I hope you enjoy this one, took quite a while, and covers the whole lot, don't forget a pen and paper! Videos like these take a considerable amount of time to research and produce, if you enjoyed the content please consider supporting me on Patreon!: www.patreon.com/RedKite
Your a legend Redkite. Because of folks like you who take the time to do tutorials you make it so much easier to understand, frequently visit and enjoy your greatly appreciated work. Thanks so much.
This is really good and welcome stuff. A brilliant roundup of all the features of one specific system. This is the sort of tutorial that is worth watching over and over to remain ‘current’ and get refreshed. Because whatever the case, you tend to forget stuff. Thanks for your work Redkite. It is very much appreciated!👌
As a newer Hornet driver, I greatly appreciate this like the others have said! Have shared this on our discord channel under hornet training. Thanks much!
Thank you for not falling for the letterbox format that so many ‘How to’ videos seem to be shifting to. It’s refreshing to be able to see what I’m being taught.
RU-vid's compression and low bitrate are the primary reason I prefer to do closeups! otherwise it's so easy for things to blur away, especially with lots of motion.
Holy crap, wow, that was very impressive. Thank you so much for putting in the effort for this video, i'll be using it as a reference for a long time to come!
Thanks for the tutorial, I found the hornet TGP is confusing, and harder to use than the A-10C TGP. The TGP on the A-10 is so intuitive. This tutorial helped me a lot, thanks!
This is so good, I realize now just how much I leave on the table. Time to get out there in the sandbox and put some of these new techniques to the test!
Incredible informative video. I personally never thought of using the MPCD with the TGP for greyscale. Super useful as that green overload can really take its toll on your eyes after a while. Again, great job.
@@noisytwit It did for me. But I keep trying to be smart and use the pod to avoid the awkward Mav slewing, which requires the TDC to be depressed for some reason. Problem was I couldn't see shit and was fumbling with the mouse because I didn't fully know the Hotas controls.
@@starfleethastanks you can disable realistic slew in the special page in settings under the F18 and you should be able to slew the MAV then without holding TDC depress. Taking out the Grisha for me wasn't too bad. Taking out the fastboats with the rocket showever was a pain, could not see those at all! Though I did do the mission the other night whilst we had the white NVG so with green it may be easier to see them.
This is such a good video. There's the normal stuff that's in most tutorials then there's the 10000IQ shit like the A/A flir usage or that HARM TOO interaction. Thanks a ton, man. This was really helpful.
Hey Redkite, just bought the Hornet and Supercarrier in the Christmas sales and just getting to them now. Thank you so much for these! You should make a training campaign for the hornet mate. I'd buy it tomorrow :)
@RedKite, what i noticed is that the TPOD LonLat is only 6 digits, is it possible to have a more precise LonLat (8 digits) to send to the JDAMS / JSOWS, or will the TPOD send a 8 digit LonLat when you designate a target? This way you get more accurate hits at long distances.
07:12 great video, I'm pretty sure only the horizontal lines can be used as metersticks. Confirmed page 469 of the manual. Once again great video thank you sir
Many Thanks. I was so frustrated when after a long time in VR I couldn't get along with the Hornet because of the pot. I'm training that right away and give thumbs up for this calm and very good tutorial. Thy vm ^^
Awesome video. As usual. But your voice puts me to sleep... But kudos for being clear, not mumbling and not using profanity which is better than I could manage...
At 7:15: The meter stick can not be "any" leg, only one of the two horizontals can be used for any distance measuring according to the meter number on the screen. The vertical ones in the TGP always show different distances, depending on how steep or shallow the TGP is looking at that moment. Similar to the flashlight effect. You can also see the reason for difference, if you look at the North direction cross top right corner, which is represented paralell to the ground in the display, in kinda 3D. Look at it at 6:45, the South-North arrow seems to be much longer, because you see it broadsided, the East-West arrow seems much shorter, but is is the same size, only tilted. Also see A-10C DCS manual page 337: "This numeric, when visible, displays the relative ground distance covered by the right half of the crosshair"
WOW! What a load of information, will definitely give these a go tonight. As is with any training, you will only memorize it if you do it. Thank you RedKite :)
ED and the 3rd party developers should pay you, mate... DCS can be quite frustrating for a casual on/off player, the tutorial missions and manuals if these even exist are quite unsatisfactory, stuff gets changed frequently, which in itself is good as they improve and add things but without guys like you I'd have given up.
cannot slew, no im not atrk or ptrk and diamond is on the chosen mdf......... edit: spend 20 min trying figuring it out ctrl+f (slew) here in comments showed other person with same issue and redkites solution " tdc depress" worked edit2: now the stupid pod is lock in looking back inside itself in a "stored mode"............ edit3: im just dum my "target" was behind me,, havent played dcs in 2 years having to re-learn and learn for the first time all these things.....
This must be the updated video I was asking about in the laser guided bomb tutorial from 2 years ago. *Gets out pen and paper. No, I'm going to bed. I'll save this for tomorrow :)
What do you guys think that Commander Fravor saw in the California coast in 2004? I absolutely cannot wrap my head around it, and it has been tormenting me since I heard him in a podcast a couple of weeks ago.
For when campaigns in Spanish even if it is only the texts of the radio messages? Spanish is not a dead language, it is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world!
It's the voice of sean harris in the late movies mission impossible. lol Redkite you should watch the movies. You sound just like the bad guy in the film.
Really pisses me off that there is no tutorial in game for this. I could not figure it out at all on my own it was so fucking frustrating. What is wrong with ED?
yep i editing with openshot yout YT, and step by step, with the summery i make tuto "in french" on word with comment and images^^ ,so i'm french , but i inderstand step by step all the updates ^_ ^ There is everything for the Tpod on your YT tutorial, Thank's very much !!
Huh... Double checked, the video is not set to kids, and I've been able to use the bell with a different account. Sounds like youtube Goofing up (again!) Try it again in a new tab.
The cage and uncage button didn't toggle laser track mode and the Raid/Flir button also didn't work for the FOV or Toggling of the CCD and IR camera, but all of the controls were mapped correctly and the FLIR was the sensor of interest. Any suggestions?
It is because you have a MAV or a HARM selected, for wathever reason the MAV/Harm have priority over the FLIR even is it is SOI. I recall having seen Waggs saying it was on purpose on the DCS forum a while ago.
As usual a very detailed and easy to follow guide. I'm just confused as to the difference between a TDC designate and a point/area track. TDC designate seems to feed the coords into the INS while a track just has the pod track something ?
Yes, in most cases the pod will automatically be designating (for example if you slew off of from a WPDSG the designation will follow) But, if you go into snowplow or VVSLV and then into area track you won't be designating a point yet. In this situation you're tracking the ground with the pod, but it's not passing any co-ordinates onto your weapons system. Pressing TDC Designate will then set the designation and start passing on the pod's target.
An amazing video, really good job ! I have a question thought, do you know how to shoot a AGM-54E in PTKR ? its look like the TGT doesn't update while the PTRK is moving, so the MavE cannot lock the laser because the uncave slave the missile to the TGT. I realized it in one of the "Raven one" mission and I was looking for a workaround.
I'm getting so frustrated with this. Whenever I press uncage it switches the pod to a different mode (I believe lss) and unlocks my target. Is there anyway I can unbind this?
Cage/Uncage on the throttle is the input to switch to LSS, you're right. Are you trying to undesignate instead? That would be the same button that is used for nosewheel steering. But yes, you can unbind the LSS, but it will also unbind cage/uncage as they're the same button.
Incredibly useful video, many thanks!! When practicing I've found that I sometimes get to a point where I cannot slew the pod even though it is SOI and in INS track mode... do you know if that's a known bug or am I just messing things up somehow?
At around 3:07 in this video, what was that object was panned thru the view of the targeting pod camera? It looked like an object was only about a a foot in front of the camera. It looked like the metal surface of a missile or bomb. The object just quickly panned thru the view. Did you move the camera so it panned across one of the munitions attached to the plane?
It's something loaded on the wing, can't remember what. What's going on is the pod's not being slewed around, its following the ground. However the plane is in an oribt, and i was adjusting the angle of the wings to maintain distance, so it moved into shot.
