DCS A10C Target Management 2 TAD

[@ralfidude]

Dont forget lads, when you hook on to another aircraft, like he did on to his wingman, you can see what OWN and GROUP ID that flight is on. So if you are wanting to get on someones NET group, you can hook on to them and see for yourself. You can also send them data like the JTAC sends it to you. Once you have a SPI down on a target, HOOK the person you want to send data to, and on the right side of the TAD you will see SEND and their OWN and GRP ID with SEND, click that button, and thats it.

[@TheSimCorner]

As a new dcs player this video is so helpful I’ve been reading the manual to the ac10 but there is so much it feels overwhelming at times your video is brilliant and makes me understand things a lot easier thank you for your time I’m determined to learn this aircraft your video as helped me a lot in understanding this part of it

[@neohelios77]

Thank you for generously giving your spare time to bring us this information. Forty minute presentation is still much faster than it would have taken many newbies to read, retain, re-read, and stumble through the written version in the manual. Much appreciated!

[@SmokysRides]

Another fantastic video! I could watch these for weeks! So much great info, presented so clearly, with excellent examples to back them up. You are a great lesson designer and teacher! Please keep it up!

[@RedBravo65]

I'll just reiterate what most of the others have said. Absolutely superb video. I've been learning this aircraft myself recently, reading manual etc., but your videos just put things into perspective. Not only do I learn what a button or mode does but I learn the "why" you want to use it this way. Many, many thanks. Would love to see more...would like to see some stuff on CDU and TGP. Now off to practice.

[@bmbpdk]

As always a superb video! Clear voice and easy to understand. Have had a pause from DCS for a year and just recently came back to it, and your videos brought me up to speed within hours!

[@2kRotor]

I just watched that video for 40 minutes!? I got so hooked i forgot time and space. :) Very interesting and informative video. I am doing my best to learn the features of the A-10, so this was just awesome. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos.

[@MrDutchy83]

Still come back to this video everytime I step back into the A10c after a long break, thank you sir!

[@gerryabbott]

A10c, still the most complete module in DCS, worth coming back to..

[@MikeC729]

Gerry, thanks so much for taking the time to put these up, you're fantastic at explaining the inner workings of this sim. I'm getting to grips much more with the TAD now, thanks.

[@matthaxx7137]

Thanks Gerry. Another excellent video. The Mark Mode function was the missing link that I had been looking for for weeks.

[@Coolhand301111]

Man gotta say, outstanding video. You really shed a lot of light on a lot of grey areas in my understanding of the TAD

[@unapro3]

Thought it was just me, seemed to go for ages, still, I appreciate the effort he has put in to help others learn the game.

[@Dolph_Vader]

THANK GOD I can finally play campaign missions with bullseye call outs. This has been driving me insane! Thank you!

[@GetSum63]

Gerry you have some of the best tutorials I have ever seen, well explained. Many thanks.

[@valkyrie321]

Excellent video. I think this will be very helpful as I learn the A-10 systems. Funny, I actually used to be an electronic warfare technician on the ECM pods these things used. I feel like I'm coming full circle learning how to fly this plane.

[@AndreSlidell]

I appreciated your time and effort in making this worthwhile video for us DCS A-10c fans.

[@Kamil777]

The best explanation on A10s TAD EVER

[@billkeenan1085]

Thanks for this, Gerry. I find myself coming back to it to review just about every time I take a few months off from the A-10.

[@andrewnorgrove6487]

Slowly I'm getting to grips with this A-10C combined with the hotas stick and your tutorials ,Many thanks for you dedication sir )

[@heikos.8108]

Same from me. I just managed to get used to the proper usage of simply targeting my mavericks and now i was looking for information to make better usage of the target management overall. Thanks for this wonderful tutorial and explanation. I havent been so focused on one thing for 40 minutes since back then in my schooldays ;)

[@schmalzfaust]

So great from you to let us know all this stuff! The simulation ist so complex

[@gerryabbott]

Check out target management video 1, mark points. You have to be in Mark Points mode from the STEER PT switch below the EGI panel, Then its the same keys to cycle as SP's (or the rocker to the left of the UFC panel under the HUD).

[@Whuups.]

Great video. Inspires me to learn more about the fine details of this great sim.

[@SpotterSky]

Your videos are a great help and inspirational. Thanks GA, I hope you will make more of them when you have time :)

[@kylania]

The A-10 is exclusive to the US Air Force and US National Guard however in game there are many different country paint schemes available and you can fly it as any country or side.

[@GateCrasherVI]

A great video! I've watched at least two or three times. And I still find myself coming back for refreshers. Thanks so very much for sharing! I'll likely stop back in and post an index that you can add to the video description if you like. Small contribution I can offer =)

[@GetSum63]

All of your tutorials are excellent. Thank you !!

[@NBGZerO]

You probably know this already, but I'll put up an additional piece of information to that, for others to see: You can delete the red diamond by hovering over it with the cursor and pressing CNC (stands for CANCEL), iirc. Very useful once you've completed the current tasking and you have time to clean up your TAD.

[@GazAce]

Thanks heaps Gerry and again another awesome and efficacious tutorial. I just wish to ask and I’ll keep this as brief as I can. Towards the end you got some coordinates from JTAC and used the TAD to add MK Point to locate using Hook to Own, could I also enter the same coordinates into my CDU or UFC set as UTM to locate? And finally hook to your Wingman and locating on TGP, I was wondering what benefit this could have and could I do the same with an Enemy AC in single player mode?

[@gerryabbott]

Thanks Gaz for the positive comments. 1. Yes, you can add the coordinates manually, and i find it more reliable, but MP's are very efficient, and less labor intensive. Also the video is about the TAD, not the CDU. 2. Sometimes you might need to keep track of your wing man, if for example you are lasing targets for each other, or in poor weather fog etc to keep track of him. 3. No, enemies won't show up on the TAD, only AC in your group.

[@GazAce]

Gerry Abbott Thanks kindly for your reply Gerry and that's cleared up a lot for me now. Hey I was using that technique earlier tonight and I really liked it. It's great actually and quicker than CDU I reckon. Cheers mate. TAD is not so scary now heh

[@StefanodeLucadirector]

Gerry your videos are amazing! I'm learning the a10c thanks to this great instructional work. Thanks a lot for the time spent on that! Regards!

[@markbond18]

Great video. Im having a problem with Bulls to Hook in the tad. i get the continous line from bullseye to my curdoe, whereever it is but I only see the bearing and distance when my cursor is over a waypoint, markpoint or other element. How do I get yo display this info wherever my cursor is? Thanks Mark

[@Dvich]

Great tutorial! One question though, how do you cycle through Mark Points? Thanks.

[@juuba]

Nice :) Just one mention, about the scale of the moving map: e.g the 1:5M or 1:2M - it's not Miles. It's Million. Map scale e.g 1:5M is 1:5'000'000

[@kaspariito]

seems to be oldie, but a goldie!

[@PeyoteVisions]

Thank You! That is priceless! Standing by for more!

[@SteonCZ]

Excellent tutorial Garry. I learned much from it.Many thanks.

[@thebiggestoneyouveverhad]

You are an A10-C master! Thank you for this video!

[@m9mattm9]

Excellent video, thankyou. I watched your last video on trackir, and it was just as good. Are you doing anymore videos, on the other systems and different weapons?

[@Proximax9]

Wow I learned so much :D Now I can actually navigate and find targets! Awesome! Thanks!

[@daniellauck9565]

Whatching in november, 2018. Great video!

[@couger014]

One question: When i give my wingman the order to engage any type of target or when i'm flying with other friendly planes. I always see them making small triangles which represent targets. How can i make those?? because the only way how i know to make targets visible on my TAD is by making it a "weddingcake" or by making markpoints.

[@Oteaio]

Hello Gerry thx for your tutos wich are so usefull for a lot of us. The best is that Im french and the way you speak, very calm and clear, help me to practice my english. :-D. In that video youre,annoucing a next one about passing informations in multiplay mode. What about that project ? Thx again.

[@MrPhantom453]

Great video & very detailed. Very helpful. Thanks for all your efforts Fish.

[@gerryabbott]

Oh and u have to make the the sensor you wish to move the cursor on (LMFCD, RMFCD or HUD), use the COOLIE HAT left long, right long, and UP long respectively. (can't remember actual keys, since i have them remapped.). Think they were U, J, K but someone else might chip in to confirm.

[@RTSchramm]

Excellent video still works even in 2020

[@desmoflex]

hi there! i don´t want to highjack this thread but maybe you have an idea how to solve a problem. using stop-TIR in BMS produces strange changes of view angle especially when your head is left/right from center line before stopping TIR. any idea how to fix that problem? your tutorial vid´s are great! it makes things so much easier to diveg deeper into the details. thanks much!! desmo

[@Amir2Earth]

Yeah.... how do you use the curser on the radar?

[@GKUgaming]

how du u move the cursor? it wont show up for me

[@Renegade30]

Very awesome, thanks for such a detailed and easy to understand video! Subscribed

[@PhantomMark]

I keep looking for the Nort Gerry :D Nice vid thanks mate

[@GKUgaming]

Hey just wondering, does any other countries have the a-10 or is it just the US

[@swiftplus175]

Hi Gerry, a bit off, but how can you modify menu font type?

[@gerryabbott]

+swiftplus175 I don't know if you can. Someone over at ED forums might help though.

[@Silver4079]

Is that voice thing already in the game or is that a program your using ???to talk to Jtac

[@gerryabbott]

Hmm. No radar on the A10. cursor default keys are ; , . /

[@twfoth]

Superb video. ED should have done something like this!!

[@DArt503]

Thanks for this video, very clear and complete!

[@kkalin328]

Could you.make a video on how to use the radios please

[@kerguule]

is it possible to delete markpoints? sry if this has been asked before :D

[@ralfidude]

@gerryabbott Gotcha. Good work on the vid.

[@DBSTH0R]

Thank you very much for this. Well put together.

[@gerryabbott]

@ralfidude Thanks for the useful info. As I said in the video, I'm hoping to cover all the Net stuff in a follow up video.

[@AlexandreCatalifaud]

Thanks a lot, very clear and complete !

[@RichA7CV41]

Outstanding sir, thank you for making this. Subscribed!

[@Alien9828]

Excellent Vid Gerry, well done.

[@gerryabbott]

@juuba Cheers for that. Makes sense. Will annotate the vid.

[@Makrond]

This is a pretty good tutorial, but you tell people to click "CNTCO" or "cannot comply" when receiving data from a JTAC and to use a markpoint instead. It's much easier to click "WILCO" (will comply), as this will leave the red diamond on your TAD until the JTAC dismisses you. While for the purpose of simulation there's nothing wrong with doing it the way you do it, in the real world the FAC would be quite confused as to why you're reporting that you won't attack the target ;)

[@Casen87]

What's the mod to talk to the radio?

[@gerryabbott]

VAC (voice activation software). Check the video i did about it.

[@Casen87]

Gerry Abbott That I will, thank you.

[@KozmykJ]

1 : 5M means a Map Scale of 1 in 5 Million NOT Miles . Good series of videos though. Very informative.

[@richardmissin3498]

You think you know the a10c, then you watch a Gerry Abbott video ;)...extremely helpful.

[@OneShotToKill1]

How do we delete a marker?

[@guillaumehamelin3047]

+OneShotToKill1 Or a waypoint or mark point, or any object we previously added.

[@gerryabbott]

+OneShotToKill1 been a while, but think all MP's have alphabet letter. So..... once you hit, z old ones get overwritten. Easy to go the an unused area on the map, and click till you get to Z, then come back to the AO, and put new MP's down there.

[@OneShotToKill1]

+Gerry Abbott Alright, thanks for the info. So no way to erase them from the CDU or the UFC? And thanks for this tutorial it has been very useful.

[@gerryabbott]

no definitely not for Mark points.. Not sure about deleting wp's though. Think you might be able to adjust from the in-flight flight planner, or at least adjust their location.

[@figjam5181]

Nicely detailed..... Thank you

[@vikingonezero]

GREAT VIDEO , THANK YOU SO MUCH...VERY HELPFUL

[@taiming71]

And here i though it was just a cool map, a lot of functions in it.

[@colderwar]

Excellent tutorial.

[@gerryabbott]

No, you can't delete markpoints, but you can 'overwrite' them.

[@mattbx]

Great video, thank you

[@gerryabbott]

Will consider this. In the meantime this video might help youtube Ee4etF1cors

[@Dvich]

Thank you.

[@Scarecrowman27]

Great video. and Videos. But I have one question. Can you read me a bedtime story or do audio books lol

[@snow-ripper]

Awesome vid thanks

[@kkalin328]

Good videos keep them up

[@stephanejulien116]

Plus one like !

[@unwert12]

Big THX

[@gerryabbott]

Check out my 'VAC' video. All will be revealed.

[@jengo1]

Informative but honestly it was way too long. With proper preparation, less repeating of information and less long pauses this entire video can be done in 15 minutes.

[@GKUgaming]

LOL as RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA

[@Dav5049915]

So awesome. Can't wait to try this stuff tonight! Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

[@markbond18]

Great video. Im having a problem with Bulls to Hook in the tad. i get the continous line from bullseye to my curdoe, whereever it is but I only see the bearing and distance when my cursor is over a waypoint, markpoint or other element. How do I get yo display this info wherever my cursor is? Thanks Mark

[@gerryabbott]

Video 28:40. TMS up short. But your cursor has to be hovering over a nav point. TMS down gets you back to what you are seeing.