Pilot Radar Acquisition Mode buttons

[AH_Solid_Snake]

Hey all,

 

I'm having a bit of an issue working out where the buttons or switches for these modes exist in the jet. For reference I mean the VSL Low / VSL High / PAL modes.

 

From the bindings these are Target designate down / Target designate fwd / Target designate up and by default on my TM Warthog they are bound to a 4 way hat that doesn't exist in the F-14.

 

I've looked around and read labels and also tried pushing the button repeatedly on my joystick to see if I noticed movement in the cockpit but I couldn't find them so far, can someone point them out to me?

[WindyTX]

Vsl up down and pal are on the sidewall outside of the throttle and plm on the throttle.

 

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[Extranajero]

I watched an interview\walkaround with a couple of ex Tomcat aircrew - RIO and pilot ( sorry - I can't remember the link, dammit ) - and when it came to those switches the pilot couldn't initially remember exactly what it was they did.

Which led me to think that maybe they weren't used a whole lot.

[Spiceman]

They really weren’t prior to the 90s. The RIO almost always initiated VSL, so prior to the Tomcat entering the A/G arena in the early 90s, the target designator switch wasn’t used much at all.

Edited June 27, 2019 by Spiceman

[QuiGon]

http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/cockpit.html#target-designate-switch

 

Heatblur wrote the manual for a reason ;)