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Yeah, was good fun, thanks for helping me work out the details. Involved Colin using the Apaches sights to find and lase and store a target, which gave him in the cockpit the coordinates of that target. We then needed to work out what format the coordinates were in, and what the F-15 takes, which as it happened are the same, although confusingly the Apache throws out one less decimal place, making the coordinates look like they were a different format, which confused us for a while!🙈 Once i had the coordinates read out to me on comms, i created a target waypoint in the F-15, and then used the info in the HUD to steer to and drop my LGB on the cues, and Colin lasered it in for the last 10 seconds of flight time, and Kaboom!!!!! I was up at 30,000 feet, above the clouds and never laid eyes on the target at all, cool stuff.

You want father jack???

It could still be delayed! Wonder what new goodies we'll get🤔

Looks like its dcs patch day today

Few highlights (for me anyway) from lastnight, Including Tom's deadstick landing,

Check your settings, if you have easy comms set, it is always the same button to bring up the menu, if you have complex comms turned on, you will have to use the actual radios in the plane to access the menu, and map those specific keys, or press those buttons in the cockpit.

I'm happy to fly Apache, Tomcat or the Viper, but maybe most sensible would be to lead the SEAD/DEAD mission in the Vipers.

Can you guess where I am, 🙈

I had, but thanks for the heads up 👍 Now I know how to create tracks, the LMC is somewhat moot! Spent quite a lot of time after flying last night thinking about mappings and front seat flow, pretty happy with what I came up with, George eat your heart out, 8 kills in under 2 mins....

Thanks FT

Looks good, downloaded, l

Good work Colin😎

Going for a little drive in London,

Thanks

There's one other nice thing you can do with TACAN, you can use it to get range to a flight leader. The wingman needs to set his TACAN 63 higher than the lead. I don't know why 63 higher but it seems to be a standard across planes, same in the Hornet, A10, Harrier, Tomcat, Mirage etc. It will not give you bearing, just distance, but this is very useful for keeping good position, plus in datalink aircraft you can see the position of your wingman in the HSI. This video explains it quite well,

Ready for the mountain run at the end of the night,

The A-10C is actually even more complex than the F-14 or F-16, just so you know!

Ooops!

Just an fyi, FC3 planes don't have a simplified flight model, they have the same standard as other modules.

Here's a good utility for understanding how to operate radars, Radar F-15 – The Art of Warfare (tawdcs.org)

It's by far my favourite map to date....

Just an FYI, Syria is $29.99 at the moment, its a really beautiful map.....