Nevigation of Huey

[RglsPhoto]

hi

 

How do you guys preform the flight plan?

 

the radio beacon? map ? landmark navigation

 

thanks

[Napa]

For map press R-Shift+K to bring on the charts. R-Ctrl+K to view your position. ] and [ to change pages.

 

That's all I know so far. Learning myself too. You can see from the charts the radio frequencies, ILS freq, ADF, VOR and TACANs. But it's a bit limited right now.. unless there's some tricks I didn't find yet.

 

You know I've been flying in this theater since roughly 2007-08 (after they scrapped Crimea) so I just look around and know my position quite easily now :P

[Robert1983NL]

You should just cross reference what you see on your map with what you see outside. That's how it's done irl. Though, the maps on your kneepad aren't the best, to say the least.

[RagnarDa]

I started a similar thread and wess24m posted a handy list of most of the NDBs in the game. To tune in a NDB-station: have a look at the lowest radio on the right side of the centre console. Set it to ADF and use the right side tuner to tune in the station, for example 525 for Gori. Use the right mousebutton (I think) to change frequencyband. Or else, have a look in the manual for info about the radio.

[Suchacz]

Huey is mostly navigated by IFR rules. Stands for I Follow Roads :D

 

You are fluently comparing map with landmarks you can see. In Czech there is a term "Comparative navigation". Dunno how it is called in En.

Edited June 3, 2013 by Suchacz

[RglsPhoto]

That would be a challenge for me.I need a pad to show the map now:D

[sorcer3r]

before takeoff I look on the F10-map and plan my route. Powerlines, rivers etc..

[Suchacz]

before takeoff I look on the F10-map and plan my route. Powerlines, rivers etc..

...or you can peek to your kneepad map during flight. As a cheat, you can view your current position there, if you press a shortcut. Sorry, I don't remember the keys.

[sorcer3r]

...or you can peek to your kneepad map during flight. As a cheat, you can view your current position there, if you press a shortcut. Sorry, I don't remember the keys.

 

I know but I do not use that cheat.

In my missions I also set "map only" as mission option. so there is no help for me. :-D

[Suchacz]

Like I said - as a cheat. After all those years flying over this region back and forth, it's almost imposible to find yourself lost :D

[tintifaxl]

I use the kneemap to navigate in the campaign missions. Very well done and easy to do.

 

I do use the mark function, because navigation is the job of the aircraft commander and not the peter pilot :P

[BIGNEWY]

Anyone who has been flying around Georgia knows every last inch of it, and doesn't need navigation aids, we are like homing pigeons lol

 

Seriously, I use the knee map and F10 ( both are inadequate for true navigation but we have to make do with what we have )

 

:)

[Robert1983NL]

There should be more detailed maps available to navigate. There's nothing wrong with the so called 'cheat'. It's just the other pilot 'telling you' where you are, because he's the one 'holding the map and keeping track' :)

 

NDB's are rarely used for actual navigation while flying in combat and VFR. As a technique, you can use NDB's to increase your situational awareness a little bit or to know where to divert to immediatly, if needed.

[Suchacz]

There should be more detailed maps available to navigate.

There is one http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/documentation/tc-1/?sphrase_id=345043, maybe little less detail, but more synoptical

 

...but it doesn't represent the whole DCS World, eastern part of Georgia is missing here, because it was made earlier in good old Lomac times :smilewink:

Edited June 3, 2013 by Suchacz

[tusler]

get on a Multiplay server and just follow somebody who knows where he is going. lol

[Sundowner.pl]

NDB's are rarely used for actual navigation while flying in combat and VFR. As a technique, you can use NDB's to increase your situational awareness a little bit or to know where to divert to immediatly, if needed.

Especially today, when all aircraft have either Doppler, or Inertial navigation systems, with addition of GPS for in-flight updates. The backup navigation system to that is Tacan... NDBs are absolutely last resort.

[todd022]

For map press R-Shift+K to bring on the charts. R-Ctrl+K to view your position. ] and [ to change pages.

 

That's all I know so far. Learning myself too. You can see from the charts the radio frequencies, ILS freq, ADF, VOR and TACANs. But it's a bit limited right now.. unless there's some tricks I didn't find yet.

 

You know I've been flying in this theater since roughly 2007-08 (after they scrapped Crimea) so I just look around and know my position quite easily now :P

 

R-CRTL + K didn't do anything for me? Where does it show my position? On the kneeboard map? not seeing it there...

[dahui]

Yes you see your Position as a "<" in the direcition you flying.

Press R-Shift +K then Press R-CTRL + K, when you dont see anything, go to the next page with ] and use R-CTRL + K again. Try it with a Mission, where the route is planned... you should see "you" in the first page

[RglsPhoto]

get on a Multiplay server and just follow somebody who knows where he is going. lol

 

Hope you don't follow a enemy bird，or you may be captured in the enemy base:D

[Essah]

Huey is mostly navigated by IFR rules. Stands for I Follow Roads :D

 

You are fluently comparing map with landmarks you can see. In Czech there is a term "Comparative navigation". Dunno how it is called in En.

 

Lol IFR I follow Roads.:lol:

 

the term you're looking for is Dead Reckoning

[heloguy]

There should be more detailed maps available to navigate. There's nothing wrong with the so called 'cheat'. It's just the other pilot 'telling you' where you are, because he's the one 'holding the map and keeping track' :)

 

NDB's are rarely used for actual navigation while flying in combat and VFR. As a technique, you can use NDB's to increase your situational awareness a little bit or to know where to divert to immediatly, if needed.

 

Actually, in my experience, flying in places in the world like this, it's likely that the maps represented in this sim are pretty close to what a U.S. or NATO pilot would probably have. The only way to make it better perhaps would be to scale the mission editor in to take screen shots for your iPad. Kind of like mission planning software.

 

I thought the kneeboard system was kind of refreshing compared to other sims, like CLoD, or IL2 1946, where it seems like the consensus among those developers is that flying with a line drawn on the map is somehow a cheat, even if you have icons turned off. What pilot would fly without a freaking line drawn on his map?

 

Would be nice if we had a tacan in the thing. I'm willing to bet that Chair Force Huey's probably had it, or at least some of them did depending on where they were based. Wouldn't mind getting rid of that 3 needle altimeter on the pilot's side while they're at it. Just give me the same one as the co-pilot...

[jay43]

Here's a challenge for someone to get a Tom Tom or sat nav to work they are usb devices surely they can be configured to work with maps and textures be much easier to follow roads then.

[Sundowner.pl]

Would be nice if we had a tacan in the thing. I'm willing to bet that Chair Force Huey's probably had it, or at least some of them did depending on where they were based.

Actually all front line Army Hueys got at least Tacan by earaly-mid 1980s, many had Doppler, few even had INS (EH-1). GPS is only on the ones still operational - either standalone (US DoS) or coupled with Doppler (New Zealand, Spain).

 

Huey is such simple machine you can do wonders with its equipment, as long as the CofG is right and current in reasonable limits.

 

For example, did you know you could incorporate the Light Weight Launchers and programmable Hydra 70 fuses ? Pretty easy to do if you have an AH-1F donor for parts :music_whistling:

[xcom]

does anyone have a GOOD list of all the NDBs, ILS, VOR, Tower frequencies?

 

So far i saw 2 lists, one that has been posted in this thread which has a good NDB list but half of them has wrong freq or morse code, it's a shame we can't use the Huey navigation radios correctly :(

[TimeKilla]

Using mostly ILS freq, ADF, VOR and kneepad map don't agree with cheat modes to get around like doing it real life.