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On Feb 20th BIGNEWY replied to the Event mark toggles SA EXP thread saying "The data we have specific to the 2007 hornet and HMD..." Not the first time they have said something along the lines of "wouldn't be accurate for our 2007 Hornet" so I doubt it's a typo. Anyways, we have a bunch of stuff from different year OFPs atm. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Was it removed visually? Right now our ATFLIR mount includes TINS. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

I know many people us voice attack for those menus.

I believe I saw in another thread that this has already been reported.

General rule of thumb: avoid GR like the plague. Bad history, bad information. Find an updated cold start video. Probably the biggest issue in this vid is going to nav not IFA.

Yeah that's why I said scaled to each other in DCS. The 73 is definitely underperforming right now,. It to mention RCS isn't modeled well. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

It is impossible. This A/G radar format does not act like any of the others. Did you read my previous post? Here, I'll simplify it for you. The A/G radar has two cursors. All the other formats have one. With realistic TDC slew you are required to depress the TDC and then slew, to change the position of that same cursor. Now, with realistic TDC slew disabled you can still move the yellow TDC cursor on the attack format.(do I have that right?) But to access the radar acquisition cursor you must hold TDC depress so the system knows that you want to change the position of cursor two. It's impossible for the system/sim to know which you want to slew so it requires you to tell it. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

If the DCS Hornet's stays at 48, the Viper will be somewhere around 35, max. The Hornet radar is 1,000 watts more powerful, with it being at 1,800 watts and the Viper's at 800 watts. With radar detection range having just about a linear relationship with power on output, the Hornet has a 44% advantage. With the Hornets radar detection range for a fighter sized target at 48 miles, based on the power figures the Viper would only see to 27 miles. The other factor of detection range for a consistent RCS target is the aperture of the radar dish for receiving. 27 miles wouldd be if the 16s dish was the size of the Hornet's. As it is considerably smaller that reduces the range again. Say 5 miles. Max radar range somewhere around 22 miles. Now as I said before power and detection range is not a perfect linear relationship I'll give the Viper back 5 miles as if we didn't account for the receiver size. So, in DCS, scaled to each other, I would expect the absolute maximum detection range for the Viper to be 27 miles. Slightly better kinematic performance won't make up for 21 miles. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

You don't understand that what you want is impossible. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk No I don't have the hardware, but I have the same limitation. Not being able to depress the TDC and slew it at the same time. There's a reason I don't use the "proper" TDC depress location on the slew stick. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

ED has stated that our Hornet is from the 2007 timeframe. Yet had initially mentioned 2005. 165407 was also the second to last charlie model and the most modern USN F/A-18C. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

So CSS is the basic pilot relief "auto pilot" mode. It is engaged when any of the A/P options is selected. If you then deselect an A/P option CSS remains engaged. Using the paddle switch will cancel the A/P option and CSS. CSS in its own is engaged by pressing A/P then ON/OFF. With CSS engaged there will be a A/P ADV- on the left DDI. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

ATTH specifically has not changed. However the control stick steering (CSS) was just implimented properly. CSS is another A/P mode enabled by depressing A/P the. ON/OFF PB. CSS will dampen you control inputs making them much smoother rather than maintain a particular altitude/attitude. Now when you move the stick with ATTH engaged the system reverts to CSS while you are maneuvering. Since this behavior has been updated it makes sense that forcing an ATTH reversion to CSS will now feel different. Going forward I suggest you do away with ATTH for AAR and just use the CSS for the dampened control inputs. Also note that with CSS you can use the trim hat to adjust pitch and roll without affecting your actual trim. (Right now there is sometimes a bug where using the trim switch in CSS changes the actual trim...) Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

He is using the Litening. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

I don't have the Whathog throttle but I do have the same hardware limitation. I just bind TDC depress to another button. You are going to need to do the same. If you understood how the A/G radar format functions you would know that it is different from all other formats and your request, while sounding logical, is impossible. For the attack format in A/G TDC depress acts as a modifier. With the format as TDC priority you can move the yellow TDC cursor just fine. Now, when TDC depress is held the TDC cursor become a target acquisition cursor. Problem is that you need both. If you got what you're asking for you would either only be able to change format options, or only be able to designate a target. It just won't work, sorry. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Once the Viper's radar gets fixed the Hornet will be the king of the skies in DCS hands down. It's not the fastest, but the combination of good speed, godly SA, AIM-120, AIM-9X, and a fantastic radar make it a phenomenal A/A platform. The Tomcats AWG-9. I love this radar, I love being in the backseat of the 14, but it's big disadvantage is it's large ZDF making it easy to notch. If you know what you're doing the range of the AIM-54 means nothing. It's a massive heavy missile with poor terminal guidance. Unless you are fighting against people that don't know what they're doing, or bombers, the Tomcat is a Sparrow aircraft. Even with it's speed, the Viper still doesn't make up for it's poor radar. The Hornet while .2 mach slower will always be able to out- range the 16. Hornet also has the advantage of fuel capacity (clean Hornet has the fuel if a 2 bag Viper) and weapon capacity. Since you have more AMRAAMs and can fire from further out you can always force the 16 defensive. In a realistic merge (where you have FOX 2s) the Hornet should be unbeatable. The great nose authority with the AIM-9X is terrifying. Sadly we only have the low fidelity Eagle in DCS. If we had a proper modern Eagle it would have the best radar, range, speed, and probably SA. Pluse JHMCS and the 9X. One can dream. For a guns only fight: Tomcat beats Viper and Hornet Hornet and Viper are equal Tomcat beats Hornet Eagle beats Hornet and potentially Viper Eagle and Tomcat I think I would call equal (To be clear, the Eagle beats all in BVR once it and the Viper's radars get fixed. However it will still suffer from lack of SA. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Could you post a track file to help identify the issue?

In regards to the actual HOTAS shortcuts, only two things changed. 1. WIth SA format as TDC priority RECEE event mark toggles the EXP mode 2. CIT IFF interrogation was SCS depress, but is now SCS depress and SCS left. (SCS depress is used as a modifier for other functions) 3. RAID/FOV select now properly toggles RAID (not really a change) The other functionality that was completed was the TDC "bump" logic. A TDC bump is achieved by slewing to the edge of the format then back into the tactical area within a second. 1. SA format: TDC bump at the top and bottom to increase/decrease scale 2. Attack format TDC bump at the top and bottom to increase/decrease radar scale 3. Attack format TDC bump to the left and right will decrease and increase radar azimuth buy one step Everything else listed is in reference to the TDC selecting options on the attack format and AZ/EL. Slew TDC over, select option with TDC depress.

BN just tagged a report for it as "correct as is" unfortunately I just made a report for the lackluster TDC slew rate compared to IRL clips. Would make bumps a lot easier.

Beat me to it by seconds, just copied those range quotes from NATOPS...

https://youtu.be/Mn1sBfIlUjY?t=1152 This is the only evidence I have to bases this on, but the DCS TDC slew rate seems way too slow. In this video (which is clearly not a lot 20 or even a charlie) we can see that the TDC is moved effortlessly around the attack format. While this is a completely different model, I guarantee that the later Hornets TDC slew rate never dropped to the level that we have in DCS. If it was that slow IRL the TDC bump functions would be almost pointless. Here is Redkite's radar video Even at supposed max deflection has he slews the cursor from right to left I still seems to be three times slower that the real aircraft above. This makes effectively using the TDC "bump" functions much more time consuming than they should be. I know DCS has the limitation of everyone not having the same hardware, but there's got to be something that can be done about this. I'm not at my PC so I don't have a track, but this has to be the most easily reproducible thing... Thanks, Mobius708

The majority of these are the ability to use the TDC + TDC depress to select options on the SA and attak formats. The TDC section is talking about bumping. Just as you can bump the radar scale by bring the TDC cursor out of the tactical area then back in within one second, you can now do the same on the SA format for scale and left/right side of the attack format to decrease and increase azimuth respectively. IFF CIT interrogation is no longer SCS depress (which was made up before) SCS depress actually acts as a modifier for other functions, but right now it's just depress and left for manual IFF. RECEE event mark switch now toggles SA format EXP function. I don't know if that is context sensitive as that button also toggles JHMCS blanking, I would assume so with requirement being SA as TDC priority.

Are you certain that you are always holding the pickle button 5 seconds before the release cue on the BFL? Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Gotcha, when I was looking through NATOPS it mentioned that DCML being the default corrdinate format was added with 20X, that's what I based my assumption on. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Do you know what OFP these were implimented in? Our Hornet's appears to be 20x. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk Also, any idea what the new HOTAS functions coming in this month are? Only thing on the roadmap is the EMCON toggle but I hope it brings more. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Just set the programs the way you want in the files, passes IC too. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk