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This is gonna be in parts. Sorry how my brain works. 1. Tws yes - and wait what about my phoenixes!?!? I think also I enciuntered the bug dude said where ghost contacts show for one on TWS. Ive had some MEAN Looking packages , turnes 45 degrees and came backnto engage and its 2 f16s again? But what about guiding my phoenixes!?!? I thought at least i could.ripple them hang arnd letting em guide for 30 or 4 seconds and start evading th counter salvo?! In practice with no jester iff i twa and 'zap" targets with STT to hope jester will cal out a friendly.and maybe try to figure out from contrails or smoke plumes what it is ( WAAAY TO DANGEROUS IN IRIAF F14 DCE TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH YOULL DIE!) Mostly Im.on tws for SA and I use the STT choose target menu to keep track of my closest enemy. Which jester inexplicably never keeps highlit or even goes through a lot. This guy is crucial because at 40-25 miles phoenixes need ti go out. Against USN 40 miles and god help.you. USAF is a lil morr manageable. Theyll still kill you but you got a little extra range. Ok TO be clear. DONT MESS WITH EL AND AZ. MESS WITH EL AT RANGE??? And RWS to search, second TWS before engsgement and during for 54s? Once I switch from rws like youbsaid to tws auto the previous settings are erased I assume then? Another question. If Im flying a campaign in a US jet but my team is RUSSIA (i.e. dce iran camp) or RED side, are the BRA call outs metric or imperial!? I have instruments to work on native for their nation but not any radio stuff. It seems like they used different stuff every time Thanks for your advice

I suck at mafs Ok if youbselect phoenix even if you dont have any does it set tws Usnt tws the best "cone" How does ranfe figuee in? Further away biggrr cine? My problem is ewr or awavs telling me somethings there and jester not seeing a alpha strike its insane Youd think in the dce iranian f14 campaign low level rasar set med high or high would be best. Hide in ground clutter hit and run rhe alphabstrikes at 20k ib open skies. Now i know why that didnt work. So what do am I do then if I dont know how to get in the back seat and im not learning to do it? Range wise I mean? Also ya other questions. My orginal eeply was deleted and i lost tsome thoughts ill be back thx

Cuz i mean i can achieve the closest to a life dream this way. And this is prolly the only time or last time ill get enuff disposabal money (im 35) in my life

Hey thanks Ok first no it doesnt have to be now. I can stash the money. What are we talking here .onet wise ball park? What are the odds of things being better in say 4 or 5 months? 6 is dificult. More than 2gs will be hard but idk..

I dont trust that autothrottle. I tried it once and turned it off almost right away Sorry I cant help more - i land manually. They said theres a ACLS issue maybe SC is affecting this too

Thx

Well its fired Better hope your tws sends the right info before the missiles own radar goes active.. Oh AND that jester starts yelling way more about locking friendlies. If they wont do IFF interrogate Id be happy with them changing it also so BVR friendly targets got the "dont shoot" X (that you can fire over anyways) IRL thered be comms between the crew and someone would say ok fox 3 and Jester would be screaming long before that if you were locked on a friendly etc. Frankly since its AI im glad theres front seat launch capability but otherwise if I had a human Id let him decide on 3/4s of phoenix launches. I can always yell at a human about the damned IFF button being right there

I definitely hope youre right. Lets just say Ive been somewhat disappointed by EDs moves regarding other modules. They (obviously) seem to favor *their* stuff a lot more. Just my .02

Mann i want a flyable a6

Man damn I know right

In my experience if they dont do their job and DEAD the site youre going to die trying to bomb it. And definitely your wingman. If they kill it youre golden - though make it fast or youll be fighting mig 29s / 25s. (One time it was a 29 I had to turn and deal with another a MIG 25.) I literally have played this mission maybe 10 or 15 times. Maikop is FLAT around the airfield for a good 20 or 30 miles. Thats as close as terrain masking (I VERY loosely follow the flight plan using valleys) so if the hornets dont kill that SA10 site... Things get ugly. Its a very capable SAM

Ohhh in the options I thought it was under jester. So please can you explain why Pulse is so bad? I assumed terrain or enemy interference is it bugged? I lose obvious STT locks a lot liike everyone else but I get its an AI controlling the radar. I also am not an AWG/9 expert nor now how to use most the RIO radar controls. I have another question... When Im flying NoE as a single Iranian F14 trying to hit and run a coalition.. i was experimenting with telling jester to set the radar elevation to middle high. However leaving it totally auto seems to work better. Thoughts? Ground stabilize is awesome but theres no datalink for Iran lol

So to summarize it wont fix bad habits - but that shoot down and MANY others wouldnt have happened. Firing weapon into a furball or not - at least let me know if Im locked onto a friendly or a hostile! If I want to use bad tactics thats on me - but as it is this is sorely needed and I doubt would take excessive work

No it wouldnt be a crutch for bad habits but still. Another example that has nothing to do with bad habits - flying solo as an iranian in the dce camp. USAF to my west, French to my.South, US Navy to my east. I down 2 F16s. Im getting missiles shot at me everywhere yet nothings showing up on radar. Finally ! A contact! And maybe 1 or 2 min before jester yelled its game time and said 5 o clock HIGH. I STT lock the target and its HIGH and its avout 12 miles away. Too far. I slam AB and climb to get the missile height and energy. It was locked for 45 seconds to 1 minute full before I fired. Jester didnt say anything besides TARGET 11 MILES 10 MILES 9 MILES 8 MILES I fire.... And hit a friendly tanker.

Im guessing since SC is a ED release and is also coming post F14 release you should rely on yourself and the community. Further some of us arent as pumped as the rest - originally it was planned for a forrestal to be released as part of this module and it functionally was supposed to be what SC looks exactly to be right now. Of course at the time they were making wildclaims for plans of SC like being able to walk througg the carrier. Stuff that never would have really worked. That said I also am sure that when updates are rolled out after SC is released that really good community scenarios may be incorporated into the module like Caging the Bear was. Also HB may down the road may do it. That said and all due respect I hope to god they dont waste a single minute making SC content now - 1. F14A isnt out 2. Jester and LANTIRN? 3. Other F14B issues 4.the ai A6Es 5. The forrestal! The SC was always EDs baby. I followed this module since it was a rumor. Im not clamoring for the stuff promised, and know things change. But I have a suspicion ED is pressuring HB not to do the forrestal perhaps at all because itll just be incentive not to get the sc

With all due respect though - isnt basically the entire back and forth you and I are having off topic? Worse it gives the appearance at a glance of community divisiveness on the issue. The tactics, all that are irrelevant to whether or not jester should have an IFF interrogate option. I can name 50 other scenarios where its just useful. Fly in a multiple package sortie near Bandar Abbas and that area. Its not even a matter then of shooting into a furball - you can easily have 8 friendlies 10 miles in front heading northwest to hit the port. At 45 miles at the port theres an enemy cap but azimuth wise theyre in the same "zone" as the package. Then theres also enemy planes doing their thing off azimuth, and you perhaps engage or do whatever not have perfect SA and suddenly you just have a bunch of radar tracks. The best you can do is TCS which is risking SAMs and time, nevermind the threat aerially, or use the range from stt pick my target.. as I have said before. But again it and the point you make while good are entirely irrelevant, bordering onna strawman anti argument. Why the hell can we have ground stabilize and the back seat backup ILS thing they added, when IFF interrogate is button number 4 on the DDD? I mean they got about 15 buttons on that - so it must be fairly important or they thought so. Further I do not see the issue whatsoever. I dont care if the radar in game really interrogates anything - just code it to chabge the symbol to what it truly is symbology wise - hostile or friendly; not vague contacts. And yes Im well aware jester is supposed to sort contacts into friendlies and call them out. Real life aside in the actual game we are playing if you fly a lot (And I have been..) jester doesnt always say friendly, especially if youre sorting through contacts via STT - it seems to glitch him and after reporting one he wont say it again fot a few minutes even on diff targets. He sometimes does but not always. And Im on datalink from the awacs - the targets still appear as unidentified almost 90 percent of the time when I know a button push can solve the entire problem.

Ive never had the pleasure of multicrewing the f14. The one attempt didnt work. I make jester work fine. I die a lot but Im not the best. I do know Im absolutely the best as far as planes in the F14. Definitely my most lethal plane especially with phoenixes. And the jammer works well. Some things. Set jester > defenses> fenced in(1)>auto(1) all you gotta do is jink and avoid chaff. Also whenever possible jester>datalink>host>the awacs For good SA closing in while in tws go to jester >stt(2)>pick my target> a list appears with the offset in azimuth and ranges. After awhile you learn to not even look using him, hitting a ctrl+ #s really quick. It has not increased my workload at all. He definitely if anything helps. Only 2 issues are that I cant hit IFF interrogate or ask him and the LGB issues. That is a problem. Air to air you just have to adapt.

It doesnt seem to universally break my locks but Ive seen it advised. However its not anywhere I see on the jester menus - how is that done or is that not possible?

Also in the DCE campaigns you can edit a notepad file to change what kind of missions you get. So you want the USN to play with a F14B bombcat AND do fleet defenders in BG alpha 80s? Change strike:'false' to 'true'. Ill also add IMO the spiciest (for me) dce campaign so far has been the IRIAF F14 versus a coalition campaign. Youre fighting USN, USAF, French mirages and even a small swedish viggen contingent. They really outdid themselves - the coalition will try and hit your EWR sites and stuff. Iran will try hitting civilian convoys first and other stuff. And its really hard. I vote for DCE campaigns. Once I got them working it was the most immersive enviroment Ive seen in flight sims in a lonnnng time. The damage is persistent, and makes a difference. Blah blah. You almost certainly will never win a campaign single handedly but you can definitely contribute a lot to losing one. Only downside to DCE is it really is tracking the numbers of planes and planes in reserve and ammo etc for both sides. Its amazing. However unlike a scripted campaign where the world revolves around you in DCE youre just entering and reentering the world. However when you do so youre putting the "clock" on you - so if you crash at take off you should either restart or time accelerate and walk away 10 min. Why? To let the AI flights do their thing. Otherwise it wont screw up the campaugn but to the campaign nothing literally happened (besides your plane) and whatever in that 30 seconds *and time youre supposed to be alive* plus sometimes its good to let an ai flight at least drop its bombs before quitting. Also Id delay startup from the carriers for a quick second on time acc. To see if they turn into the wind. As it totally f 's up INS

Miguel, p80 - thanks so much. Ive been having the best time. Especially the IRIAF F14 camp.. Ive been getting the hell beaten out of me but I had two glorious succesful missions I survived. Both ironically night ones. One was so dark I had to use the NVG and I jumped some Viggens. Shot one down, friendly flights each got one. Ruined their night. The last mission was one of those great nights where you can see well out the cockpit. I got scrambled. The BRA calls... the enemy wasnt there. There was a naval package clearly coming in. I started heading there but the EWR kept insisting someone was near me.. and my home base. I turned back.. and kept looking. Well I ended up coming up on a 4 ship of F16s doing a strike. Idk what their target was but they were very near Lar and that mountainous area. So when my AWG9 saw them - they were low and I was too and it was close. 2 died to phoenixes. Another ate a sidewinder. I was pretty proud of myself at this point. Suddenly I was closing on the last, spotted him, and a friendly sam helped me out. I landed and obviously combed my handlebar moustache whilst wearing my aviator sunglasses.

Im vaguely scared that SC = money and ED will demand HB not release the forrestal, or say not release animated deck crew. Originally Heatblur planned to do this, and have it available to all.. think what thatd do to SC especially as when HB made this announcement ED was saying the SC would have spaces you could "walk around" etc. Obviously things got scaled back. It sucks to have to pay for personnel on a carrier. I get its work and stuff but theyre sort of a big deal in carrier ops. That said Im not rich and though SC is sexy I guess I wont be seeing carrier crew in my DCS as Im in a position to pay for such luxuries as a SC. Hope everyones well and safe. Im.just hoping the F14A is soon (so excited - the dce IRIAF F14 vs US coalition dce campaign is AMAZING and really fun. Its really spicy flying the F14 from land ina 1ship attacking the uber americans. Itll be so much better when I have liveries and a crappy real f14A to do it in. Probably wont be able to cheat and keep brinfing my "modified hawk missiles/aim54s" anymore but ill happily give em up) I do reallyy look forward to AI A6s. And pray that someone makes one flyable.

The ACM cover up makes your phoenixes go immediately pitbull on launch. Its an emergency thing for dogfighting it. I dont really use it. Just the red cover not even the switch under it which drops your tanks and all non air 2 air stuff iirc

Missile prep is on? If the missiles launched and the targets were on radar in front of you jow far? Less than 30 miles you have really good odds hitting a fighter. Still things happen. When using the phoenix in TWS you will know it is locked onto something several ways. One is the hud repeater. In hud repeater mod the "missile ladder" will appear along tbe side. On the radar the targets besides having numers and range data appearing one of them usually will be lit up or blinking. Otherwise you may just be firing the Aim 54s totaly blind. One way to check if theyre on radar in front of you is jester>STT lock>choose target. The ones in yellow YOUR RADAR sees. If theyre blue theyre data link targets. If you can see contacts in that then its weird its not working. My next question is trying to STT lock. Phoenixes still do it and its my "ghetto iff" in when you STT you can pick which target and also the TCS slaves to it. Fighters you can usualy id at 15-30 miles. Bombers 30 to 40. =/ But ya try STT lock if tws doesnt work. However tws really should it sounds like the migs are just spoofing your missiles.. make sure your phoenix is selected (PH) on hud. Mode doesnt rlly matter whether cruise or a2a - when you select the phoenixes. Change the VDI to see your radar. You should see the contacts and they should light up and blink etc as the jester AI "hooks" them for phoenix launch. Whem you fire a missile have you hit f6 to see what it does?

This really has to get adressed. Some how. Even reallllllly basic like fly in a area and turn the repeater on to see the LANTIRN and then tell jester "attack primary" Its really unacceptable in its current iteration right now. Im sorry but its a ridiculous amount of work in SP to use a LGB safely when it realllly shouldnt be, and not a year after release. I love you guys at heatblur dont get me wrong but this is important. (Id add a jester IFF too is really important IMO) Nevermind Im dying for the A6 even AI and am concerned ED is pressuring them not to release a forrestal.

Dont get me wrong. I always want to use the cat. And I hadnt been having the problems others had, then I was having it sometimes happen where Id need to hit it a few times/or several seconds would pass and Id throttle down and get shot. But no this time NOTHING would happen. I literally linked with every cat and then did this out of frustration and panic as the strike package pushed away As for going light nooo.. thats why i was surprised - full fuel, 2 full tanks, 2 aim 9, 2 aim7f, 4 aim54 mk60s.. could be heavier. But not light. Lol!