Easy Radar Bug

[xXmobiusXx1]

This may have been said before somewhere in this forum, but the issue still persists so I will say it again for those who have the same issue.

 

Now the issue is that easy radar is not working properly, especially in the F-15c ( part of flaming cliffs 3 ) What happens is when in BVR mode the radar itself will not pick up or track any aircraft in the area but yet bandits can be on your nose 10 miles out. When i try and press my auto lock button on my stick it will lock them for half a second and then unlock. I keep pressing the button to have it just keep doing the same thing over and over, not holding the lock. Now i just forgot the term for the mode that works but key press "3" works, i believe that is visual range mode, but it auto acquires if the bandit is close enough.

 

Now the easy radar is set globally in options with the " easy avionics " unless I have to activate the easy radar cheat in simulation with the combo key press to get it to work properly there is an issue.

 

Also since I have posted this I should also ask if there will ever be an option to get rid of the easy avionics hud overlay, although it is nice, but when doing screen shots or wanting a more realistic feel it should have an option to toggle that overlay on or off.

 

The reason I use easy radar is that I do not have an advanced flight stick, I have to settle for the Thrustmaster Hostas X which only has the POV hat, and i need that for situational awareness.

 

EDIT: just realized that this is under the wrong game, sorry about that.

Edited June 14, 2015 by xXmobiusXx1

[xXmobiusXx1]

Easy Radar Bug

 

This may have been said before somewhere in this forum, but the issue still persists so I will say it again for those who have the same issue.

 

Now the issue is that easy radar is not working properly, especially in the F-15c ( part of flaming cliffs 3 ) What happens is when in BVR mode the radar itself will not pick up or track any aircraft in the area but yet bandits can be on your nose 10 miles out. When i try and press my auto lock button on my stick it will lock them for half a second and then unlock. I keep pressing the button to have it just keep doing the same thing over and over, not holding the lock. Now i just forgot the term for the mode that works but key press "3" works, i believe that is visual range mode, but it auto acquires if the bandit is close enough.

 

Now the easy radar is set globally in options with the " easy avionics " unless I have to activate the easy radar cheat in simulation with the combo key press to get it to work properly there is an issue.

 

Also since I have posted this I should also ask if there will ever be an option to get rid of the easy avionics hud overlay, although it is nice, but when doing screen shots or wanting a more realistic feel it should have an option to toggle that overlay on or off.

 

The reason I use easy radar is that I do not have an advanced flight stick, I have to settle for the Thrustmaster Hostas X which only has the POV hat, and i need that for situational awareness.

[xXmobiusXx1]

Easy Radar Bug

 

This may have been said before somewhere in this forum, but the issue still persists so I will say it again for those who have the same issue.

 

Now the issue is that easy radar is not working properly, especially in the F-15c ( part of flaming cliffs 3 ) What happens is when in BVR mode the radar itself will not pick up or track any aircraft in the area but yet bandits can be on your nose 10 miles out. When i try and press my auto lock button on my stick it will lock them for half a second and then unlock. I keep pressing the button to have it just keep doing the same thing over and over, not holding the lock. Now i just forgot the term for the mode that works but key press "3" works, i believe that is visual range mode, but it auto acquires if the bandit is close enough.

 

Now the easy radar is set globally in options with the " easy avionics " unless I have to activate the easy radar cheat in simulation with the combo key press to get it to work properly there is an issue.

 

Also since I have posted this I should also ask if there will ever be an option to get rid of the easy avionics hud overlay, although it is nice, but when doing screen shots or wanting a more realistic feel it should have an option to toggle that overlay on or off.

 

The reason I use easy radar is that I do not have an advanced flight stick, I have to settle for the Thrustmaster Hostas X which only has the POV hat, and i need that for situational awareness.

[feefifofum]

Since it looks like my last reply to this got eaten when the thread was moved-

 

I don't fly in easy mode, but I suspect the reason that the bore sight/AACQ mode is still working is that it is probably unchanged with either easy or normal avionics selected. That mode will automatically acquire targets within visual range of your plane's nose, no simplification necessary.

 

Have you considered mapping your RADAR controls to your numpad? Before I upgraded my HOTAS this is what I was doing, and it worked quite well. The numpad is, by default, mapped to view change, and the num + and num - keys are mapped to throttle. With your T-Flight, you have throttle and POV covered so the numpad is totally free. I'm sure you've heard it before, but you're really robbing yourself of a more fulfilling experience by playing with the easy modes enabled. The fiddly bits in the FC3 planes are already dialed way back, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised if you give the normal game mode a shot. Especially considering easy mode sounds like it's broken.

 

Here are the mappings I was using for my numpad RADAR.

 

Num 8 : target designator up

Num 2 : target designator down

num 6 : target designator right

num 4 : target designator left

num 5 : target designator to center

num 9 : RWS/TWS mode select

num 7 : TWS unlock

num 1 : scan zone left (rarely used)

num 3 : scan zone right (rarely used)

num - : scan zone up

num + : scan zone down (these are "backwards" because of their physical orientation on the keyboard)

enter : already assigned by default to target lock

num. : return to search (unlocks current target while retaining range/angle parameters)

num / : scan zone decrease

num * : scan zone increase

num 0 : radar pulse repeat frequency select

 

That's more or less what I had going on, and will put everything you need available for convenient one-handed operation, in what felt like pretty intuitive places at the time.

The RADAR is pretty simple, you just need to understand what you're looking at. In short.

 

dots are friendlies

dashes are hostiles

number in top right corner is the current range of your scan. if your scan range is 80, for example: the top line of the display is 80 miles from your aircract, the next line down is 60 miles, the center line is 40 miles, the second line from the bottom is 20, and the bottom line is always your current position.

the two numbers of the left hand side of the screen show the altitude range your RADAR can detect targets in, based on the current position of the target designator. notice as you move the target designator closer to your aircraft, that the scan height becomes more narrow. This is because RADAR emits in a cone from the nose of your plane.

 

So let's say you get a BRAA call from your AWACS, who says "contact bearing 256 for 34 at angels 15, hot"

Here's how you'd lock that target up in RWS (the default mode when you turn the RADAR on)

 

Turn your plane to heading 256 (about halfway between "25" and "26" on your HUD compass tape or HSI)

 

Turn your radar on ("i" key by default)

 

move the target designator to the top edge of the RADAR screen until the number in the top right corner says "40"

 

move your target designator to about halfway between the third and fourth lines. Since your RADAR range is set to 40, that means the 4th line is 40, the 3rd line is 30, the 2nd is 20, the 1st is 10, and the bottom of the screen is, as always, your aircraft. Putting our cursor between the third and fourth lines means it is sitting at about 35 miles, the approximate range our AWACS has given us to the target.

 

Adjust your scan height up or down, if necessary depending on your altitude, so that 15,000 feet ("angels" means thousands of feet) falls in between the two numbers of the left side of the screen.

 

You should, at this point, be seeing your radar contact on your screen. Simply move the target designator over the blip and hit "target lock"

Edited June 15, 2015 by feefifofum