Ok, thank you both for all the feedback.
In regards to my second question - I was only asking about the steerpoint as I know it shows up in NAV mode, just not AA or AG modes. AA mode shows all the radar contact you have bugged, but AG mode only shows things locked from the HTS pod, nothing if just using the A/G FCR modes. And Omi89’s right - if trying to do it visually it can take a very long time as you basically have to steer the aircraft toward something on the ground to get the radar location to show up on the hud if you are trying to hand off A/G weapons to your FCR visually. I was just curious if that was a RL limitation or not.
I would be interested to hear from someone who knows more about the implementation of the different CRM submodes - most of what I know about these two particular submodes (ULS and VSR) stems from my time when I was 12 yrs old playing Jane’s FA18 flight sim. Even the Dash-1 manual only says this about them:
If the FCR is in CRM the submodes are RWS (Range While Search), ULS (=LRS: Long Range Scan),
VSR (=VS Velocity Search), TWS (Track While Scan).