HUD/Night Vision Question
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I was watching the latest video by Krause and I noticed he was flying at night and his HUD was displaying Night Vision yet he didn’t have his NVG on. He would periodically turn them on to check terrain as he was flying NOE.
How do I employ Night Vision in my HUD?
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You have to be carrying a Lantirn and navigation pod.
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You have to be carrying a Lantirn and navigation pod.
Ok Thanks cougar5th. Ill dive into the docs and learn how to employ these systems!!
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Ok Thanks cougar5th. Ill dive into the docs and learn how to employ these systems!!
Look for “FLIR” or “LANTIRN” not “NVG”.
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But since you asked about NVGs… when using them you’ll don the gogs at least 2000’ feet AGL. At nights you’ll most like do a RATD, 1/3 will gog first, 2/4 next. You’ll get out to the airspace and do a 30 up, 30 down just to check the horizon. You’ll do your 1-2 vuls, then fly home and stow the gogs at least 5 mins before landing. Land out of an ILS. I haven’t messed with BMS in awhile but real world you’ll look at the radar and all your instruments under the gogs, not through them. You will look at the HUD with gogs with the brightness full up and in DAY.
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But since you asked about NVGs… when using them you’ll don the gogs at least 2000’ feet AGL. At nights you’ll most like do a RATD, 1/3 will gog first, 2/4 next. You’ll get out to the airspace and do a 30 up, 30 down just to check the horizon. You’ll do your 1-2 vuls, then fly home and stow the gogs at least 5 mins before landing. Land out of an ILS. I haven’t messed with BMS in awhile but real world you’ll look at the radar and all your instruments under the gogs, not through them. You will look at the HUD with gogs with the brightness full up and in DAY.
Well you seem certainly well versed in the systems of the F-16!! For me to make sense of your advise you will have to dumb in down a little for me!! What is RATD, 1-2 vuls?
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But since you asked about NVGs… when using them you’ll don the gogs at least 2000’ feet AGL. At nights you’ll most like do a RATD, 1/3 will gog first, 2/4 next. You’ll get out to the airspace and do a 30 up, 30 down just to check the horizon. You’ll do your 1-2 vuls, then fly home and stow the gogs at least 5 mins before landing. Land out of an ILS. I haven’t messed with BMS in awhile but real world you’ll look at the radar and all your instruments under the gogs, not through them. You will look at the HUD with gogs with the brightness full up and in DAY.
What does RATD stand for? I’m guessing there’s some version of “Alternating” in the “A” there maybe haha
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You have to be carrying a Lantirn and navigation pod.
Just to be technical the LANTIRN is a combo of both the Nav pod and the old TGP. The correct answer would be either the Nav pod or the LANTIRN which would be both pods installed. The Nav pod is the one that ties in to display the FLIR on the HUD.
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What is RATD, 1-2 vuls?
What does RATD stand for?
RATD = Radar Assisted Trail Departure
vul = vulnerability window, meaning the time period a flight plans on being on station.
Well you seem certainly well versed in the systems of the F-16!
Well he gets paid to fly them…I would certainly hope he would be well versed. :mrgreen:
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Off-Topic but I was researching RATD and came across this article :shock:
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Well you seem certainly well versed in the systems of the F-16!! For me to make sense of your advise you will have to dumb in down a little for me!! What is RATD, 1-2 vuls?
Possibly because he’s a real life viper driver
Harry (Formerly Amraam at Frugals etc.)
(I'm not currently active with ViperDrivers, but these guys are the best BMS school out there!)
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But since you asked about NVGs… when using them you’ll don the gogs at least 2000’ feet AGL. At nights you’ll most like do a RATD, 1/3 will gog first, 2/4 next. You’ll get out to the airspace and do a 30 up, 30 down just to check the horizon. You’ll do your 1-2 vuls, then fly home and stow the gogs at least 5 mins before landing. Land out of an ILS. I haven’t messed with BMS in awhile but real world you’ll look at the radar and all your instruments under the gogs, not through them. You will look at the HUD with gogs with the brightness full up and in DAY.
AFAIK in BMS the only way to do look under the gogs is to toggle them off, so I’ve mapped that to my HOTAS. I haven’t tried HUD on day at full brightness, maybe that will help because the HUD is blinding me with NVG’s on.
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@-Vandal-:
AFAIK in BMS the only way to do look under the gogs is to toggle them off, so I’ve mapped that to my HOTAS. I haven’t tried HUD on day at full brightness, maybe that will help because the HUD is blinding me with NVG’s on.
Only if fullscreen NVGs is on via the config, and it’s off by default.
Harry (Formerly Amraam at Frugals etc.)
(I'm not currently active with ViperDrivers, but these guys are the best BMS school out there!)
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Only if fullscreen NVGs is on via the config, and it’s off by default.
The full screen NVG is IMO a bad option and should be removed. to have more realistic NVG we should makes the close sigh blurry (instruments).
AFAIK in BMS the only way to do look under the gogs is to toggle them off,
If you do not use the full screen NVG option you can look under.
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“he full screen NVG is IMO a bad option and should be removed. to have more realistic NVG we should makes the close sigh blurry (instruments).”
You mean to add a “focus” gauge (using an axis or simply a binary 1/0 - close focus/infinity focus)?
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Only if fullscreen NVGs is on via the config, and it’s off by default.
Good to know. I don’t remember changing this setting. Doh!
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“he full screen NVG is IMO a bad option and should be removed. to have more realistic NVG we should makes the close sigh blurry (instruments).”
You mean to add a “focus” gauge (using an axis or simply a binary 1/0 - close focus/infinity focus)?
Through NVG you can’t read instruments -> NVGs are focussed to the infinity before the flight and you do not touch it any more after.
