Preplan WPT from F10 map (like JF-17)

[Pâte]

Hi Folks. Little suggestion

 

Would be very very very useful if ED could add to the Hornet the same feature that propose the JF-17 (and Tomcat / Harrier ? ) about pre-planning the MC from the F10 map. Being able in game directly, prior the rampstart, to manage all the WPT and SEQ.

 

It would save a lot of time wasted when you need to replan manually everything from the HSI on missions that you didn't created, mostly in multiplayer.

 

Have a nice day.

Edited June 4, 2020 by Pâte

[Captain Orso]

Not to high-jack this, because this is really needed, but also to pull the coordinates from free-cam view from cam location.

 

In MP you often do not have the luxury of having enemy vehicles displayed on the F10 map. All you can do is navigate in the F10 map to where you expect enemy targets, LCtrl-F11 to jump from the center of the F10 map to that point in the virtual world. Turn on the status bar and lat/long coordinates to see the cam location. Navigate to a target (vehicle or building or whatever to read the lat/long of the target. This is what I call reconnaissance phase. Write the coordinates down of targets you wish to attack. Return to the cockpit to enter them as waypoints.

 

Using the ScratchPad will help with this immensely in VR, but it's still a major PITA and take a lot of times. Not seldom have I arrived at the target location and found most if not all the targets already burning, bc it took so long. Not really much fun :(