Maulkin

I love that feeling when you see your opponent make a critical mistake and you know you have him. Great story!

Ideally you want to be within 400 to 500 knots IAS

I am playing the updated campain and just finished Mission one. Two things I noticed: 1) After takeoff I quickly fly past my lead. He claims he is going to fly at 400 knots but he appears to hit the brakes shortly after WP1 2) there is a flight of Mirages that have missles but the missles are not attached to pylons....they fly close formation with the Mirage's wings ;) 3) when I perform the second landing with a full stop I was expecting the typical tone and indication that the mission had successfully ended. I do hear the instructor say he will meet me on the ground but I am not sure (because of the lack of indication) that the mission was done so I ended up waiting in the hangar in case he wanted to go through shutdown procedures with me.

Hey BD, I am a professional tester IRL, so if you need help with that let me know. I have learned so much just by testing and retesting the training missions and I really enjoyed doing it. :)

Lol yes sorry. By unidirectional I was referring to the direction of communication

Ok i think i get it now. It sounds like TACAN ranging between wingmates can only work unidirectionally?

So I was still completely confused until I read that Mudspike article! I think I understand it now but in case I don't let me tell you what I am thinking: So my flight lead sets his TACAN to Y11 and I set my TACAN to Y74. Because I am 11+63 I am sending on Y74 but recieving on Y11 and the flight lead is sending on Y11 and recieving on Y74? Is that correct?

Sorry for the confusion guys, I do know how to set my TACAN to Y11. What i mean is how do i recieve and send on to different channels? Take this example that was metioned before: "If you have more than one than the lead will set Y11 (using CrashO's example) and the wingmen will use Y74. The wingmen will both see the range to the lead but the lead will only see the range to the closest wingman." Me as a wingman, how do I set it up so Im sending on Y74 so my lead gets range data, but recieve on Y11 so I get range data on my lead? Also, please keep to the Mirage guys. If you start talking about the F-5 and the UH-1H I am just going to get more lost. :)

How does the flight lead set his aircraft to the example of Y11?

How do I do this? I assume I set the TACAN to A/A mode? What channel do I set it to? What if I have more than one wingman?

1) After entering the offset for waypoint two, the instructor tells the pilot to press the BAD button to check the offset point that was entered is working, but does not tell the pilot to first to change DEST to 02 so you get what appears to be an error with both ENC and BAD blinking. The pilot must first change DEST to WP02 (press DEST twice) and then press the BAD button. The BAD button should remain steady and the ENC button will blink. 2) After checking the BAD should I keep it turned on? It says when I am ready I should DEPRESS the BAD but I am not sure if that means I should keep it turned on or not. Right now I am assuming I should deselect it. 3) The mission claims that after flying over the BAD should automatically light up but as far as I could see it never does. The only things that light up are REC and VAL. This is kind of odd because I would have expected the BAD to light up so it could be the mission is correct but the Mirage is wrong. 4) Might want to mention that your speed should be over 400 knots IAS or you get a big 'X' on the HUD but that is optional. :)

Ah ok I think I misunderstood you. I was looking for a light that remained lit when a valid ILS station was selected. The light you are referring to only lights up when you fly over an inner/outer marker (along with an 'M' on the HUD)

Hey Grabby, This module is still very much in beta with many frequent updates. The manual is currently outdated but I am certain it will be updated once the module gets to final release. But having a partial manual is better than none at all, wouldn't you agree?

Can you give some examples? I am only seeing the 4 VOR (hexagon) beacons, but the only other symbols I am seeing on the map is the TACAN (which VOR/ILS will not work with..but that is why I have TACAN so that is covered separately), a rectangle symbol (for example the one near Krasnodar-Center 840.0MHz MB Chan 40) and the fuzzy symbols which I think are NDB's. I dont see any"hex with a box" or "hex with filled ears". That being said the VOR/ILS on the Mirage is very limited when it comes to the range of frequency values so, for example, I cannot set it to the frequency of that rectangles or the fuzzy symbols I referred to because they are much too high.

I dont see any flashing light? Corner of what?

one complaint :): The Rho and Theta symbols appear to be missing on the HSI (version 0.88 )

Yay! I am glad you got this worked out. :)

Oh I see! Thats odd ...I have tested it and it worked for me the last time i checked. I will check again and get back to you

Pushing the button does not advance to the next waypoint. It simply enables the PCN to advance to the next waypoint automatically when you reach a waypoint.

Thanks Firmek! Now that I know what to look for I found the other three: Mineralnye Vody : 117.1 Krasnodar : 115.8 Tbilisi : 113.7 It's gratifying to finally verify that I can get the thin needle to work. :)

I just found this gem by Creative Fun which I had started watching but I must have gotten interrupted and never saw more than the first 25 seconds: This might prove useful to anyone else who is trying to learn the autopilot.

Thanks Steph! At first I thought you must have been joking. That is not at all how I expected that to work but I kind of makes sense now with the how trim works with Select Alt. Hold.

Please dont assume that questions precede the manual. Have you read it? I have....many times now. Just to show you I will copy and paste it here: Selected Altitude Hold. 1. Select the desired altitude by clicking on the selector drums. Minimum altitude is 1,000 feet. 2. Click on the button. The light turns on indicating that the system is armed. (this happens) 3. Click again on the button. The light turns on and the aircraft will level at the selected altitude. (this does not happen and it does not mention you need to trim for climb) And that procedure does not work. Which is why I am here...asking the questions. Guys, I have been on this forum for a really long time. I very rarely post. For the first time I thought instead of struggling I would just ask on the forum so I opened a series of threads, one question topic per thread. I am saddened by the number of times people dont really read the question but just assume I didnt do my homework and "go read the manual". And I dont just see this with my posts. I have seen this with several others as well which is why people will hesitate posting. But even if someone didnt read the manual...does it really hurt that much to help? It could be that the person didnt understand what they read, or they simply missed it. Typically I will copy and paste the information directly from the Flight Manual into a reply (with page number) so they know where to look for the next time. Just saying "go read the manual" is not helpful at all.

Thanks Pikey I was just starting to suspect that and test it out. I'll give that a shot.

Thanks Steph but as far as I could see it was mostly referring to TACAN which is the wide needle. Keep in mind I have read the information in the latest flight manual and I have gone through both the navigation and ILS landing tutorials a few times each. I set the ILS and i can hear the tone but the needle is stuck at the 135 degrees position. Am I missing a mode setting somewhere?