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Secret Documents #44: A-10C II Tank Killer Guide - HOTAS Changes

Added 2020-10-25 19:13:42 +0000 UTC

Hi folks!

Well, the first stage of the update of the A-10C II "Tank Killer" guide is almost done. By "first stage", I mean "what changed and what didn't" with the aircraft controls. That's admittedly super boring, I hated every second of it, but there's no way around it. Some of the HOTAS functions have changed, so I decided to go through them individually and to figure it all out. I came up with three different types of pages:

A page without a tag means it is both applicable to the old "A-10C Legacy" version and the new "A-10C II Tank Killer Expansion" version
A page with a red "A-10C LEGACY" tag means it is applicable to the older version of the A-10 only (which means owners of the original A-10 who didn't upgrade will still be able to use the older stuff)
A page with a green "A-10C II TANK KILLER" tag means it is applicable to the new version of the A-10 only.

Mainly, HOTAS functions changed for Maverick controls, TAD controls, and Targeting Pod controls. This is what I included in this post. However, a few other small things need to be updated as well (i.e. JDAM HUD symbology, for instance), which isn't particularly hard but quite tedious. Once that's done, I'll move on to more interesting topics such as the Scorpion HMCS and the brand new laser-guided weapons.