DCS: F/A-18C Hornet | Air to Air Waypoint & AWACS Tutorial! | Increase Your SA!
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- This is a long form tutorial on how to use the new Air to Air Waypoint system in conjunction with an AWACS or your wingmen in order to increase your Situational Awareness in the Air to Air battlespace.
This will allow you to hunt down OR avoid threat aircraft in a more efficient and timely manner... No more hunting down Bogey Dopes with the heading tape on your HUD.
In this video I also go over the meaning of BRA calls from AWACS as well as some of the variations of those calls.
A very cool new feature in the F/A-18C that will really increase your SA in a mission by helping you quickly and efficiently find threat aircraft... NOW to remember to set an Air to Air waypoint when I am flying out on a mission haha!
I notice you are running a ultra wide monitor, I’m running 33440x1440, when using the fa18 the hud text seem thicker then using 27inch monitor, do you find this too? I can lighten the hud which helps though.
@@brettallen2129 I also have this problem on my 3440x1440 monitor. Check this workaround: forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3556057&postcount=65
It works for me, but I have to fix this after every DCS update tho. Would be nice if they fixed this permanently for wider monitors already. :(
@@brettallen2129 @hit757 I have not run into this issue so I really can't help unfortunately
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I somehow lost my account password. I appreciate any help you can give me
@Elliot Donald Instablaster :)
Thank you Spudknocker for great video tutorials.
I want to mention, that only picture is, directions from bullseye. Popups and update directions, are always BRAA, directions from self.
And also Bogeydope, is ofcourse in BRAA, but only for the closest bandit.
Keep up the good work.
For sure dude, while there may have been a few mistakes in terms of which bandit/group was being called at what time by AWACS the idea was the video was getting across how you can use these tools to effectively build up your SA with the A2A WP, your own on board Radar, the AWACS calls etc... I think that the mishap of the AMRAAM hitting the mountain and thinking it was a manuever kill and then rebuilding the SA through my own radar in conjuction with AWACS etc was a good example of losing SA then getting it back
That's not always the case, the number one answer in any real world fighter squadron is, "depends" . I'll post here what I did below.
In real life a popup group will be given in both, BRAA first , Then Bull. The reason is it allows the closest aircraft to judge threat criteria and allows other aircraft to engage the aircraft using bullseye to support the closest fighter. So we might say "Thug61 popup group BRAA 345/24 Bullseye 211/19 12,000 Hostile" We can also give follow on groups to the trailing or azimuth split groups depending on threat criteria. Usually AWACS will target maneuvering groups inside "no new picture range" and monitor them as the other fights develop once the monitored group turns hot on a friendly group we shift target and sort to the appropriate fighter.
@@CHECK6-963 I was talking about the game, though 😉
What happens in real life, is another big discussion.
@@Mav331 I understand:)
dude cheers for this i'm new do DCS and was hooked almost immediately. i have no idea what i am doing and your videos are helping me slowly gain a grasp on how the hell to decipher all of the audio and visual information thrown at you.
christopher O'Neill that’s my objective with these videos! Are you flying the FA-18 mostly?
@@Spudknocker yeah I'm flying the FA-18 now. I have only had it 5 days but I'm slowly learning the systems. Next is upping my SA and improving my flight. Tried aerial refuelling yesterday. It was a disaster lol.
@@christopheroneill1295 Just takes practice dude you'll get there!
@@christopheroneill1295 This video might help with the Air to Air Refueling!
Thanks for this- it was all just "noise" before
Nice vid spud. However darkstar was not off on its bearing call of 290. You just decide it was incorrect...because you found another target....hehe. perfect example of the task saturation of aa combat. Also just incase you did know the aa waypoint does not need be a waypoint in your sequence. I just add a new waypoint after my last one and designate that one as the aa way point (of course it is co located with the mission bullseye.)
It definitely does, while some of the calls were off cause maybe I was looking at the wrong radar contact, the point of the video was using the the A2A WP in conjunction with the AWACS in order to increase SA and regain SA once its lost or something becomes confused, the AMRAAM hitting the mountain and the subsequent mistake of thinking it was a maneuver kill was a good example of how you can lose SA but then use your tools to regain a picture of the battlespace
Nice work man!
Keep it going Spud. Your Top Gun notch!
Spudknocker Thank you so much for this video tutorial. Really good information!!
great tutorial man. thanks for making this
yes very good no problem dude! I had fun making it and I’m glad it helped you out!
good teacher! awesome videos. appreciate you vocalizing this knowledge. look forward to more stuff! ( prob watching this one multiple times) lol. im starting to hit my beginner curve with hornet. now the real work begins =(
Haha Are you crying?!? There... Theres no crying in DCS! The Hard is what makes it great! If it was easy, everyone would do it.
@@Spudknocker yeah i agree 10000000 percent. its enjoyable, just taxing my brain haha. alot of excitement actually getting the light bulb effect, just learing to navigate all the MFD and not knowing what is complete yet on ED end....but whatev. the length of time for me growing out of baby steps makes me wonder if my legs dont work lol
@@titan14baseball You'll get there dude! What I think is very cool is many of the skills you develop are transferable to the AV-8B from the F/A-18 and Vice Versa due to the jets being former MDD now Boeing products, and this will be largely the same when it comes to the upcoming F-15E Strike Eagle.
@@Spudknocker making the strike eagle? damn. hell yeah. neighbor was a former strike eagle pilot, and recently had a job at seymour johnson air force base demolishing a hospital there....i run some pretty sweet machinery, but watching them take off all day really made me feel out of place lol.
what server do you fly on?
When you request Bogey Dope, and they Give you BRA..... the bearing they give you, is that what they are actually heading? or is that the heading you need to follow to locate?
im sure you already answered this. forgive me if you did
Nice video. Good job. FYI, Hot, cold, and flanking only describe target aspect. Facing toward, away, or perpendicular to you. It has nothing to do with your own heading or flight path. You can have a hot target at your six chasing you.
I dont think the pop up group was in relation to bulls. I think it was from ownship. Usually awacs will say bulls before a bullseye call
In real life a popup group will be given in both, BRAA first , Then Bull. The reason is it allows the closest aircraft to judge threat criteria and allows other aircraft to engage the aircraft using bullseye to support the closest fighter. So we might say "Thug61 popup group BRAA 345/24 Bullseye 211/19 12,000 Hostile"
BTW in the real world we NEVER say BULLS, it is BULL or BULLSEYE. I'm not sure why DCS can't fix that.
NTTR map looks so good in low sun conditions doesn't it.
Neil Bradon sure does! I really like the NTTR map I don’t know why some people hate on it
Wow I know this is couple of years old but dang the graphics look incredible ! And this is the Nevada map right. Thx man for your tutorials as I’m new to DCS f18 they are still available 👍🏻
Quit putting out so many videos! You need to send me your obs recording settings.
Tricker do you want me to put out less? Haha and I use nvidia shadowplay haha
Haha I'm just giving you crap, I need to put out some more. I never used shadow play, looks nice! I use obs for recording and streaming
Tricker i gotcha haha ;-) I like shadowplay just cause it’s integrated into the Nvidia drivers so the FPS hit is very minimal
Spudknocker I'll definitely have to try this out then... You need to add me up on discord tricker#4946
Tricker done
AWACS picture is always BRA from bullseye but AWACS bogey dope is BRA from your own plane
Those are opposite terms. You can't be BRAA and it is BRAA not BRA from Bullseye.
How many times is he going to use the sheding light joke in the hornet befor it gets old?
That looks so impressive but honestly I’m not gonna bother. I’m pretty much done with DCS. Maybe when I have some time off work in March I might try again. I can’t get much to work at all from the mission editor. I can’t get JTACs to survive no matter how invisible or immortal I make them. I can’t get IRMAVs to lock onto anything. I can’t get laser guided bombs to even explode from what I can tell even though I’ve fused them. Often, I can’t get aircraft to stay on the radar screen. I just fly navigation exercises and do circuits or practice carrier landings. Hours and hours of setting up missions and trying changes for no return. I think I’ll just stick with Prepar3d.
Thanks for great video
kamie k my pleasure!
If the AWACS calls a BRA with your name on it its not a picture call
You Bully. Leave those F-4's alone! What have they ever done to you? :P excellent Vid, and Happy New Year to you.
akaGorT haha thanks man! You too! And the Sky Gods require the sacrifice of QF-4’s haha
great vid
Why thank you!
Thanks again for another great video this one in particular due to difficulty to grasp it and it will need practice to handle it.
Do you know or remember the mod or the utility that allows you to read the words o symbols in the DDIs more clearly?
Thanks again and Happy New Year
Bronco hey man thanks! And I actually don’t use any mods like that trying Turning up the cockpit display resolutions. What monitor are you playing on.
Spudknocker my monitor is a AOC AGON AG271QG 27” running at 1440*2560, G-sync. Everything looks good and sharp except for the HUD in DDIs. The fonts looks ugly.
I’m going to play with the brightness in the cockpit to see if that works. Thanks man.
Bronco I have never had an issue with this so I can’t really give any advice
Nice vídeo! But Copyright issues... I hace used for years manouvers kill or some times killed by fear... ;) keep up the good stuff coming!
Would you be kind enough to share this mission file, please?
I'm sure something like this would be trivial to set up in the ME for the veterans but I think it would help is new guys follow a long and put the skills to use in a practical setting that mirrors the video.
I can def do that in the morning!
@@Spudknocker Thank you. Do you know where we can find it once it's uploaded?
@@Spudknocker I would like the mission file too if possible [A/A waypoint and AWACS tutorial]. Where can we find it?
Can you send me your tracir settings?
is this Steam edition?
very usefull vid unscripted maybe but a good one as alwayse
Peter Bakker thanks dude! I am glad you enjoyed it!
funny u said j-phantom, my dad flew that plane xD, 17 years i think his bae aircraft
aaaaasssss always XD
Ernesto Reyes yup pretty much haha
its funny in current day they cant yet send data w/ voice and your displays shows what direction are they or even have one screen that only popup those. IMPORTANT things BRA/BSE 100 12.6 15000 C/H/F. and no blah blah blah. if you would have display over ufc that show lines of those datas and update relation for your turning or update when they send new.oh wow changed how airwar is made to do LOL without blah blah voice. that would be in my aircraft desing LOL but there is datalink. it should show you updates without making long long voice calls communicatuions. just look screen. you see it before even get voice out from mouth and hope awacs hear you when you doing 9G. billion dollar airplane and screen is there no need com
buddy, your videos are great, but you need to make them shorter. those of us with ADHD cant sit and watch this for so long.