Falcon 4.36.0 Documentation: Bug Reports
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BMS User Manual, version BMS 4.36, change 4.00, 04.2022
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Is (bullet): “TOS: Time over Steerpoint in local (Falcon) time”
Should be (proposal) : “TOS: Time over Steerpoint in TE’s UTC time”
Reason: this field currently shows UTC time9-143
Is: “TEs by default start Day1 at 0000 ZULU Time and end at Day 2 0000z.”
Proposed: “TEs by default start Day1 at 0000 ZULU Time and end at Day 20 0000z.”
Reason: update according current implementation9-143
Is: “It is interesting to vary the time of the TE to avoid having all TEs starting at 0000z (1000Lt)”
Proposed: “It is interesting to vary the time of the TE to avoid having all TEs starting at 0000z (0900Lt)”
Reason: Time zone in Korea is UTC+99-144
Is: “The initial plan for this TE also calls for the destruction of the nearby Soktam-Ni radar station.”
Proposed: “The initial plan for this TE also calls for the destruction of the nearby Tach’ung-ni (previously Soktam-Ni) radar station.”
Reason: Name of the radar station changed.9-145
Is: “Click OK and repeat the process for the other two squadrons.”
Proposed: “Click OK and repeat the process for the other squadron.”
Reason: Prior text mentioned only 2 squadrons, not 3.9-146
Is: “The target for the second Strike flight will default to the Underground Factory as well so select Soktam-Ni Radar station from the drop down list.”
Proposed: “The target for the second Strike flight will default to the Underground Factory as well so select Tach’ung-ni Radar station from the drop down list.”
Reason: Name of the radar station changed.9-146
Is: “Click OK and repeat the same process for the other 3 flights. Assign a 4-ship block 50 for Escort with target as one of the Strike flights and 2 flights of 2 Korean block 52s for Strike.”
Proposed: "Click OK and repeat the same process for the other 3 flights. First create two flights of 2 Korean block 52s and then create 4-ship block 50 for Escort with target pointing to one of the Strike flights.
Reason: When Escort flight is created before Strike flights, it is impossible to point Strike flight as the escort’s target.9-148
Is: “Steerpoint 4 will be the PUSH point over the small village of Yongp’a-don, 38 Nm NNW of Incheon.”
Proposed: “Steerpoint 4 will be the PUSH point over the small village of Yongp’a-dong, 38 Nm NNW of Incheon.”
Reason: Correction of the name of the village.9-148
Is: “The exit from the target will be to the left towards steerpoint 7 at P’yungyang-Ni city, which is common again for the whole package.”
Proposed: “The exit from the target will be to the left towards steerpoint 7 at P’yungyang-Ni Village, which is common again for the whole package.”
Reason: Correction of the name of the village.9-149
After sentence “Steerpoint 5 is the package IP. The SEAD flight will start their SEAD duties enroute to Steerpoint 5 and will continue to do so until the strikers are safely out of the target area. Assign altitude accordingly.”
Add (proposed): “Note that strike flights in this example by default have IP assigned to steerpoint 6. To make all flights have IP on steerpoint 5, delete the original steerpoint 5 for strike flights.”
Reason: Strike flights by default in this example have one extra steerpoint, as compared to SEAD and escort flights.9-149
Is: “055200z for the Strike flight attacking the Radar station.”
Proposed: “055205z for the Strike flight attacking the Radar station.”
Reason: Making it consistent with prior description9-149
Is: “055230z for the Strike flight attacking the underground factory.”
Proposed: “055235z for the Strike flight attacking the underground factory.”
Reason: Making it consistent with prior description9-150
Is: “The Roster states that a SA-11 battalion is made of 6 SA-11 vehicles, 3
support trucks, …”"
Should be (proposed): “The Roster states that a SA-11 battalion is made of 6 SA-11 vehicles, 2
support trucks, …”
Reason: Slight change in current roster9-151
Is: “Add a MiG-29 squadron at Sunan airbase, a MiG-23 squadron at Kalma and a MiG-25 one at Ongjin.”
Proposed: “Add a MiG-29S Fulcrum-C squadron at Sunan airbase, a MiG-23ML Flogger-G squadron at Kalma and a MiG-25 Foxbat one at Ongjin.”
Reason: Discussion about MiG-29’s loadout mentions AA-12 missile, which is only supported by Fulcrum-C variant. Since we provide exact name of the MiG-29’s variant, exact names of the two other types of aircraft are updated as well. -
TO BMS 1F-16CM-34-1-1.pdf
Page 190/191:
“Note well: Flight models were comprehensively updated in 4.33 for many missiles, including the AIM-120B and AIM-120C, which now have very different characteristics. Experienced pilots will notice many missiles behave more realistically now. As a result the DLZ can be relied upon as a much more accurate trigger for offensive and defensive maneuvers; previously you often needed the target deep in the No Escape (Rtr) region in order to kill it. In simple terms, if you shot at Rpi the missile loss of energy at end game allowed targets to be head-on when the missile went active (Pitbull), turn away, accelerate while going low, out drag the missile for a good 30s and come out of it alive.
This also meant that Minimum Abort Ranges (see below) were not really critical and you could usually overshoot MAR without sweating too much. Hopefully, with the new missiles, this won’t happen and Minimum Abort Range will be critical again.”This note can be removed.
We’re at 4.36 now and most of what is mentioned in the note is not valid any more.
The missile loss of energy at end game is incredible. The target just has to turn away, go low and light up the AB to evade a missle.
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Document: TO BMS1-F16CM-34-1-1
Page: 78
Original sentence: “The symbol on the HMCS is initially moved on the ground point with head movement Once the symbol is ground stabilized, it may be slewed.”
Corrected sentence: typo, a period is missing between the two senteces
“The symbol on the HMCS is initially moved on the ground point with head movement. Once the symbol is ground stabilized, it may be slewed.”Page: 80
Original sentence: “The backup sensor can be accessed also from any OFF MFD page”
Corrected sentence:“The backup sensor can be accessed also from any A-G FCR MFD page” -
@vandroy Thanks for reporting. Will be fixed for U1 (both training and Dash-34>except the OFF MFD report page 80 which is reported wrong)
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@Razor161 Thanks for reporting. Will be fixed in U1.
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Document: BMS-Training.pdf
p. 255+256, the blue radio transmissions to the right of the text:
It seems the readback on p.256 does not match the 9-line on p.255:
Elevation on 9-line is 099 but read back as 2854.
The N/E values for line 6 are slightly off as well.p.258:
If you have no ordnance left (Winchester) or you
must go RTB, press (7) to check-out with the JTAC.Suggest to replace “Winchester” with “Dakota” in the CAS context
Thx,
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@Fox_15 said in Falcon 4.36 Documentation: Bug Reports:
BMS User Manual, version BMS 4.36, change 4.00, 04.2022
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…All Fixed. Thanks for reporting.
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Please add document outline (pdf bookmarks) to “TO BMS 1F-16CM-34-1-1.pdf”. The other docs have it (eg the training pdf and the comms-nav book) and it helps immensely when looking up topics. It’s this table of contents thingy, like here in the user manual:
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@jayb said in Falcon 4.36 Documentation: Bug Reports:
Please add document outline (pdf bookmarks) to “TO BMS 1F-16CM-34-1-1.pdf”. The other docs have it (eg the training pdf and the comms-nav book) and it helps immensely when looking up topics. It’s this table of contents thingy, like here in the user manual:
Already fixed for U1. Thanks for reporting
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@jayb said in Falcon 4.36 Documentation: Bug Reports:
Document: BMS-Training.pdf
p. 255+256, the blue radio transmissions to the right of the text:
It seems the readback on p.256 does not match the 9-line on p.255:
Elevation on 9-line is 099 but read back as 2854.
The N/E values for line 6 are slightly off as well.p.258:
If you have no ordnance left (Winchester) or you
must go RTB, press (7) to check-out with the JTAC.Suggest to replace “Winchester” with “Dakota” in the CAS context
Thx,
JayBGood catch. Fixed. Thanks for reporting!
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BMS KTO AIP
Page 5, TACANs Table 1.2.1.1 South Korea
Original: Sokscho
Corrected: SokchoBMS KTO AIP
Page 10, ATIS VHF Frequency Table 1.2.4.1 South Korea
Original: Choongwon 135.6
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@Fletch said in Falcon 4.36 Documentation: Bug Reports:
BMS KTO AIP
Page 5, TACANs Table 1.2.1.1 South Korea
Original: Sokscho
Corrected: SokchoBMS KTO AIP
Page 10, ATIS VHF Frequency Table 1.2.4.1 South Korea
Original: Choongwon 135.6
Corrected: Delete Choongwon entry (replaced by Jungwon)Thanks for reporting. Fixed
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Will there be an area to download the updated documents once they are “finished”?
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@Icer Sure. Docs folder in BMS
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Document: BMS-User-Manual.pdf
Page 9-196
Currently: “The SETUP section is documented in Chapter 4 of this manual”
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This took me a few reads to figure out the correct order of the color values.
BMS Technical Manual 4.35.1 Change 1
Page 231
BMS Technical Manual 4.36.0 Change 2.00
Page 238- I would like to suggest this sentence be deleted:
“A color code consists of four different values, in order: Alpha,Blue, Green and Red -> 0xAABBGGRR”.
Instead, just detail the order in which the colors should be coded, e.g. In BMS, the color hex-values are ordered as follows: 0xALPHA-RED-GREEN-BLUE, e.g. 0xFFFFFF00. The first two digits are ‘alpha’, where FF is ‘fully solid’ and 00 is ‘fully transparent’. . .
- The list of example colors contain four errors. Here are how the colors are listed in the Manual.
These are what the hex values should be.
Red = 0xFFFF0000
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BMS-Technical-Manual, Chapter 14.6.1, page 14-238
A color code consists of four different values, in order: Alpha, Blue, Green and Red -> 0xAABBGGRR
So the order for RGBA is reversed in BMS.(As you have already found out while changing your radio color…)
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Document “BMS-Training”
Ver.: BMS 4.36
Date: 05 APR 2022Page 19
Is: “If you see a wingman comm menu greyed out, you’re not on the correct frequency to communicate with them.”
Proposed: “If you see a wingman comm menu entries not highlighted, you’re not on the correct frequency to communicate with them.”
Reason: Implementation changePage 34
Is: “According to the position of the ALT switch on the HUD panel it can display
Barometric or Radar or can switch from one to another at 1500feet.”
Proposed: “According to the position of the ALT switch on the HUD panel it can display Barometric or Radar or can switch from one to another at 1500 feet.”
Reason: Missing space before unit.Page 35
Is: (bullet) MUAN VORTAC: 065X
Proposed: (bullet) Muan Intl Airport TACAN: 065X
Reason: In 4.36 MUAN became an airport.Page 35
Is: (bullet) MOKPO VORTAC: 049X
Proposed: to make changes for page 44 or else remove this bullet at all
Reason: originally MOKPO VORTAC is not used in further description, save for one place where it is mentioned as an example of “newly implemented VORTAC”.Page 37
Is: “Note that in our flight plan the ruler was set to calculate distance from Steerpoint 6 to Muan VORTAC (TACAN channel 65X).”
Proposed: “For instance, if you enabled Ruler and placed one of its triangles on Steerpoint 6 and the other on Muan Intl Airport (the closest airport NE of Steerpoint 6, TACAN channel 65X), it would show distance of 12.4 NM.”
Reason: Original sentence suggested that that distance from STPT 6 to Muan were previously used for something. However, it seems that this is only an example of using ruler to measure distance. The proposed text makes it clear(er). Additionally updated Muan name from VORTAC to airport.Page: 44
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"Passing Steerpoint 5 the aircraft, still on Autopilot, steers towards Steerpoint 6. It is now time to switch from INS navigation to TACAN navigation. As we planned before the flight, we know that we are flying close to newly implemented VORTAC stations. We decided to call them VORTAC to differentiate them from the airbase collocated TACAN stations, but basically they behave in the same way as TACANs in BMS.Muan and Mokpo are 2 VORTAC stations with a limited range of 40 Nm. Let’s fly direct to Muan. Select the T-ILS page and enter Muan channel: 065X in the scratchpad. Check that the INSTR MODE is set to TCN and look at your HSI. The OFF flag is not displayed, indicating that Muan is in range. The bearing pointer is approximately 257° and distance shows 23(.4) Nm."
Proposed:
"Passing Steerpoint 5 the aircraft, still on Autopilot, steers towards Steerpoint 6. It is now time to switch from INS navigation to TACAN navigation. As we planned before the flight, we know that we are flying close to Muan Intl Airport and MOKPO VORTAC station. VORTAC stations are radionavigational aids that in BMS behave in the same way as airbase-collocated TACAN stations. Note that radionavigational aids have limited range - you must be close enough and with line-of-sight to properly receive their signal. You can check range of each station in AIP.Let’s fly direct to Muan. Select the T-ILS page and enter Muan channel: 065X in the scratchpad. Check that the INSTR MODE is set to TCN and look at your HSI. The OFF flag is not displayed, indicating that Muan is in range. The bearing pointer is approximately 257° and distance shows 23(.4) Nm.
The next time you fly this mission, you can choose to include MOKPO VORTAC in your trip. Just enter its channel: 049X and follow the same procedure as you used for navigating to Muan."
Reason: Adjusted description to the fact that in 4.36 Muan is an airport. Added encouragement to use MOKPO VORTAC for navigation as it seemed to have been missing in previous mission description.
Page 44
Is: “At 4Nm from the station the bearing pointer will start drifting to the side.”
Proposed: “At 4 Nm from the station the bearing pointer will start drifting to the side.”
Reason: Missing spaceDocument “KTO AIP”
Ver.: BMS 4.36
Date: 14 APR 2022Page 7
Proposed change: Muan should be removed from South Korea’s VORTACs table (1.2.2.1) as it is an airport in 4.36.Document “TO BMS 1F-16CM-34-1-1”
Change 4.36.0References are broken. Multiple “Error! Reference source not found” across the document.
There is duplication and seemingly wrong order in descriptions of AGR and backup bombing sensors. I propose the following steps to remove duplication and achieve more logical flow of content.
Move text from 2.4.6.7 BACKUP BOMBING SENSOR (p.80, possibly with fixes described below) and screens from 4.2.19 BACKUP BOMBING SENSOR (p.211)
to 2.4.7.1.6 BACKUP BOMBING SENSOR (BBS) (OSB 6).
Then remove 2.4.6.7 and 4.2.19 or put there reference to 2.4.7.1.6.Move contents from entire 2.4.6 AIR TO GROUND RANGING (p.77) without 2.4.6.7 (which will be moved to general GM MFD symbology section as per previous proposal)
to 2.4.7.6 AIR-TO-GROUND RANGING (AGR) (p.90).Page 78
Is: “The symbol on the HMCS is initially moved on the ground point with head movement Once the symbol is ground stabilized, it may be slewed.”
Proposed: “The symbol on the HMCS is initially moved on the ground point with head movement. Once the symbol is ground stabilized, it may be slewed.”
Reason: Missing dot.Page 79
Is: “The diamond changes to a square located at the last valid range for about 0.5 sec. When valid range can no longer be determined and then will be pegged at the top right corner of the MFD.”
Proposed: “When valid range can no longer be determined, the diamond changes to a square located at the last valid range for about 0.5 sec., after which it is pegged at the top right corner of the MFD.”
Reason: Attempted to make the sentence more clear. Original sentence probably had autocorrection error after “sec.”.Page 80 (section 2.4.6.7) and page 211 (section 4.2.19) - contain duplicated paragraph
Is: “The backup bombing sensor rotary at OSB 6 on the FCR MFD page shows which sensor is being used to determine the height above target HAT. The rotary defaults to BARO at FCC/MMC power-up. With BARO displayed, SALT is used to determine HAT RALT is also included in the rotary. If RALT is selected, the CARA will be used to determine HAT. Since the CARA measurement will be height above the release point rather than HAT, use of RALT as a backup sensor should only be used over flat terrain. The backup sensor can be accessed also from any OFF MFD page”Proposed: “The backup bombing sensor rotary at OSB 6 on the FCR MFD page shows which sensor is being used to determine the height above target (HAT). The rotary defaults to BARO at FCC/MMC power-up. With BARO displayed, SALT (System Altitude) is used to determine HAT. The other option is RALT. When RALT is displayed, the CARA (Combined Altitude Radar Altimeter) will be used to determine HAT. Since the CARA measurement will be height above the release point rather than HAT, use of RALT as a backup sensor should only be used over flat terrain. The backup sensor can be accessed also from any OFF MFD page.”
Reason: A couple of missing punctuation and readability fixes.
Page 85
Section 2.4.7.1.6
Is: “The Backup Bombing Sensor (BBS) is not currently implemented in BMS.”
Proposed: replace this text with paragraph as proposed above.Page 83
Is: “An automatic range scale option is available in the following modes: GM, EXP, DBS1, DBS2, FTT, SEA, GMTI and GMTT.”
Page 84
Is: “In the normal GM, SEA and GMTI displays, four expansion cues (tick marks) are provided on the X-Y cursors to define the area that would be displayed upon selection of the EXP FOV.”
Question: could not find what is GMTI mode. Is it something implemented? If it is not, then I propose to remove it. If it is, then some description (at least abbreviation expansion) should be added.Page 17, 86
Duplicated name in reference to “SPI MANAGEMENT” chapter: SPI MANAGEMENT SPI MANAGEMENT
Proposed: remove duplicated chapter nameChapter 4 - in my opinion there are excessive newlines or vertical space between paragraphs is set to too much. However this might have been author’s intent.
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@Fox_15 Thanks for reporting! Very nice.
I will go through them.One note: Muan is now an airport with a VORTAC. So no change needed in AIP.
Cheers
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not sure if it’s a bug but I can now hit a target very easily in DTOS mode simple because of the TGP application. Is that the real case or is it exaggerated?
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