Coyle

This is because ED choose to ignore or fail to implement proper HOTAS functionality for our jet. Mind you, it's a bit of a mixed bag on this one in particular. Now from what I've gathered recently: With a target designation set, hitting NWS only once should first clear the designation - this will not move the TGP. Follow up NWS commands should then reset the TGP causing it to cycle between VVSL and snowplow. Either that or the cage/un-cage will cycle those modes from what some one else told me. Regardless, I find it hard to believe that you'd have two separate buttons with redundant actions (instantly resetting the TGP) with out some steps or logic in-between them to differentiate some use cases. We all know the F/A-18 has its quirks here and there, but even this one seems a bit far-fetched.

This is something that has bugged me for some time now, too. Yes, using the bypass launches 2 of them, but as it stands you're physically launching "4" flares worth of slots, instead of only "2". In the FA-18C.lua line 206, the flares are set to "chargeSz = 2" where as chaff are set to 1. Modifying it to 1 will allow you to hold up to 120 flares just like chaff, which you can then manually release all 120 of them 1 by 1 using a single release profile on the ALE-47. Either the in-game model is incorrect and our latest model of the F/A-18C is for whatever reason stuck using a MJU-7, like the lua says. or they're incorrectly modeling our flares. /shrug