Realistic radio comms

[MasterZelgadis]

Hi builders.. is there any reference or hint on how (semi) realistic radio comms work? Say, in a mission where you have an AWACS, an F-16 flight destroying enemy SAM, escorted by (client) F-15C, another F-15C flight doing a CAP and an A-10C flight on station awaiting several taskings from ground forces.. how would the radio frequencies be used, which group is on which channels to communicate between each other?

[baltic_dragon]

Hey! You should use Radio Transmission for that. So you use triggered actions to add radio comms (add Radio Transmission, add text, sound file and set length) and the given flight will only communicate on the preset frequency.

[MasterZelgadis]

Hehe, think I didn't make my question clear enough :D

 

I know how to set that up in the editor, but which frequencies would a real flight use? Every flight would use a channel where only that flight is on, I would assume. But would the F-15 Escort flight also share a channel with the F-16 SEAD/DEAD flight? Would the CAP be completely separated from the other flights? And would every flight share one frequency with the AWACS?

 

I think I remember from the old Falcon 4.0 days that for example the F-15 Escort would have:

1 radio set up only for communications with the flight members

1 radio set up to communicate with the F-16s they escort

1 radio set up to GUARD channel, where every other flight including the AWACS would be

 

But is that how it works in a real situation?

(that's only an example, I don't know right now whether the F-15 has 3 radios at all..)

Edited January 21, 2016 by MasterZelgadis

[baltic_dragon]

In reality I think there would be one mission frequency, then another frequency for contacting a separate flight, and then another radio set up for element comms. But it is really difficult to recreate in the editor. What you can do you can assign certain common frequency when the flight is in certain area and then switch their frequency to separate one for this flight... but since AI flights can only use one frequency at a time (checked that) we have limited options.

[ESAc_matador]

Hehe, think I didn't make my question clear enough :D

 

I know how to set that up in the editor, but which frequencies would a real flight use? Every flight would use a channel where only that flight is on, I would assume. But would the F-15 Escort flight also share a channel with the F-16 SEAD/DEAD flight? Would the CAP be completely separated from the other flights? And would every flight share one frequency with the AWACS?

 

I think I remember from the old Falcon 4.0 days that for example the F-15 Escort would have:

1 radio set up only for communications with the flight members

1 radio set up to communicate with the F-16s they escort

1 radio set up to GUARD channel, where every other flight including the AWACS would be

 

But is that how it works in a real situation?

(that's only an example, I don't know right now whether the F-15 has 3 radios at all..)

 

 

You answered yourself!

[MasterZelgadis]

Okay, thanks guys :)