Chrischn89 Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Hey guys! So Iґve just played a mission from the Cold War Warrior campaign. My objective was to provide CAS on targets which are given to me by a FAC. First target was to engage an artillery battery located at "38° at 20 Km distance from Waypoint 3" Well the thing is I wandered around the place and didnt see anything (note: I have small black dots enabled as labels so that I actually know if there is anything or not!) So Iґve checked the map and the surroundings and believed I made a mistake. I used the Krasnodar lake as reference point while crosschecking the map. I came to the conclusion that I was actually heading to the opposite direction... so I checked the compass and in the end was totally confused while flying circles and not knowing where I actually was! I took some screens to find out later where my navigational error was but guess what... I found out that I wasnt wrong at all! It was my compass which was 180° offset! I decided to approach the waypoint again but this time I flew direction 218° on my compass which is 038° plus 180°. And then I finally saw all those black dots in front of me! To proove that Im not a bloody noob uncapable of navigating I provide those screens with marks to show my point. You can cleary see on the first picture that the 180° line from my compass (magnified for better view in pic 3) shows to the nothern end of the lake. Iґve also added those 2 reference points as they show unique rivers streching out from the lake. Also check the curvature of the lake. You can cleary see that it bend towards my plane! (Note: The 180° degree line from picture 2 does NOT represent the arrow from picture 1! It is just there to clarify that this is the REAL south ;) ) Now to come to an end: Is it possible that the compass malfunctions randomly? (Iґve checked my aircraft in the mission planer and there is cleary no random instrument failure activated) Or maybe I went totally nuts and doint a huge mistake right now? :joystick: Or is it maybe a bug or rather a navigation mode I accidently activated by pressing a key by accident? :doh: Whatever it is, feel free to enlighten me :thumbup:
104th_Crunch Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 You need to start up Electrics first, then wait for the HSI to stabilize before starting engines. I usually wait a good minute. This may be your issue.
golfsierra2 Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 As Crunch indicated, you were not using a simple compass, but the HSI. Probably you selected a beacon (VOR) that was on the opposite side of you and your targets (you yourself between targets and VOR), and the indication of your HSI confused you by that. See the HSI description in your handbook: "The Horizontal Situation Indicator (HSI) provides a top/down view of the aircraft in relation to the intended course. The compass rotates so that the current heading is always shown at the top. The Programmed Course Arrow shows the required heading to reach your route leg and the Next Waypoint pointer indicates the direction to your selected waypoint. " See for a good explanation of the HSI and other instruments. kind regards, Raven.... [sigpic]http://www.crc-mindreader.de/CRT/images/Birds2011.gif[/sigpic]
Chrischn89 Posted January 11, 2011 Author Posted January 11, 2011 Crunch guess you nailed it with the first shot! Didnґt know that a speed-up starting could influence the HSI. Im going to try this out. THANKS :) Thank you too sierra but as I mentioned and explained I was confused at first but then I checked my position as described above with help of the pics, the HSI was clearly not working properly.
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