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Agree it shouldn't imo be doing that ... perhaps this AG side of things hasn't been implemented yet.

Cant find a reference but I believe in AG the reticle should be fixed and only moves in the vertical by way of the set depression.

I believe the C+M switch (Also known as rapid gun in some pubs) should do the following: 1. Force the radar into TEL mode 2. Selects the IR missiles ... With the R550 in 30 x 30 scan (did in Mir III) 3. Firezone computer post lock performs missile in zone computations and generates Green light if in zone. 4. Gun Gyro reticle becomes computing with radar range and own body rates (or Radar rates if Auto fire switch in AUTO) This enables immediate employment of either IR missiles or the gun.

FWIW ATAR 9C Mir IIIO Full AB on the deck 60imp Gal per min so about 28,160pph. Thats a 13,000lbs thrust ATAR.

Flown through a lot of Aircraft Efflux/wakes inside 200m range with ATAR 9C ... not one compressor stall or hiccough, cant see why the ATAR 9K 50 would suddenly be susceptible to this

Br easier IMO if there were just two Bindings. "Flap Up" and "Flap down". With each push moving the flaps 1 step in that direction. so from Flaps Fully down to up would require 2 pushes of the "Flaps up" keybinding etc.

For those that like this sort of thing Dotted circle represents the Rapid Gun Radar FOV .. most of the Combining glass.

Nope only "expertise' I had was with R530 Radar variant.

Talking about the Radar. Pretty sure the R530 itself was NOT monopulse

The Monopluse side of things as far as I recall was only used for the tracking of the target. Essentially by use of a 2 things called the "Magic T" and the "folded T". The Magic T divided the received pulse into 2 quadrants and could then determine precisely within the beam the targets exact elevation position. The Folded T did the same simultaneously in elevation ... all happening within a single return pulse. This just allowed very fine angular position information to be determined in a single pulse which was then used to ensure the range gate stayed with the target. It was very much better against range gate stealers than say Conscan trackers used in typical US radars of the same vintage. The R530 just needed the RF to home on and (again as far as I recall) wasn't really a monopulse per see being a passive seeker. It was a cumbersome thing to use with an unbelievably low Pk. There was an agonizing 1-4 secs delay after lock on during which time the radar and and the missile synced frequencies (there were 10 available and randomized) and ensured the seeker wasn't masked by the aircraft itself (could be an issue as in the Mirage III it was only carried on the centreline). After this 1-4 secs delay the missile was considered viable. This delay was a serious operational limitation against High speed targets in front quarter intercepts. To get the best out of the Cyrano II (and I don't see why the IV is any different) required almost continual attention to manual Gain control coupled with Screen intensity and target aging and Antenna elevation and of course each aeroplanes radar performance and set up was different.

Cyrano II in Mirage IIIO/E was in Track (STT) a Monopulse radar.

Lovely vid ..... Tad less gain to reduce the speckle

The "speckle' and lock on/Stop program in the radar looks great.

The DCS calculation and mechanization of the pull up cue is in error and way to pessimistic. This has been reported. I suggest this is the main issue that you are seeing.

Just a comment. The end of transfer lights on the fuel panel are very very dim in daylight even with the rotary dialed up to maximum brightness.

Ok thanks for the input now sorted.

The docs say that the AP ON/OFF switch can be used to override the elastic stop. Does this actually work ... it doesn't for me.

Yes Basic AG mapping exists in the cyrano IV Reasonable CYRANO IV Radar manual in English here: https://dlscrib.com/cyrano-iv-airborne-fire-control-radar-utilization-manual-thomson-csf_58b1f5516454a7ab10b1e966_pdf.html

JHMCS is for pussies You can drop bombs in NAV master mode Dive Toss is everything (as it was in STAR WARS) The R77 is overmodelled The SU57 FM is porked The SA3 is eye watering Seriously great fun to watch Yoda's force is strong in this one Keep the thread moving

In the last century not all items had to be GO. Any FCS BIT that didn't pass was however a NO GO item. Usual procedure for a DEGD was to re initiate the Bit for that item.

Neat video. Supersonic climb schedule Google Rutowski climb profile Max range in Hornet occurs at 4.2alpha (Endurance at 5.6alpha). For the Min fuel descent work on 5 deg flight path angle. So when destination runway is at -5 on the HUD select Idle and put the vv at -5. You will find AOA will be close to to 4-5 alpha all the way, IAS will end up at around 250Kias.

Toss bombing (LOFT) is slightly flawed even with Dumb bombs at present in DCS FA18 For Low drag weapons the AUTO release cue should appear on the ASL when a release is possible before the aircraft gets to 45 deg nose up with a 4G pull achieved in 0.5second...... this is therefore an TOSS in range solution. In the case of a high drag weapon the release cue appears 5 sec before the computed release point. In DCS the release cue logic used is this 5 Sec logic regardless of the weapon drag configuration. Here in lies the problem. In DCS the release cue only appears 5 seconds prior to the 1G release solution.... so you wont get any true LOFT release cueing for Low drag weapons. IRL you can TOSS a MK80 series bomb about 5nm from 600Kts at ground level. A workaround is to not start the Pull up until around 5.5nm This has been reported.

It was fixed in the last OB

Ok will do. Though I think its weather related. I re jigged this same mission but made it CASE III type weather and all worked ok. Seems to me there is some internal coding that if Weather is better than CASE II and is day you just wont get ACLS available.

In the case of Non Super carrier install you wil only get ACLS if the WX is bad enough to get Case 3 (or night). Anything else and at the ACLS pick up point around 5.4nm(where Tadpole appears) the ACL 1 annunciation goes away and the DL goes int T/C mode..... though T/C mode is redundant in the non Super carrier install. I presume the same applies with Super carrier install ... that is you need the WX to be CASE III (or night) to be able to get ACLS symbolgy