justinm11 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Hey all, This morning I tried to do an air to air refueling mission when I ran into a strange problem I've never had before. After starting up all the systems and getting my radios set up I had an identifier tone coming from what I thought was the Tacan. Since I was going to switch to the tanker Tacan airborne anyway, I didn't bother to turn it down. As I taxied out, another indent tone started to sound, which wavered a bit and then went solid. At this point I noticed that the FM homing light had illuminated. I tried turning all the volumes down on both the radios and the intercom panel, and even tried turning the radios off all to no avail. The sound continued no matter what I did. Even changing all frequencies had no effect. I eventually had to abort since I couldn't stand the noise anymore. Anybody have any ideas what this was or how to fix it? Thanks, Justin
Rongor Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) The situation you described shouldn't be possible. Did you hear an ident tone? or did you hear a steady tone? Steady tones are steady and not intermitted like morse ident tones. What kind of mission did you start? Does it include transmissions which could sound like that? If you switched off all your 5 radio receivers and one tone continued, it is a warning tone generated by your aircraft. By the way, there is absolutely no sense in not turning that TACAN ID off. Why would you want to listen to these beeps while flying and attempting to AAR? No real pilot would listen to any of these ID tones longer then for a few seconds, for their one and only purpose, to ID the received radio transmission. You can switch TACAN and ILS audio off with a single right click on the respective dial knob on the intercom panel (therefore pressing them down) after you successfully ID'ed your signals. Don't waste time in turning all those volume dials down. Same functions with the three voice radios. Only way to have radios generate a steady tone is to set frequencies out of their bounds or to receive something wich delivers a steady tone because the mission editor implemented it that way. As far as I believe to know, homing is not modeled in the A-10C, but I am willing to be taught otherwise. Let's see what others have to say... Edited May 6, 2015 by Rongor
marluk Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 Have you tried to start mission again? Maybe it was bug that rarely appears. If this is not bug I assume that you have probably set some frequencies out of bound. [B]*NOB* Lucky[/B] [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Tko vrijedi leti, tko leti vrijedi, tko ne leti ne vrijedi
justinm11 Posted May 7, 2015 Author Posted May 7, 2015 (edited) I've since done about 3 other missions, and I've never had it happen again. I'm thinking it was a bug. I've tried to recreate it and I've never been able to. My understanding was that the homing system isn't modelled as well, so that's what kind of threw me for a loop. To defend myself on the tacan ident, I am a real pilot and since I only had a short taxi, and I was going to switch to the tanker tacan to ident it anyway (which I've since realized I have nothing to really ident there anyway) and wasn't bothering me until whatever tone that was went solid. Thanks for the tip on pushing down the volume knobs on the intercom panel though, I didn't know you could do that. I thought you had to twist them off Anyway, if it happens again, I'll repost but I'm thinking it was a glitch. I also forgot to mention that I pressed no buttons, and tuned no radios when the tone went solid. It just kind of happened.. Edited May 7, 2015 by justinm11
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