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EMCON : Enormous Mount of Coding Nightmare !
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EMCON : Enormous Mount of Coding Nightmare !
hehe
Coding is actually not the problem here… not saying it’s easy but I wouldn’t call that “hard” (I guess it’s like for you to create a REALLY complicated 3D model, not easy to do but once you start you know you will finish it, because you have the path in your head :)).
The more serious issue is with sources, there are no public documents with detailed L-16 info.
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Well there are public sources that detail the way it works (principles, method of operation, technology used) quite well. I guess you need sources that describe how it works (avionics wise, how to use it) in the jet then?
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there are no public documents with detailed L-16 info.
Well, MLU M1 / M2 / M3 tape manuals are out there quite some years now, and M3 has everything one might need to start.
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Well, MLU M1 / M2 / M3 tape manuals are out there quite some years now, and M3 has everything one might need to start.
Yes well, I guess I just forgot the M3
So I have no more excuses :mrgreen:
But TBH I’m taking a kinda change in direction now, trying to do something different than avionics (but not less important!), but I’ll start to look at the stuff slowly, it’ll take sometime anyway
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Many ppl are requesting L16 implementation, but most of them do even not know how to share a mark point with their wingmen with current IDM
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Many ppl are requesting L16 implementation, but most of them do even not know how to share a mark point with their wingmen with current IDM
Well sure, but thats a bad metric… most of them do not know how to share a contact with the L16 MIDS either.
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Many ppl are requesting L16 implementation, but most of them do even not know how to share a mark point with their wingmen with current IDM
Well sure, but thats a bad metric… most of them do not know how to share a contact with the L16 MIDS either.
ufff…
/me going back to RTFM :mrgreen:
But seriously speaking, yes I can understand exactly why L-16 is needed, it’s so much better to manage AIM-120 shots for example when you know which targets already fired upon by your flight…
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ufff…
/me going back to RTFM :mrgreen:
But seriously speaking, yes I can understand exactly why L-16 is needed, it’s so much better to manage AIM-120 shots for example when you know which targets already fired upon by your flight…
Well no, that isnt needed. IIRC the AIM-120C is designed to auto sort itself into formations. For formations that are outside a single radar resolution cell, you should have been able to see which contact your flight members had bugged just using the IDM.
Not that Im suggesting we shouldn’t have Link-16…! In honesty Im currently thinking through what it would look like if implemented the way I would like to see it - what UI screens would be needed, how would AI need to react to unknown contacts, etc…
Interesting thought experiment
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@Red:
That’s not a bad idea at all. and you could even push that further a bit, like display aircraft labels in UI (or Awacs screen only for those having the stuff enabled on the CNI page
That’s what I also mentioned here. Just having M3 in sharedmem for ATC (F4Awacs) would already be very nice feature and I think not major PITA for devs since it’s already in eye candy on the DED.
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Just having M3 in sharedmem for ATC (F4Awacs) would already be very nice feature and I think not major PITA for devs since it’s already in eye candy on the DED.
Comm frequencies first, please. I can’t believe these aren’t already in there.
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Many ppl are requesting L16 implementation, but most of them do even not know how to share a mark point with their wingmen with current IDM
And most of them do only Df’s so BMS should remove other features?
Features are there so ppl to use them if and whenever they want.
If they don’t know how or they don’t have the will it’s their problem.
I believe BMS mission is to simulate the “thing” the best way they can.
And u do a fine job on this. -
Comm frequencies first, please. I can’t believe these aren’t already in there.
Why would you want that?? ATC doesn’t know either on what freq the airplanes are?
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Why would you want that?? ATC doesn’t know either on what freq the airplanes are?
Because currently there’s no way to read it out of the game?
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Because currently there’s no way to read it out of the game?
Again, why would you need that? It’s on the DED and that can be extracted, if it’s for the pit. ATC doesn’t know airborne assets currently tuned freq either IRL, so useless for that purpose either. Otherwise I wouldn’t know what for it could be useful to have that?
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Again, why would you need that? It’s on the DED and that can be extracted, if it’s for the pit. ATC doesn’t know airborne assets currently tuned freq either IRL, so useless for that purpose either. Otherwise I wouldn’t know what for it could be useful to have that?
Lots of reasons if you have some imagination.
The problem with extracting off the DED is, what happens when the DED screen swaps?
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Lots of reasons if you have some imagination.
Please share some, I seem to lack imagination at this point…
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Again, why would you need that? It’s on the DED and that can be extracted, if it’s for the pit. ATC doesn’t know airborne assets currently tuned freq either IRL, so useless for that purpose either. Otherwise I wouldn’t know what for it could be useful to have that?
Actually as long as we are discussing link 16, if the tower can read J series messages on the subnet they CAN tell what voice frequency airborne assets are on.
Please share some, I seem to lack imagination at this point…
Hypothetically speaking if you wanted to add any kind of radio mod, knowing what frequency is tuned would be a must right there….
of course IVC is so perfect that no one would ever want to mess around with making their own radio mod, right?
…yeah, I couldnt keep a straight face either! XD
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Please share some, I seem to lack imagination at this point…
People in the know, know why I want it. That’s good enough for me.
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People in the know, know why I want it. That’s good enough for me.
Come on dude, that’s lame
First publicly stating it’s understandable a feature is not there, but unable to publicly share at least one utilisation of that missing feature?Only thing remotely related to freqs I can think of is the status of the set manual freq on the uhf backup panel. However, that is not comm freq in shared mem as you mentioned but only a state of 5 rotary switches that can differ from the actual current comm freq the pilot is on.