Roscoe Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Anyone got any tips for TGP searching I sometimes take ages to find targets it gets that bad that I have to live pause which I hate doing to search for targets for ages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC1993 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Make use of JTAC, and your TGP can be slewed to directly to some targets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobek Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Learn to utilize black hot/white hot modes to your advantage. Sometimes it is indeed extremely hard to spot targets. Proper briefing can help to some degree. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamblue Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Also Distance and Altitude. If you are near the target area the field of view is too narrow and the ground is passing by too fast, making searching a difficult if impossible task. Climb to 15k plus and search the target area while 15 miles plus out. Also as noted before try switching between hot and cold modes. You will find things a lot easier with practice that way. Also if you see a little green X in the area of the targets they are friendly. Good Luck :pilotfly: Asus Sabertooth P67 Motherboard 2600k CPU, 16 gig DDR3, 1600. Samsung 830, 256 gig hard drive, GTX780 Video Card, Warthog Hotas, Razer Mamba mouse. Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals. Trackir 5, Verizon FIOS 25Meg Up/Down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devrim Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 (edited) ...Also if you see a little green X in the area of the targets they are friendly.:D I've learned this after some friendly-fires. I realized that it's important to know how to use TMS and especially China Hat effectively. And it's good to know "All Sensors to SPI", "Slave TGP to Steerpoint" and "making SPI" via TMS Up. These are really accelerating everything. :) Edited December 15, 2013 by Devrim Intel i7-14700@5.6GHz | MSI RTX4080 Super SuprimX | Corsair V. 32GB@6400MHz. | Samsung 1TB 990 PRO SSD (Win10Homex64) Samsung G5 32" + Samsung 18" + 2x8"TFT Displays | Saitek X-55 Rhino & Rudder | TM MFD Cougars | Logitech G13, G230, G510, PZ55 & Farming Sim Panel | TIR5 >>MY MODS<< | Discord: Devrim#1068 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doughboy Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Dont forget when in the IR modes to adjust the gain. It will help clean up the picture and make things easier to spot. Try scanning in a grid pattern so you don't go over the same area twice. Also it you feel you scanned too far rest the pod back to the SPI and start again. As others have stated distance and altitude are key! Try and set up a wide orbit (providing there are no threats you may fly into) into whatever station your pod is on to limit masking. Practice man! The more you find things the more you'll get the "eye" and it will get easier! Go Ugly Early! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seil Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Study the pictures and charts of the enemy's equipment. Knowing WHAT to look for is EXTREMELY important. -Seil WotG Founder & A10C Lead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dejjvid Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Using an old thread. I've forgot what the "T" on the right side of the "L" in the TGP is? i7 8700K | GTX 1080 Ti | 32GB RAM | 500GB M.2 SSD | TIR5 w/ Trackclip Pro | TM Hotas Warthog | Saitek Pro Flight Rudder [sigpic]http://www.132virtualwing.org[/sigpic] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtmike74 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 A good map recon can help before ever taking off. Look at the map on your TADS and ask yourself "where would I place vehicles". Place Mark Points in those areas. Areas on main roads, open fields near airports ect. You can then slave your TGP to the mark point and begin your search there. If you don't find anything, cycle to your next mark point and begin again. With time you will get better and guessing the proximity of targets the mission designer placed in a tactical manner. If you do see a target don't go for it right away. Mark it and continue your search for other targets (namely SAMs). Best of luck to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooom Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 i regularly use BHOT and play with contrast/gain to really make contacts pop out against background. I can spot tanks pretty darn far away now. ASUS Tuf Gaming Pro x570 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8 / XFX Radeon 6900 XT / 64 GB DDR4 3200 "This was not in the Manual I did not read", cried the Noob" - BMBM, WWIIOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodBorza Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 And it's never too much to refer to this: This is an amazing sim! 'Nuff said!:pilotfly: YouTube: SloppyDog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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