A.I. responses

There seem to be numerous acronyms floating around the forums Ive been having problems finding what they mean. ROE (rules of engagement?) not sure why this is important in a sim where if you wait to be fired upon, good chance your dead. One I hear my wingman say a lot which I still havent figured out is during an engagment with a target. Most of the stuff is easily understood. He clearly calls out, "Missile Away", "Engaged defensive", and plenty other stuff but quite often he calls out "Shek" or at least that what it sounds like. What does this mean? For awhile I thought it meant he's being fired upon by guns, but after observations Im not so sure thats the case. The manual doesnt mention this call out.

I think it's a brevity call for when your wingman has destroyed a target. I'm not too sure exactly what he's saying, but it always seems to be when he's hit and destroyed a target.

I used to think he was saying s@#t after he'd missed, at least that's what I say when I miss...

I gotta fever.. and the only cure is BREVITY

That's called Brevity.. and it's very important when it hits the fan and things start happening. It doesn't only make pilots sound cool, it creates a professional environment of communications where everyone is saying as little as possible to say everything necessary. It also keeps your head very firmly in the game. When a single word conveys a great deal about a situation, it lends brevity. If people get chatty you can just say 'Brevity!'.

Attached is an edit of a military document that gives about 300 terms, which is most (I believe) of the aviation related brevity codes. One that's not in here is Sierra Hotel.. which is very important and means shit hot. If some of it is FUBARed (know what that one means?) I apologize, I edited it very quickly.

Excerpt:

• ABORT (ING)( ED) Directive/ informative call to cease action/ attack/ event/ mission.

• ACTION Directive to initiate a briefed attack sequence or maneuver.

• ACTIVE An emitter is radiating.

• ADD () Directive call to add a specific (system) or (electronic order of battle (EOB)category) to search responsibility.

• ALARM Directive/ informative call indicating the termination of emission control(EMCON) procedures.

• ALLIGATOR Link-11/ tactical digital information link (TADIL)

• ALPHA CHECK Request for/ confirmation of bearing and range to described point.

• ANCHOR (ED) 1. Orbit about a specific point; refueling track flown by tanker.2. Informative call to indicate a turning engagement about a specific location.

• ANGELS Height of friendly aircraft in thousands of feet.

• ARIZONA No antiradiation missile (ARM) ordnance remaining.

Military-Brevity-Codes.doc

Hers's a Wikipedia list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevity_code

By the way, about the Angels code. Wiki says it could be understood two different ways. I remember reading on lockonfiles forum that the Lock On AWACS gives the altitude relative to your's making it USAF style. Is this correct?

Hers's a Wikipedia list:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevity_code

 

By the way, about the Angels code. Wiki says it could be understood two different ways. I remember reading on lockonfiles forum that the Lock On AWACS gives the altitude relative to your's making it USAF style. Is this correct?

Must be the way the USAF does it i mean;

You ask AWACS for your altitude, they say +2000 feet of ours.

You go okay, so what is your altitude AWACS?

Awacs would reply whit -2000 of yours.

They have given you technically correct yet completely useless answers, thus this MUST be the way the USAF does it:D

It sounds to me like they are giving their altitude in relation to yours. Angels is the altitude of a friendly usually spoke as simply Angels or 'Your angels'

Ok makes sense, thanks!

Multi-service Brevity Codes

LOL :megalol: it's not called wingmen boys, it's PLAYMATE's (Cooperating aircraft). Nice :D