F-15 Radar altimeter

I noticed in ilsn mode, below 1000 ft radar altimeter does not activates. This is normal?

Any feedback please?

I was thinking about the same thing as you do for the past two weeks. Anyway, according to DCS website, they removed the radar altimeter scale from HUD. Perhaps the real F15C don't have a radar altimeter. However, I read somewhere on the internet the F15E does have a radar altimeter.See the attached info below. You can press f10 and click on the airport if you want to find the elevation of the airport. I guess during bad weather with minimum visibility in real life, the pilot have to radio the airport to find out the elevation of the airport.

New F-15C Cockpit and Updated Cockpit Systems

Perhaps the most noticeable new features with Lock On: Flaming Cliffs 3 is the new, beautiful cockpit. This cockpit is fully rendered in every detail and provides 6 degrees of freedom of movement within the cockpit. This new cockpit includes both day and night lighting, an improved HUD that is focused to infinity, re-worked HUD symbols and many improvements and new functions for the radar and radar warning receiver:

• – New flap position lights
  
• – Flaps position lights logic was updated.
  
• – AI & SAM warning lights are functional now.
  
• – Active jamming is indicated by open X in the center of TEWS screen. Flashing X - standby, steady X - active.
  
• – CHAFF/FLARE, and MINIMUM lights are operational now.
  
• – Marker beacon light was made functional. MKR display was added on HUD.
  
• – Added CSET display on HUD - is displayed for the first 10 seconds after ILS mode selection.
  
• – Steer mode select knob was animated.
  
• – Fixed HUD Integrated Flight Director indication.
  
• – Added bank steering bar on HUD.
  
• – HUD altitude scale is always barometric now.
  
• – Removed radar altimeter scale from HUD.
  
• – Fixed AoA scale and numeric indication on HUD.
  
• – Adjusted HUD display logic of Mach number and current/maximum G displays.
  
• – ADI light was made functional.
  
• – Fixed unstable radar lock at certain ranges in the vertical scan mode.
  
• – Radar scan zone in TWS is limited by 60 degrees now.
  
• – DTWS scan zone automatic centering is implemented.
  

The F-15C does not have a radar altimeter.

I noticed in ilsn mode, below 1000 ft radar altimeter does not activates. This is normal?

That has nothing to do with a RADALT.

F-15C manual not corrected in 1.5.4.56500.154.

F-15C DCS Flaming Cliffs Flight Manual EN.pdf page 48:

"At an altitude of less than 1,000 feet, along the right side of the HUD, there appears a radar altimeter scale, graduated in hundreds of feet. The current radar altimeter bar moves along the left side of this scale."

I know that you can set your QFE for flaming cliffs aircraft now, I found out just over a month ago that it works for the flanker, so maybe the eagle also has the option.

I know that you can set your QFE for flaming cliffs aircraft now, I found out just over a month ago that it works for the flanker, so maybe the eagle also has the option.

Eagle's barometric altimeter can't be adjusted in-game - And btw, that's not a radar altimeter. :D

Eagle's barometric altimeter can't be adjusted in-game - And btw, that's not a radar altimeter. :D

never said it was a radar altimeter, but I am really sad that you can't adjust your altimeter in the eagle, FC3 functionality is just a big cluster, the flanker has got a radar altimeter and it can adjust the barometric pressure, eagle doesn't have either ...

Have to say I was very surprised when I found out the F-15 doesn't have an adjustable QFE setting, particularly as it doesn't have a radar altimeter, and more so as the real aircraft obviously does feature QFE adjustment. The adjustment knob is even shown in the DCS F-15 cockpit...

never said it was a radar altimeter, but I am really sad that you can't adjust your altimeter in the eagle, FC3 functionality is just a big cluster, the flanker has got a radar altimeter and it can adjust the barometric pressure, eagle doesn't have either ...

Yeah it sucks, believe it or not there's not even an indication of altimeter setting! :(

(forget what that window is called)

Someday man, the Strike will change this...I hope...And maybe add a radar altimeter!

Oh, P.S., hopefully that "not a radar altimeter" thing came out kinda funny and not totally jerk-like! Read it a second time and was like "wow...uhhh..." :smartass:

No worries (;