Tips for Designating Bogies

[Southpaw]

I need some advice on designating bogies and having the AWG-9 retain my designation.

 

Say I have four bogies on the TID/DDD all similar distance, closure, and aziumuth. The only way I know to be sure a single bogey is hostile is to lock them on the DDD (taking me out of TWS), IFF, and then mark them hostile or friendly. However, when I go back to TWS it still shows up as a bogey. Is this a bug or should I figure out a different way to do this?

[Longiron]

In TWS use TID cursor to hook the bogie

Hold IFF

Contact will move into the + on the DDD

Then while still hooked assign bandit or friendly

Rinse and repeat

 

If not already known

Friendlies will show as a = sign

Hostile will be a -

Edited April 15, 2019 by Longiron

[Southpaw]

I will have to try it again. Whenever I hook on the TID, I don't recall it singling the target out on the DDD. When I IFF in TWS it interrogates all targets on the DDD. I will try it again the next time I'm in the RIO pit.

[Longiron]

Need to have a good track file for the contact then just hold the IFF

Sometimes it takes a few sweeps to get a return

And be sure you are not hooking the bottom half of the contact that is the datalink part

[probad]

when hooked in tws the iff return will show up in the center of the ddd, not at their corresponding azimuth like in rws.

negative iffs may be small and hard to see behind the ddd crosshair.