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Old 12-11-2011, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by AV8R_ View Post
I was thinking about a mechanism that might help us with these kinds of a/c
spotting issues. WHy not make a hybrid between padlock and lock on?
So if you look at a position in space, you can hit a spot&lock key function so
that if there was an a/c (within an acceptable visual range of a pilot with 20/20
vision, say at 3km head on per that Navy chart for a fighter sized object)
that it will lock on and zoom in at the bogey for say 3 seconds. This would
emulate squinting and seeing the plane (no matter the pixel and resolution)
setting for a short time. Thus its not a fully automagic padlock, and its not a
box or icon text either. But just allows a short time to see the object better.
It's something like my idea.

I have to find the time to build a video about it.
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