AMRAAM Cues disappear (HUD/FCR) in flight
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Did you check if you are not out of missile? Or maybe you had AIM-120 B and C model, you had selected the B and you have only C model left?
I had missiles left to shoot. I shot 3 before and the cues disappered at shooting the 4th.
All C’s btw.it’s modeled for IAM, but not for slammer. I didn’t know that, I guess it’s because the battery is activated?
not sure if that’s the reason. if it happens again i need to cycle thorugh the missiles to check.
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Just to make sure:
- your FCR has not dropped its lock for some reason?
- you are not somehow inadvertently going to master arm off?
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my wager is that you are somehow inadvertently transitioning to BORE, which doesn’t AFAIK have range cues.
granted i think it should still fire though… i find it hard to believe you are losing lock on the bandit(s) and not noticing, anyway.
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Just to make sure:
- your FCR has not dropped its lock for some reason?
- you are not somehow inadvertently going to master arm off?
no. i can lock thereafter tws or stt targets and neither shows range cues.
my wager is that you are somehow inadvertently transitioning to BORE, which doesn’t AFAIK have range cues.
granted i think it should still fire though… i find it hard to believe you are losing lock on the bandit(s) and not noticing, anyway.
yeah i thought so too but the MSL didn’t go no matter what.
I’ll try to take screenshots next time it happens
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I guess I solved it. I must’ve been the Bore/Slave key that was accidentally pressed. In Dogfight mode the F/16 seems to automatically revert to SLV
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So what I do now is leave slave in A-A mode, also set slave in MRM override mode, and set bore to DGFT override mode. That way I always get the mode I anticipated given the chosen weapon.
If you preset heaters to bore in DGFT override are they uncaged as soon as you switch to DGFT?
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No, bore just means pointed straight ahead and slave pointed at FCR LOS. They shouldn’t uncage (at least in BP) without a button press. In TD they might uncage if the diamond is on something hot.
Slave/bore is remember per missile. You can set the left AIM-9 to slave and the right AIM-9 to bore. I think the setting is global regardless if you access that AIM-9 in AA MRM or DGFT but I’m not sure.
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Slave/bore is remember per missile. You can set the left AIM-9 to slave and the right AIM-9 to bore. I think the setting is global regardless if you access that AIM-9 in AA MRM or DGFT but I’m not sure.
ref my first reply, as far as I have noticed in BMS it’s global per master mode and not per weapon. When I set A-A mode and change slammer to bore, heater also goes to bore in A-A but remains in bore in dgft.
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It’s definitely per weapon within a master mode. If you set left missile one way and right missile the other way you can bounce with tapping missile step and watch the settings persist. I do it sometimes intentionally to have hands on select of radar or HMCS mode heater.
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I moded the bore/slave key to CMS - Aft on my HOTAS.
I usually dogfight with SLV and take HMCS Radar lock which slews the missile automatically. This way I can also shoot a short range AMRAAM.
If I carry high off-boresight (AIM9X basically) heaters and the target is outside radar gimbals I can switch with CMS-Aft to bore to shoot IR-Lock only.
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And what do you do when you want to turn your jammer on?
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I moded the bore/slave key to CMS - Aft on my HOTAS.
I usually dogfight with SLV and take HMCS Radar lock which slews the missile automatically. This way I can also shoot a short range AMRAAM.
If I carry high off-boresight (AIM9X basically) heaters and the target is outside radar gimbals I can switch with CMS-Aft to bore to shoot IR-Lock only.
You can also achieve the same result, albeit temporarily, if you press Cursor Enable.