Su-27 Training Missiles Mission

[lockon2015]

I just worked through the training mission: Su-27: “Missiles.miz”. At the end of the training exercise, just after I get “Launch Authorization”, LA, none of the missiles fired. Is this supposed to happen? Am I supposed to do something after LA to fire the missiles? Okay if this is how the simulation is supposed to work; I just want to make sure I’m not doing anything wrong. I tried clicking the joystick trigger, joystick weapons release, and space bar, also cycling through the combinations of the “Change Weapon” on the joystick. I went through the sequence several times, so I’m sure I didn’t make a mistake there. Some games have "Missile Release"; is that true for this plane in this module or something like it?

[predattak]

You have to hold the Joystick trigger pressed for about 1 second ..squeeze the trigger and keep it like that until it fires :) Only western aircrafts have the weapon release function in the controls.

Edited September 2, 2015 by predattak

[DarkFire]

The missiles will only leave the rail if they're within the permitted launch parameters. These include a maximum G loading which in turn (if I remember correctly) is effected by roll rate. Hold down the trigger and eventually the missile will launch. The longer range missiles such as the R-27ER and -ET like being launched from low G and low roll rate conditions, whereas the R-73 is much more permissive of violent manoeuvring.

[lockon2015]

Got it, that was the trick! It works. Okay, I'll try one of the non-training missions now and see how it goes.