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It could be found on internet a while ago, might still be available. It's in French though.

You can use it go on a intercept course and work with your radar to find it. Manual DO will help you to know where to look for. For example, you would get a report that a plane was seen 5mn ago at 260°/10Nm from waypoint 3, was heading 350° at 25000 , mach 0.8. You enter those data in the VTB and you'll get on VTB an extrapolation of where the target should be now helping you to intercept it. It's well explained in the m2000 RDM manual with an example. Of course, it wont be the most useful feature. We will use automatic DO way more often. Loving the work done on the Mirage the last few months!

Nice !

Anything else added? Like radar slave to Magic as they posted a video on it some weeks ago? This week change log for the mirage is a bit empty, you might have seen more info on Discord.

I would rather have them finishing off what is already in (navigation, air/air radar...) than include new half implemented stuff...

Works fine for me too, and it can't work fine on stable version (as mentionned in OP) as MAV search is only implemented on OB :smilewink: Vertical when CNM Magic or CNM Canon selected, horizontal when CNM Neutral selected and MAV selected

That's cranking, not notching :smilewink: R27-ER are easily defeated with cranking when fired that far, if you stay fast. One or two reversal will bleed their energy and you will be in range for your Amraam. Don't panic and don't go full defensive when a missile i shot at you that far, especially a SARH one. You could also notch and get back in quickly once their lock is dropped. You have to develop your own tactics by a combination of crank/notch/pump. They've got the range, you have the ARH missiles, play to your strength :thumbup: This video is a good intro to BVR tactics with the Viper:

The Antilope V radar can only provide ACM mode 10NM for self defense, not really calling that "decent A/A capability", rather 'minimum A/A Capability''. And indeed they are not equipped yet with either gun pod or MICA IR. Never heard of M2000D mission with Exocet and ARMAT. Basically, they are dropping GBUs and launching SCALP. Quite a good recap here of current payload and what is in the book: https://www.defense.gouv.fr/content/download/559579/9683699/fiche_technique_Mirage_2000D_BD.pdf Don't get me wrong, i'm a huge fan of the 2000D. Just don't think it would appeal to the mass.

AdA is interested by 2000-5F first. So if we get a new Mirage in the near future, that will be the -5F. Regarding 2000B, i don't see the point of doing it. Only used for training basically. 2000D on the other hand would be interesting, but not sure it would have a huge success outside the French community, as it's quite limited (no guns, limited to Mach 1.45, small weapons load capacity...) compared to the Strike Eagle for example and it has not been exported.

They should have updated the stable on the latest 2.5.5 version, before pushing 2.5.6 on OB. At least Stable wouldn't be so much out dated. OB hasn't been updated in the last 3 weeks. Maybe DCS updates are on COVID-19 lockdown... We probably won't get a stable update until 2.5.6 FPS issues are sorted on Open Beta, so that could take a while! Which is a pain, especially for Mirage pilots where Mirage is broken on Stable and back to really good shape on latest OB (with further improvements incoming).

Discussion about QRA switch, what it does IRL and why we don't care about it in DCS :) : https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3891137#post3891137

It does show you where you should go, Up/Down/Aft/Fwd. Just mentally put go in front of intsructions given by director lights.

1. They are best employed at high altitude/high speed. Fire and then crank to slow closure speed and get below your target to prevent him breaking the lock by beaming. I don't know F-4E but IIRC correctly, MIG-21 radar doesn't have look down capability, use it to your avantage. 2. SVI and Bore are used to acquire target that are in your HUD/gun cross. BAH/BA2 have wider scan pattern (so slower to cover whole scan area). 3. Go below your target after firing. The higher/faster, the more range /energy you'll get from your S530. It's a good Fox 1 missile when launched at high altitude/high speed, with high Pk. Then by going below, dopler won't have to filter ground effect thus you'll have less chance to lost lock on a beaming target.

For approach speed it's 136KCAS +4KCAS per 1000 pound of fuel/weapons/stores. For landing, use AOA indeed

IIRC TGP zoom it's controlled by MAN RNG CW/CCW on throttle, not Antena Elevation. You can map CW and CCW on push buttons, works fine.

From ED Manual, it mentions that tracking in SAM is stronger than in TWS. I haven't notice any difference in the game though. STT lock (from SAM or TWS) doesn't give launch warning, it gives lock warning. It's sometimes enough to make bandit go defensive if they are not aware of your weapon envelop. It's used IRL for example when bandit come too close of a country border. RWR gives launch warning when it detects that a radar is supporting a missile launch.

Once FBW Gain set to SEC, it's prohibited to set it back to NORM IIRC. So basically you can just shut down the Aircraft and step out. Nice idea :thumbup: I guess it doesn't have any impact in the game, so you probably can fly without caring about it.

Just tested it, in fact MAG is automatically selected for CNM Magic an CNM Canon. MAV can only be selected in CNM Neutral. While in CNM Neutral with 530 selected on PCA, MAV could be deselected by pressing MAV on PCA, when in horizontal search or narrow search

Click on MAV on PCA. IIRC it will then show MAG on PCA and it will be deselected. MAG is selected automatically with CNM Magic MAV has to be selected manually whith CNM Neutral or CNM Canon If Narrow search mode is selected while in MAV/MAG it should remain selected when switching to MAG/MAV. That's how i understood it at least ;)

@Zeus: Seems that going from either CNM Canon or CNM Magic to CNM neutral trigger a Magic seeker unlock/reset. So for example, we having AA Gun selected and having a Magic lock with MAV Search, if you want to select CNM Magic to shoot at the locked target from CNM Canon with 3 position switch (like in the real Aircraft), Magic lock would drop while passing by CNM neutral. So Select CNM Canon, activate MAV search, get a lock Select CNM Neutral on the way to CNM Magic (3 position switch), then lock is lost and MAV is reset to MAG on PCA Discussed here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=270228 Is it how it works in the real aircraft, or should lock remain active while passing through CNM neutral (and then would need to be corrected in the game)?

You still have to extend speedbrakes manually on the F-16, as extended speedbrakes are part of landing configuration for F-16. On the M2000C, you have nothing to do to set up the plane for landing, except slowing down to lower gear (as for every plane). Slats extension are handled automatically depending on AOA and are retracted automatically once gear is down. There is no specific Fly By Wire gain for landing, no flaperon, speedbrakes are not used for standard landing. Oh, and M2000C has a AP mode that follow automatically LOC/GS once captured :music_whistling: Clearly, it has nothing to envy to F-16 and F-18 on the avionics IMO. Mirage 2000 has nothing to envy to any 4th Gen fighter on any level in fact : BEST PLANE EVER ! (ok i might be a little biased)

Yeah, the option is not taken into account. So you have to press the assigned button at each start up. My 2 cents: Not issue for me as cold start is way easier without pilot body hiding left and right consoles. So i just press the assigned button when i'm ready to Taxi

Agree

Just tested it, and indeed you loose Magic lock with 3 position switch when going through CNM Neutral even with MAV search activated. We would need feedback from Zeus on this. Not sure how it's handled in the real plane.

Looks like you have CNM Canon selected from PCA line you describe, hence the fact you dont get AG symbology on the HUD. CNM Magic and CNM Canon are override modes. Make sure you have selected CNM Neutral which will then take PCA selection into account, and display AG Attack mode on the HUD when WSC fwd is pressed.