Zeus67

Training missions have been added.

That is why it is not available by default.

The MiG-19P has a "low altitude" switch that puts the search antenna in standby and converts the tracking antenna into a telemetry radar. No radar indication and the radar gunsight is not available, but the SP-5 gets range to target.

Testing the ground clutter suffered by the RP-5 radar whenever one is flying too low.

It is a ME option. It is not available by default.

The following Instant Action missions are included: Cold Start: Practice aircraft start-up procedure, taxiing and take-off. Take-Off: Self-explaining Landing: Good for practicing the use of the ARK-5 ADF in a landing situation. Free Flight: Just fly around. High Altitude Air Intercept: A complex situation: A B-52 has been detected over the Black Sea, incoming from Turkey. You must scramble from your parking spot and fly to the intercept point and shoot it down. Using GCI is a must. The B-52 is flying both high and fast. You blink and it will be in the next Area Code in seconds and your chances to catch it will be almost zero. Combat Air Patrol: Patrolling the Southern border of the USSR, looking for marauding Turkish aircrafts. Gunsight Training: Non-Combat. You are flying over the Black Sea, four friendly aircraft are flying in front of you. Catch up to them and practice using the SP-5 gunsight wingspan/distance settings and the AR-18-8 radar gunsight. Radio Navigation Training: Fly from one airbase to another following NDB stations along the route.

It won't be released with that ground clutter rendition. I have checked the other two DCS aircraft that suffer from ground clutter: MiG-21Bis and F-5E. Unfortunately their rendition does not conform to how the RP-5 radar behaves: The clutter appears above, because the radar beam cone gets the ground return. This return slowly creeps down, as the altitude above the ground is lower until the entire screen is filled. Sidelobes do appear below the screen, but the main clutter is on top coming down. The RP-5 radar can be used from 3600 meters above ground level. It becomes unusable at 2000 meters AGL.

The only question is about the ground clutter rendition, which is at this time WiP and I do agree quite lacking. We are improving that and it will be released with a better way to show ground clutter.

Steam release decision is handled by ED.

Please give me a list of the problematic switches/knobs.

Radar update follows HUD/PCA update.

ED will make the announcement. We are forbidden to do so.

Since the radar will be updated as well, this bug and others will be reviewed and squashed.

DO mode does exist for the RDI and it is one of the AdA's requests. But I doubt that it allows for missile tracking.

Yes.

Radar ranging has priority over the radar altimeter for obvious reasons: The radar looks ahead and can determine target elevation before the CCIP gets there. The radar altimeter only determines ground elevation below the aircraft, that value is used for CCIP with the understanding that the target elevation not necessarily is equal to ground elevation below the aircraft. If both are used, the radar ranging will take precedence.

M-2000C was released before the Normandy and Persian Gulf maps release. No QS missions exist for those maps. We will include them as part of the overhaul.

For that we will enable what is called DO mode. This mode keeps in the radar memory the contact for a few more seconds in the hope that the radar reacquires it before the time runs out.

Folks, the final fix was supposed to be released with the hotfix. Unfortunately that did not happen so we must wait until next release.

I'm not sure what DA means. If it is the RWR, then the symbols will change.

Done! Will be available on next update.

I "suggest" that this discussion about the RWR symbology ends here. It won't change the facts and all it is doing is derail the thread. Zhen, your objections have been noted, but there is nothing anybody can do about them.

No, they will not provide specifics about DA/RWR/SERVAL, since those are classified. They only provided the icons used and gave me a code list for threats. This code list does not correspond with the true one used by the AdA. All Electronic Warfare systems are classified and they cannot share information on them.

Yes. VTH symbology will be corrected as well. Right now it is a mix of C and -5.

If I am telling you how it is going to work, it is because the pilots of the real aircraft have shown us how it should work. This time there is no guess work on system behavior. The AdA needs that the DCS aircraft behaves as the real one. That is why they are helping us. If anybody feels that I am wrong, please PM me with you M-2000C qualifications so I can bring your misgivings to our contacts at the AdA. I am sorry, but this time "I have read the manual/brochure" does not cut it.