McLuv's guide to requesting air support

[McBumLuv]

Yup, added that in too. Seeing laser boxes flying around is never a fun experience

[Hitman.2.5]

I dont know if this has been suggested but who agrees that a JTAC kit was introduced i mean it could basically be like the rifle man kit but with a SOFLAM nothing special, limit it but dont put such an annoying availiablity time on it so you can still have your precious Ub3r 1337 wtf sniper kits but alos have a few of these kits so if your a one man spotting squad you dont have to take the sniper kit because some noob is in the Inf tac squad with a sniper rifle and you cant take the officer kit because you are on your own, so i see thuis appropriate and i just want to know your veiws on this before i post in the suggestion thread.

Oh BTW for those that dont know, JTAC means "Joint Terminal Attack Controller"

[Ghost1800]

IMO you should really be in the same squad as the pilots your designating for if you are trying to be an independent spotter.

[SFOD_F HaXXeD]

Yeah Mack, theres nothing worse than coming in on a laze only to have them relaze it so your bomb tracks the moving laze. AARGH.

[Cptkanito]

Bombs track any lazer, even the enemy lazes. So you have to be 100% sure which lazer ur gunning for so ur bomb doesn't go walkabout...

[LudacrisKill]

Can you make the end note in chapter 3 in size 100 font and make it flash different colours?

Most annoying thing ever, I usually dont trust a lase unless its done by my spotter or someone I know, its just too risky.

I even see clan members do it... on 3 occasions members from GCA couldnt lase properly... and they think they are the best clan. pfff

[Cassius]

What I do is I request air support,
tell the treath
what I want (bombing, strafing run
the location (grid Kpad)
And if it is important, for example because the target is next to a house or a hill, the attack direction
(NW meaning the fighter should be flying northwest on the run.)

In Teamchat it would look something like this.

CAS APC Bombing run G1 K5 NW

And I laze as the CAS approaches renewing the laze every 25 sec

tip laze for unguided weapons too, they see the laze marker.

[isopharius]

like the guide, might translate it to teach some friends

Originally Posted by Cassius

tip laze for unguided weapons too, they see the laze marker.

lazing helps alot for littlebirds strafing runs, can the copilots camera be used for placing markers efficiently?

[McBumLuv]

Originally Posted by isopharius

lazing helps alot for littlebirds strafing runs, can the copilots camera be used for placing markers efficiently?

Sorry for the very late reply, but imo, the co-pilot's ability to laze is pretty useless. It takes too much effort, is extemely finicky (especially in a moving vehicle), and the normal SL markers are much better in these cases for pointing out things of interest to the pilot.

[Elektro]

Remember that you are able to place " Fake lasers " if you spot that some one is trying to lase your teams vechiles. You can put a fake one, a little further or "on" the enemy himself, and hope that the CAS hits the enemy instead of friendlies.