Using FLIR

[razo]

Can someone explain how to use FLIR and for what it’s good for in bms?

or where do i find the manual?

thanks in advance

[cns180784]

@razo:

Can someone explain how to use FLIR and for what it’s good for in bms?

or where do i find the manual?

thanks in advance

Was reading the Dash-1 manual come across this and seems its not implemented so disregard it. I think it can only be mounted on older versions of the F-16 like the block 40 and in BMS you have the block 50/52.

[Dracfalcon]

@razo - Just to make sure, you are not referring to the Terrain Following Radar?

[razo]

No, like Falcon 4 the FLIR, with the LANTIRN pod, but the TFR, i use it sometimes too, but it would be nicer if i could have the picture on the HUD

[Amraam]

Not implemented.

[Stevie]

….well…that’s disappointing.

[Amraam]

To help you in that disappointing moment :

[Dee-Jay]

Hi Razo!

@razo:

Can someone explain how to use FLIR and for what it’s good for in bms?

or where do i find the manual?

thanks in advance

Yep … as Amraam said, no need to look for it, FLIR it is not implemented in BMS.

[cns180784]

@Dee-Jay:

Hi Razo!

Yep … as Amraam said, no need to look for it, FLIR it is not implemented in BMS.

And as i said at the start

[PumpyHead]

@cns180784:

And as i said at the start

And as I never once said nor intimated.

[cns180784]

Ah Razo, for FLIR (which stands for forward looking infra-red) you just use your TGP as this has two FLIR modes, white hot and black hot and it is also used as a normal TV camera too…pretty good piece of kit. I’m watching the tutorial by Krause on it now, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIO3OGNlXJ0

[Dee-Jay]

@cns180784:

And as i said at the start

Yep.

@cns180784:

I think it can only be mounted on older versions of the F-16 like the block 40 and in BMS you have the block 50/52.

Nope.

[razo]

@Dee-Jay:

Yep.

Nope.

Will it get again implemented with BMS 4.XX?

[l3crusader]

@razo:

Will it get again implemented with BMS 4.XX?

Maybe. Maybe not.

[cns180784]

@Dee-Jay:

Yep.

Nope.

Yea wasnt sure about that, but who needs it anyway when you got IR on the TGP.

[Raptor]

@cns180784:

but who needs it anyway when you got IR on the TGP.

TGP can do none of the jobs you can do with the NVP FLIR.

[cns180784]

@Raptor:

TGP can do none of the jobs you can do with the NVP FLIR.

Oh so what jobs can it do, what are we missing out on? and can it actually be loaded on the F16s we have in BMS in real life?

[Raptor]

@cns180784:

what jobs can it do

It can show the pilot directly on the hud view what it is in frond of him at dark. The TGP cannot provide that picture and SA to the pilot.

@cns180784:

can it actually be loaded on the F16s we have in BMS in real life?

In real the NVP can be loaded on all planes, the customer will only need to buy the pod. The software is there by default on all blocks since block 40 and up to the latest ones.

[molnibalage]

FLIR is not modeled because in 3D cockpit the image of FLIR sould be projected on HUD on Block 40/42*, but somehow OF and BMS lost this capability. In OF was not possible even in 2D pit as I can remember and in FF only in 2D pit.

*This is why the different HUD but it was designed for LANTIRN I have no idea what are RL possibilites with later TGP + other pod. LANTIRN was the TGP + TFR+FLIR pod. I cannot remember when I saw last time F-16 with both TGP and FLIR pod. This is strange beause lack of FLIR pod F-16s do not have TFR capabillity.

[Raptor]

@molnibalage:

but somehow OF and BMS lost this capability

They do not “lost” this, they (devs) removed it because it was not realistic, and IMO not pretty at all.

@molnibalage:

I cannot remember when I saw last time F-16 with both TGP and FLIR pod. This is strange beause lack of FLIR pod F-16s do not have TFR capabillity.

You most probably were looking for USAF pictures… lol USAF abandoned the NVP pod of LANTIRN after the Gulf war, since they upgraded their war strategy and from low & fast went high & away… It is not that these missions weren’t effective, just the(ir) technology (ehh = money + new work positions) should be updated with new $$$.

HAF, THK & IAF fly with NVP’s (plus a TGP) normally, you should wide your google searches with that words too.