Saving Waypoint into CDU

[SharpeXB]

When saving coordinates into the CDU

I enter the UTM given by the JTAC

Name the target "JT1"

Then save it with the LSK ?3

Is that number just a sequence number? it doesn't have anything to do with the Mission Waypoints?

Then go up to the HUD and select the JT1 waypoint, it is saved as 0/JT1

But on the TAD it's number 3

If I use the DMS with the HUD as SOI to select another steerpoint it changes to 0

See screenshots here

I feel like I'm doing something wrong because I don't see targets at this point.

Why does the HUD show steerpoint #0 and the TAD shows #3?

 

Does it matter in this process whether your AAP dial is set to Flight Plan or Mission during the data entry?

Does it matter when you press the ?3 button to save? Some examples I see this done before entering the name and some after.

Edited July 8, 2012 by SharpeXB

[Wichid]

When saving coordinates into the CDU

I enter the UTM given by the JTAC

Name the target "JT1"

Then save it with the LSK ?3

Is that number just a sequence number? it doesn't have anything to do with the Mission Waypoints?

Then go up to the HUD and select the JT1 waypoint, it is saved as 0/JT1

But on the TAD it's number 3

If I use the DMS with the HUD as SOI to select another steerpoint it changes to 0

See screenshots here

I feel like I'm doing something wrong because I don't see targets at this point.

Why does the HUD show steerpoint #0 and the TAD shows #3?

 

Does it matter in this process whether your AAP dial is set to Flight Plan or Mission during the data entry?

Does it matter when you press the ?3 button to save? Some examples I see this done before entering the name and some after.

 

From memory: Press the LSK ?3 first to create a new waypoint. Then enter the name and co-ordinates into that new WP.

 

It doesnt matter if you're in flight plan or mission when editing the WP. But switch to Mission to select your new WP.

[Buckram]

You have to put the waypoint into the flightplan for it to come up on the HUD if I rememember correctly. Bring up the FPM page and open the current flight plan. PG down on the FPM page until you see the last waypoint in the Flightplan, type in the name of the waypoint you created, JT1 and then press the OSB on the right, can't remember what it is off the top of me head...

 

If that happened right, you it should see it come up as a waypoint with your others on the HUD along with Init Position etc.

[SharpeXB]

I think when you're in the Waypoint page you have to hit the ? key first

to set up the new waypoint. ?3 then makes MSN003

when in the offset page you hit ? after you enter the coordinates

 

I have checked what I'm doing by hooking the point after I make it and checking it with the message, so I think that part works

what's confusing is there never seem to be targets at those locations