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Course/orders - 4/20/2013 11:22:41 PM   
Galandar

 

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Status: offline 		Question from a old Harpooner who is a newb to HUCE. Is there a way to enter course legs/orders for an ASW aircraft so that it flies from point to point but loiters at each point to drop a sonobuoy? I seem to remember that there was a way to do that in the old Win 95/98 version, but I've tried a number of ways and I can't get it to work. Every time I enter a "loiter" command, the aircraft stops, and I have to manually kick it into cruise to get it going again.
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RE: Course/orders - 4/21/2013 1:15:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Press the period key (.) to drop a sonobuoy at any speed.

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RE: Course/orders - 4/21/2013 1:16:43 AM   
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< Message edited by yojimboguy -- 4/21/2013 1:17:49 AM >

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RE: Course/orders - 4/21/2013 9:21:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		It is very tedious (as you have discovered) to try and program a course that includes an automatic (more or less) laying of a sonobuoy field. You could, as yojim intimates, set a course and then use the period key to manually drop sonobuoys at desired locations (without slowing to loiter), but again this requires micro management. A way to autonomously lay sonobuoys in a set pattern is something on the wish list for HCE, and some progress is being made toward that goal.

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RE: Course/orders - 4/23/2013 1:42:38 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Galandar

Question from a old Harpooner who is a newb to HUCE. Is there a way to enter course legs/orders for an ASW aircraft so that it flies from point to point but loiters at each point to drop a sonobuoy?


You could try adding two Alt/Speed events at each course point, the first one Loiter, the second one Cruise. I haven't tried it but it could possibly work.

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RE: Course/orders - 4/23/2013 3:59:29 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Galandar
You could try adding two Alt/Speed events at each course point, the first one Loiter, the second one Cruise. I haven't tried it but it could possibly work.


I think that's the methodology he is describing in his initial post. It doesn't work, and you have to manually kick the aircraft back into cruise to get it moving again.

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RE: Course/orders - 4/23/2013 4:24:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Are you able to make two Alt/Speed events at each course point or does it not allow you to have two?  Asking in combination with
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and some progress is being made toward that goal.
since we'll need a mechanism to deploy the buoys and this will help me formulate a plan for the best approach.

Thanks!


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RE: Course/orders - 4/23/2013 4:41:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		IIRC, it will let you set two speeds at the same course waypoint, but it won't put the second of the two into action.

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