Voyager Posted August 7, 2019 Posted August 7, 2019 Been mostly fiddling around in basic flight and navigation so far, but decided to just give it a go against an AI. Started up the dogfight quick mission, with no real idea of how to run the radar (I figured I'd tell Jester to put it in VSL mode and just go with it) and fortunately it was a guns only mission. Had about ten minutes of swirling dogfight with the Su-27, mostly trying to locate it based on the RWR and Jester callouts and managed to get on the guys tail twice before I realized it needed to be an unloaded shot if I was going to actually hit a jet with no radar support. Got him thought. I think I manged to spend most of the fight near 30 units AoA. Helps to turn off all the autostab stuff. Ended up with 2300lbs of fuel, and absolutely no idea where my airbase was too. It was awesome. I'm going to need to learn how to activate the pilot A2A radar modes. What is curious is that the unloaded aircraft keeps wanting to set up with the Phoenix rails attached. Is that just a visual artifact, or is the plane loaded down with those in the clean configuration? Harry Voyager
KiraTheCat Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 What is curious is that the unloaded aircraft keeps wanting to set up with the Phoenix rails attached. Is that just a visual artifact, or is the plane loaded down with those in the clean configuration? Harry Voyager That is not a visual artifact, it is indeed just the missile rails loaded without missiles. In order to unload them, you'd click that hardpoint and select 'clean' or somesuch. After that, the station will show an 'X' through it on the loadout screen. Usually, just the forward two rails are mounted without missiles for some reason, while the rear two don't have the rails mounted. I suppose they flew like this often for two reasons. 1. Ease of mounting the missiles, should they be needed in a hurry. 2. AIM-54s were heavy and a full load of four (or, especially, six) would be taxing the jet's capabilities, even on the A+/B. In order to have a completely "clean" jet guaranteed, you'd have to have all four center stations displaying that 'X'. Personally, I made a new configuration, called it "CLEAN", and made those four 'X's so that there's nothing hanging underneath. Be sure to check out different types of mission profiles, as I'm pretty sure that a clean configuration is already available. You won't find it in the default profile, though. (As I recall, that's the Air-to-Air profile.)
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