@hollywoodvillain:
No, you dont uncage radar. Most likely problem OP is having is not quite understanding how the radar works. At closer than 5 miles you’re best off using the ACM modes like he was doing originally in DF override. Further out, its important to understand you dont actually change the range at which it scans, just the scale of the B SCOPE, the radar always scans out to max regardless. Where you place the cursor on the scope will tell you the altitude brackets at which you’re scanning at the position of the cursor. For example, if you set your scale to 80mi, and put the cursor all the way to the top, thats what youre scanning at 80mi, however move the cursor half way down the scope, and thats the altitudes you’re scanning at 40mi. Move it a quarter way down and thats 60mi and so on. Notice min/max scan altitudes will change depending on where you place the cursor vertically due to the fact the radar sweep increases the further out you go and vice versa.
I think you are right. Here’s how I think I know but please some feedback.
After I read all the comments I added a package, yet further out. The first two bogeys I could spot just by looking out. I flew from Hatzerim, the bandits took off from Yasser Arafat int. so easy to see. At that point my 8 year old son came in and asked if he could fire a missile So I sat him down at the controls, put it in dogfight and let the boy fly. By chance he flipped the switch back into mrm and then I saw the other package on my radar-screen! I guess I saw the light, the two bandits were just too close to spot on the radar but the ones further out I could see. (captured by the cone which is bigger farther away, right?)