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Can you say how to do that?

Same for me

And what is this radar's range? It acts quite strange, it seems to activate when you are very close (3-5 km) but then it can track you maybe up to 10 km

Do SA-11 launchers have an own short range radar? I destroyed the SR vehicle, but when I got close to the battery they launched and shot me down :(

Is there any way in the mission editor to keep close the distance between aircrafts in a formation with AIs? When I set a group of 4 aircrafts with me as a leader, the 3 AIs always stay quite far behind me and they don't seem to care about my orders to rejoin. As a result I meet the enemy alone and I am massacred :(

I was searching the forum for some tip to evade it...I'm always shot down by the AIM-54 :)

Why USAF removed this weapon? If reality is alike DCS, it is much more lethal than AIM-120.

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In a AWACS hunt mission I have an Il-76 escorted by two Flankers. At first on my radar I only see one contact, the Il-76 I guess because it's bigger than the fighters: If I lock it, the fighters get me quite easy as they get closer undisturbed. If I wait for locking the target, only when they are very close I can see some very small separation between them as the AWACS stays almost all the time close to the fighters closing on me. The result is that almost every time I get the AWACS, but I'm shot down by the fighters. I would first launch on the Flankers and once they are down go to the Il-76, is there any "secret" to distinguish from a good distance targets very close to each other?

It seems that I have a problem, I cannot move the radar's azimuth to left and right either in LRS or TWS mode. I can move the scan area up and down but not horizontally. I also set a command for that on my joystick but no way (it works fine in russian aircrafts). Is it normal?

A great guide, thanks

Well, it also happens with a Il-76 Awacs....not really a stealth plane :)

Approaching dangerous zones I normally use the 160 nm range scale in the VSD. But when I approach a contact in front of me, it always appears about in the center of the VSD. It looks like the radar's maximum range were about 80 nm, but in this case why is there the 160 nm option?

Thanks :thumbup:

I got a new Thrustmaster T16000M joystick and throttle, but I want to keep the repaired Saitek as reserve. Once I'll set the command configuration, will the game keep memory of the Saitek options? Or shall I have to change manually the configuration every time I'll change from Saitek to Thrustmaster and vice versa?

They look like that....at take off they retract automatically, and this could be fine, but in landing they refuse to deploy at command. Tonight at 10000 m. my slats were down at supersonic speed, and after a dogfight I found my flaps down. A bit annoying, any way to prevent that? I checked the settings but there's no option for that.

Understood, thanks :thumbup:

I tried to use the "F#" keys listed in the controls section but I couldn't find any to have an external view for ground objects as vehicles, buildings or ships; I only can cycle all friendly and hostile aircrafts. Is it possible to do that?

Yes, What I mean is: once I have installed 2.0 shall I still be able to play with friends (or on servers) running 1.5? Will I be able to choose to start 1.5 or 2.0, or will I be only on 2.0?

I'm planning to get 2.0 with Nevada map combined with the Huey, special offer. Just to be sure, when I'll be on 2.0 will I still be able to play online with friends still running 1.5?

Do you mean that I can couple a Thrustmaster joystick with a Saitek throttle? I didn't know that.

May I ask you what's your joystick and what's its average life? I use a Saitek X52 and I feel fine with it, but after about 12 months some axis start to "swing" and I have to send it for assistance. Consider that I've been flying mosty as a bomber in Cliffs of Dover so the joystick wasn't so much solicitated as in a fighter. Is it normal?

It looks like that was the case, thanks. Now missions start with nose wheei blocked, I just don't know how things changed in one day.

Suddenly my Saitek X52 joystick doesn't work any more on Su-27...when I test it before flight stick and pedals in the cockpit move very slowly, and rudders elevators and ailerons don't react at all. The front wheel doesn't steer either. Still throttle works perfectly, and I have no problems with Su-33, Mig-29S and F-15. I checked the controls settings but I didn't change anything from last time Flanker was working smoothly. Any clue?

In a few simple single missions AI aircrafts don't fly at the speed that I set in the editor. I set 350 kn for a group of F5E but they fly at 277, and 400 kn for F16 and F18 but they fly at 317. They are all at 15.000 ft with full load. Is it normal or is there anything wrong?