I had the same issue when I just started out in the DCS F-16 and it took me a while to figure out why. I wish there was a video that actually mentioned it back then 😅 Glad I was able to help!
Brilliant videos thank you so much. Please try to remember when you say "lock the target" etc. to always mention what button you're using for us noobies to note. Again, great tuition thanka a mill :)
That's so awesome to hear! Thank you so much for watching it and commenting :D I'm super glad to hear it helped you and feel welcome to reach out to me with whatever you might need :) Would also help a lot if you share this with anyone you know who might want to learn the F-16 in DCS ;) Thanks again!
@@MamboDCS Oh trust me I’ll be sharing this to anyone IK who buys the DCS F-16 or even anyone I want to convince to get it. You made it so simple and easy to follow along!
Hey, I just saw one of your vids, so I came over to your page and watched a couple and I now think you have the BEST tutorial DCS vids i have seen so I subscribed for sure. Thanks for your great vids!!
Brilliant videos! After watching a whole lot of different tutorials, your videos are finally what i've been looking for. Very educational, thorough and easy to listen to. I hope this channel continues to grow!
Hi James :) Yeah, sorry :/ I've just become busier and burnt myself out a bit... I don't think I'm done with RUclips but I'm not sure when I'll make a comeback. I'm still on my Discord as usual if you want to communicate with me :) Sorry for being gone 😅
@MamboDCS Thanks for the response. I understand it's a lot of work doing these videos. I don't quite understand why, but the way you explain the system and processes in the F16 just made sense to me. I was literally fixing to give up on it. I would read the manual and do the lessons it just never clicked. Until I found your videos. I am grateful for the help.
@jamesmcd71 thanks man, I appreciate it. I try my best to explain things clearly and concisely and I'm glad it helped you! Will definitely try to continue soon enough!
I'm glad it helped! For most weapons, and especially with MAVs I suggest 10-15 miles before turning back in. This is even more important when you're just starting out in the F-16 or with a new type of weapons.
Needing to bore sight them to the TGP sounds like a REAL headache. Should be a ground crew option or just considered to have been completed on arming. I love the detail of DCS,but sometimes they take it too far. Next we will need to adjust our tire pressure.
I think it's fine that we need to do it. Maybe there should be a special option in the settings for "Mavericks pre aligned" but I don't think it doesn't make sense or is taken too far. I think that with enough repetition it becomes very easy and quick too. But I can understand not liking it haha. Hopefully an option like I mentioned will be added one day!
Congrats for your growing channel! There is a reason for this, you provide clear and precise directions that help Viper pilots to utilize their weapon of choice. I am wondering if you pressed the Cage/Uncage button it that would allow the seeker head of the Maverick to be able to see the target without forcing you to drop down in order for it to see it - or not?
Thank you so much for the kind words! If you're far enough from the target the Maverick should be able to dive onto the target just fine even without you pointing down but the closer you go the more G's that Maverick will have to face to turn downwards and there's a point where it can be too much for it so you need to help it by pointing downwards a bit yourself ;)
Great video! Still need to get used to zoom in on the TGP after putting it on narrow. I always run out of time/get too close to the target before I get a decent track on it. Will try the 10-15 miles out and looking to reassign some controls so I can use an axis for the zoom!
Thank you and thank you for watching! Going 15 miles out of the target should help but if you need more time don't be afraid to go 20 miles out! As you practice it more you can shorten it :) If you need any help I'm available on my Discord and happy to help!
I'm trying to learn the Mavrick and I have all kinda problems I finally did manage to lock on with the H(this is the first video I've seen that mentions you need to soi and tms up manually with the H model) so I didn't know that. But after the first hit. The mav refused to be slaved to the tpod. I locked on with the tpod and the mav was looking into the sky. No matter how many times I pressed the pre on it. The mav was completely unwilling to get slaved to the tpod.
I personally don't like to use the auto hand off. I'll still use the pre tgp setting and manually lock with the agm. I can point track a moving target and then wait to get closer that way or if the boresight is off at all, I just slew it a little.
Hi Mambo, great tutorial, I keep coming back to refresh as yours is so well explained. Can I just ask what map are you using and what are the co ordinates of where you have your target tanks. Keep up the good work my friend 👍
I'm sorry but you left out the fuze arming delay sequence on the D model Maverick. Failure to accomplish this procedure will result in a Maverick false lock about 50 percent of the time..
Ahhh, ok, not available on Mavericks. Watch my video on JDAMs where I explain it :) The feature I use to do it is a little broken right now, only allowing 2 targets rather than 3, but it'll be fixed and work just fine hopefully soon ruclips.net/video/s35YxyThNg4/видео.html
That's the proper realistic way to do it. In DCS you can do it with MASTER ARM off and ground jettison off but in real life you need MASTER ARM in SIMULATE and ground jettison on. I do it just for the sake of realism even if it isn't modeled in the sim :)
Question regarding choosing tv or ir mavericks…does the maverick seeker need to have a high contrast image of whatever the tgp has passed on for lock? Let’s say it’s day time and I chose the G variant which I believe has an ir seeker…I lock on to something with the tgp which doesn’t have a heat signature…auto handoff doesn’t produce a lock even though I’m within the 7 miles….is this because it needs a high contrast object to lock on to?
If the background is as hot as the object, it can be pretty hard for the Maverick to lock onto it. I hope this answers your question 😅 Let me know if you need more help :)
Very good. Have learned a great deal through watching your videos on F-16. One question… On the TGP MFD I have Wide and Narrow view and in addition have finer zoom control using radar elevation control. However, on the Maverick MFD I have wide and narrow view but do NOT seem to have the same finer zoom control that I have on the TGP MFD. What am I missing? Do I need to bind separate controls to obtain fine grained zoom control on the Maverick MFD??? Cheers!
@@MamboDCS OK, many thanx for clearing that up for me. I thought I’d followed you guides step by step. All seemed to work on the ground, set up TGP, and boresighted Mavericks but, once in the air… All fell apart! Could not get Mavericks to sync with TGP in fact could not get Mavericks out of ‘Nav’ mode??? Will have another go shortly! Must be missing a key step somewhere!
For some reason my Maverick D's never align correctly in AUTO handoff mode. I do the boresight alignment on the ground per the procedure, once I get in the air however I get the message that auto handoff is in progress....the maverick D's seeker changes position but it is not on the target. FYI when I am bore sighting on the ground I do select the target with TMS up and then select Boresight then deselect TMS down prior to concluding....
MAV PRE mode is currently broken. Hopefully it will be fixed soon! Until then there's nothing much we can do unfortunately :( You can use VIS or BORE modes as shown in this video: ruclips.net/video/N-mLGHTqt2w/видео.html
Great video! I have the winning base 2 and f16 throttle. My radar cursus zoom has an annoying delay, it takes me a few spins to avtually zoom in. How can i fix this
Do you have to have preset waypoints in order to even use the TGP? I'm having the hardest time slewing it to point where I want it to and by the time I finally swing it around I've already overshot the target of interest. I wish there was a way to boresight the TGP. Most of the time it seems to do whatever it wants and is painfully slow to get to point where I need it QUICKLY.
You have the option to use SP (snow plow) which slaves the TGP to look forward and slightly down from the aircraft that might help you. Also, a good solution would be setting a Markpoint using the HUD or HMCS and then switching to the MKPT which will move the TGP to it :)
@@MamboDCS Is setting a Markpoint as simple as single button press, or do you have to go through the rigmarole of looking up and punching in coordinates on the fly? (no pun intended)
Is the master arm to simulate and ground jettison on how you’re supposed to officially do it? I can bore sight it with master arm on and no ground jettison on.
Yeah, the F-16 MAVs PRE mode is currently broken. Hopefully it will be fixed soon :) There's no real work around that I know of except for using VIS mode
Never been dumb enough to try 😂 But you can slave the TGP to the A-A radar so maybe that way you can try... Sounds like a little bit of a fun experiment to try ;)
Been a while since I took the Viper out of the hangar, but I recall we used to be able to load 10 Maverick. Did the 'USAF-realism-at-all-costs' get their way?
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Keep up the great work.
Oh wow Matt Wagner himself!
Thank you so much ❤️
Definitely keeping it up!
@@MamboDCS I think that means you have been knighted 🙂
@@flyingchiefDCS I think so too 😂
Lolol
Im not sure if anyone mentioned this, but only agm-65 D and G can do auto hand-off.
Indeed that's right :)
Thanks for the comment!
TV-versions of the Maverick does not have auto-handover from the TGP. This is as intended and not a bug. Great tutorial as usual.
Yeah, I figured so! Just wasn't sure.
Thank you!
So this would just be the D? I was just having this problem, glad I saw this comment.
D and the larger G as well:)
@@MamboDCS Ooooooh... that would explain a lot.... Nearly threw my computer of my roof :P
Hahahaha, no need :P
Bore sighting the weapons was the part that helped me immensely thank you so much!
I had the same issue when I just started out in the DCS F-16 and it took me a while to figure out why. I wish there was a video that actually mentioned it back then 😅
Glad I was able to help!
Brilliant videos thank you so much. Please try to remember when you say "lock the target" etc. to always mention what button you're using for us noobies to note. Again, great tuition thanka a mill :)
Thank you so much for watching!
You're definitely right and I try to do that but sometimes miss that 😅
Will pay more attention!
Best F-16 Maverick Tutorial on RUclips! I finally destroyed my first T-55 thanks to you.
That's so awesome to hear!
Thank you so much for watching it and commenting :D
I'm super glad to hear it helped you and feel welcome to reach out to me with whatever you might need :)
Would also help a lot if you share this with anyone you know who might want to learn the F-16 in DCS ;)
Thanks again!
@@MamboDCS Oh trust me I’ll be sharing this to anyone IK who buys the DCS F-16 or even anyone I want to convince to get it. You made it so simple and easy to follow along!
Thank you so so much! I really appreciate it and am very happy to hear it helped you this much!
Hey, I just saw one of your vids, so I came over to your page and watched a couple and I now think you have the BEST tutorial DCS vids i have seen so I subscribed for sure. Thanks for your great vids!!
Thank you so so much! Glad you liked it :)
There's more coming for sure!
What would you personally like to see from the channel?
Brilliant videos! After watching a whole lot of different tutorials, your videos are finally what i've been looking for. Very educational, thorough and easy to listen to. I hope this channel continues to grow!
Thank you so much! I'm so happy I could help and really appreciate you watching and commenting!
very helpful for a beginner like me. thanks very much!
That's awesome! Welcome to the Viper club 😎
Thank you for watching!
I don't know where you went, but I sure wish you would come back to RUclips. I have learned so much from you.
Hi James :)
Yeah, sorry :/
I've just become busier and burnt myself out a bit...
I don't think I'm done with RUclips but I'm not sure when I'll make a comeback.
I'm still on my Discord as usual if you want to communicate with me :)
Sorry for being gone 😅
@MamboDCS Thanks for the response. I understand it's a lot of work doing these videos. I don't quite understand why, but the way you explain the system and processes in the F16 just made sense to me. I was literally fixing to give up on it. I would read the manual and do the lessons it just never clicked. Until I found your videos. I am grateful for the help.
@jamesmcd71 thanks man, I appreciate it. I try my best to explain things clearly and concisely and I'm glad it helped you! Will definitely try to continue soon enough!
i have been trying to get used to the mavs and TGP. i have finally got it and the auto hand-off. your videos are great!
Awesome! Thank you so much and I'm really glad I'm able to help!
15 mile offset tip was nice. thanks
I'm glad it helped! For most weapons, and especially with MAVs I suggest 10-15 miles before turning back in. This is even more important when you're just starting out in the F-16 or with a new type of weapons.
Needing to bore sight them to the TGP sounds like a REAL headache. Should be a ground crew option or just considered to have been completed on arming. I love the detail of DCS,but sometimes they take it too far. Next we will need to adjust our tire pressure.
I think it's fine that we need to do it. Maybe there should be a special option in the settings for "Mavericks pre aligned" but I don't think it doesn't make sense or is taken too far.
I think that with enough repetition it becomes very easy and quick too.
But I can understand not liking it haha.
Hopefully an option like I mentioned will be added one day!
Awesome video, I have noticed if you go higher around 15k to 20k ft altitude Mavs range also increases to around 12 to 15 nm instead
Yup, with all weapons the higher and faster you go, the more range they'll have.
But again, the sensor is only really good for up to 8-10 nm
I watched the whole series so far and although I'm pretty familiar with the Viper I learned a few things that will help me in the future.
That's so cool to hear! Thank you for watching!
Congrats for your growing channel! There is a reason for this, you provide clear and precise directions that help Viper pilots to utilize their weapon of choice.
I am wondering if you pressed the Cage/Uncage button it that would allow the seeker head of the Maverick to be able to see the target without forcing you to drop down in order for it to see it - or not?
Thank you so much for the kind words!
If you're far enough from the target the Maverick should be able to dive onto the target just fine even without you pointing down but the closer you go the more G's that Maverick will have to face to turn downwards and there's a point where it can be too much for it so you need to help it by pointing downwards a bit yourself ;)
Great video! Still need to get used to zoom in on the TGP after putting it on narrow. I always run out of time/get too close to the target before I get a decent track on it. Will try the 10-15 miles out and looking to reassign some controls so I can use an axis for the zoom!
Thank you and thank you for watching! Going 15 miles out of the target should help but if you need more time don't be afraid to go 20 miles out!
As you practice it more you can shorten it :)
If you need any help I'm available on my Discord and happy to help!
Your videos have helped me with the vipers sensors so much. You are amazing
I'm trying to learn the Mavrick and I have all kinda problems I finally did manage to lock on with the H(this is the first video I've seen that mentions you need to soi and tms up manually with the H model) so I didn't know that. But after the first hit. The mav refused to be slaved to the tpod. I locked on with the tpod and the mav was looking into the sky. No matter how many times I pressed the pre on it. The mav was completely unwilling to get slaved to the tpod.
When that happens try pressing TMS down with the MAV SOIed to reset its view.
Best f-16 tutorials ma dude
Thank you so much :)
I personally don't like to use the auto hand off. I'll still use the pre tgp setting and manually lock with the agm. I can point track a moving target and then wait to get closer that way or if the boresight is off at all, I just slew it a little.
Magnificent explaining great videos as always!
Thank you so much for watching!
Glad you liked it!
I was going to get the f18 but the f16 seat is just so comfortable
Thank you so much have been messing with AGM65D for hours not understanding why they were not lined up with the tgp not allowing me to pass a lock.
Super Video!!
Thank you!! I appreciate it!
V nicely done
Thank you!
helpful??? oh you can believe me it was very helpful, tx brother
Another great video as always!
Thank you onstade!
Hi Mambo, great tutorial, I keep coming back to refresh as yours is so well explained. Can I just ask what map are you using and what are the co ordinates of where you have your target tanks. Keep up the good work my friend 👍
Great video's man!
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
Great video!🧁
Thank you!! Nice cupcake hehe
Great Vid!!
I'm sorry but you left out the fuze arming delay sequence on the D model Maverick. Failure to accomplish this procedure will result in a Maverick false lock about 50 percent of the time..
I was hoping to see also multi target in practice
What do you mean by multi target?
@@MamboDCS at beginning at preview you are showing 3 consecutive hits 🙂
If you mean the intro, there's only one, so I'm not sure what you're referring to 😅
@@MamboDCS ah sry got confused :D its here ruclips.net/video/qO3m67pECII/видео.html 0:13
Ahhh, ok, not available on Mavericks.
Watch my video on JDAMs where I explain it :)
The feature I use to do it is a little broken right now, only allowing 2 targets rather than 3, but it'll be fixed and work just fine hopefully soon
ruclips.net/video/s35YxyThNg4/видео.html
Why do you enable ground jettison ? What is the purpose. Also I boresight without master arming, either off or on. Must it only be in simulate ?
That's the proper realistic way to do it.
In DCS you can do it with MASTER ARM off and ground jettison off but in real life you need MASTER ARM in SIMULATE and ground jettison on.
I do it just for the sake of realism even if it isn't modeled in the sim :)
@@MamboDCS oh ok. Lol
Question regarding choosing tv or ir mavericks…does the maverick seeker need to have a high contrast image of whatever the tgp has passed on for lock? Let’s say it’s day time and I chose the G variant which I believe has an ir seeker…I lock on to something with the tgp which doesn’t have a heat signature…auto handoff doesn’t produce a lock even though I’m within the 7 miles….is this because it needs a high contrast object to lock on to?
If the background is as hot as the object, it can be pretty hard for the Maverick to lock onto it.
I hope this answers your question 😅
Let me know if you need more help :)
Followed your steps exactly..... and all it did was to completely un-coordinate the HUD symbology from the MFD's....
Very nice work! Well done! Is there a way to remove the info bar on the bottom of the screen when you change the cameras???
Thank you so much!
And yes, you do it with Left CTRL + Left SHIFT + Y - twice :)
@@MamboDCS Τhank you, For me it worked with Left CTRL+Y+Y hahaha
Ohhhh right my bad, it's just Left CTRL.
Whoops! Sorry about that haha!
Very good. Have learned a great deal through watching your videos on F-16. One question… On the TGP MFD I have Wide and Narrow view and in addition have finer zoom control using radar elevation control. However, on the Maverick MFD I have wide and narrow view but do NOT seem to have the same finer zoom control that I have on the TGP MFD. What am I missing? Do I need to bind separate controls to obtain fine grained zoom control on the Maverick MFD??? Cheers!
Thank you so much, I'm very happy to hear that!
Unfortunately there's no finer zoom on the MAVs :)
@@MamboDCS OK, many thanx for clearing that up for me.
I thought I’d followed you guides step by step. All seemed to work on the ground, set up TGP, and boresighted Mavericks but, once in the air… All fell apart! Could not get Mavericks to sync with TGP in fact could not get Mavericks out of ‘Nav’ mode??? Will have another go shortly! Must be missing a key step somewhere!
Sounds like you forgot to go into A-G mode possibly?
For some reason my Maverick D's never align correctly in AUTO handoff mode. I do the boresight alignment on the ground per the procedure, once I get in the air however I get the message that auto handoff is in progress....the maverick D's seeker changes position but it is not on the target. FYI when I am bore sighting on the ground I do select the target with TMS up and then select Boresight then deselect TMS down prior to concluding....
MAV PRE mode is currently broken. Hopefully it will be fixed soon!
Until then there's nothing much we can do unfortunately :(
You can use VIS or BORE modes as shown in this video:
ruclips.net/video/N-mLGHTqt2w/видео.html
Great video! I have the winning base 2 and f16 throttle. My radar cursus zoom has an annoying delay, it takes me a few spins to avtually zoom in. How can i fix this
Do you have to have preset waypoints in order to even use the TGP? I'm having the hardest time slewing it to point where I want it to and by the time I finally swing it around I've already overshot the target of interest. I wish there was a way to boresight the TGP. Most of the time it seems to do whatever it wants and is painfully slow to get to point where I need it QUICKLY.
You have the option to use SP (snow plow) which slaves the TGP to look forward and slightly down from the aircraft that might help you.
Also, a good solution would be setting a Markpoint using the HUD or HMCS and then switching to the MKPT which will move the TGP to it :)
@@MamboDCS Is setting a Markpoint as simple as single button press, or do you have to go through the rigmarole of looking up and punching in coordinates on the fly? (no pun intended)
Creating Markpoints requires a few presses, but you don't need to manually put the coordinates.
I'll make a Markpoints tutorial in the future :)
I believe bore sighting not working. Possibly just with the triple racks.
It was broken for a while but has been fixed since :)
@@MamboDCS thanks yes I found that bore sight in the air works much better almost perfect, on the gnd not so much
It does need some distance between you and the object you're boresighting on so that makes sense :)
what map and base did you startup at? love the environment
Have they changed the MAV ripple mechanic, because i cannot ripple with 3x racks
What does boresighting the mavs do exactly
TGP always shows black screen, even after soi ?
Is the PRE mode for Mavericks still broken?
Does this still work?
Having trouble using it since 2.8, perhaps I'm just too sloppy when calibrating/linking it :)
Unfortunately it's broken right now. Hopefully the fix comes soon!
@@MamboDCS PLEASE PIN THIS MESSAGE! im a new player and ive been loosing my mind the last week over this until your comment
Haha alright
Is the master arm to simulate and ground jettison on how you’re supposed to officially do it? I can bore sight it with master arm on and no ground jettison on.
Yeah, that's how it's supposed to be done but DCS allows you to do it without either of those things haha.
That is how I do it too, but is not by the book. You can even have Master Arm in OFF position.
Does'nt fickin work on latest patch.
I joined your Discord server but I don't know what to do now. Once I'm there, I see no messages, etc. Please help.
Hi my friend
I just want to ask you about the boresiting the mavrick after the last DCS update i cant boresightr them
Yeah, the F-16 MAVs PRE mode is currently broken. Hopefully it will be fixed soon :)
There's no real work around that I know of except for using VIS mode
@@MamboDCS yah true
@@MamboDCS only the PRE mode for the Maverick it's bugged or could impact other weapons like the JDAMS?
From what I know, it's only the MAV that is broken :)
@@MamboDCS and it's a big issue for the F16 Falcon..!! ED need to fix it quickly
Can you slave the mav to an A-A radar lock?
To meme on the communitys chad helicopter pilots :P
Never been dumb enough to try 😂
But you can slave the TGP to the A-A radar so maybe that way you can try...
Sounds like a little bit of a fun experiment to try ;)
I tried that against AI helicopters with an A10, not the same but close enough, the maverick wasnt able to follow the helicopter up
Huh, interesting.
Still think it should be tested against a fighter jet and tested thoroughly 🤣
a2g weapns do not colide with air targets, i had gbu12 fly through mi8 before
@@hphp31416 so we can't reenactment the one and only F-15E A-A kill once we get the F-15E hahaha
damn, i was trying this patch many times and didnt get why maverick is off-lined, just red comment that it is broken right now...
Yes, it is broken unfortunately :(
I hope it'll be fixed soon!
@@MamboDCS can you check if it was fixed?😊
Yes it has been fixed in the latest open beta patch :)
@@MamboDCS so video has valid procedure for pre-alighting pod with mavericks?
Should be, yeah :)
Do you to boresight on ground hot starts?
I think you do, yes.
It does it for you only in air starts
Thank you sir really appreciate and love you videos
That's awesome! Thank you so much!
Been a while since I took the Viper out of the hangar, but I recall we used to be able to load 10 Maverick. Did the 'USAF-realism-at-all-costs' get their way?
I've never seen 10 MAVs on a Viper.
I think you got it confused with something else 😅
Only 3 + 3, and that is not a very «realistic»/common loadout either (unless WW3 😉) I usually find 2 + 2 a good balance.
Yup, true that!
Could it? Pretty sure that was the A10?
A-10 can also take up to 6
Do you recognise me
No? 😅
I was the nice guy
@@MamboDCS but no brob tho i would see if you remeber me next time try not to forget me pls
Hmmm sure :P
@@MamboDCS Thank you 😊 you are the best youtube short creator keep it up
V nicely done
Doesn't work
Unfortunately Mavericks PRE mode has been broken for a bit. Hopefully the fix will come soon :)