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RE: Real Life Tactics, Training, Mission Planning Documentation List
I think before you even consider evaluating someone as a flight lead, you need to be assessed yourself first especially if you do it for the first time or you introduce it into your unit for the first time. That requires already a very good SOP covering every aspect of the flight so that anyone has the tools to refer to. If there is a failure, if available within the squadron i think it is best to redo the ride with another IP so that what Lorik said can be put aside, and for other reasons also. It is very complicated to actually evaluate someone as a flight lead when yourself you have the same non aviation background as the trainee. There is a grey zone that needs to be lifted on both sides. It has to be fair. I think in our simulated world, a step up training program conducted with different IPâs that demonstrate what is required is the way to go. Different wings/units/squadrons out there flying all sorts of mission. Already knowing which type of missions your squadron or wing flies is already a step in the right direction to know what your flight lead should look like. I think time management and fuel management as well as risk assessment and airmanship are the basics.
Reading documents is good. Knowing how to employ what is written is another issue, most documents make references to other documents you wonât have access to. Picture is incomplete but already pretty good with what we have in the BMS doc section. This is where the balance between hardcore and realities of the sim world needs to be found. You canât ask a guy to be a fighter pilot when yourself arenât one or never sat in a jet or aircraft. There are some concepts that you wonât even know that you donât know and that are not necessarily in the books. Most of them are guidelines, IP fills the gap. Lucky are those who flew with real Drivers.
From what I have seen, most focus on switchology and the kaboom end result. What about the method? What about airmanship ? What about human factors ? What about our realities in the simulation world ? Training in virtual units needs to be adapted to people who donât have an aviation background and who learn to fly a plane for the first time in something that can pull 9Gâs had fly by wire and that outperforms the virtual pilot. Most donât have the basics, and reading wonât always do the trick. It is simply often forgotten that some people who fly virtually have no military background or simply donât have what it takes in real life to be a fighter pilot or pilot period. And when some guys in virtual units think they have what it takes and then judge others it becomes really messy. Balance and fairness is very important.
This is also why I think bashing down SP flyers doesnât help, especially when they are being called arcadish, I get the idea of flying with humans is better but when it is stated over and over that SP flyers are arcadish guys it is not fair. Some people donât have the time or are shy, and thatâs okay.
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RE: GBU-53
Hi again,
I ran my TE again, and same results, it was a Fourship of Belgian MLUâs and we attacked a column of T-90âs.
I attacked the targets at medium altitude, 10 000 feet and i faced the tanks when attacking. I went into point track mode, or should i go in area track mode and just lead the tank with my crosshairs ?
I made sure i was between 8 and 10 nm out, i tried two options, lasing as soon as i release, that made the GBU-53 go some place not related to the target are. L was flashing, i was in Combat mode. Then i tried activating the laser only 12s from impact, which made the weapon fall short all the time. ( any input of a proper lasing time ?) I also made sure that at no time during the firing of the laser that there was no interruption (clouds).
My observation is that unlike a LJDAM/ GBU-54, on your SMS page, when you go into the submenu CONTROL, there is no second page which commands the weapon to activate itâs laser tracker. So either i am mistaken but for now it seems that the GBU-53 is good against fixed targets only and that maybe it is still WIP.
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RE: GBU-53
@Master:
The LJDAM works perfectly and i have dropped dozens against both mobiles and statics. Make sure however that you set them to laser mode on all hardpoints AND on all bombs. Otherwise while you may think you have them on laser (because you set just one) you will find yourself missing against mobiles. Also, the AI treats the LJDAM as regular jdam and drops it in multiples in GPS mode. That works great against statics but they always miss against mobiles. For me, this bomb is the perfect interdiction weapon. If my target is static, i drop 4 of them in 1 pass and get 4 vehicles. If they are mobile, no prob, switch to laser and make 4 bombing passes.
God points there, but we are not talking about the same thing.
You are talking about GBU-54, i am talking about GBU-53/B SDB.
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RE: BMS 4.35 Screenshots
Along the DMZ, an E-7 Wedgetail from the 271 AEW&C Squadron is escorted by two KF-16âs from the 19th Wing, 155th SQN âRhinosâ. Both Units belong to the ROKAF.
Latest posts made by Canuck
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RE: Harpoon issues
Was using the AGM-84 in Korea Training theatre, noticed two reproducable things:
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When using one of the search priority options and for example select LEFT, the Harpoon will only look to the left of the steerpoint and ignore everything to the right side of it. I would expect it to continue searching on the right side if it cannot find anything on the left. If I interpret the manual correctly the search priority only dictates where the Harpoon starts with its search and shouldnât change the search area itself.
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After using the Harpoon waypoint mode it becomes impossible to change the radio frequencies (preset and manual) on the main DED page. Tested with KF-16 BLK52.
I will try to reproduce. Thanks for the report.
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RE: Advice about a second monitor!
pardon my newbieism, just used to Falcon 4 for decades. literallyâŚ.old Win 95 still flys. whats RTT - how to get it. thanks
Please have a look inside the technical manual,there is a section about RTT. If you have further questions feel free to ask around.
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RE: Sdb axisymmetric load - Ammunition counter issue
me too ⌠except yesterday, it was my first time I used this configuration with 4.35.1
I flew a campaign mission today in 4.35.1 and i had 4xGBU-39âs on one wing and 1xGBu-54 on the other (Belgian F-16AM) and i did not have the issue you mentionned, but i will test further and report back if i run into your issue.
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RE: Sdb axisymmetric load - Ammunition counter issue
I have used this type of asymmetric load out extensively, I never encountered such an issue. Must be those one of a kind issues in Falcon.
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RE: TQS Cursor double pot drifting: known fixes for this?
Like a lot of people, I was experiencing major drifting of the cursors on the TQS.
I am using a modified TQS with HAL sensor and also a TUSBA R2 - I found that I could not get the Realsimulator software to rectify the drift problem, Iâm on Win 10 and cannot use the game controllers applet.
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The solution that worked for me in cancelling out any\all cursor drift is to download a program called DIView.
DIView allows you to calibrate your controllers.
Download DIView here http://www.derekspearedesigns.com/download/DIView.exe
Right click on the relative windows for x and y microstick axes then select show raw data, this will show values in red.
Move the axis to its extremes and note the figures in red - I used these figures and found the average, I then input these figures into the field boxes that open when I right click and select calibrate.
Microstick is now working as if it were brand new.
Hope you find this helpful
This is awesome!!
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RE: Jan Has F-16 LV5 Update packs
Hey everyoneâŚ.I am in the hospital from a heart attack. I have recovered for the most part just waiting to be released. After I get home and spend a little time with familyâŚmaybe after everyone goes to sleep and I am still awakeâŚI will update the LV5 packs for 4.35 Update 1. I do not have them on my laptopâŚall of that is on my desktop at home. I will update so fear not. Just give me a little time.
Cougar
Take is easy Cougar, no hurry.
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RE: [Released] EMF v1.0.6 (BMS 4.35 U1)
I think this is the best EMF version to have ever existed so far, you guys worked very hard, top work and thanks to the attention for virtual squadrons.
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RE: DME requirement for ARC - what about altitude
Thanks, I see that the ILS approach charts clearly states the different altitudes. My question came about due to the Coyote Three Departure chart for Kunsan - is the required altitude on the arc 14.000 as stated in âTRANS ALTâ at the top ?
Transition altitude is the altitude at which you change from your current altimeter setting to the standard one. The altitude on the arc is here not stated, but a hint is that when reaching wolf you are not in VMC (visual meteorological conditions) you enter the hold as published and it says that the MHA is 13000 feet, which means that the minimum holding altitude is 13000 feet. So it means that when you takeoff you slowly climb to 13000 feet minimum.