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I dunno if the randomness was lost in the mod, but whenever I trap, JestHer only says what the wire caught was. I am yet to hear her say something witty after a trap like her predecessor, haha. v6, boNes

Yoda, Thanks, that's what I had been thinking too. v6, boNes

Thanks, makes sense. Just wasn't sure if there was a prescribed procedure like, "must be at angels 20 by 100 miles" or something. I also suppose that in terms of say the Tomcat, there is always max fuel endurance which is about 250 KIAS/1200 lbs every 15 minutes. Of course altitude will have an effect on that. v6, boNes

Is there a recommended altitude to approach the CCA? Are there different ones for Case I/II/II? By this I mean for instance you are RTB and you are say 100 nm from the boat, does the boat want you at a certain altitude by the time you get to the 50nm CCA? Thanks! v6, boNes

You're gonna keep us in suspense, aren't you? For some reason, I don't think it will go over the same way when she says, "Can we trap? I really gotta take a <sierra>" haha v6, boNes

So does she say, "Give my love to Meg Ryan" and "stop teasing it and stick it in?" v6, boNes

I have been noticing that if you make multiple passes with a waveoff, by the time you do catch a wire, your grades for the previous tries are combined into one grade for the last pass. Is that right? It doesn't seem so. I would think that you get a separate grade for every pass. So, if you had 3 passes and caught the wire on the third pass, you should get a total of 3 grades. Otherwise even if I nail a perfect 3 wire, I'm still getting a bad grade overall because of the previous waveoffs. It used to give separate grades. Is this a bug? v6, boNes

Jester that will actually give timely clock code calls? v6, boNes

Yes, there is only ICLS. So I can't do actual ILS approached but I can do VOR-A style approaches or TACAN approaches. I just have to make sure I am at my minimum altitude at DME. It's not exactly pretty but it works. I usually use the every DME mile is 300 feet of altitude thing or the minute to live rule below 2000 MSL. v6, boNes

Yup, confirmed, it works now. This may also explain why when I edsignate a ground target with my JHMCS, the diamond suddenly slews away from the designation point! v6, boNes

What I do for a "boring" mission is do something like in flight refuel, then leave and go to a shore based airbase to land--in Case III/IFR conditions. Nothing more satisfying to me then making an instrument approach in low to no visibility, and touching down on the runway and coming to s stop. The beauty of it too is that you can do this anytime you want with an instant action free flight mission with weather set to whatever you want. Alternatively, you can plan a cross country flight from one airbase to another using only say TACAN navigation or ADF. v6, boNes

I think so. Then again, maybe I haven't actually tried to see if he does or not because I was satisfied with the zoom level her had. I'll have to try it purposely next time. But what I mean is that when I have head control, he doesn't change the zoom back to what he had or wants, because I have head control. v6, boNes

OK, thanks guys! I was wondering if it could be that, thanks for the tip. I'll try it and see if it helps. If anything I can always keystroke it. v6, boNes

It doesn't happen when I have head control, because, well, I have head control. But once I give control back to Jester, it's his decision unless I tell him over and over to zoom. Now in real life I could tell him to zoom in and keep it there, but really, as the pilot, I'm not the one trying to hold a valid lock in the LANTIRN for a weapons drop, it is the RIO. So if I tell him to zoom in all the way and he needs to zoom out based on his ability to keep the target locked or for procedure or whatever, he's going to ignore me and do what HE needs to do to keep the target locked not what I'm telling him to do. v6, boNes

If I go to the HSI, select UFC, then select GRID on the UFC, I get the grid on the right MFD. I hold down the TDC button, slew over to the grid I want, then release the TDC. The grid coordinate has an underline that blinks once then disappears. That's it. I can't enter coordinates because the underline never stays. What is wrong? v6, boNes

It might be, but it also might be that he is zooming it to where he needs it to do his work in the back. After all, it's the RIO that is performing LANTIRN work, and the pilot only pickles, he just follows what the RIO tells him to do until then and after. It's not really up to the pilot to tell the RIO how to zoom the image since he's not controlling guidance and tracking, unless the pilot needs to see something specific. v6, boNes

If you have VAICOM Pro, if you tell Jester, "Toggle view," he will zoom/unzzom the view as needed. Albeit for a short time until he brings it back to a view he needs to do his work. But you can tell him to toggle it again. v6, boNes

Yes, there is something odd in that before the patches all 6 would spawn properly. This mission is pretty old. v6, boNes

Nicely done. What happened to Virtual Pilot 7? Looks like he never spawned. You had 5 out of 5 Phoenix kills, so you must have come back with your 6th Phoenix still aboard. v6, boNes

Good tips! Thanks and thanks for your time. I look forward to seeing the vid so I can see your control inputs when you do get the chance. My appreciation in advance! v6, boNes

Follow-up: Yup, that looks like it worked! Thanks! v6, boNes

Sure, check your PMs! v6, boNes

I have many times argued the point that what is the point of having a $1.5 million long range missile that shoots and kills in the same effective range as an AMRAAM. I got a ridiculous amount of responses both for and against this argument, and most of them were against. To me it came down to, well, this is how it works in DCS as opposed to the real world and I am flying DCS not the real world so I will have to submit to that. The only part that I really got was that it was meant for big bombers at long range, like the Tu-95, that can't really maneuver and such. So yeah, against something like that, sure, set your target size to large and shoot at 110+ miles. But against a smaller fighter not so, since they are more maneuverable and better equipped. I get that too, but then I would think shots at say 50+ miles would be effective. Shooting at 30nm or less makes the Phoenix seem pointless since AMRAAM can do that. Of course the Tomcat doesn't carry AMRAAM. But again, I got so many arguments for and against that that it came down to meas being a fair tradeoff in the sim only. The thread where I pointed out what you said was here My post on page 15 all the responses following): I get alot of the arguments, and agree with many of them, but given the random inconsistency I get every time I fly the mission in the same way and under the same conditions, or even in different, I don't get consistent results. So I am left to just make do with what has been given to me and await all those fixes that are being promised and so on, whether it's realistic or not. v6, boNes

OK, so basically, I should immediately lock it into place with the TGP? I'll have to practice that, it's gonna take a little finger dancing. TDC up to HUD, look at target, TDC to designate, immediately TDC to TGP then choose PTRK or ATRK before losing the target to drift. Fun! I'll give it a few shots and see how it goes. Thanks! v6, boNes

Also I believe that non doppler radar modes cannot be notched (Pulse Search) but then the target can hinde in the noise from the ground clutter instead and the range is decreased because of processing said returns. v6, boNes