Navigation

I've been looking at how to find my way around recently.

I can use:

ARC-9

Doppler

I have no idea about:

ARC-UD

R863

- Preset

- Dial

R828

I'm assuming these radios can be used for navigation. I imagine you can just tune the R863 radio to the airbase frequency and then use this to navigate. Is this correct? Has anyone got any experience with this?

Thanks!

Never navigated with R863 don't know if its possible.

ARK-UD is easy if you know freq's

R828 is broken in NAV mode ATM but is used in conjunction with ARK-UD

Page 2 onwards is useful. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114903

specifically these post from the incomparable Imp

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1901918&postcount=26

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1951035&postcount=39

And a useful few links from my Ukranian pal

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2010692&postcount=60

Thanks, Cibit!

Great info as always. I'll take a good look at this during the week.

Perhaps I'll try and compile it all into a post here once I'm done. - Actually, there really doesn't seem to be that much more to it.

So in order to use the R828, I need to manually put in transmitters.

I was hoping there was a way to home in on the airbases directly.

Use the ARK-9 with inner and outer NDBS

I see your ingame, later if your still about I can join for a nav lesson

Was good talking with you yesterday, Cibit. You helped me out with pretty much everything I needed to know. When I get some time, I'll try and post up my findings so other people can enjoy the Mi-8 a little more!

My Findings

So after looking at this, I've figured out the basics. I'll try and fill out this post more completely when I get time.

Navigation:

Navigation can be done in one of three ways: ARC-9, ARC-UD, Doppler.

The ARC-9 ADF is generally used for NDB navigation that will take you to the runways that have NDBs (most, but not all). The frequency is entered on one of the two dials. You might want to consider using

Lino's map for this.

The ARC-UD works via presets (1-6) and is used for tracking units or other things people have added to the mission. An example would be units that need rescuing.

ARC-UD Presets -

Channel 1 - 114.167 MHz

Channel 2 - 114.333 MHz

Channel 3 - 114.584 MHz

Channel 4 - 121.500 MHz

Channel 5 - 123.100 MHz

Channel 6 - 124.100 MHz

Doppler tracks movement.

Radios:

The R-863 works via presets and a dial. The presets are not current set by default, but can be added via a small change to the radio script. The dial is simple to use. The radio script will allow you to do things like contacting airbase towers using presets. This simplifies having to set the information manually.

I added mine under the agr section and this works:

[i]agr = {
input_signal_deviation		= 50.0, --Db
output_signal_deviation		= 5.0,  --Db
input_signal_linear_zone 	= 10.0,  --Db
regulation_time				= 0.25, --sec
}[/i]

presets = {}

presets[1] = 121000000.0 -- Anapa
presets[2] = 131000000.0 -- Batumi
presets[3] = 141000000.0 -- Beslan
presets[4] = 126000000.0 -- Gelendzhik
presets[5] = 130000000.0 -- Gudata
presets[6] = 133000000.0 -- Kobuleti
presets[7] = 122000000.0 -- Krasnodar Centre
presets[8] = 128000000.0 -- Krasnador Pash
presets[9] = 124000000.0 -- Krymsk
presets[10] = 134000000.0 -- Kutasai
presets[11] = 125000000.0 -- Maykop
presets[12] = 135000000.0 -- Mineralnye Vody
presets[13] = 137000000.0 -- Mozdok
presets[14] = 136000000.0 -- Nalchik
presets[15] = 123000000.0 -- Novorossiysk
presets[16] = 132000000.0 -- Senaki
presets[17] = 127000000.0 -- Sochi Adler
presets[18] = 129000000.0 -- Sukhumi
presets[19] = 139000000.0 -- Tblisi Soganlug
presets[20] = 138000000.0 -- Tblisi Lochini

The R-828 has only presets. These are set in the radio script by default. You can add in units in the game to broadcast on these frequencies. They are set in FM.

R-828 Presets -

presets[1] = 21.500

presets[2] = 25.675 -- radio Mayak

presets[3] = 27.000

presets[4] = 28.000

presets[5] = 30.000

presets[6] = 32.000

presets[7] = 40.000

presets[8] = 50.000

presets[9] = 55.525

presets[10] = 59.975

The 828 can also be used for navigation, but I've yet to get this working correctly.

If I've made any mistakes with this information, feel free to post corrections! Hopefully this will be a useful reference for people. Please also let me know if you think something is missing! :book:

Thanks to Cibit for pointing me in the right direction, and thanks to everyone else (Imp, firewings, airwar, and others) on the forums who originally discovered this information.

I'm still pretty new to all this, all I'm trying to do is compile everything in one place so people don't have to search so hard to find it. Once the manual is released, we won't need to worry :) :helpsmilie: Edit: There's a beta manual! :megalol: