Best setup for your MFD's master modes
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What pages do you have setup for you MFD’s master modes (primary and secondary)
A/A
A/G
NAVWhere can I find out what each one in the list is?
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Looks like there is no single truth to this. That’s why it is in DTC for pilot preferences, and that’s why it is so easy to change.
A/A: needs FCR, SMS and HSD, perhaps A2A TGP. I tend to keep extra screens empty for clarity and to avoid getting bogged when panicking. Often I fly just with FCR,SMS and only HSD on right.
A/G is heavily depending on the mission and weapon type: iron bombs, guided bombs, HARMs, Interdiction (with requirement to cluster small areas), Maverick mission etc.
I personally have FCR, SMS on the left, HSD, TGP and HAD on the right for most diverse configuration. But this needs constant tuning depending on the mission. Sometimes you need WPN, sometimes something else. Sometimes I shift TGP to left, so it is optional to FCR when close to the actual target range and radar is not needed anymore. Sometimes I have WPN on left for quick picture check or use HARM sensors (sensitive).
For air to ground work I don’t think there is a single setup that works. Just keep the crucial ones (to you) in constant positions.NAV: I have again left FCR and SMS (to give consistency with other modes), right HSD and A2A TGP for general IDing and fun. HAD depending if I have the pod and if we are going into enemy SAM belt. For NAV mode I usually reserve one slot for “my own purposes” which I cycle often for my own interest, training and fun.
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Didn’t we just do this recently?
Why, yes … yes we did: https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?20527-Can-someone-recommend-MFD-setup-for-data-cartridge
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Looks like there is no single truth to this. That’s why it is in DTC for pilot preferences, and that’s why it is so easy to change.
For BMS, I’d say this is partially true, because quite a lot of us lack clickable MFD’s and need to do everything with the same mouse anyway, but IIRC, I read somewhere that the exact opposite is actually true in real life. That a lot of money and pilot experience was used to research and achieve an “optimal lay-out” (expedition, user-friendliness, safety etc., I presume), which will as of then be the standard setup for that nation/force. It has such an impact on procedures apparently, that if it were discovered during an incident investigation that there was a diversion from that standard setup, questions could be asked and there could be an assessment whether that abnormal layout played a part in the incident happening…
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Hmm. Considering that changing the shortcuts is just three button presses away (two of them the same) it sounds they don’t enforce it?
I knew at least some fighter pilots that use custom settings. But I agree that a (national) doctrine can indeed be strong.
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Hmm. Considering that changing the shortcuts is just three button presses away (two of them the same) it sounds they don’t enforce it?
I knew at least some fighter pilots that use custom settings. But I agree that a (national) doctrine can indeed be strong.
Given the number of nations that use the F-16, I think its a bit of a stretch to say that every air force that employs the jet forces its pilots to use specific switchologies.
