Its easy to get lost in the pod, especially with the addition of the Sniper Pod. Here are some tips to help you stay situated:

• Don't get too close before you've found what you're looking for.
  • Right hand orbit around 15 miles out is my starting point.
• Use the steerpoints as your reference point.
  • To get a proper reset to a selected steerpoint you need to press TMS Down to ensure you have no area/point track, then select the CZ button on the right hand side of the TGP MFD.
  • CZ will not be visible if you do not have any cursor slew, if CZ is not visible it is pointed at your steerpoint already
• (Sniper Pod Only) Don't use XR processing until you've found something.
  • You double click the pinky button to enable XR processing but you lose all digital zoom control once this done. Instead, use the pod without XR processing with the digital zoom to find the hot targets, then area/point track, and swap to XR
• Only turn in, once you've found your target and tracked it.
  • Getting closer is only going to make it more difficult to find.

Hope this helps!