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Hey everyone, Wags here from Eagle Dynamics. In this DCS: F-16C Viper video, we’ll look at the Primary Datalink Track feature, or PDLT. PDLT allows you to designate a datalink-only or a correlated track on the HSD and have an octagon symbol around it on the HSD, FCR, HUD, and HMCS.

This is a useful tool to maintain situational awareness on your wingman, element lead, or a target.

You may notice that this is not as fancy as the Hornet HUD and helmet datalink. Although both our Viper and Hornet are based in mid-2000s jets, the Viper is rather ghetto compared to the Hornet in this regard.

To assign the PDLT to a datalinked contact, the HSD needs to be SOI, and the HSD cursor is slewed over the datalink-only or a non-designated correlated contact, and TMS Forward is pressed to assign it. An already designated (bugged) contact cannot be assigned as the PDLT, assigning it would make it a designated contact. If a PDLT contact becomes the designated contract, the PDLT octagon is removed.

If there is a PDLT assigned contact, and a different contact is assigned to be the PDLT, the PDLT assignment is moved to the newly assigned contact.

If there is an assigned PDLT contract, pressing TMS Right will cycle the PDLT through the undesignated datalink and correlated A-A contacts. The step order is from the bottom of the HSD to the top. If of equal distance on the HSD, then left to right.

TMS Aft, with HSD cursor over the PDLT, removes the PDLT assignment. If the PDLT is also over a threat ring, the first TMS Aft removes the threat ring, and the second TMS Aft removes the PDLT assignment. If the datalink track is lost on the PDLT contact assignment, the PDLT symbol is removed.

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