Radar scope "zooms" but ASL does not adjust to fit

[Pikey]

When you change the azimuth setting from 140 degrees to something smaller, the radar scope rescales itself, or "zooms". So far, maybe OK.

 

 

 

Your placed TDC cursor and contacts will all shift and rearrange themselves automatically when changing the azimuth sweep length. The radar azimuth will show the gimbals according to the setting, so, with 140 degree scan, right gimbal shows a BRA 70 degrees. That's fine. See images below.

 

 

Now, the thing is, the ASL does not change to update the new width, since the gimbals on either side still stretch the entire scope's width. There's at least two problems with this.

 

 

1) Firstly it's confusing because the way the radar scales on zooming does not appear apparent to the eye as the ASL remains constant but not as wide. This leads to assumptions that the right gimbal is always the same bearing and TDC position! (it's not, check the screenshots). But more, the gradients or box lines now become incorrect in every other Azimuth sweep setting than 140 degrees.

 

 

2) Second and most important is that the ASL remains constant speed sweeping even once zoomed in and only covers the gradient checkmarks, when it should ALWAYS cover the entire width, because the view is zooming. When in zoomed in, it should be faster to update and it's not, so we get no benefit from a narrow scan, it's slowing down in fact whilst we zoom in. That for me is a bug, regardless of whether the F-18C radar scope actually zooms. The F-15 doesn't in FC3, for parallel visual example, it cuts the corners off the edges of the scope as I probably expected in this simulation.

 

 

So something is wrong, but I don't know if the Hornet's scope behaves with a zoom or it's ED's coding of the ASL.

 

 

I'm sure I'll confuse around 50% of readers with this, there is no other way but to look at your scopes with the TDC set on the gimbal and read out the results and you will see the zoom, and thus the missing full Azimuth sweep, (and thus the slowness).

 

 

The alternative is the Hornet is really coded with an absurdly illogical representation of what the B-scope is actually doing, only some sort of representation. And i'm not convinced the radar manufacturers would place a false ASL on a radar scope, makes no sense.

Edited December 23, 2018 by Pikey
number typo first line

[bear.is.flying]

I don’t believe the Hornet’s B-scope stretches horizontally when you decrease the radar sweep angle. Looks like you found a bug with the BRA indicator on the radar display though!

[Manuel_108]

Good report. I was already thinking something feels quite off once you start decreasing the azimuth. I doubt it‘s intentional, otherwise they would have told us so, right?

Would be a very confusing thing to add half a year after early access started.