RPK 10

[PatrickAWlson]

Several Russian planes have a RPK 10 radio locator.  Historically there would be one locator per flight, almost always in the lead plane.

In game what is this used for?  \

Does it work in conjunction with the radio beacon? 

Is there a German equivalent?

[Sketch]

You only need to place the NDB where you want the RPK to point towards. Set it to zero for Russian and one for German. If you place multiple NDBs, the RPK will point towards the closest one.

 

Like any vehicle, you can setup events where the NDB is enabled or disabled, so that the RPK points towards the target you want your player to go towards.

Edited December 21, 2017 by [TWB]Sketch

[coconut]

Both German and Russian use the same channel: channel 1. The nationality keeps them separate.

[LLv34_Temuri]

Also note, that the radio beacon doesn't seem to work if you spawn the NDB object.

[Gambit21]

In not enabled to begin with - you can't activate then deactivate an NDB.

If you need it disabled after activating you have to delete it.

[LukeFF]

Several Russian planes have a RPK 10 radio locator.  Historically there would be one locator per flight, almost always in the lead plane.

In game what is this used for?  \

Does it work in conjunction with the radio beacon? 

Is there a German equivalent?

 

All multi-engine German planes also have a radio compass. Additionally, the Ju 87, Fw 190 A-5, and (eventually) 109 G-6 also have a radio compass.

[Retnek]

On 12/22/2017 at 9:44 AM, Gambit21 said:

In not enabled to begin with - you can't activate then deactivate an NDB.

If you need it disabled after activating you have to delete it.

 

I've tested those NDB a lot during the last days, my findings are somewhat contrary to what I read here, so I place a note:

 

- I did not care for the spotter feature and tested SP-mission only.

 

- I found no way to spawn a usable NDB. I can spawn and de-spawn the object, but no success to modify it with "activate" or any kind of "area attack" orders etc pp. No way to make it send after it was spawned.

 

- NDB is doing fine when placed at the beginning (mission begin -> 2 sec -> trigger activate -> NDB). Doing so one can switch it on and off via activate / de-activate as often as needed.

 

- Some notes here pointed on "range settings"? I can't find any for the NDB-range (radio sender strength). Is there any option to limit the NDB-radio-range, please give me a hint.  Or where those guys talking about the range-settings of the spotter feature?

[Gambit21]

A. the activate/deactivate behavior might have changed since I did that test - good news if that's the case.

Thanks for your notes.