What am I doin' wrong, nothing on my fcr
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Radar in OVRD?
Pressed uncage, to drop the cover off the front of the RADAR??? :evil:
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Uncage Radar? Never did it. Yet I see stuff on my FCR with the required settings. Will pressing U for it enhance my Radar scan experience?
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No, you dont uncage radar. Most likely problem OP is having is not quite understanding how the radar works. At closer than 5 miles you’re best off using the ACM modes like he was doing originally in DF override. Further out, its important to understand you dont actually change the range at which it scans, just the scale of the B SCOPE, the radar always scans out to max regardless. Where you place the cursor on the scope will tell you the altitude brackets at which you’re scanning at the position of the cursor. For example, if you set your scale to 80mi, and put the cursor all the way to the top, thats what youre scanning at 80mi, however move the cursor half way down the scope, and thats the altitudes you’re scanning at 40mi. Move it a quarter way down and thats 60mi and so on. Notice min/max scan altitudes will change depending on where you place the cursor vertically due to the fact the radar sweep increases the further out you go and vice versa.
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@b.s.:
Radar in OVRD?
Pressed uncage, to drop the cover off the front of the RADAR??? :evil:
Watch out guys, b.s. is b.s.-ing you [emoji1]
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@b.s.:
Radar in OVRD?
Pressed uncage, to drop the cover off the front of the RADAR??? :evil:
I used to work in Semiconductors and we would send new guys down to a section of the factory for boxes of Ions… Almost like snipe hunting…
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No, you dont uncage radar. Most likely problem OP is having is not quite understanding how the radar works. At closer than 5 miles you’re best off using the ACM modes like he was doing originally in DF override. Further out, its important to understand you dont actually change the range at which it scans, just the scale of the B SCOPE, the radar always scans out to max regardless. Where you place the cursor on the scope will tell you the altitude brackets at which you’re scanning at the position of the cursor. For example, if you set your scale to 80mi, and put the cursor all the way to the top, thats what youre scanning at 80mi, however move the cursor half way down the scope, and thats the altitudes you’re scanning at 40mi. Move it a quarter way down and thats 60mi and so on. Notice min/max scan altitudes will change depending on where you place the cursor vertically due to the fact the radar sweep increases the further out you go and vice versa.
I think you are right. Here’s how I think I know but please some feedback.
After I read all the comments I added a package, yet further out. The first two bogeys I could spot just by looking out. I flew from Hatzerim, the bandits took off from Yasser Arafat int. so easy to see. At that point my 8 year old son came in and asked if he could fire a missile So I sat him down at the controls, put it in dogfight and let the boy fly. By chance he flipped the switch back into mrm and then I saw the other package on my radar-screen! I guess I saw the light, the two bandits were just too close to spot on the radar but the ones further out I could see. (captured by the cone which is bigger farther away, right?) -
I think you are right. Here’s how I think I know but please some feedback.
After I read all the comments I added a package, yet further out. The first two bogeys I could spot just by looking out. I flew from Hatzerim, the bandits took off from Yasser Arafat int. so easy to see. At that point my 8 year old son came in and asked if he could fire a missile So I sat him down at the controls, put it in dogfight and let the boy fly. By chance he flipped the switch back into mrm and then I saw the other package on my radar-screen! I guess I saw the light, the two bandits were just too close to spot on the radar but the ones further out I could see. (captured by the cone which is bigger farther away, right?)We need ten fingers to type the solution, your son only one to show you it.
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right, and check if you have a 4 bar scan (in rws)
4 bar gives you the maximum scopeheight (but slower fullscan).
In tws the bar scan is depending on the Azimuth scan, if you have full azimuth scan, you have half (2 bar scan), using half azimuth gives you full bar scan.
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No, you dont uncage radar. Most likely problem OP is having is not quite understanding how the radar works. At closer than 5 miles you’re best off using the ACM modes like he was doing originally in DF override. Further out, its important to understand you dont actually change the range at which it scans, just the scale of the B SCOPE, the radar always scans out to max regardless. Where you place the cursor on the scope will tell you the altitude brackets at which you’re scanning at the position of the cursor. For example, if you set your scale to 80mi, and put the cursor all the way to the top, thats what youre scanning at 80mi, however move the cursor half way down the scope, and thats the altitudes you’re scanning at 40mi. Move it a quarter way down and thats 60mi and so on. Notice min/max scan altitudes will change depending on where you place the cursor vertically due to the fact the radar sweep increases the further out you go and vice versa.
This is only true to a certain extent in the SIM. Actual RF is not modeled, so technically by changing the scale, you really are changing the range. Semantics really, since A: he got it working, and B: your description is spot on for RL. The advantage to bringing the scale in though, in this context, is that moving the cursor across the FCR yields smaller changes in where the picture is “looking” in the lower scales. Easier for him to troubleshoot when he was still having issues because the min/max scan altitude would not vary as much inside a 5mi window.
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This is only true to a certain extent in the SIM. Actual RF is not modeled, so technically by changing the scale, you really are changing the range. Semantics really, since A: he got it working, and B: your description is spot on for RL. The advantage to bringing the scale in though, in this context, is that moving the cursor across the FCR yields smaller changes in where the picture is “looking” in the lower scales. Easier for him to troubleshoot when he was still having issues because the min/max scan altitude would not vary as much inside a 5mi window.
So then does this also mean RWR detection ranges will vary against enemy aircraft depending on their FCR scale settings?
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So then does this also mean RWR detection ranges will vary against enemy aircraft depending on their FCR scale settings?
No. There is quite a lot going on under the hood to “simulate” RF in the game for the various systems, but it is simulated on a per-system basis and not as an RF entity is what I meant when I said that. A VERY simplified way to look at it where the RWR is concerned, would be to think of RF as a light switch. The game checks to see if an emitter is “emitting”, if so it sets a bit that says yes. The RWR uses a static distance calculator based on the emitting object’s position/direction, and some characteristics in the DB to decide whether or not to display it. There is a bit more to it than that, but very quickly you start delving into bubbles, and agg/de-agg topics so I simplified it down to the basics. It would be computationally impossible to actually simulate true RF, so it all boils down to some numbers in an equation. I don’t know if that equation has been changed since the older code I looked at, but it basically uses distance as the main delimiter in the decision tree. A real RWR uses things such as signal/noise, pulse analysis, freq, etc… which would be specific characteristics of the emitter to determine type and position, but those things can’t be done in a sim, so it has to boil down to a table of distances and which direction the emitter is pointing. The older code defined the direction as a 2D vector, so it was possible for an emitter to show up on the RWR at 3 miles even if the altitude was 20k feet difference, so long as the L/R offset angle of the radar to receiver was inside the window–this might be different now.