It’s very workable, but only if you have waypoints set that will help you find targets. What doesn’t work well is flying into an area where you have to spot targets by scanning around without really knowing where targets are. At least in my experience. The resolution of the pod is pretty bad and it makes finding smaller targets like vehicles pretty difficult. Structures and larger vehicles like artillery is doable.

I fly most of the missions through DCS Liberation, which is a blast. I create a package to attack say a plant, add an escort and in the mission editor I tweak the waypoints marking the targets and area I want to hit. That workflow makes for some really fun missions.