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Look at the radar B-sweep line (azimuth indicator) if it has stopped sweeping and "locked" onto a track the radar is locked. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

"LOCK" on the lock/shoot light assembly indicates that the radar is tracking a target. This does not necessarily mean Single Target Track (STT). Undesignate will drop a track out of STT, but you aren't going to drop an L+S unless you are in RWS coming out of ACM. To be completely honest I've never looked up there and tested the modeled logic of the LOCK light. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

That's the morse code identifier for the tuned TACAN station. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Correct, the logic is that you are bumping outside of the Tactical Area (TA). This is the green box around the display. On the SA format the reference is the compass rose/heading indicator. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

You're starting the wrong engine/generator first. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Stopwatch, ET is elapsed time. Button is on the IFEI panel Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

you're on Nevada in the Western hemisphere and entered E for longitude Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Oh interesting so this is intended behavior? I did find I can just "load" it as a different warhead in the DSMS and it'll still fire so I can just do that.

Here you go, after a few seconds the APKWS will go CCRP INVALID CCRP.trk

If you select CCRP with APKWS selected, after a few seconds you'll get a CCRP INVALID. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Replay function only loads to a point then says "mission load fail." No tracks work, friend has the same problem. Search function yielded no similar results for this core issue.

Ah, yep you cannot undesignate a JDAM TOO mission, change to the next too or weapon.

What's the full scenario? What weapon? Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

When you go to undesignate, make sure the pod is not in track. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Even with the latest AoA FM changes, we still seem to be lacking roll/ yaw rate and authority when trying to do loaded rolls. Specifically above 22 alpha as I recall. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Is it really though? I think the lack of data on the Viper displays is tricking people into saying it's more intuitive. The basic use level of every system is more complex and hidden in the Viper. Radios Navigation Flight data (correct me if I'm wrong but there still isn't an advisory system for anything below a master caution) A/A radar targeting The list goes on. A/G is especially bad. Want to change your preset radio freq? Guess you have to dobber back 5 menus to the CNI page. Or just press the Comm 1 push button, dobber down to select the freq field, label the preset, then to use it you then press increment/decrement rocker. In the Hornet you rotate the respective comm knob. Set TACAN? Hope you're on CNI, if not spam dobber left, press 1, dobber down, enter channel. Or, in the Hornet you just press the big old TACAN (TCN) button and punch in the numbers no matter what you're doing. A/A targeting? For any hit/track you must slew the cursor over and TMS up. Either to STT, designate, or add the track to a file. Need to do that for each target, after that you can then cycle through them with TMS right. Oh, but make sure you press TMS left to interrogate the tracks. Note that there are no correlated returns. In the Hornet every hit is automatically ranked and has a trackfile. At any time, you press NWS to cycle between the tracks you want to target. Also, they are automatically interrogated and that return is correlated. The list goes on. I know both aircraft very well and the notion that the Viper is simpler and more intuitive is just a fallacy. On top of these functions being easier, the Hornet has way more systems and data to reference in the first place. Don't try to understand what every single display number is when you're learning the basic operations, they will be there when you want to advance your understanding later. The only point the 16 gets on the systems side is the HTS+HAD. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Yes, coming from the Hornet the Viper is a pain in the ass. Basic Functions are hidden deep in menu's and context. The A/G system logic is by far the worst of any aircraft, nothing fits together or makes sense. Like seriously, the mission computer limits employment modes based on the loaded weapons? In the 16, for things to work you must do things in this exact convoluted way...the Hornet is so much more flexible and allows you to get creative with the systems. The fact that Weapon (WPN) Stores (SMS) and Inventory (INV)are all separate pages in the Viper is all you really need to know. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

The Hornet across the board is so much more forgiving. On the systems side the complexity of using it is the same, but the Hornet systems have much more capabilities/options. The Hornet systems have a lot more functions, but are all more easily accessible/intuitive compared to the F-16s way of doing things. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Make sure you box ILS on the HSI Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Yes, you have the same designation and STT capability on the Attk, AZ/EL and SA. (Via TDC) @Bunny Clark has a chart showing all of the HOTAS functions which might help. Now for specifics: BVR: RWS initialized radar mode, PB 5 to toggle between TWS TWS accessed through PB 5, TDC over PB 5 text, or PB 10 in STT VS exclusively via TDC over PB 5 label LTWS it's a misnomer. Not a radar mode at all, just a display function. (Shows track file data for a TUC in RWS. Default) ACM: SCS FWD changes SCS to ACM logic GACQ Gun acquisition, commanded when gun is selected. Enters ACM. BST SCS FWD with HMD off VACQ SCS AFT with HMD off, or AFT from WACQ with HMD/9X WACQ SCS left HACQ SCS FWD with HMD LHACQ SCS FWD long AACQ/FACQ: SCS toward the radar display. Commands STT on the highest priority track, the L+S, or the first contact detected. FACQ same as above, but is when the TDC is over a track/hit. Takes priority over AACQ STT: STT commanded via SCS AACQ/FACQ TDC depress on L+S or hit Cage/uncage with sparrow selected RAID: Rapid Assessment Commanded with RAID/FLIR FOV switch in TWS/STT. Or, automatically in STT with 1Look. SPOT: RWS/TWS space stabilized narrow search commanded with TDC depress long. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

That right there being your solution proves you are wholly unqualified to be discussing this. If you knew anything or bothered to test, you would know that the Hornet cannot achieve a sustained turn speeds at 7.5G, not without being too fast and using the paddle. ~ .55 mach and ~7.0G is where you'll be getting best rate.

That is not what I said. I said 22-23 as a range. As it is with the speed here. This was me simply jumping in the 1v1 instant action, firing the missiles and going to the deck. Point stands that it makes the OP look like BS. Tacview-20240625-201553-DCS-F-16C - Caucasus - 1v1 OBFM.zip.acmi Since it would absolutely kill any of you to even attempt to do any tests, here you go. Pylons and clean, both jets ~500msl, 15C, Caucuses, 50% fuel Target KCAS of 360 and 440 Significant changes in rate when they get to low fuel. STR18.trk Tacview-20240627-125005-DCS-STR18.zip STR16.trk Tacview-20240627-124321-DCS-STR16.zip

>Viper would not exist and have the reputation it does if this is the case in the real world. And that's what this all comes down too, it always does. "Viper best dogfighter because it is" "I was told it's the best turner" "Hornet is WRONG" Now the chart you present has no helpful data whatsoever, and you go around making statements based on it... What was the aircraft stores configuration for these tests? density altitude? Fuel? G loads? Were these even the 402 motors? I just did a quick test in DCS and you've been spouting nonsense. Clean jets (with pylons) Caucuses, standard day, deck, ~50-60% fuel max sustained rates: Hornet 21dps at @ 360-365 KCAS Viper 22-23dps @ 440-450 KCAS Looks like DCS is perfectly in line with wilbur81's information.

Yes. And as for the release, line up the velocity vector on the vertical, azimuth steering line (ASL) Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Your release looks way off for auto lase to be effective. It only had guidance for those last 8 seconds and it seems that wasn't enough to correct. Manual lase from release? Sure. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk