@Red:
Hey Willy
The TFR training mission start on the ground no?
You’re supposed to ramp the jet and set the TFR settings on the ground during ramp.
During the ramp the Ralt switch should indeed be ON
Then fly out and test fly the TFR between steerpoint 2 and 3 where the SWIM check is also tested (inducing RALT check)
It’s all explained in the training manual covering that TE, if you start the TE in the air, you miss most of the point of training with the TFR.
My guess are:
Radar altitude switch error
WX mode on TFR - further down the route you go through inclement weather and rain disrupt the TFR, you have to counter that with the weather mode of the TFR (that would depend on when you start the TE in the air, hence why it’s not recommended)
There is no need to use the FLCS reset in any way in that mission.
Just bear in mind that there are a full chapter in the Training manual to cover each step. If you guys overlook the manual, you might miss a lot and end up thinking the TFR is broken in 4.33
but it’s not
Thanks RD for the info.
My problem has been that when I tried it, I was short on time and was just trying to demo TF at a Sim Convention. Therefore, I just launched the TE while in the air and then I enabled TF at altitude. (That should be possible in the real F16 as far as I know. It was in Falcon AF.) I’ll try again and check the Radar Altimeter though I’m pretty sure I had it on and it was reading 5,000’ or maybe higher where I dropped into the mission.
I’ll also go grab a cup of coffee and sit back, relax and take some time out of pit builder to read that section of the Training Manual.
Having said that, I would think that there should be a way to reset that situation in the air if you make the sort of mistake that I did. Using FLCS reset would seem like too drastic of a thing to do while in flight for a real F16. (Or is it something real F16 pilots can do?) If it turns out that the Radar Altimeter is on, then I think there is something else wrong. When Betty was “bitching” none of the buttons on the TF would respond. That’s why I was thinking there is a bug as I couldn’t change a thing on the TF via the MFD.
I’ll read up and do some more experimentation. If you have time to repeat what I did by engaging TF for the first time while at altitude (with RAlt on) and you get the same “stuck” and repeating Betty messages and the TF MFD buttons don’t function, then you will have repeated the situation.
BTW, at one of the conventions, I demo’d this problem to Chris “String” Link who flys BMS more than I do and he tried doing the same TE, dropping in at altitude and then turning on TF. It did the same thing for him and TF wouldn’t respond on the MFD and Betty was stuck “bitchin”. We just had to abort the sim to get out of it.