Cleric

I had the ADF somewhat working. It seems like you have to wait until you're out of the canyons then tune to it, then turn your ADF receiver on and off and retune until your arrow starts pointing. I had the same problem turning to 477.00 from the vector home.

After picking up the casualty, I turn on the ADF receiver and tune it to 353.00 as the pilot says (which should lead me to checkpoint 14), and get an arrow pointing directly north. After following the arrow for about 30 minutes, with the pilot and Doc constantly telling me to hurry, I look into the F10 map and see some blue forces at a checkpoint off to the NW, so I assume the ADF arrow will eventually start turning west. I wait, and wait, and wait, and then when the checkpoint is almost directly west of me the ADF arrow starts shifting...to the east...and then to the south east. After essentially backtracking another 40 minutes, I get visual on another checkpoint. This time the ADF is actually pointing to it (or rather the airfield 3km north) and they pop smoke and I see the MEDEVAC bird coming in from the east. Literally, as my skids touch down, I hear the Doc say "You can slow down now, he's gone." Okay. Surely this is just a deliberate plot twist, and the casualty is supposed to die as we touch down, right? Nope, Mission Failed. The problem here is that, despite being tuned to the correct ADF freq (there were no gain spikes any where near the 350.00 range except for at 353.00,) the locator lead me on a wild goose chase 30 minutes (at >100 knots) northwest of when it should have been pointing almost straight east from the get go. I'm absolutely sure the arrow was pointing north--I scrutinized it very closely when I thought I was being mislead early on. Is there some setting I missed? Is there some way for the ADF signal to bounce off the terrain in such an odd way?