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Think about it. Most modern aircraft INS store coordinates down to the second (DDMMSS) or better. The area each second covers varies at different points on the globe, for in for instance, Syria, a second is about 80 feet. The Tomcat's INS stores coordinates down to tens of seconds (DDMMS), which is ten times the error, or 800 feet. Say your target is at N 33°28' 0" E 36° 4'35". A Tomcat with a perfectly aligned, perfectly functioning INS will only be able to store that waypoint as E 36° 4'3 or E 36° 4'4": which means when you QWP the LANTIRN, you're going to be off by 400 feet. The LANTIRN itself is able to generate more accurate coordinates, but for the initial point into an area, it's always going to be hamstrung by the F-14's INS' inherent lack of precision. IRL, F-14Bs were upgraded with an EGI starting in 1999, and F-14Ds had a completely separate, more capable navigation system, but we're using the janky original INS from the 60s.

Your Phoenix flew directly into a chaff bundle. The Sparrow probably did some stupid DCS-ism like the missile seeker got notched or had a panic attack due to glint, or some other exaggerated fantasy. Your AIM-9 veering off corresponds to the target releasing a pair of flares.

Sounds you should tell jester to stop automatically going to PSTT then. It's in the special options under F-14

They're still there for me.

Sounds like you tried to force a bad shot and the tyranny of aerodynamic drag shut you down.

https://i.imgur.com/atEeTnz.mp4 You have three other air to air weapons, plus a bunch of bombs and rockets. The F-14 is not just an AIM-54 platform.

Each track must be updated every two seconds as a condition for AIM-54 guidance, so TWS scan volumes are limited to satisfy that requirement. Scan volume can be adjusted between the two options DSplayer listed while in TWS MAN. In TWS AUTO volume and steering decisions are handled exclusively by the computer. The radar automatically enters TWS AUTO when supporting a missile. No, you can't out lawyer the iron laws of Hughes Aerospace.

Do y'all happen to remember what the frequencies were?

Quick question: how are y'all verifying that the weight has been doubled? The ED loadout menu? one of the kneeboard pages?

HB are aware of the bug, in the interim if you manually cycle the fuel feed switch next to the landing gear handle, it should resolve it.

Two Weeks...

Firstly, Jester doesn't know how to use Next Launch. Secondly, Next launch, even if available to jester, almost definitely _shouldn't work like that_ for a couple of technical reasons pertaining how the radar sends information to the missile.

AB seems to be drawing soley from the FWD tank and not the AFT, it's been reported. In the mean time you can make the fuel system draw only from the aft tank.

Things came up

For the F-14 specifically there is currently a bug where the AI is not treating the LANTIRN as a targeting pod, which means it isn't guiding laser weapons and isn't being used to spot targets. This has been reported to ED and HB

Crew Contract -> Set Inactive or No Talking?

How would he know no bomb came off? The jet doesn't know, the model of AWG-15 we have only knows what stations are selected. The pod doesn't know, it can't talk to the SMS in any substantive way. The only way I can think of would be tactile feedback from the bombs leaving the jet, which jester can't feel, because he's a Lua script. The pod displays a bomb timer, Jester is going to read the bomb timer.

Sometimes it be like that.

Last I heard, negotiations have broken down over the number of burbles present. HB opened with 1-3 Burbles, but ED insisted on no less than 6.

Remove the ROE -> FREE option from the initial waypoint. Some combination of spawning at 55,000 feet, Mach 2.4, and immediately transitioning to engaging an enemy target is causing the AI to do a stupid.

What delivery mode were you in? CMPTR TGT will inhibit a bomb release until its release conditions are met, which are completely separate from the LANTIRN. CMPTR Pilot and Man shouldn't do this, and are recommended for use with the LANTIRN. The LANTIRN doesn't actually know if anything fell off the jet or not, it displays the fall / laser timer anytime you press the pickle button with a designation, and jester is essentially just repeating the info on the LANTIRN screen.

The missile has the kinematics to comfortably make it 20 miles from a medium/high altitude shot, you can stretch that out to around 30 if you're very optimistic, but battery life becomes the limiting factor. Inside of that targets can ignore it, defend against it, or try and out shoot it. In case one they're likely to die. In case two initiative stays with whoever shot first, which means you have an advantage on your subsequent shots. In case three, you get to do some of that pilot <profanity> and things stay fun. I generally don't worry about AMRAAMS as I usually don't pick shooting fights with jets belonging to my own country, but that's just me. In any case it's a Tomcat. I don't need to force a SARH vs ARH match up if I don't want to, I have the speed and gas to decline the fight if I feel like it.

As long as you get your commence time, all further communication is optional, or at least that’s what my Buddy who’s gone through CQ has said.

If the ACLS is implementation is reliant upon the ATC call cadence, how is zip lip going to work?

Those switches are spring loaded to return to off when the autopilot is disengaged. If you want to turn off the autopilot, you’re going to have to reset them.