Basic flight-and massive confusion-Which manual applies…
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How do I jettison the extra fuel tanks? Only jettison option I see in set up is Jettison all. Is there a way to jettison only external wing tanks, use those up first, jettison those and keep belly tank for last, then jettison that when it’s empty?
Use selective jettison thru the SMS page (on the MFD). Select the tanks to jettison. Be sure your weapons are armed…then hold the pickle button.
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Maybe if you read through red dogs dash one in entirety, that would save the hassle of asking how you do X control?
You can do an emergency jettison by pressing and holding the emergency jettison button on the gear panel, which will drop fuel tanks and air to ground stores, or you can do a selective jettison through the S-J SMS MFDS subpage.
Either way, if you can, try to bring those fuel tanks back, they are five figure pieces of hardware. Drop em if they will interfere with bringing YOU back. Also, ditch the centerline first.
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the dash one will also teach you one serious difference in the way SJ or EJ works.
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@Red:
the dash one will also teach you one serious difference in the way SJ or EJ works.
as the above is incompleteIn Emergency Jettison, the stores are released in an unarmed/unguided condition?
Is that modeled in BMS? I gotta try this…
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In Emergency Jettison, the stores are released in an unarmed/unguided condition?
Is that modeled in BMS? I gotta try this…
Not just in BMS, it was like that in the original F4 already. And RL too, BTW.
It would be a shame to blow up something just because you need to get rid of your stores
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Not just in BMS, it was like that in the original F4 already. And RL too, BTW.
It would be a shame to blow up something just because you need to get rid of your stores
Not what I meant to imply. Red Dog said my description was incomplete, so I read through the -1 I have, and that was the only difference it mentioned between S-J and Emergency Jettison.
That being a difference, would tend to imply that S-J a Mk 82 would result in it blowing up when its fuzing is satisfied. I was saying I need to test whether S-J of munitions in BMS results in them being released in an armed condition.
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the difference i meant was that you can’t selective jetisson if the master arm is in safe or sim it has to be in arm
emergency jettison works regardless of the master arm switch positionit’s one of the major difference between seljet and emergjet and documented page 84 of the BMS dash1
The pilot can preselect a selective jettison configuration while in S-J Master Mode, which will be remembered during Master Mode transitions. The stores are jettisoned using the pickle button when the Master Arm switch is in ARM. After the stores are released the highlighted stations are removed from the S-J page and the associated weapon quantity reads zero. The S-J mode also bypasses any other weapons settings.
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I note that it also cautions that to jettison wing tanks you need to press and hold the WPN REL button for one second, which is not the case in BMS. Interesting.
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Use selective jettison thru the SMS page (on the MFD). Select the tanks to jettison. Be sure your weapons are armed…then hold the pickle button.
Thank you. Finally had time to test it today and it worked.
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Maybe if you read through red dogs dash one in entirety, that would save the hassle of asking how you do X control?
You can do an emergency jettison by pressing and holding the emergency jettison button on the gear panel, which will drop fuel tanks and air to ground stores, or you can do a selective jettison through the S-J SMS MFDS subpage.
Either way, if you can, try to bring those fuel tanks back, they are five figure pieces of hardware. Drop em if they will interfere with bringing YOU back. Also, ditch the centerline first.
Thanks, I think. You’re answer kind of goes along with the title of this thread, which manual applies…In this case, the Dash manual would apply. Is it wrong of me to ask questions on here? I do try to find the answers before I “flood” the forum with noob questions. In this instance, I scoured they key commands instead of hundreds of pages of guessing which manual would apply. After “no joy” in key commands, I came here to ask.
Of course I know in real life fuel tanks aren’t free, and only would be dropped if needed for less drag and more speed. Digital tanks on the other hand cost very little.
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Have questions ASK! The only dumb question you have is the one you don’t ask.
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Thanks, I think. You’re answer kind of goes along with the title of this thread, which manual applies…In this case, the Dash manual would apply. Is it wrong of me to ask questions on here? I do try to find the answers before I “flood” the forum with noob questions. In this instance, I scoured they key commands instead of hundreds of pages of guessing which manual would apply. After “no joy” in key commands, I came here to ask.
Of course I know in real life fuel tanks aren’t free, and only would be dropped if needed for less drag and more speed. Digital tanks on the other hand cost very little.
Id have to think about it, but would ultimately come down on the side that asking questions is not wrong. Searching the forum helps to reduce duplicate threads, and longer users of falcon than I can attest to how many near identical ‘how do I…’ threads there have been over the years.
Id still recommend reading the AF and AF2BMS manuals at your earliest discretion, as they will combined answer a LOT of questions, and are conveniently about a thousand pages less than reading the RL manuals that cover most of the same topics.