Will DCS: WH model the A-10's HSI / radio features?

A10 pilots can use their HSI / TACAN to point to wingman emitting a specific frequency. It makes rejoining formation easier, especially in bad weather or at night. And it can be used to find a tanker, etc.

Will this be modeled in DCS WH?

Thanks. Sorry if I'm not properly describing the feature.

A10 pilots can use their HSI to point to wingman emitting a specific frequency. It makes rejoining formation easier, especially in bad weather or at night. And it can be used to find a tanker, etc.

 

Will this be modeled in DCS WH?

 

Thanks. Sorry if I'm not properly describing the feature.

almost positively since this simulator is very close to the one the national guard recieved.

Thx! That is indeed a good tip.

I think what you mean is air to air TACAN. It will give you only a distance from other cooperating aircraft with TACAN but it will give you radial/distance to a tanker.

Yes, TACAN! I remember having it in Falcon.

Thx

"Nearest tanker bullseye 120, 40 miles, 1-2-6-yankee."

A10 pilots can use their HSI / TACAN to point to wingman emitting a specific frequency. It makes rejoining formation easier, especially in bad weather or at night. And it can be used to find a tanker, etc.

 

Will this be modeled in DCS WH?

 

Thanks. Sorry if I'm not properly describing the feature.

You can already do this with the HSI in Black Shark, so probably yes :).

Also, can't an aircraft key the radio so that another's ADF will point towards it?

Edit: almost certainly not. A pilot however could conceivably key his mike lol.

I'm wondering about that last thing also. I don't know about recent flight ops, but back in Vietnam, they used Direction Finder + mike keying a lot to locate each other (esp. downed airmen). Sounds cool to use :)

Unsure, most aircraft that perform CSAR have a DF capability though so I would say the A-10C does. I wouldnt imagine DFing off keyed radios is common practise in an A-10 these days though. For 1 its bad radio practise (you are tieing up the net), 2 its bad EMCON, 3 most tactical scenarios will use a frequency hopping radio such as HAVEQUICK which you cannot DF and 4- you have all your buddies on data link so who needs DF :)

I'm wondering about that last thing also. I don't know about recent flight ops, but back in Vietnam, they used Direction Finder + mike keying a lot to locate each other (esp. downed airmen). Sounds cool to use :)

I think this may be what I was referring to. Though the description of TACAN in Falcon seemed similar so I thought maybe it was the same technology.

It works like this: two pilots get separated in clouds. To rejoin, one will key the mic, the other will use their HSI needle which is pointing towards the key'd mic signal source. This tactic is useful for finding each other but risky over enemy territory since the enemy could use the radio emission for tracking.

Yep- this is called DF "Direction Finding", normally used for combat search and resuce (CSAR).

Yes!! "DF'ing" That's it. Thank you!

Unsure, most aircraft that perform CSAR have a DF capability though so I would say the A-10C does. I wouldnt imagine DFing off keyed radios is common practise in an A-10 these days though. For 1 its bad radio practise (you are tieing up the net), 2 its bad EMCON, 3 most tactical scenarios will use a frequency hopping radio such as HAVEQUICK which you cannot DF and 4- you have all your buddies on data link so who needs DF :)

Yes, I suppose these days they would have better ways of doing it. But, are survival radios equipped with HAVEQUICK ?

I havent heard of one that is. Normally survival radios transmit on 121.5, 243 and 406 freqs simulateneously. These can be DFed easily. Some modern systems transmit an encrypted position via satellite also/instead of.

So yep- DF is still used for search and rescue but not so much for locating aircraft in a tactical environment, particularly when you have datalink (from my experience, which is not A-10).