@cns180784:

This is bloody hard, the training script gives you hints like for jettisoning your 6 Mk82s and 370G tanks, but trying to guide the jet to land after the engine cuts off just seems way too difficult, almost impossible to me. I crash into the sea about a mile or bit more from the AB. Any hints anyone? i know that it says to balance airspeed with altitude but how is that done? once my engine cuts off i slow down and start to lose alt and just crash.

jettison doesn’t sound like to be the prob. I think it is the throttle. Make sure after you immediately jettison that the throttle is on lowest power, that way you don’t loose all the fuel still left before the complete blackout. I myself gain some altitude with that left over fuel.

On the comments section of the config tool, to the right of the command, it says enabling cockpit display extraction forces windowed mode. It is for extracting cockpit displays to other monitors.

1. BMS Manual page 82, APG-68 Radar. TMS is the Target Management System switch on your stick, look at the diagrams on page30 to see what it does. Theres many modes, long presses, short presses. Different radar modes, instead of writing the article here you can just read it or join a wing and go through training. Mainly designate with TMS forward
2. ‘4’, but i dont use it.
3. No. Page 30-34 in BMS-Manual will show you the dogfight mode switch on the throttle, and the MissileStep Button on the stick which does some of what you want, depending on Master Mode, and Weapons.

Don’t worry. It’s just formation practice.

Bad thing is that there is no collision hitbox on those 😄

@Dracfalcon:

@cns - Looks like you are getting there.

Yep and i pressed CMS forward/left in game and nothing was released as i hadnt set any EWS programs, so thats it. As i created my own DTC i’m no longer using anything from the defaults.

@cns180784:

Once an AGM-88 runs out of fuel it falls to the ground, fuel is the main factor for a missiles’ range.

Nope… (sigh).

Depends on the missile, but typically, for a short range missile, you have 2-5s of propulsion for a 30+ s battery time, ie a 30+ s of “useable” time. There are exception, some missiles do rely on propulsion to get power supply and/or guidance, but the main rules is usually : “useable flight time” = “engine duration” x 10.

They circle to find the space and match the criteria with their patern so to start the bombing run.

Once said to give the attack command as far away as possible.

@Shadow:

It is a Radar (Microwave transmission) Dish not a laser. It has an effective azimuth of a X number of degrees it never “focus” any where near 100% of its energy on a single point.

The amount of “radar” energy that reaches the “target” will depend upon the transmission power, the frequency used (atmospheric conditions/scatter/absorption), transmitter design (dish), range to target, size of target (CSA) and others.

The only thing that can be “focused” as apposed to “targeted” is the receiver. And even then the strength of the return signal depends upon the antenna design and needs to be processed.

So if a target is fired upon you are saying that the dish ceases its “scan” sequence and STTs on the target of interest for a short period of time ?? and then continues its scan. We are talking about “soft lock”.

Remember we are talking electro magnetic radiation not a particle gun.

You can’t “FOCUS” a receiver, especially not in the context of this post. A receiver “Receives” RF, there is nothing to focus. The main difference between TWS and RWS operation as applied here is that in TWS the SOFTWARE of the radar system uses an algorithm to guestimate where the track will be based on the speed, heading, altitude, etc… between sweeps. That way when it sees the target on the next sweep, in the same position as what it “Guessed” it would be (Or reasonably close), the software can say with some certainty it is the same the track, even though it didn’t maintain a constant RF stream to the target. STT actively steers the radar array to follow the specific track it is tracking, so there is no reason to guess where it will be. As stated earlier in the post, when you pickle an AIM-120, the radar SHOULD steer the dish to the track and go into STT for a second to verify the track is still there before it passes the information to the missile and goes through the launch sequence, but it’s done by the radar software, so it’s transparent to the operator. Whether or not that’s how it’s actually modeled, beats me.

@Sting:

Smart scaling is for pussies….:o

🙂

Haha well said

I don’t think so. Go high and fast.

It’s more about the relative wind. The pitch ladder moves left/right in accord with side-slip - so if you are rolling/pulling and the ladder goes off the side of the HUD is is because you are un-coordinated and putting on enough G to induce an angle of side-slip (roll-yaw coupling, in one of it’s senses). If you notice, you can bring the ladder back to center by relaxing G, changing roll, or stomping rudder in the appropriate direction.

Learning to actually use it is part of learning to control the airplane effectively.

That’s not what I was trying to say - only that between the time of the last update and this Reddog’s information may have improved…and he used something better than he had the last time.

I always assume the latest is the best!

Watch these tutorials by Krause, will get you going:

To cns180784/Fenrir:

The way to be able to get a good idea where to put the PPT is this. Be zoomed in all the way on the 2D map and go through the enemies OOB looking for SAM systems. Once you find one in the OOB you select the unit and click on the find button. It will center the 2D map on the position of that unit but it will NOT give you a visual on the map, INS/GPS coordinates, or a recon of the unit to look at. Right click on the map, add and set the PPT to the proper system and try to center the PPT ring as much as possible to the center of the zoomed in 2D map and it will give you a good point for where the system is. Now obviously against mobile SAM systems like SA-6/SA-13 etc. this (and any PPT made from that) will only show you were it was at the time you created it. Depending on how long prior to the flight you created it changes how far off that PPT could be from it’s actual location.

not working in 4.32

Ok thanks for the info.

Seems to be a similar issue with the Osprey ?

@Raptor:

Look my thread’s shots, every captive weapon you see there is functional as per rl, and even more… 🙂

I want more than pictures 🆒

That’s right. I described the boundary as the 3 o’clock-9 o’clock line but skewed 20° based on the turn. I hoped that would make the construction make sense from a “what were they thinking when they made it” way instead of rote memorization. I guess you could formulate a rule like right hand +110 -70 and left hand -110 +70 from the hold course.

Often you are inside the airplane approaching the fix and your perspective is likely to be of what the hold course looks like as you approach it. If you imagine the inbound leg is a big arrow floating in the sky you are cool if you approach it from the back. If you looking at the arrow from the side (more than 70° from the butt) you have to ask if you are inside or outside of the turn. After 110° misaligned it’s too sharp a turn no matter what and you gotta do an indirect.

Once it’s known an indirect is called for then I ask myself if I’m on the pattern side or not. If I’m looking at the right side of the arrow (and the hold is right turns) it means I’m on the pattern side so parallel. If I’m looking on the left side of the arrow (right turn hold) then I’m on the non-pattern side so I do teardrop.

Ok many thanks.

Hmmm . . . the discussion of updates to documentation reminds me of one of the less ‘fun’ aspects of my flying days - page counts, which we had to do every time a change was made to our Technical Orders or checklists. We didn’t actually count the number of pages therein, we had to make sure that all of the changed pages were received and integrated properly.

Yeah… for a clean config, the limitation is observed by the G limiter. If it goes over 9.0G from a limiter pull, tell maintenance about it.

Ok… silly question… and I know I will get flack for asking it: I remember seeing the has HMS flag for planes in Freefalcon 6… how come there is no HMS actually in the cockpit and in BMS we have? I am wondering from a learning point of view; I like to learn new things.