Another great night testing systems
Posted: 09 May 2020, 07:46
Me and Shane went into some depth with the NAV Grid last night.
We used Father Cool's basic A-G mission as we know the basic layout of that scenario.
We made our YY point Guadata Airbase which is 35-40 miles NW of the target area
The True heading set to 135 degrees, 3 sectors spilt to a 120 degree arc.
At 200 mile Radar range and set to Fighter to Fighter on the Datalink, with the settings set as above before we took off, we was able to monitor ourselves take off from Kutaisi. We headed for Waypoint 1 then to Waypoint 2.
The 3 sectors at that NAV Grid heading Gave us a spread of area to cover in the EAST (Sector 1) SOUTH EAST (Sector 2) and South (Sector 3) of Guadata.
Waypoint 1 and 2 was nicely in the middle of sector 2, and waypoint 3 (Target area) is just over the border Sector 1. We spilt at Waypoint 2 and took CAP patrol orbits in Sector 1 and Sector 3 and was able to monitor each other nicely via the datalink in our Sectors.
We was also able to easily locate each other from the display and rejoin formation from ovber 50miles away without any need for real Comms.
We then Buddy spiked each other to learn what info the Nav Grid tells us so we can communicate to each other. When you are locked up to a target and in Nav Grid mode, your BRA Callouts will be in reference to the YY cordinates and we found this incredibly easy to work out where that will be in reference to your grid display. When you turn off Nav Grid and go back to your normal TID display, any locked target info is then in reference to your own aircarft
When in NAV Grid mode, next to each contact is a letter next to a number. The number as always is the contacts altitude. 5000-14999ft is 1, 15000-24999 is 2, 25000-34999 is 3 and so on. The letter before the number is a rough distance reference from the YY. A is 0-49 miles from YY, B is 50-99 miles from YY, C is 100-149 miles from YY and so on.
Another cool feature we noticed was that if one of us was to make a Mark Point on the F10 map, and then ask Jester to select, that Mark Point as the Nav Grid YY. It is shared across everyone else to select. Essentially it will appear as an option in your Jester Wheel!
Anyway it was just another awsome night of learning this bird more and she doesnt fail to keep surprising me of how intuitive she really can be!
We used Father Cool's basic A-G mission as we know the basic layout of that scenario.
We made our YY point Guadata Airbase which is 35-40 miles NW of the target area
The True heading set to 135 degrees, 3 sectors spilt to a 120 degree arc.
At 200 mile Radar range and set to Fighter to Fighter on the Datalink, with the settings set as above before we took off, we was able to monitor ourselves take off from Kutaisi. We headed for Waypoint 1 then to Waypoint 2.
The 3 sectors at that NAV Grid heading Gave us a spread of area to cover in the EAST (Sector 1) SOUTH EAST (Sector 2) and South (Sector 3) of Guadata.
Waypoint 1 and 2 was nicely in the middle of sector 2, and waypoint 3 (Target area) is just over the border Sector 1. We spilt at Waypoint 2 and took CAP patrol orbits in Sector 1 and Sector 3 and was able to monitor each other nicely via the datalink in our Sectors.
We was also able to easily locate each other from the display and rejoin formation from ovber 50miles away without any need for real Comms.
We then Buddy spiked each other to learn what info the Nav Grid tells us so we can communicate to each other. When you are locked up to a target and in Nav Grid mode, your BRA Callouts will be in reference to the YY cordinates and we found this incredibly easy to work out where that will be in reference to your grid display. When you turn off Nav Grid and go back to your normal TID display, any locked target info is then in reference to your own aircarft
When in NAV Grid mode, next to each contact is a letter next to a number. The number as always is the contacts altitude. 5000-14999ft is 1, 15000-24999 is 2, 25000-34999 is 3 and so on. The letter before the number is a rough distance reference from the YY. A is 0-49 miles from YY, B is 50-99 miles from YY, C is 100-149 miles from YY and so on.
Another cool feature we noticed was that if one of us was to make a Mark Point on the F10 map, and then ask Jester to select, that Mark Point as the Nav Grid YY. It is shared across everyone else to select. Essentially it will appear as an option in your Jester Wheel!
Anyway it was just another awsome night of learning this bird more and she doesnt fail to keep surprising me of how intuitive she really can be!
