Anchorpoints vs. Bullseye

[mooshim]

From the Manual:

 

"The ANCHOR page is displayed when the ANCHOR PT Page line select key is depressed within the WP MENU Page. Also referred to as a ―Bullseye‖, the anchor point is an arbitrary geographic location that is used as a common reference for units operating in the same general area. The anchor point may be displayed on the Tactical Awareness Display (TAD) and as data on the HUD."

 

Q1) Is there a circumstance where both Bullseye and Anchorpoint are Not the same. Given that pilot can choose to create one in flight...it would seem this defeats the purpose of a mutually referenced point.

 

Q2) If my hud indicates "Bullseye 254/13.6M"

 

Does this, in fact, mean that I am WSW of Bullseye position?

 

In the corner of one MFD, Falcon 4.0 had, in one early iteration, two numeric values one of which was encircled and a caret would rotate 360 degrees according to juxtaposition of pilot.

 

I could never get my head around this and was constantly confused.

 

I would appreciate any of you gents shedding some light on this.

 

Cheers,

 

Moosh

[recoil17]

From the Manual:

 

"The ANCHOR page is displayed when the ANCHOR PT Page line select key is depressed within the WP MENU Page. Also referred to as a ―Bullseye‖, the anchor point is an arbitrary geographic location that is used as a common reference for units operating in the same general area. The anchor point may be displayed on the Tactical Awareness Display (TAD) and as data on the HUD."

 

Q1) Is there a circumstance where both Bullseye and Anchorpoint are Not the same. Given that pilot can choose to create one in flight...it would seem this defeats the purpose of a mutually referenced point.

 

Q2) If my hud indicates "Bullseye 254/13.6M"

 

Does this, in fact, mean that I am WSW of Bullseye position?

 

In the corner of one MFD, Falcon 4.0 had, in one early iteration, two numeric values one of which was encircled and a caret would rotate 360 degrees according to juxtaposition of pilot.

 

I could never get my head around this and was constantly confused.

 

I would appreciate any of you gents shedding some light on this.

 

Cheers,

 

Moosh

 

Q1) Is there a circumstance where both Bullseye and Anchorpoint are Not the same. Given that pilot can choose to create one in flight...it would seem this defeats the purpose of a mutually referenced point.

 

The Bullseye is the Anchorpoint. It's named a bullseye because of the shape of the icon on the TAD. I believe you can rename "Bullseye" to anything you want. The answer to the questions is no, because they both are the same thing.

 

Q2) If my hud indicates "Bullseye 254/13.6M"

 

Does this, in fact, mean that I am WSW of Bullseye position?

 

If the Bullseye is 254deg and 13.6 miles away, that means that you are ENE (080deg?) of the bullseye. You will have to change your heading to 254 and fly for 13.6 miles to reach the anchorpoint.

Hope this helps

 

EDIT: I stand corrected. 254deg is the ownership bearing to the anchorpoint. Dethmagnetic was correct, sorry.

Edited December 14, 2010 by recoil17

[Dethmagnetic]

Q1) Is there a circumstance where both Bullseye and Anchorpoint are Not the same. Given that pilot can choose to create one in flight...it would seem this defeats the purpose of a mutually referenced point.

 

The aircraft's avionics don't keep track of "bullseye" and "anchor point" separately - all it knows about is the anchor point. The term "bullseye" just refers to the commonly agreed-upon anchor point that all the aircraft operating in a given area are using. You could manually change your anchor point to be something different, but then you would be out of sync with the other aircraft in the mission, and your bullseye coordinates would be different from everyone else's bullseye coordinates.

 

Q2) If my hud indicates "Bullseye 254/13.6M"

 

Does this, in fact, mean that I am WSW of Bullseye position?

 

Yes, you are 13.6 nautical miles from the bullseye at a bearing of 254 degrees (WSW like you said).

[104th_Crunch]

Yes, Deth is right. YOU are at a bearing of 254 deg from BE. If you turned to a Heading of 74 degrees, you would point to BE. Recoil has this backwards.

[recoil17]

Yes I do, I edited my post to correct it.

 

Here is a quote from the manual just FYI.

 

On the bottom line, from left to right: ―(XXX)°)/(YYY)‖ where (XXX) is the bearing to the ownship from the bullseye/anchor point (001 to 360) and (YYY) is the range is nautical miles between the ownship and the bullseye/anchor point. For example:

BULL 122°/024

This would indicate that the ownship is at a bearing of 122° from the bullseye at a range of 24 nautical miles.