Pulling my hair out.. Ridiculous confusion on keyboard commands.
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@cns - I believe they are referring to using the TGP to identify air targets. But you are correct, it is good for ground targets as well.
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I take it you use the range knob to adjust zoom for the TGP? what else do you use the range knob for? i have it binded to a rotary and havent used it yet as i havent done any A-G strikes (yet).
TGP zoom when TGP is SOI. Both AA and AG
FCR AG : radar gain. You have 2 controls for the gain.
What it is NOT used for : radar range.
The name comes from an early use of this rotary, to adjust the target distance on a gunsight which is today deprecated.
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So the AIM-120 doesnt receive mid course updates if the target isnt illuminated by the F-16s FCR, that means its only guidance from launch until pitbull is INS
It’s moot if it receives updates or not because if the F-16’s knowledge of the target motion is lost (coast track) then the coasting track assumes no acceleration which doesn’t change the intercept point. So if the F-16 did send an update to the missile it would be “remember that intercept point that I told you 5 seconds ago? Yeah, still go there.” It would be an update with no change in information which is the same as not sending the message at all.
What I don’t know is if the F-16 is smart enough not to coast track a target down to -3000’ but instead clamp the altitude to 0’ minimum. Then the F-16 is making smart guesses about the target’s motion after it doesn’t have actual information about it via radar. This smart guess might alter the missile information in a meaningful way. Or maybe the missile itself knows not to plan for an interception point below the ground.
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But cant you set the ability of the AI? maybe you have them set on the lowest, which i’d imagine is green or recruit, where elite would be the most difficult.
There’s only one setting for me and thats called ACE
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There’s only one setting for me and thats called ACE
Aff…only way to go for the hardcore, brother.
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Really? Don’t use the rudder in flight? Not at all???
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You pretty much figured things out here
Rough figure for target ID with TGP is 20 NM.
In TV you can easily ID a fighter at 29/30 Nm, with a bit of work on recognication skills, provided weather’s good.
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Really? Don’t use the rudder in flight? Not at all???
Only when you want to fly uncoordinated, which is hardly ever mostly.
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Really? Don’t use the rudder in flight? Not at all???
Yep, most air forces forbid to use the rudder in-flight. Because :
- you dont need it to increase the roll rate, ARI takes care of that,
- the induced roll with sideslip is important and dangerous (as an example it is one of the causes of Albacete’s TLP crash)
- its effect on yaw is quite small once you factor in the ARI and the roll-induced yaw you get when applying roll to counteract the yaw-induced roll,
- no specific maneuver on the F-16 requires rudder input, contrary to the F-18, for example,
- it is EXTREMELY dangerous to use it on landing. Simply enough, as soon as the wheels are on the ground, the ARI disconnects - so if you had roll inputs (likely with the induced roll to counteract), the rudder will change its deflection quickly. Since it happens at touchdown, you can lose control of the AC on the runway.
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The Dash-1 manual has a lot of good stuff about FLCS and the rudder is discussed on p. 127
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Looks like none of this matters anymore… It would appear there is something wrong with my game as it is impossible for me to perform a flat turn with the F16… Applying full left rudder (verified via chase view), and a bit of right aileron to keep the aircraft level, results in a straight flight path… that’s faulty behavior. But hey! We have switches and knobs and buttons for every function you can think of!!! LOL… but the plane doesn’t fly right.
So, it really doesn’t matter at this point what key does what anymore.
Thanks for your help.
Thats it, blame the sim. Couldn’t be your 12 year old worn out hardware or that you that you cant be bothered to read up on how to fly an F-16 or more importantly how an F-16 flies. Yup, everyone else is wrong but you know it’s the sim’s faulty behavior. You make me laugh dude, you are trying to fly a simulator that requires the same years of dedication, skill and training as it takes to fly a RL (Real Life) F-16 but you want to fly with a keyboard and a joystick and then ask on a forum how to find the gunsight. YGBSM, please RTFM. I hope you can figure out what those acronyms mean.
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Nice selfie Shad! :uham:
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Thats it, blame the sim. Couldn’t be your 12 year old worn out hardware or that you that you cant be bothered to read up on how to fly an F-16 or more importantly how an F-16 flies. Yup, everyone else is wrong but you know it’s the sim’s faulty behavior. You make me laugh dude, you are trying to fly a simulator that requires the same years of dedication, skill and training as it takes to fly a RL (Real Life) F-16 but you want to fly with a keyboard and a joystick and then ask on a forum how to find the gunsight. YGBSM, please RTFM. I hope you can figure out what those acronyms mean.
Here you go:
http://www.apa.org/topics/anger/control.aspxI hope that helps…
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Here you go:
http://www.apa.org/topics/anger/control.aspxI hope that helps…
Nigel made a fair point in my opinion. You have arrived here with a bang blaming all and sundry, when perhaps a look at the manuals and an appreciation that BMS is NOT Falcon3.0 you might have wound your neck in somewhat. Hell, you even commented the flight model was shagged cos it didn’t fly the same as your real life experience of a Cessna! Was the phrase RTFM coined specifically for you? Not that it would matter - you obviously know far more than any manual could ever teach you…
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Nigel made a fair point in my opinion. You have arrived here with a bang blaming all and sundry, when perhaps a look at the manuals and an appreciation that BMS is NOT Falcon3.0 you might have wound your neck in somewhat. Hell, you even commented the flight model was shagged cos it didn’t fly the same as your real life experience of a Cessna! Was the phrase RTFM coined specifically for you? Not that it would matter - you obviously know far more than any manual could ever teach you…
Hey guys, let’s calm down here.
I agree that Murphy’s attitude was far from ideal at the beginning (an F-16 is NOT your average Cessna, BMS is NOT Falcon 3.0, and if people took the time to write docs, it is because they are necessary). So Murphy, to be honest, you kind of deserved the comments - and I think the message is clear now
However, guys, no point in overreacting and yourself adopt a bad attitude, that is almost as bad. (Minus the heresy of criticizing the flight model, of course :mrgreen: )
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Nigel made a fair point in my opinion. You have arrived here with a bang blaming all and sundry, when perhaps a look at the manuals and an appreciation that BMS is NOT Falcon3.0 you might have wound your neck in somewhat. Hell, you even commented the flight model was shagged cos it didn’t fly the same as your real life experience of a Cessna! Was the phrase RTFM coined specifically for you? Not that it would matter - you obviously know far more than any manual could ever teach you…
Nigel didn’t make any fair point… His post, like yours, is simply an attack wrapped in sarcasm because you don’t agree with or like what someone else has to say or the questions they ask or how they ask them.
If I have a problem, I’m going to ask a question… If I don’t understand the answers, or the answers don’t agree with my experience(s), or for whatever other reason, I’m going to question, challenge, and/or debate those answers to further my understanding.
There are lots of good knowledgeable folks here who are willing to take the time to help newbies like me and to hammer out the answers when they are not understood. If you’re incapable of remaining respectful in a discussion, even when that discussion boarders on a debate, then please EXIT MY THREAD…
As they say “Don’t go away mad, just go away”.
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So no, the message was not clear.
If I have a problem, I’m going to ask a question… If I don’t understand the answers, or the answers don’t agree with my experience(s), or for whatever other reason, I’m going to question, challenge, and/or debate those answers to further my understanding.
Question, challenge, debate is fine. Saying : @Murphy:
But hey! We have switches and knobs and buttons for every function you can think of!!! LOL… but the plane doesn’t fly right.
… does not fall into this category, that is exactly “an attack wrapped in sarcasm”. Not to mention that asking multiple questions on stuff covered in docs already present in your install folder or in the articles here, is redundant at best and disrespectful at worst. Especially since so many people (including me, BTW) suggested you to read them.
If you’re incapable of remaining respectful in a discussion, even when that discussion boarders on a debate, then please EXIT MY THREAD…
I’m going to skip the irony of the sentence here, to focus on this : “Your” thread ? Before being your thread this is our forum, and we alone get to say what the rules are.
Thread closed.