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Maybe stupit question but what this command do?

 

I tried different times, on ground, in the air, after he called a visual, after he called a radar target but i get no response.

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Yes, but he also spends a lot of time looking at the displays. With that command you can tell him to shift his main focus outside the cockpit, so he will detect visual contacts much quicker, but detecting contacts on the radar scope might happen slower. At least that's my understanding of the function.

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The next question to me is: how can you tell him to stop look outside and again focus on the displays?

Good question! Maybe the Spot command only works for a certain duration (e.g. a minute)?

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I still dont understand why Jester (one of the main features) is that much under-documented in the manual...

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I get bothered by Jester primarily by:

 

 

1. HE calls targets well after they are in the position he called. There have been several times when he called the bandit was at 6:00, even though he was RIGHT in front of me as I was tracking for a kill. Or, I'd fire a missile and it would miss and 10 seconds later, he'd remarked "Missile missed!" These were 1V1 engagements so it wasn't like someone else fired a missile at me an missed or he was calling a bandit on my six that I didn't know about.

 

 

2. He's not really a team player, haha. His remarks in a dogfight seem so negative. Not encouraging at all. And he's a chicken. We got shot up pretty bad but I had the aircraft and was actually gliding her to a landing in the deserts of Nevada. I hear, "Sorry, man, I'm gonna eject....Good luuuuuccckkkk!" and I'm like, "Did he really just eject?" and I see that my canopy is missing and I hear wind whistling by. I successfully landed the plane seconds later on the desert floor and had a look and sure enough the canopy was gone and so was he--literally. When I checked the mission results, it showed that he ejected and died.

 

 

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I still dont understand why Jester (one of the main features) is that much under-documented in the manual...

 

Agree!

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I find the refueling hard with Jester little bit left right right sometimes the information he is calling not correct but overal experience pretty nice.

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I still dont understand why Jester (one of the main features) is that much under-documented in the manual...

 

This... was going to ask the same question as the OP.

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2. He's not really a team player, haha. His remarks in a dogfight seem so negative. Not encouraging at all. And he's a chicken. We got shot up pretty bad but I had the aircraft and was actually gliding her to a landing in the deserts of Nevada. I hear, "Sorry, man, I'm gonna eject....Good luuuuuccckkkk!" and I'm like, "Did he really just eject?" and I see that my canopy is missing and I hear wind whistling by. I successfully landed the plane seconds later on the desert floor and had a look and sure enough the canopy was gone and so was he--literally. When I checked the mission results, it showed that he ejected and died.

 

 

I guess thats because IRL under such conditions the procedure is unambiguous: EJECT

The chance of surviving an ejection is far higher than doing a belly landing of a damaged plane half full of fuel and two hot engines. Landing with wheels down on a not-paved runway is suicide anyway.

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I’ve asked him to spot while in the close presence of bandits and he’s doesn’t say anything. Is anything at all actually supposed to happen when spot is selected?

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Maybe it's currently just a spot, an empty slot reserved for something else coming in future since Jester doesn't reply ever when selecting that command.

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And he's a chicken. We got shot up pretty bad but I had the aircraft and was actually gliding her to a landing in the deserts of Nevada. I hear, "Sorry, man, I'm gonna eject....Good luuuuuccckkkk!" and I'm like, "Did he really just eject?" and I see that my canopy is missing and I hear wind whistling by. I successfully landed the plane seconds later on the desert floor and had a look and sure enough the canopy was gone and so was he--literally. When I checked the mission results, it showed that he ejected and died.

 

^ This! This has happened to me multiple times. I think when the jet is damaged, his threshold for ejection is significantly lower. There was one occasion that was particularly embarrassing for him. It was during the DACT guns only instant action mission in Nevada vs. the F-16. The F-16 drew first blood, but the damage was pretty minor. I went low to gain some energy, and as I was approaching the ground, he lost his nerve and punched out. I lost my canopy and my spotter. I pulled out of the dive comfortably, then proceeded to locate and down the F-16 a couple of minutes later. Thanks for nothing, Jester!

 

He copped it pretty good when he finally made it back to the bar...

Posted
I still dont understand why Jester (one of the main features) is that much under-documented in the manual...

 

 

 

not only jester but other parts of the manual seems "half assed" had to look up youtube videos to get better understandings

Posted
Landing with wheels down on a not-paved runway is suicide anyway.

 

In Soviet Union the suicide is you....

 

Again, that is one huge design difference. Mig-21, Mig-23, Mig-27, Mig-29, Su-17, Su-24, Su-25, Su-27 etc.. are designed to be fully operational from unprepared fields. Literally you can operate from a wet crop field.

 

War is not going to give you a change to choose to land or take-off from a fully prepared Air Base....

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Posted
In Soviet Union the suicide is you....

 

Again, that is one huge design difference. Mig-21, Mig-23, Mig-27, Mig-29, Su-17, Su-24, Su-25, Su-27 etc.. are designed to be fully operational from unprepared fields. Literally you can operate from a wet crop field.

 

War is not going to give you a change to choose to land or take-off from a fully prepared Air Base....

 

 

I agree with you on this. The soviet planes were(/are?) indeed designed to land and start from unpaved runways. I was referring to that particular situation where a landing of an F-14 on a desert sand surface (i.e. sand, and I'm not talking about that hard salt lakes like they were used for testing) is suicide.

 

It depends of course on the doctrine. However for naval air combat, it is unlikely to see a carrier covered with grass and a tractor mowing the lawn at 4am such that operation is guaranteed :D

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I get bothered by Jester primarily by:

 

 

1. HE calls targets well after they are in the position he called. There have been several times when he called the bandit was at 6:00, even though he was RIGHT in front of me as I was tracking for a kill. Or, I'd fire a missile and it would miss and 10 seconds later, he'd remarked "Missile missed!" These were 1V1 engagements so it wasn't like someone else fired a missile at me an missed or he was calling a bandit on my six that I didn't know about.

 

 

2. He's not really a team player, haha. His remarks in a dogfight seem so negative. Not encouraging at all. And he's a chicken. We got shot up pretty bad but I had the aircraft and was actually gliding her to a landing in the deserts of Nevada. I hear, "Sorry, man, I'm gonna eject....Good luuuuuccckkkk!" and I'm like, "Did he really just eject?" and I see that my canopy is missing and I hear wind whistling by. I successfully landed the plane seconds later on the desert floor and had a look and sure enough the canopy was gone and so was he--literally. When I checked the mission results, it showed that he ejected and died.

 

 

v6,

boNes

 

 

+1

Hope that gets improved, because completly silencing jester is no good solution.

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not only jester but other parts of the manual seems "half assed" had to look up youtube videos to get better understandings

 

 

Agreed, I think the manual, while very informative on the airplane, leaves much to be desired in terms of actual procedures and training to fly the aircraft and fight with it.

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Agreed, I think the manual, while very informative on the airplane, leaves much to be desired in terms of actual procedures and training to fly the aircraft and fight with it.

 

There have been tons of "Switch to X makes Y" where I was wondering what Y actually does... in a few of those cases I knew 'cos it was in the NATOPS.

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On one hand, it's an early access product, and one can assume that some things are missing.

That said, how can people who paid for early access give proper feedback on functionality of certain systems (i.e. Jester) without knowing how everything works?

 

If you release Jester with a "spot" command, then you should put something in the manual that says what spot is actually supposed to do, so we can properly bug report it if it's not working as advertised.

 

Isn't that the point of early access? Introducing your product to a broad audience to increase the chances of bugs being caught? Hard to do that when we don't even know what's normal and what's not.

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