One quick note - if you slave the mav to a target via the HSI or t-pod, you will not be able to slew the mav seeker head until you undesignated the target.
I love the traffic just casually driving by on the highway while Jeeps get obliterated by Mavericks just a hundred or so feet from the road. Those are some pretty blase drivers!
Cap, when selecting AGM-65F for cool down it is useful at that point to Step through all Mavericks so they all cool down at once. Thanks for all the excellent videos (now more concise, thanks for remaking them). Happy New Year to the Reapers.
When I select a Mav F there's a permanent cross through it and I don't get a cooling countdown readout, it stays dead as a dodo and won't launch.what have I done wrong?
So i've tried all of this and still cannot slew the TDC. It is uncaged on left DDI with TDC assigned to left as well. Regardless of whether or not I hold the TDC depress or dont I cannot slew the TDC in any direction. As soon as I uncage the crosshairs disappear and i get 3 little horizontal lines. Anyone know if this is a bug and MAVs just wont work right now or something? Can't seem to find anyone who knows between the forums, steam or YT haha
I can only slew the screen on the right in this demonstration. Are we supposed to be able to slew the screen that where we can see if we're caged or uncaged? I can't move that one at all. My master arm switch is on. I love DCS, but I absolutely hate the time theft. It takes entirely too long to learn how to even fire this missle. It took me an hour to figure out how to move around the camera even after following this doc. Now I'm moving way too fast, I can never find a target, how do you get the pod to actually move so on my screen it looks like I'm stationary like the way an AC130 gunship screen looks? As it is, it looks like I'm sticking my head out the window of the car and staring straight down into the street while driving 35 mph and somehow I'm supposed to be able to pick targets like this?
@@bryonmiller6311 it sounds like you arent using the targeting pod at all, it is supposed to automatically stay put on a given point like an AC 130. If you are looking at the missiles seeker, its going to be moving across the ground. This is retarded to ask, but are you taking the Litning targeting pod with you? Did you turn it on? Hit the cooling switches? Set the DDI to FLIR, ect? It shouldn't be possible for it to be skimming across the ground like that if it is not caged to boresight.
Super late as I just figured it out myself and saw this thread minutes ago but, it seems you have to hold the TDC depressed button while pressing the desired TDC button in order to move the seeker Basically - you see a target and want to move down left to - hold TDC depressed then move TDC down and left.
Hello, in orden to use the MAV 65F with the TPOD, I seek for the target in the TPOD, uncage the Maverick and then I press sensor right (where it is the FLIR)and TDS Depress and Launch. For the Second Maverick is the same or do I have to undesignate?
@@grimreapers Cap, one of the biggest problems I have with this whole Mav crap is the relationship between DCS and the Warthog HOTAS, I can NOT get my slew to do anything after trying the various methods people have posted in the forums. Perhaps you, or one of your squad can clear this one up finally. I would really appreciate that.
I've finally figured it out. You need to use the sensor control switch and use the left and right keys and move the cursor to the screen you have the mavericks on and then a small diamond should appear on the top right of the screen of the mavericks. After that you should be able to uncage.
Well there are plenty of youtubers who do slower, more in-depth tutorials. Grim Reapers do the fast tutorials when you just need the most concrete information quickly.
Hello, I ask you, without Flir, if I use the left panel to lock the AGM 65F, everything is fine, but when I get to lock a point on the ground from the Hud I can't unlock it again, cage/uncage doesn't work, if I go back to the panel left and put ungage back to look at the point I assigned in the hud. Do you know how to unlock a fixed point with the hud?, greetings
@@gloomofficial7736 that seems to be true. But it's weird, if you let the maverick search for the lock (like around 4:22), you'll see the crosshair complete itself when it has a lock. If you slave it to lock, it doesn't do that.
Dont think you can make a tgt point with the HUD carrying MAVs only, you need a bomb of some sort for the ball and chain to come up, a bit annoying to say the least, also once Mav has tracked to tgt point, sometimes it doesnt lock, you then need to undesignate it to move the Mav seeker, also a PITA..nice Video
do you think they will ever put a double stack maverick on the f/a-18 like with the a-10? whats that rack called the bmu instead of the lau rack/pylon? i'm sure they do that in real life.
But lets make no mistake. When bad ass engineers were tasked to make the modern jet fighter...they went nutz. They made them bad ass looking, because of course. And they made the systems so complicated because well its a jet fighter. Yeah, make it efficent, but boys will boys and make some dope shit. Whats the fun in it, if its not cool as fuck. The computer programmers, where like "yeah, lets make it super complicated." And you know what I love it. I wish I designed jet fighters.
I'm not getting a cooling countdown clock. I press Master Arm On, select A/G, then two clicks on the MFD button. The Mav 'F' comes up, but not the counter clock, what am I doing wrong?.....EDIT- i've just been told the clock only shows on the grounjd before takeoff, not when airborne.
TDC slow keys. Some people have to also press and hold TDC Depress to slew. ALSO remember to ensure you have assigned TDC to the correct MDF else slew won't work.
Depends on what you want. If you want more helo-air-to ground-action, the KA-50 is right for you. But if you want more air-to-air combat, don't go for the mirage. Its missiles are very bad and it doesn't carry a lot of them. Also, it has practically no air to ground capability compared to most other modules. If you want long-range air-to air, go F/A-18, if you want to dogfight, go F-16 (but it is very early access right now), F14 or F/A-18. Mirage only if you are REALLY into this plane for personal reasons.
Sometimes I accidentally lock a target on the ground radar than I can slew the missle, can’t figure out how to unlock the ground target I pressed on ground radar! Messes up me RE bombs too
He might have said "Central", not "Sensor". I somehow muddled through on my other computer but I still can't launch a Maverick because there's a cross through it.Its supposed to be warming up but I don't get a countdown counter..
I think that he basically means that control of the Maverick is being assigned to the left DDI and from that point, you can use your throttle designator controller to control the Maverick's FOV.
Okay maybe I'm DCS ignorant... but how are you doing all this from an aircraft that is obviously airborne, and obviously not moving? Oh and thanks for this. I spent two hours last night trying to get a maverick to fire on a ship.
The other night I was trying this against a ship but I could never get the cross to go away telling me the thing was ready. I was in A/G with Master Arm on, I had the ship at a waypoint and designated it as a target. The missile was timed out and I had the sensor control on that screen. I press and hold the TDC control and try to slew it with the TDC hat but nothing happened. All of this and it was still crossed out. Thing is, I got close enough and just for grins I pressed and held the weapon release, the cross went away, the seeker locked onto the target and the missile fired and hit the target. It actually acted like the laser Maverick. I have verified the loadout and it has the IIR Mavericks on it. Also, there's no laser targeting pod loaded so I don't know how it could have locked onto a laser, but that's what it acted like. I dunno what I'm doing wrong (or right?) but I somehow got a laser Maverick to act like an IIR Maverick without a laser on board, and I fired all four missiles that way.
But the MFD's are monochrom TV's. Thats why they are green. The MPCD is more advanced. But I guess the super Hornets probably use...I dunno digital displays, like your computer moniitor. But honestly, I think, it was designed that way..to give it that "Jet Fighter" look. Or a military feel. If you like this stuff as much as I do..you might get whar I am saying.
I always don't like your long videos because I find they don't get to the point quickly enough. Now I find your short video you're going too fast. Lol. I think I followed everything but I'm having problems. Firstly when I uncage the crosshairs disappear. Secondly, I cannot get the diamond to slew. I have selected the sensor control left but still nothing. Also MAVF is still crossed out. What am I doing wrong?
Im having the same exact issue and cannot find anyone who knows or can tell me if its a bug or if Im doing something wrong. Did you ever find a solution?
I installed that MFD color mod for my F/A-18C. So my shit is yellow. But when I got into AGM-65F or E mode..I have like a real graphic on my MFD. Its not all green and shitty looking..well its not shitty. But, what I have looks way better. Is it because of this mod...or was there an upgrade? Because I see, high resolution mountains and shit. It is all white and black. From the images I saw on Google. The modern F/A-18E has black and white MFD's. Basically all I am asking is it the mod..or did DCS update Hornet to be more modern. Because my MFD for the AGM looks nothing like this video. Not all green and stuff. I can actually see the mountains in fairly high detail, as per my specific little bombing mission I made to follow this video.
@@grimreapers This still does not work. When I uncage (with TDC assigned to the correct DDI) the crosshairs completely disappear and regardless of TDC depress or not cannot move the reticle
I think the mod made my cockpit into a Super Hornet. I was thinking about uninstalling it, to be totally realistic. But this AGM-65 radar looks so bad ass, versus what I see here. I was told om the DSC forums this mod is not fake. Or made up. Can you trick out your jet fighter like a car? HAHAH. If you Google image the F/A-18E it is super high tech. DCS probably cannot model it because its all top secret. Or that does not make sense its just colors. But DCs not offer the Super hornet. I dunno man. But the AGM-65 - A/G mode is black and white versus green. Like the the MK-84 bomb modes in CCIP is all green. So maybe this mod makes some modes black and white. Some others green. But all display information is in yellow, versus green. The MP color display map is in yellow...but green don't really help either. Just the teaxt around the MFD. Should be in blue or something.
Blowing shit up in this sim, is like the greatest feeling in the world. Yep better than sex. I know this sim is all about as real as it gets. But I wish shooting missiles was a little more like Hollywood. Dramatic.
Fuck this shit is hard...but I did it. I setup a tank in the mission editor and blew his shit away. AGM-65F or E. The AGM in this video. Still don't understand why I cannot lock the target, I am doing something wrong. But killed the tank dead on twice, so I am doing something right.
