Is this something that should be fixed by the time the PC DVD is released?

[159th_Viper]

CCRP for rockets work as well as Illum rockets. Reported, tested and verified personally during testing.

 

Unfortunately I have one hand only (left) at present so a track is outta the question - I'll see if I can dig out an old one.

[airea]

When I select a point with TADS cursor, cow can I make it SPI?

[EtherealN]

TMS forward Long. (See page 87)

[HOP_TRIZZ]

How can i install the single mission packs do i need to use mod-man it seems that the files have a config file and so-on or can i just rename them with the ending of miz and install them in the single missions folder...TIA....

[EtherealN]

Do not open the .miz files, just drop them into the missions folder.

 

EDIT: If you are using Internet Exploder, it is highly likely that the downloads are in the format of "mission.miz", but Internet Exploder will rename them "mission.zip" without asking you about it. In this case, just change it to .miz, that's what they are, it's just IE being retarded.

[airea]

TMS forward Long. (See page 87)

 

I already tried that but could not manage. I slew the TADS cursor on the moving map. I pick a point and press TMS forward long (like making a SPI on HUD) but it wont work...

[EtherealN]

In what way does it not work?

 

Have you slaved sensors to SPI after creating the SPI?

[airea]

In what way does it not work?

 

Have you slaved sensors to SPI after creating the SPI?

 

Ah sorry my bad, I just miswrote the name of the MFCD that I try to make SPI. My problem is, I dont know how to select a point with the cursor on the moving map on LEFT MFCD. I know how to make SPI on HUD or TADS but not on left MFCD...

[Eddie]

It doesn't matter what MFD you're using, the process is that same.

 

As EtherealN said, to select a TAD object place the cursor over the desired object, TMS up short to hook it and then TMS up long to make it the SPI.

[Insanatrix]

You have to select a TAD object to make the SPI you can't just make a point on the map the SPI. If you want to make a point on the TAD a SPI you need to first create a markpoint TMS Right I believe. Then you can make that markpoint your SPI.

[159th_Viper]

They do not. I have tested it.

 

As have I. We'll just have to agree to disagree until I'm well enough to provide you with a track illustrating correct deployment parameters.

[Olgerd]

Ah sorry my bad, I just miswrote the name of the MFCD that I try to make SPI. My problem is, I dont know how to select a point with the cursor on the moving map on LEFT MFCD. I know how to make SPI on HUD or TADS but not on left MFCD...

 

As already stated above, to make SPI on TAD you have to hook an object on TAD at first. So the correct procedure is - slew the cursor over a point, hook it by TMS Fwd Short, and then make the hook SPI by TMS Fwd Long.

[Jona33]

Hi, does anyone have a guide for how to get the JTAC to lase for you. He says he's lasing and everything but how does the TGP acquire the laser if that makes sense.

[159th_Viper]

.... but how does the TGP acquire the laser if that makes sense.

 

Enter/Confirm the LSS Code and thereafter enter LSS mode (DMS Right Long). TGP will then search, detect and track (LST).

 

Manual pg 330 onwards or search 'LSS' and/or 'LST'.

[Belphe]

Hi,

 

I'd like to come back to The Hog after a loooong break (not that I ever mastered this sim) with a newly acquired HOTAS Warthog. I have printed "The 670-Page Bible" of a manual as some call it and I'm ready to start again. The problem is I've never approached the "Hog Course" from the right angle. I want to do this right this time. Therefore, could you suggest the proper sequence in which I should learn things?

 

Thanks!

[159th_Viper]

Therefore, could you suggest the proper sequence in which I should learn things?

 

Thanks!

 

Start with the training tutorials. Run through a tutorial once to familiarize yourself with the content and then again, this time studying the manual as well as it relates to that specific tutorial.

 

Repeat with rest of the tutorials.

[EtherealN]

Well, the big thing is to always do one thing at a time. And once you learned it - do NOT move on to another thing. Repeat what you learned several times, and space them out. So for example, if you are learning how to deploy GPS-guided bombs, run the relevant training mission, read the manual, run it again, doublecheck anything you didn't get right, then step away from the computer for 15 minutes (or just browse the web and do something else). Then get back in and try to do it. If you succeed, wait longer (next day maybe?) and do it again. Essentially, get it into "muscle memory", so to speak. That way it won't disappear as soon as you try to cram some other system into your head.

 

(I had huge problems with this in DCS:BS due to incorrect learning technique and constantly forgot the datalink functions and PVI-800 operation.)

 

Another trick is to have a notepad and write down what you learn. Even if you won't consult the notebook in future, the act of writing is something that can serve to ensure that your brain registers that "I should remember this".

 

As for the order of things, I'd say this:

 

1) Startup/shutdown.

2) CCIP weapons (guns and dumb boms)

3) Mavericks.

 

These go first because it ensures you'll be able to "relax" from the more complex things while in the sim blowing **** up, which is more fun, and allows you to get more currency in airmanship.

 

Then:

 

4) Study the concepts of SOI, SPI and Markpoints. Learn what they mean and how you set them up. No need to bother with the CDU yet.

5) That done, go into JDAM's.

6) Then Laser bombs.

7) Those under your belt, start looking at ways to use pre-set markpoints to "ripple" JDAM's on multiple targets in one pass. Not necessarily something you'll use on the battlefield, but it's a good exercise towards putting the markpoint/SPI mechanics into "muscle memory".

 

After this, it's mainly about preferences. You will probably have learned the basics of the DSMS at this point, and probably profile management in it as well. Experiment with that. This will also get you accustomed to using the UFC, which is a nice step towards starting to handle the CDU. Datalinks might also be something you start directly after 7, especially if your objective is to be effective in co-op play online. Builds upon TAD and SPI knowledge.

 

But in the end, the basic advice I have is this:

One thing at a time, and make sure to repeat it.

And always keep an avenue to "just have fun". Don't want to burn yourself out, so do schedule flights where you are just out there shooting random weapons and just "feeling the bird". The latter is very nice as well for airmanship - set yourself a flight where you start at MTOW and just check how fast you can climb. See if the standard climb schedule of 180 indicated knots actually works, vary it and just check it out. How high can you go? What happens when you cross rudders and how hard can you pull the stick? Goof off and do crazy stuff like that for the lols, it does help you as an airman, and then repeat the actual lesson you were working on. Then sleep and repeat it the next time you sit down to fly to make sure it "stuck", and if it did, proceed to the next subject of interest.

 

Oh, and print the HOTAS commands section of the manual separately and always keep them close by. There was a lot of times when we fammed A-10 that I wondered "can I do X" and a quick look at those pages confirmed not only that it could be done - but also how.

[Belphe]

Thanks for the clues guys! Where does Navigation (CDU) go in this schedule? More to the top, middle or bottom of the list?

[EtherealN]

Hm. Depends on when you plan to start flying missions, really. You don't really need much CDU knowledge to do basic "good enough" navigation - just make sure to fam yourself with the mission planner - but if you want to get into mission ASAP, I'd say go towards learning the basics of steerpoints, waypoints, ILS landing and such after my number 3. Possibly after JDAM and Laser bombs.

[Laud]

The most important points about the CDU are (in my eyes):

 

- handle, edit, create waypoints

- handle, edit, create flightplans

- Offset function

- Markpoints (even though, this interacts with some other things mentioned above)

[kylania]

Welcome back mangaroca! I always loved your avatar. ;)

 

Personally I find the GBUs and LGBs much easier to use them CCIP weapons, also safer!

[ralfidude]

I have had an issue with my TGP lately.

 

I find a target usign the TGP from my left MFCD, lock on to it, and use my maverick to take it out from my right MFCD. Then i break hard left or right 180 degrees due to being fired upon, and i turn back around after dodging the missile so that my TGP can see the target i had marked earlier or fired upon before i broke off, and upon turning back around 180 to have the target on my 12 so that i can see it on my TGP un masked, i see that the TGP is fixed on the sky. Not even the ground, just way up into the air.

 

??

 

I know I havent touched anything in the middle of turning. This doesnt happen too too often, but it does happen frequently enough where it gets annoying in the middle of a hot zone.

 

The only way to fix it, is to put the TGP into stand by mode, then back to A-G mode and then china hat it to where i have my SPI, and the TGP looks back at the target I had marked.

 

Is there something I am doing wrong, or is this a bug, or feature of sorts?

Edited October 11, 2011 by ralfidude

[Evil.Bonsai]

I've had an issue where the tgp was just looking all over without me doing anything. The mission was basically over (3rd or fourth in campaign) but I decided to look around for a few more targets. One of the other allied flights was calling out trucks so I decided to go get me one or two. Had tgp locked to an offset point but then things went wonky. TGP just started slewing all over and I couldn't make it stop at all. I turned it off, then back on and it still did the same thing. I decided to call it quits after that...

[159th_Viper]

 

Is there something I am doing wrong, or is this a bug, or feature of sorts?

 

Without a track it's virtually impossible to speculate.