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That doesn't achieve the aim of spawning for a Cold start with a Long Alignment underway or complete initiated by the ground crew before you get to the aircraft. A Special option to enable this would be nice. If you had this you would spawn into the cockpit and see: Ground Power on, Batt On,Recorder switch on,ACFT SYS switch On, Navigation switch On,Main gyro switch On,STBY gyro Switch On,WP/AD Button on 1, Operate/Prepare switch OPER, NAV READY light out. (Ground crew would have done the Course Cmptr zero and Mag slave routine.) See Pg 2-25 of the German manual ..." Long Alignment before eng start"

I am presuming your source is this Document: I have used Google translate on pages 306-310 that describe the Air to Air Gun modes. I accept that some of the Google translation is awkward but I see no references to this 6 deg and 12 deg lead difference. If you have another reference that talks about this 6 deg versus 12 degrees I would be interested to read it. I did find some discussion about 6 Deg and 12 deg in this document on Pg70: However again using Google translate I don't think this is referring to Lead angles but rather something to do with scaling of the displayed solution in relation to the HUD FOV. Perhaps to increase accuracy by using a smaller (analogous to magnifying) area ?? A Russian speaker might give a clearer understanding. With both gun modes you can still achieve an IMC (not visible target) but in the secondary mode perhaps more accurate.

You only see this if you start with external power. It doesn't happen with a Battery start

I think its more a mode specifically set up to allow guns shots on targets in IMC (so not visible) rather than some sort of high lead tracking solution. In all the gun shots in your video you would have been able to achieve a guns tracking solution with the stock radar/Irst locked gunsight mode. Thats my take on it trying to figure it out in the Russian manuals.

Can you specify Long Alignment ???

Guidance given in the Russian manuals is that SOP for short range operations within range of RSBN beacons used for updating use Short Alignment. For Long range operations with few or no means to update by RSBN beacons use Long Alignment. Long Alignment can be done pre start with ground power available. Conceptually this would/could be done by the ground crew before the pilot gets to the jet. Be nice if this was a DCS spawn option.

Pressed for both short and long alignments

Its reported. The lower position a sort of Standby position. Over the canopy rail when someone actually wants to get in.

Or after selecting outboard ?

Nice vid. Convention and the Manuals say you should also manually set the Course arrow for manual ILS approaches. Kind of weird why it drops off the 070 setting you set up for the RSBN. Ideally you would also have the ADF's setup as outer (870) and inner (490) as well. Then together with the course arrow the yellow pointer would reference the ADF's as well. In a manual ILS you also need to manually switch the ADFS over on approach using the inner outer switch on the front panel. If the transition to ILS is brought up in AUTO (like when using the Return mode) the ADF switching is done for you.

Tried the same Syria sortie but this time used External power for the start. I got the reset and stutter as soon as I taxied. So its related to external power imo.

Google: The common Cyrillic abbreviation for "South" is the letter Ю, which is pronounced like the "you" in "you". It is used as the initial letter for words related to the south, such as юг (yug) for "south" and южный (yuzhnyy) for "southern". Ю: This Cyrillic letter, which stands for "юг" (yug), is the most common abbreviation for South. Example: In Russian, you might see "Ю" used to abbreviate "South America" (Южная Америка). ------------------------ North on the Standby compass is Marked C

Its the Cyrillic abbreviation for South. I-O

Be nice if you could load the presets via the DTC. You can access and edit the DCS before start. Best solution would be to have the current option with presets in the ME and via DTC. Before start you would bring up the DTC check the presets if not as desired then change right there.

Delta H is in metres hardwired as far as I am aware. In my notes I have converted to feet for the calcs. also another calc if down in the weeds and want the bottom of the beam on the horizon (i.e. at ground level) you need 5 deg ant elev you can get that 5 deg by: TDC 24nm Delta H +4 TDC 37nm Delta H +6