DCS F/A-18c Hornet LOFT, AUTO and CCIP bombing Tutorial

[@crudball666]

This is the best tutorial I have seen in 15 years on KZbin. List the time stamps to skip ahead. Concise and to the point with great editing and info graphics.

[@RedKiteRender]

Thanks Bernanna! been steadily improving as i've been making these!

[@mbielchris]

Don' t forget the calm British voice!

[@DJones476]

@@RedKiteRender Hey Red! What's that little capital 'A' right below the altitude reading? Thanks in advance, Buddy!

[@xesxaw]

What a fantastic tutorial. Very well explained and with great video editing. Thank you very much for the content.

[@thefridge71]

You are a gun mate. Lofting is now my favourite technique due to this video. Set a waypoint in the UFC (learnt from RK). Set up my loft at 600 and pop up (learnt from RK). Delicious!!!

[@jakewolfe7397]

Thanks for going over the discrepancies within the AUTO bombing method. I was convinced there was some sort of calculation error happening myself, but never put the time into checking it. You're doing God's work!

[@RedKiteRender]

Thanks James! Yeah this one took longer than i wanted since i had to experiment and test the auto bombing mode so much.

[@mrsteel250]

Tutorials are getting better and better

[@bern9470]

Thank you so much Redkite for this wonderful detailed and easy to follow tutorial. I've been a huge fan of Bunyap tutorials and have desperately tried to find a new source of quality tutorials, that I can follow along with, since he stopped making them. Finally, I found that person. Redkite, you're my new hero. Subscribed.

[@RedKiteRender]

Thank you for the kind words! Bunyap was one of many channels i drew some inspiration from starting this channel, it's a real shame he doesn't do videos anymore!

[@murilomurakame]

@RedKite, you have one of the best DCS tutoring channels today, we need new videos to update the new features of the F-18 radar and the RWR.

[@RedKiteRender]

Radar tutorial is on the way, the RWR needs a little more added to it to be worth covering, i'd like to see some more of the modes functioning.

[@murilomurakame]

Thank you very much for your attention. I look forward to the update of the tutorial. Congratulations on the content, certainly one of the best channels on the F / A-18C currently.

[@sniperwolfpk5]

I can see the hard work you put on this video. Well done and keep up the good work

[@Zatracenec]

The best tutorials ever. Honestly, I often dont fully understand some topics from manuals and You always hit the spot. Great job!

[@RedKiteRender]

No problem Zatracenec!

[@7ven68]

This guys is sendt from DCS heaven.Thanks for sharing your knowledge..

[@RedKiteRender]

You're more than welcome Sven!

[@leseur6675]

Thanks again for a great lesson, now I can have no excuse to miss a target on a bomb run. All the best (Le).

[@MrGs500f]

Shared this one to all my smart friends who don't play. Its just overall impressive. Your video and its format matches the precision of the hornets laser gyro dude. ☆☆☆☆☆

[@RedKiteRender]

Thanks MrGs500f I've been steadily working up and improving on these videos, glad to hear you've enjoyed it.

[@KarpKomet]

Thx for the gr8 tutorial. I'm fairly up to speed with the hornet but completely missed that loft mode.

[@wilbuzllf5057]

And another superb tutorial! Well explained, good volume as far as your voice goes and you talk at perfect speed, not too slow, not too fast. Thanks :-)

[@RedKiteRender]

You're welcome Rasmus!

[@Lb8068]

Hey Redkite, I’d really love a tutorial on the newly released JDAMs and how they could perhaps be lofted to maximise range. Your tutorials are really unrivaled on KZbin and I don’t think anybody would be able to explain things any better. Of course I’m sure you have your own videos planned too and I’ll definitely watch them too!

[@RedKiteRender]

Hey. I'l have a look at them after the next open beta update (this wed i think). I've been too busy with real life problems to produce any videos of late sadly.

[@Lb8068]

RedKite That’s quite alright! The videos you’ve already released are absolutely superlative and I’m sure whatever you subsequently release will be too - I’m very happy to wait at least! Best wishes with whatever’s going on with your life.

[@Etorofu86]

Your videos are so incredibly helpful. Thanks a lot for it. Very high quality tutorials. I enjoy flying the F/A-18C a lot. It is such a smooth airplane. And as a friend of A/G CAS missions, I feel very excited knowing all the systems and procedures for it. It is amazing, how much features are already in the game for this module. It felt like there is only CCIP available, but you proven me wrong. Nice nice nice. :)

[@RedKiteRender]

Yeah im a fan of ground attack so i cant wait for us to start seeing smart air to ground ordinance getting added to the hornet.

[@hansgold58]

Great tutorial Redkite, much appreciated!

[@Wikkus]

Excellent, as always! Many thanks.

[@giuseppeloggia6412]

Wow! very usefull. I knew she could do it when I flew jane's fa 18 but i was not able to do it in dcs. This video will be stored in my personal tutorial. So good buddy, well done!

[@RedKiteRender]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@danielosdinia4258]

Great job man! I've always been curious about the topic and I know something now. Thanks a lot.

[@Catpain_Tailspin]

Great tutorial. Finally well presented and easy to follow

[@jaybeckman3749]

It would appear that loft bombing will work best at standard temperature. It actually makes sense that in hot / cold conditions you'll go long / short as hot air is thinner and cold air is denser.

[@RedKiteRender]

Yes, the physics all make perfect sense, what doesn't is the fact we can't account for this in our auto solutions, hopefully we'l get the feature soon.

[@vnyggi621]

As if a hight tech piece like this cant faktor that in :(

[@potatopower2410]

His voice is so calming

[@RedKiteRender]

Thanks Ricky :)

[@Fercyful]

amazing tutorials! thanks

[@EgonVon2010]

Best tutorial ever. Liked and subscribed.. Awesome mate!

[@RedKiteRender]

Thanks!

[@marklopez936]

This one goes in the Golden Hits library. Great Tutorial! I think you can teach.

[@darkshadow7709]

BIG BIG THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL!!!! Helped a lot:)

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

I didn't know that the temperature actually has an effect on the ballistics, but that explains why most of my bombs tend to fall long (mostly plain 82s or 82SE in FF) since I did most of my test runs with the Hornet on the PG map with close-to-realistic temperatures, basically maxed out through the roof. Well, couldn't manage to set it above 40.something °C which is like 10 less than real for an Arabian summer (Caucasus allows for higher temps strangely). Thanks for pointing that out. Will revert that map to standard DCS 21°C then for the time being :D Another thing that got me though: By intense testing I've noticed that whatever you'll set your burst height for CBU-99/100 at, it's always 1500' in the end. Doesn't seem to work yet actually in the early access. but I might try testing that again, since my last tries were in either 19273 or 19641. Didn't see anything in the changelogs though.

[@RedKiteRender]

Colder the air is the denser it is, putting up more resistance, helicopters in particular get more lift in cold weather. There's quite a few things that slip through the change logs, even the aim-120b wasn't mentioned when it was added! My experience has been the lower the burst the more accurate it'l be suggesting the auto calculation isn't considering the change in ballistics when it bursts.

[@_Winterz]

Best tutorials so far. Thanks

[@Erv704]

Great job. Explained very well. thanks for sharing.

[@SimplyTHC]

This was freaking great man ! You are the best

[@RedKiteRender]

Cheers!

[@Zadren]

Great vid, thank you. I'm looking forward to a comprehensive A-A chapter, especially for AMRAAM. I suck at BVR. And dogfighting. :/

[@RedKiteRender]

They'l be coming, the aim-120 is still a little too work in progress, so i wont cover it just yet.

[@thebgpikester]

I use 4.5 miles at faster speed, can get off before 2000 feet which is a lot better than 7000feet if you have SAM's. Also the ripple is useful for this.

[@RedKiteRender]

I chose a fairly simple to remember and easy to do loft for the example so people can learn and get some success before experimenting themselves. You'l always want to tailor your loft based on the threats.

[@piston_77]

is this bug onyl related to the hornet or to the bombs themselves? I remember someone trying CCRP (AUTO) with the a10c and the results were the same with the mk 82. Maybe the bombs are bugged and not the hornet.

[@ThePaulv12]

ISA = 1013.3hpa @ 15°C @ sea level and 0 wind. ISA = International Standard Day ISA is a datum and any real world conditions are a variation of ISA. Plug in ISA and see what happens

[@ninegravity2275]

Now I understand what is loft,thanks!

[@Specter0420]

Loft bombing + buddy lazing is one of the best things you can do in DCS. I can't wait until we can do that with hornets.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Would be great if the laser went more than 10nm though (well, light and physics, you know). That buddy still has to sit pretty much inside the danger zone or be a JTAC on the ground that hasn't been shot up yet.

[@RedKiteRender]

An under-rated aspect of the warthog is dropping a whole bunch of jdams at once on multiple targets, imagine how satisfying it would be to loft 4 jdams and hit 4 targets on one run!

[@sucbsakulmehi4261]

Could you make a pop-up run video of the hornet? Your tutorials are awesome!

[@Tiger01]

Thanks man, very good tutorial :)

[@roteroktober360]

as long as the FA18 doesnt have a TGP slave to WYPT function like the A10C its not really a viable option for precise attack runs or CAS

[@piston_77]

One year later, and we still have the same problems with AUTO. I guess the WIP is taking forever.

[@Bacho_Grande]

You are my kind of nerd. I love it.

[@fastgamingchannels7024]

Hi , new here and to DCS and just going through all the f-18 hornet tutorials. Is the mod in the description still compatible? And can you recommend any other mods to help me practice using the F-18 please or any in genreral. So glad i came across your channel such a god send ^^

[@__Dusty_]

Hold up! What sort of flak was that at 2:19?! A mod? Need that for Gulf War scenarios although I guess it's a WWII unit?

[@RedKiteRender]

WW2 Assets. I'm really hoping we'l see some modern flak guns some day.

[@manizaeim]

even with the perfect run i could not achieve loft bombing, exactly same parameter, did you switch to radar altimeter ? i switch to radar altimeter too, it is not accurate , not sure because of early access or my mistake! exactly, the best result achieve by 83, u r 100% percent right, the temp affect a lot as u mentioned

[@louissikkema5399]

Thanks for these amazingly short and understandable tutorials Especially now that cap from the grim reapers can,t upload his tutorials

[@RedKiteRender]

It's rough what cap's going through but i cant say i'l miss his 'tutorials' they've got some entertainment value, but they're often rushed, ramble and poorly explained. I treat them as a cap tries to do X series.

[@louissikkema5399]

Whili it‘s true that his tutorials are rused and often not really complete, they still help me a lot because he has often himselves problems understanding this stuff and so it is explained easy enough by his friends. But I like your name for his tutorials😂😂

[@Wingman77tws]

wow, great tutorial, Has the loft timing been fixed yet?

[@mrocklop]

Great video! One question: When lofting, I was always under the impression you want to release while pulling some g's when you pull the stick back to get maximum distance. In this tutorial, bombs are released while maintaining a steady climb, which i never found as effective when playing falcon f-16. Do you ever release while pulling up? its harder to time butt you can really trow those suckers.

[@RedKiteRender]

The reason i do it here is we do not have the dedicated loft mode, which makes that timed pull up very difficult to get right, so i simplified the process to work around the in game limitations. I hope we'l get loft mode added sometime, but the focus is far more on radar at the moment.

[@guillaumeaudthimeo4077]

4:34 os it an av:8b?

[@TacplayDe]

Nice informative video! Thanks!

[@sdcf334]

Not being able to put enviromental variables seems like a WIP thing. For example in A10C, you can put wind and temp in the CDU to get accurate dumb bombs from 5000ft+

[@RedKiteRender]

Yeah, i dont know how it's input, or if the aircraft can gather data itself like the a-10c, but we're certainly missing some functionality.

[@bandp2]

Great tutorial dude you should be proud of yourself making such a great video. 10/10. ? how do you get the tgt on the ground?

[@RedKiteRender]

I don't quite follow your question?

[@bandp2]

@@RedKiteRender I can't seem to get the target on the ground to do some bombing practice. how did you get it

[@RedKiteRender]

It's a mod, linked in the description

[@sinaiata3488]

EXcellent tutorial, thx =) I've just a question: A-A weapons have "LOFT" option in store page right ? so is WIP option or it work for now ? Thx again !

[@RedKiteRender]

I believe the loft function of the aim-7 is not functional just yet, it's used to increase the max range and improve pk on longer distance targets, you'd not use a loft when close to a bandit.

[@dontaddmehobo]

did auto bombing ever get fixed? currentlxlearning f18.

[@Ghost08151]

Thanks for the tutorial, can you also make a video about PopUp target run?

[@RedKiteRender]

Generally pop-up attacks require pre-planned targets and smart weapons like mavericks to allow the launching aircraft minimal exposure, a pop-up loft requires you to be fortunate enough to have a large hill near the target.

[@TechGaming45]

Fantastic

[@macedk]

Thanks man...very good :)

[@Agridefense]

Have the loft errors beeg patched out yet?

[@silly_jolly5700]

Very nice tutorial! Event my cat can do it now!

[@RedKiteRender]

Hope it's not a long hair breed, nightmare keeping the throttles clean!

[@iain8837]

Can someone tell me how to make a coloured smoke effect, it doesn't show in the static objects or the add on objects??

[@RedKiteRender]

You need to crate them with a trigger and trigger zone

[@iain8837]

Ok, good to know, will try that out. Thx

[@ikeo8666]

"sensor control stick on your joystick up" huh?

[@mersyndol]

Nice work!! ty!

[@ladziaklpl5889]

great, thx bro

[@safiuddin1997]

Can you do an A2A and those sparrow loft.

[@RedKiteRender]

I dont think the sparrow has the loft function enabled yet, il have a look

[@gawra7159]

Do you play dcs World steam edition ?

[@RedKiteRender]

I use standalone

[@cromwellthesynth]

2:20 flak guns? What is this, 'nam? XD

[@RedKiteRender]

WW2 actually :) That said modern air combat does have radar guided flak guns, just dcs rather sadly lacks them.

[@LazzySeal]

It's incorrect I think. Loft mode is not within Auto mode. Proper Loft mode is separate mode which will be add later... This loft-ish is just shortcut and not actually proper Loft mode in F-18C IIRC

[@RedKiteRender]

I wouldnt be surprised if there is a dedicated loft mode that we're missing. One that has loft start prompts and programming for release angle. The auto mode does support impromptu lofts though and is stated in the manual as supporting up to 45 deg lofts.

[@LazzySeal]

RedKite auto mode does support loft but saying that LOFT is within Auto mode could be misleading, especially when real LOFT mode will be added and people will search for tutorials.

[@RedKiteRender]

Auto mode is how you loft for the time being, if a dedicated loft mode is added i'l be certain to cover it with a new tutorial.

[@swinder3695]

Lazzy Seal In the F/A-18C Tactical Pocket Guide there are references to a "AUTO LOFT" mode which would suggests that the Hornet has a Loft mode which is a submode of AUTO. This makes sense as the Loft mode in the AV-8B (which has similar avionics to the Hornet) is also a submode of AUTO.

[@LazzySeal]

@@swinder3695 AUTO mode supports lofting up to 45 degrees. But still it is not "LOFT" which will be available later. LOFT has more settings and Lofting with auto mode is not LOFT mode per say. But RedKite already cleared that. He will do updated tutorial when LOFT will arrive and there will be no misunderstanding I hope. My concerns more about wording itself, because lets say in a year people will search tutorials and can be confused and will use lofting with AUTO instead of LOFT or will be puzzled, because there are a lot of people who watch YT tutorials but not really nerding inside tech docs. And title here clearly says LOFT so search will give them result for this video among others..

[@pickinthatbanjo]

I love your vid's but they seem to make me fall asleep lol, perhaps it's the voice or something. Just find it confrontive or something

[@IrishManJT]

To quote an old Vietnam era A4 Skyhawk Jock (Sen John McCain) “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran” :-)

[@jamesc9001]

Great video, wonderfully clear, concise and detailed. Great delivery of the info.