Fuel warning on Hud
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Please will some kind soul remind me how to remove the “Fuel” ( low) warning on the Hud? I thought resetting bingo might do so, but it doesn’t.
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Maybe you have an imbalance? Did you remember to close the refuelling valve after AAR? Fuel feed switch in the correct position?
All the best, Uwe
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WARN Reset switch on the UFC, same switch than the DRIFT / CO in down position.
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Appreciated Amraam!!
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Maybe you have an imbalance? Did you remember to close the refuelling valve after AAR? Fuel feed switch in the correct position?
All the best, Uwe
No, thanks, Uwe. Just running out of fuel…
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Also you may have dropped below your pre-set BINGO. LIST 2 bingo page in DED; reset bingo fuel below actual fuel state. If you’re flying MP in a VFW the pre-flight briefing would have included both Joker & Bingo based on mission parameters. I think you can find in the manuals how to calculate Joker/Bingo, if interested.
Cheers
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Yes, that’s what I did. I’m reading Dan Hampton’s Viper Pilot and he says he flicked a switch to cancel the “Fuel” warning and only then altered Bingo setting, I assume as Amraam says, the Warn Reset switch.
And on a different note DH also says, just before a strafing run: “Instantly flicking the Dogfight switch, I called up my canon symbology…” When I do that I go into Dogfight Mode, even when in AG Mode, as expected. Is there a way to quickly access the gun for strafing?
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And on a different note DH also says, just before a strafing run: “Instantly flicking the Dogfight switch, I called up my canon symbology…” When I do that I go into Dogfight Mode, even when in AG Mode, as expected. Is there a way to quickly access the gun for strafing?
I find that holding the “U” button down switches to strafing mode, Select, AG and then regardless of what I am doing, Mavericks or Bombs etc, just press and hold down “U”, strafing symbology appears in the HUD, and to go back to what I was doing, just press and hold “U” and I go back to what I was doing. Its ideal for that low level bombing run that is going pearshaped, quick switch to strafe, quick burst at the tgt and pull off. I don’t know what that key setting is as I have not seen it mentioned anywhere or shows up on a keyboard layout.
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It’s the “MAN RANGE/UNCAGE” knob on the throttle. I believe it’s named something like that (not up/down, that turns the knob, there’s a callback for pressing it). Same button used to uncage Sidewinder, blow the cap off a MAV and declutter HUD for landing, among other things. In newer blocks it also selects the gun in air to ground mode.
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I know its the “Uncage” button and I only discovered the “Long Press” by accident whilst uncaging a maverick and just held my finger down on the “U” a bit to long for all my symbology to change to strafing. But, as I say, I cannot find any mention of it in the manuals etc.
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Page 30 of Dash-1, though I agree that it could be more highlighted. We could use a gun/rockets training TE that would cover this sort of thing.
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Yes that’s it . The long press on the manual un-cage button. Thanks everyone, accepting that strafing is not approved of any more.