Integrating SRS/VA/VAICOM with F-14 Pilot radio controls?

[Voyager]

So, working my way through setting up controls and systems for learning the F-14B Pilot station. Bear in mind, my background is WWII era planes, and this is my first real deep dive into modern aircraft, and I'm trying to make sure I understand the F-14's radio and push to talk systems, and how to set everything up to interact correctly, and how to bind it to my joystick/throttle in a way representative of the aircraft itself.

 

Looking through the manual, I'm seeing a 4-way hat switch, that looks like it is for coms, It's the one with the #6 arrow. If I'm understanding this, this has the Pilot/RIO intercom, UHF1 & UHF2 switches, as well as a "Both" that appears to be unused in the game that the moment?

 

For the throttle, I'm currently using the Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS.

 

If I'm understanding these threads:

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=236119

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=226019&highlight=vaicom+srs+teamspeak

 

It sounds like the way to map these would be to, first, move the wing sweep controls to the forefinger PoV Hat, then map the 5-way thumb hat such that, "Press" is the TS/Discord/Game voice PTT, the map the ICS to VIACOM's Jester Channel, then map the UHF1&2 to VAICOM TX1+SRS Radio 1 & VAICOM TX2+SRS Radio 2 Respectively, while the 'Both' command would be left unmapped for the F-14?

 

That seem to line up with standard best practice?

 

Thank you,

 

Harry Voyager

[uri_ba]

I mapped the "both" to be jester menu/ts ptt.

As the press is "VR zoom" for me.

But I did pretty much the same as you suggest.