So about the TPOD

So we now know how the offset works. What I don't quite understand yet is why would anyone choose to go to ATRK instead of the stabilized snowplow where I can slew wherever I want. And locking moving targets (I'm not talking about the distance thing Wags mentioned) looks like something is very different from its real life counterpart.

For example, let's say you're dropping LGBs, and you accidentally bump the TDC and you're not in ATRK mode, now you have to focus on getting the pod back on target to ensure that live ordnance is going to go where it's supposed to and not cause collateral damage or unintended casualties. Area Track ensures that the pod won't end up looking somewhere it shouldn't.

For example, let's say you're dropping LGBs, and you accidentally bump the TDC and you're not in ATRK mode, now you have to focus on getting the pod back on target to ensure that live ordnance is going to go where it's supposed to and not cause collateral damage or unintended casualties. Area Track ensures that the pod won't end up looking somewhere it shouldn't.

If that's the case then the A10c and many other aircraft have a flaw that only the Spanish TGP overcomes? Mmmm, sounds more like a missinterpretation of docs.

It may be similar to Inertial Track vs Area Track in the A-10. I'd have to check.

Mmmm, sounds more like a missinterpretation of docs.

Just because it's different doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong. I'm not trying to say that the current implementation is factually correct, I don't have access to the documentation, so I can't interpret it for myself, but I can understand the logic of why it would work the way it does.