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The plane ignores the quantity selector in weapon selection modes outside of rockets & dispensers and bombs. So, I don't see a way to stop it from going from left to right without not arming the stations you want it to not fire. Attempting to change to rockets and dispensers won't arm the Shrikes. Unless you go to A mode which fires all four of them as soon as you hit the pickle button.

No, the LANTIRN does not communicate with the Tomcat's A/G modes. It barely interfaces with the rest of the Tomcat at all.

Just give it a go again but making sure to cycle the fuel door if he says transfer complete and calling back in.

Did you disconnect right before he calls transfer complete? I recall a bug where attempting to reconnect before cycling the fuel door causes the tanker to say transfer complete.

From what I remember, attempting to turn on the APU gen before the APU reaches 100% stalls the APU start-up.

If you are capable of remembering what each SAM radar is on the RWR, you can definitely put some time in to be able to recall what tone you are listening to. I would say, it's probably more important to just focus on the A2A radars first since they are only sorted as broad groups on the RWR. Ground radars are better sorted out and it's probably sufficient to just recognize which ones will tone change as it goes through its modes. You can also just have it open as you fly, and quiz yourself in the jet if you are comfortable doing so. Match the tones.

I figured Jester would just be following IRL procedures like he does in the F-14. Appreciate the answer.

I'm lazy and normally in other jets I just flick everything that I want on while waiting for things to happen like during the spool up of the engines for the fastest startup. Now, in this jet, systems are modeled to higher level of fidelity regarding damage and the tutorial warns while going over the IRL derived checklists that systems like the INS and the TACAN can be damaged if left active during the power switch over from external to internal, this will probably extend to having the generators on while the engine spools up for a cartridge start. My question is, Is this actually modeled or just part of the IRL procedures and checklists?

There is not. There was a very specific patch note about this a while back. The AWG-9 will transition to using a range gate and/or speed gate when STT'ed. Apr 8 2022

An IL-78 you can definitely maintain lock on, it's a huge and highly reflective target conpared to ground clutter and there is no MLC filter when STT'ed. So, it not moving is not an issue.

Yes, it is possible. You can lock onto completely still ships out on the water as well.

I regularly launch from above 20,000. I don't think that was your issue. More likely keyhole constraints as noted above.

I think I am looking at the bottom of your plane from this perspective. So, I would say you notched. The first missile is guiding onto you with its onboard radar.

It looks to me in both tracks you are notching the radar on the enemy Tomcat as soon as it fires a missile or in the one case you break lock by hiding behind the hill. If he's not STT'ed, the track is lost or put into memory. (There is some DCS goofiness with how the AI does things as far as RWR indications from their aircraft.) In both tracks, the first missile fired reacquires you using it's own onboard radar and then either doesn't have enough energy to reach you, or runs out of battery power. Your defense here is actually excellent (Other than the dumping of countermeasures near missile launch), because of the trajectory and how slow the missile usually is, it becomes impossible for it to reach you if you turn 180 and burn. It's about what I expect from the AI. It is a very difficult missile to employ against the small fighters.

Because the autopilot doesn't have a route follow mode for the jet. The LAAP acts through the Stability Augmentation System which only has channels for Pitch and Yaw. There's no roll channel to be able to automatically make turns. "Path" refers to flight path. I.E. it'll approximately hold your velocity vector in place.

Looks like AGR mode is being commanded. Like you are in a CCIP or Gun Strafe mode.

Can't reproduce this either.

HMCS turns on fine for me.

Worked fine for me when I tried it. If any of the seekers wandered off TMS Aft stabilizes it back to the SPI.

Yes, the Maverick seeker needs to be boresighted. It's the same procedure as the LITENING pod.

I like its overall functionality better. So I wish to use the Sniper over the LITENING.

I don't find it unfortunate. It's typically how I use these dual mode pods, is that IR is for finding hotspots, and TV is for figuring out what that hotspot is. So, wide IR to find spots, and I zoom in with the TV mode. Which means for me the PiP mode is lovely.

These look about the same to me, with the Sniper actually having more magnification in it's standard narrow mode without digital zoom.

But you definitely would be able to tell if you digital zoomed it in by 9x and started looking at a 57x57 image instead. Digital zoom of that degree makes a massive difference at this lower end of resolutions. I'm quite used to how bad even the 2x digital zoom on the -14 and the -15E LANTIRN pods are.

Don't forget the display resolution of the actual screen you are viewing it on. 256x256 was the number I heard last for the DCS pod but that might have been for the Spanish LITENING II that the Hornet has which is where the 29x29 final digital zoomed at 9x comes from. There's a thesis paper floating around on the forums here somewhere that explains that the AT does in fact incorporate some techniques to help with the image degradation of the digital zoom, so. Naturally as these techniques improve, the digital zoom becomes more useable. But there is no upper limit to how much digital zoom you could apply to anything really. (I guess at the most extreme you can have it zoom all the way down to one pixel, just because you wanted to.) If you want you can ask Northrop engineers whether they were bumping the digital zoom levels just because they could to get sales and the people writing the paycheck don't know any better other than "number bigger therefore better"