it is weapon delivery planner. it will give you the tracks of any tanker(s) on the map, or that will be on the map, and in the datacard section you can choose which tankers you want to see. you can highlight their tracks to steerpoints and it will also give you what TACAN they will operate on, even if they haven’t taken off yet. it’s a nice program.

You know, I have the original disk (now sealed up and put into display :p), a disk image, copied a backup disk, and a copy of the installed falcon 4 directory in a usb stick… I am not paranoid (I hope), just want to be 100% sure 😜

For me keystrokes are more familiar than BMS .The DMS all directions works and lock and unlock works on the keyboard.But sometimes the cross movement “up” fails, don’t know why.(not allowed to lock??? 😕….

Oh and, is the flight model that much better or am I just getting better at landing? Never was able to land this bird since 4.0 but I nailed it first time and subsequently already. Yee ha.

i figured it out so if this thread can be deleted…sorry

F4 Awacs, part of Online Squadron Collection: https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?11804-Online-Squadron-Collection-v2-is-out

For info, the only way we have to boost is via sliders and speakers volume because most of the sounds are already recorded and set internally at close to 0dB (max loudness)

Sliders “groups” are then set lower to provide balance. But yes, sliders are regrouping sounds by “type/category” (can’t have one single slider for each of course.)

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but what other volume does that switch control?

For more details about the Intercom knob:

INTERCOM Knob

The INTERCOM knob has a cw arrow pointing to INC. Rotating the knob increases the volume of the signals available to the intercom set.

The intercom provides the following functions:

Monitoring and volume control of voice communication between pilot and ground crew or between pilot and tanker boom operator, monitoring and volume control of AIM-9 missile tone, TWS composite audio tone, and TWS missile launch tone.

Monitoring of systems individually volume controlled from the audio control panels.

Monitoring of fixed volume warning tones (LG and low speed warning tone, TWS missile launch tone, and IFF mode 4 audio monitor) and voice messages.

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@kenguan:

(I’m sure in RL that knob is not to control volume of Betty…)

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Monitoring of fixed volume warning tones (LG and low speed warning tone, TWS missile launch tone, and IFF mode 4 audio monitor) and voice messages.

Identification depends on what type of equipment and information the RADAR unit (Receiver, or Rx in this text) has and/or what information the aircraft (Transmitter, or Tx) sends…

If the Rx only has a basic RADAR, it will be primary only, meaning you have to find and distinguish aircraft by their RADAR Cross Section (RCS). The farther the aircraft is from the RADAR, the more inaccurate the position (up to 2NM difference beyond 40NM with a surveillance RADAR) and identification will be. It’s also hard to gauge an aircraft’s altitude, as you only have slant range to go on.
A variant on this is a 3D RADAR, that not only scans horizontally, but also has a vertical dome. With that, altitude can be extrapolated as well. Again, accuracy depends on distance between Rx and Tx.

With Primary RADAR only, seeing the difference between a C172 and A380 should be very easy, but an F16 could look very similar to a GLF5. It doesn’t help that the military uses converted civil aircraft either (e.g. B707 -> KC135 or E3; B747 -> VC25A or E4; …) so targeting can be tricky in a mixed environment.

If the Rx has a secondary unit, it will be able to ping for squawk codes (A-codes), and those can be used to distinguish aircraft. However, to be able to identify an aircraft, you still need data, e.g. a call sign, to link and correlate to that specific squawk code. If the aircraft is equipped with Mode C-transponders, they will also send altitude, which can be read on the Rx monitor.

Squawks are not fixed to aircraft types or flight paths, can change multiple times during a single flight, so identification can be still be hard to guarantee. In some conditions, 2 aircraft can cross each other on the RADAR monitor, and linked flight plan data can be swapped between both aircraft without a possibility to “revert” to the correct correlation.

If Rx has an ADS-B or Mode-S unit, it may be able to pick up the information that is sent by the aircraft. There’s also ADS-C, but I can’t see this being available with SAM-sites. Technically, squawk codes are no longer necessary, as the information broadcast by the aircraft usually includes several things such as identification, callsign, altitude, speed, heading, autopilot settings and many other things.
Mode-S is obligatory in Europe (AFAIK, above FL195 at least), so everyone operating there must have it. ADS-B and Mode-S are what is used by sites like FR24, to plot aircraft on a map. Receivers can be bought for relatively cheap prices by anyone, but even though all aircraft in Europe must have it, some aircraft (e.g. military) will not be visible due to filtering and/or security equipment.

This is what I still remember from my courses back in 2011. Some things are a bit sketchy in my memory, but I believe it’s still (pretty) correct. Feel free to correct me where I’m wrong. 🙂

they have to be deployed at very low altitude in order to have some semblance of aiming; danger close really though look cool hitting area targets like refineries. Firing them at ground troops may only result in scaring the bejesus out of them and scratching the paint on armored vehicles hence I rarely load them.

He is refering to “Tacview” ACMIs - i guess - as the telemetry in that tool is totally “off” and misleading (absurd CAT I limiter results Gs/AoAs, big errors in vertical turnrates etc etc.).

The ingame ACMI (.vhs) data is “useable” (in quotes mind you) to some extent, if frames are math. averaged and it still can serve to spot blatant anomalies (considering one has the ability to reference the data),
BUT overall, the ingame data ain´t that good either, thus the plan/idea to improve it.

Those things are known for a very long time anyways, just noone addressed them yet. Both tools were never 100% accurate and only served their purpose if someting was really blatantly “off” (“lags” excluded).

so it forces them to come after you and makes them enemy then?

Easy way : manual drop

Yeah I also think that it’s because (or partially at least) of the modifications I have made/added.

Recently BMS has crashed during short missions as well.

When it crashes during flying, it tends to happen in the beginning of the campaign, where a lot of blue and red team are in the air. FPS drops down to avg. of 20 or so, and then it crashes. When it is not crashing during flying, it most often crashes when switching from 2D to 3D, and vice versa. Maybe there is something wrong with my graphics card/driver… I would so like to upgrade my comp but ugh no moneys yet.

I might try clean install and go from there.

Frederf - They only participate as far as they give you ranging data. You don’t get the HSI to point at them like you would with one of the two tankers. I was involved in a cam-PAIN flight, wasn’t my own making.

3x1+ hour flights in one day … and the planning behind it. My planning room has seen me too much in one day.

Scuby - That was my thought, but what do I know?
-Babite

@Frederf:

Yes, yes I am. So there’s a fuel quantity sensor and a fuel presence sensor?

There are many fuel quantity sensors in the aircraft to tell the pilot how much fuel he has. The totalizer shows the balance of all that electronic wizardry. The fuel level sensing system doesn’t do anything with the quantity. There are only two fuel level sensors (one per reservoir) so it is very much a binary system. On or off. It just manages the fuel levels in the two reservoir tanks.

Matter of fact the fuel level sensors (as well as the fuel level low warning thermistors) are mounted to the fuel quantity sensors in the reservoirs. Just to add back to the confusion. 🙂

@cptmtge:

10 hours by Jove…

Venus is 243 days

more useless facts I know I know

My mistake.

Ah, since when can you load 9x on wingtips? I taught they are like the Iris-t, only on station 2/8 ?

@Mirage94th:

I saw Demo’s Flight on Youtube at Koon’Ni Range… but im unable to find it myself in the Game… Do i need to Download it? or what ?

Addition is exclusive to our wing install.

@jinro88:

Oh, if anyone finds it helpful, I created a “Crew Checklist” based off the real-life HAF Crew Checklist and adapted it for use with BMS (in addition to proper placement of SEC/EPU checks) here. I made it out of boredom, but if anyone finds it helpful feel free to use it. I made it a while back so if there are any mistakes, please let me know about it so I can update it.

I also made a Japanese version. I actually need to update it because I mistranslated “press and hold.” 😛

Thx jinnro88! Very nice work with the CL, will put it to good use!;)