Please be quiet!
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You should use presets, because once you are accustomed to use frequencies, presets can be very handy. (But first, ppl have to learn how to use freq before dealing with channels and DTC presets.)
This! The only time I manually set anything anymore is if I need to tune an emergency landing field. I usually pick out two of these ( in addition to the normal divert field) and brief them to my flight, trying to pick fields closer to the FLOT and with distinguishing features (or nearby features) so I don’t have to work to find them.
Then I look up the freqs and write them on my kneeboard so I am not scrambling for them later.
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Thanks Dee-Jay / Demo … you both figured it out. I was switching to pre-set #1 (297.50 I believe) on Com1 after departure from Souson and must have been picking up another near-by tower en-route to target :rolleyes: All good now!
This is something I love about Falcon … I learn something new every week!
Thanks for the help gents!
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depending on the bomb, its fuzing… lots of things. Probably will be outside the scope of BMS for quite some time I imagine.
Yeah, I agree. But there is some data for it available to the public… amazingly…
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This! The only time I manually set anything anymore is if I need to tune an emergency landing field. I usually pick out two of these ( in addition to the normal divert field) and brief them to my flight, trying to pick fields closer to the FLOT and with distinguishing features (or nearby features) so I don’t have to work to find them.
Then I look up the freqs and write them on my kneeboard so I am not scrambling for them later.
Wow you take this very seriously,
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Wow you take this very seriously,
I think me that the ‘very’ was not warranted. ‘Very’ seriously would be a half hour briefing after a half hour planning.
Having a plan before you takeoff is just ‘seriously’.
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We all do briefings, but the two additional emergency landing fields with freqs.
Unlike You & Me Blue most of the people I fly with have a “RL” and just don’t have the time to spend an hour or more on Brief/Debrief for a 45min flight. They want to get a few flights in.
Also OK for TEs but if the clocks running some times the AB not there when you hit Taxi.
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45 minutes…? Even if thats only counting gear up to gear down, thats a short flight…
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We all do briefings, but the two additional emergency landing fields with freqs.
The first time you don’t do it is the first time you’re going to need it. I do this for all my flights - and yes, with a thirty minute brief with whomever I am flying with. We cover the route, the Fence In checkpoint, whose responsible for AJAX calls, headings to the emergency fields from each steerpoint, PPTs, Altitude Heading and Speed information, a primary and a backup comms frequency for VHF and UHF, and what our plan of attack at the target is going to be like. We don’t really debrief though, just talk for a few minutes about how the mission went in general.
We do, however, give each others plane a visual once over after anyone takes damage - like planning emergency fields, this provides no benefit at all in Falcon, but it does provide us with a very real sense of immersion…enough so that when I dogfight and see people dancing around the sky with their A/C lights on I want to rage quit the match.
Unlike You & Me Blue most of the people I fly with have a “RL” and just don’t have the time to spend an hour or more on Brief/Debrief for a 45min flight. They want to get a few flights in.
I would rather get one super detailed realistic flight in, then ten. But actually what we’ve found is that when we fly the campaign mode we need a little downtime between flights where we are not in the cockpit, and this usually covers it.
For non-campaign flights, I got to a whole new level of extreme, building a packet for each flight with screenshots of the target and threat documents for each of the threats we are likely to encounter in the area…including potential aircraft (though I rarely include these in the TE’s I run).
Also, you would probably NOT be surprised to learn how often the emergency landing field has saved my butt, even if it’s just because I have poor fuel management and need a quick sip before returning to my home base.
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I would rather get one super detailed realistic flight in, then ten.
I agree, I would rather get one flight in, THEN ten more. Sadly most days I dont have time for that many.
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What I do after takeoff is to press com1 then punch in the number 1, that will completely silence the tower. You must remember the old frq. if you want tower communication upon returning to base. But I think it’s been answered.
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I am trying to find a way to silence the tower (after departure). I seem to be able to hear take-off/landing tower comms well into my flight … kind of distracting when trying to listen to comms within my package.
I’ve tried switching to another UHF frequency after departure and still hear tower comms? Does tower also broadcast on Guard freq? Appreciate any advice (the manual is not too helpful in this regard).
Thanks
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I agree, I would rather get one flight in, THEN ten more. Sadly most days I dont have time for that many.
Masters of hyperbole, that’s a big jump from one to ten.
Two or three good flights is my limit these days, and when you flying with regulars on a continuing campaign out of the same AB briefings don’t need to bloated. We tend to know what needs to be done. And most of the time how to do it and get home, well that’s most of the time, the flights have to be challenging also.
You don’t have to yell, I have my hearing aid in.
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Do you know what this button is for?
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Oh boy some comments here… :s
I’m waiting for another saying the easiest way is to disconnect your headset! -
Oh boy some comments here… :s
I’m waiting for another saying the easiest way is to disconnect your headset!LOL
Just kidding guys!
We are ere to share knowledges … so do not hesitate … we are here for this.
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When I click it I don’t hear the Tower / the UHF channel. I still hear AWAC, wingmen and all other information I need.
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Do you know what this button is for?
When I click it I don’t hear the tower / UHF channel. But I still hear AWACS and wingmen.
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When I click it I don’t hear the Tower / the UHF channel. I still hear AWAC, wingmen and all other information I need.
Ok … So basically … your advice is not good at all and ppl must not follow it (very bad advice in fact)
Learn that this button is to switch your UHF radio emitter to GUARD.
If you do this IRL or during MP session, you will pollute all comm’s and have suddenly more enemy than beforeSo what you are doing is not correct at all. Keep this knob on its normal position (as long you are not in emergency) and change your UHF frequency/channel on one of the Package Freq (see the BMS-Manual.pdf for freq list).
And when you say that you are hearing AWACS on GUARD, you are hearing only the emergency calls … not all what you are supposed to hear. (BTW, this is not correctly modeled ATM and maybe one day you will no more hear any threat broadcast on GUARD.)
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My usual M.O. is to put tower on U15 and package on U6. I have U15 default preset and I change U6 once. Now every time I press COM1 on ICP then ENT button it just switches back and forth, back and forth. I don’t even have to type in the preset number.
I don’t understand the difficulty “stuck” on Tower freq. Pretend it’s the TV and you don’t want to watch Telemundo anymore