AvroLanc

Yep, there’s a clock but any airplane needs an elapsed time feature. It doesn’t look like there is one. I’m finding these Chinese avionics lack a lot of depth of western types.

A clock and/or a chrono is an essential piece of equipment since about the Wright brothers. Is there a chrono anywhere within the avionics? I can't find it, seems a funny omission? There's the TOT countdown, but that's not it.

Longer range, more standoff, better low level performance. However more difficult and finicky to plan correct flight profile and impact angle, fuzing etc.....if modelled correctly. Interesting to see what happens.

As far as I’m aware link 16 / SA page should be able to display own flight x 4 members TGT / SPI. It should also show specific assigned ground targets from an AWACS or JTAC, seen as a red triangle, similar to A10. SEAD targets may also be seen in real life...

I'm aware it's a little early to moan about WIP features, but I notice the 'Checklists' MFD page is not implemented - at least according to Chucks guide...... Will this MFD page get added at some point? It's an important little procedural / immersion item for those of us who enjoy such things. Thanks.

I've noticed that it now matches the behavior described in the manual. I just needs getting used to. It's a shame it can't be used to 'zoom' into areas unrelated to A/C position but hey ho. Thanks.

It's gone weird. But is the new behaviour intentional? It now repositions the own aircraft symbol within the TID field of view by placing the aircraft at the cursor location. Previously it centered the FOV at the cursor location, which is different.... I preferred the older method, but was it changed intentionally? Is it more correct now?

I've just had another look and it's completely yuk. The black is very very flat looking. There's no tonal variation in the panels and details like the dust and dirt that was there before has now gone. Needs changing back but I guess that's just my opinion.

Am I the only one who doesn't like the changes? The panel backgrounds are now far too black looking. They lack tone and definition and the previous 'greyer' colour was more interesting to look at. I had no problems in VR before. Can there be an option to choose between the textures?

Probably not yet, but I haven’t done testing with wildly separated targets where it make a difference. As I say the finished JDAM implementation should show individual launch zone on the HSI for each target that take into account its position and any terminal parameters, eg. Impact azimuth, angle and velocity into account. Once these terminal parameters are taken into account, even two targets in close proximity could in theory have very different launch zones.

With dynamic launch zones you’ll get a launch zone shape for each separate target on the HSI. With multiple targets they’ll be a smaller overlapping area that indicates the zone for all targets. Think a Venn diagram..... Not sure if you need to have QTY selected to see all zones/MSN’s?

It’s information. I’m guessing the GO, NO GO is a ‘status’ call to the flight lead. Maybe you’ve got a system fault or other issue that makes you mission ineffective. You’re a NO GO. The F-16 has similar information displayed in a line along the top of the HSD and FCR page. Although not yet implemented.

I’m not entirely sure on the details either, but I believe it displays expanded data on the target under cursor in the SA page. For a friendly / PPLI this would show voice callsign, IFF codes and modes, fuel state, weapon state plus a few bits. For an unknown / hostile it would show aircraft ID and IFF code response or lack of, plus other bits.

Thank the lord for Thrustmaster Cougar MFDs, that’s all I say.

I’m a Hornet fan too. In many ways the systems in the Hornet are more interesting and capable than the Viper’s yet without the Viper’s excellent man machine interface/ease of use. Quite a contrast.

True, but if it’s true to life then fair play. It’s interesting to have a few differences between the two though. Otherwise, we get ‘generic 4th gen’ fighter. I’m waiting for the TGT DATA page on Hornet , that should be cool.

I queried this a while back. According to Wags, the legacy hornet doesn’t have such feature. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=237196

Almost certainly.

It might be somewhat restrictive since LABS is primarily a nuclear weapon delivery mode. Anything related to 'special' weapons tends to have a higher level of sensitivity. I guess even old tech.

You might as well just use AUTO then. CCIP is probably not used as often as AUTO.

The waypoint elevations should be ground elevation at that point anyway. It’s essential for weapon delivery so at the very least the IP and TGT waypoints will be the ground elevation. In reality ALL waypoints should be like this. Having the elevation set to flight plan altitude is very gamey and inaccurate. Crews carry hard copy flight plans for a reason. They know what altitude they should be flying. A Hornet is not a airliner with VNAV etc.

I know, I agree, which is why some of ED's decisions are odd. To say the least.

The Max G reset is not functioning at the moment. The Max G pulled during sortie should be reset-able to 0 with a press of the 'Warn reset' switch on the ICP.

I remember Wag's using the phrase 'CORRECT AS IS' tag at some point. Can't find the link. This was pretty much the only reference Wag's / ED has made. And it was a while ago, so maybe there's hope. I think the problem is that ED have to be able to prove that all data they use is in the public domain, and specific to the Hornet. They can't / won't mix and match data, like F-14's RWR etc in case they get their collars felt again. Maybe I'm wrong.

I think you're right about ED knowing it's wrong. There's still elements of the RWR and defensive systems to add though and I'm hopeful that maybe ED might relent to common sense and change the behaviour. Afterall it's a massive part of the combat experience and a major knock to SA at present. Stuff still to add: Display filters for EW page (AI, F, N, AAA etc) Control page for CM's (CM Bingo settings etc, D LOW Advisory) Correct flare numbers EW in the Helmet All of the Jammer functionality, however simplified Hopefully when they get round to implementing some of this, they may relook at threat rings.