@USMCprwarr:

Try not to think so much about where the tanker is, but just fly to where you need to be and trust the boom to do its job.

Yep, just fly formation with the tanker in the correct position and let the boom operator do his thing.

@drtbkj:

Have fun!

Thanks.

Thanks I’ll give that a shot

Check out my Ranges in my sig, sir.

@Jaxx:

Hi,

Pardon me if this has been asked before, but im looking for a repository of TEs that can be used for single player practice.

Thanks. Pretty sure it’s stock Korean. It’s from the 185th VFS training and I’m sure I read there were no other Theatres to be installed.
Cheers!

Edit: This was the correct folder :\Falcon BMS 4.32\Data\Campaign\SAVE

I have helped several folks get up to speed on the Falcon Online Coop servers. Shoot me a PM here.

@Mav-jp:

dont worry 🙂

I wasn’t worried, I was just curious. 🙂

@Hardrive:

not flown since the year 2008 and coming back to the fold , wow is all i can say . Great work to you fellas ! After searching for an old pals wing i come across a group of the same name , but it made me thinks how many are out there , so how many are out there ? Thanks Hardrive

Welcome back, brother.

Get on the stick, sir.

@TeeSquare:

There is a good read on planning missions in the Docs folder falcon4 legacy manuals, realism patch 5 manual, PDF page 84. The Art and Science of Moving Mud. The charts are old but the basic info is still good.

Yea and i see theres’ good reading to be found in one of the operational manuals docs folders, F-16 COMBAT AIRCRAFT FUNDAMENTALS

nevermind, if you don’t see the run file, no need to be concerned with it.
in the above case, the .TXT file is the one relevant for the scripts

@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.