Jester IFF too slow - priorities wrong

[-Painter-]

Jester is too slow to IFF the contacts.

Yesterday on a busy MP server (Blueflag PG) the airspace in the AO was really busy with like 10+ aircraft. I came from 120 NM away.

Problem: I had contacts and Jester did IFF them like 60 NM away. To get a good result of my shots I aimed for a launch distance of around 40-20 NM. But when I came closer like 50 NM targets dropped and popped up again due to Alt changes, filters etc. Result was, that I had only not IFFd contacts within 40 NM and that did not change until I ended up merged. I wasn't able to fire, since I was not sure who is Friend or Foe. Finally I died from a Hornet at 2 NM abeam.

At the same time Jester IFFd contacts and called them out to me 60-80 NM away.

Would be great if:

- Jester would be much faster regarding IFF in general (sometimes he isn't doing that task for ages, then all of a sudden he IFFs 10 contacts within 5 seconds).

- Jester would prioritize to IFF the closest contacts on top of all other tasks (except tasks that are given to him by the pilot via menu - e.g. "go nose cold" or "select A2G station 2,7").

[METEOP]

+1

 

My experience so far with Jester, barring any incompetence on my part, is this :

 

BVR, don't touch anything... Jester is capable most of the time to target TWS bogeys on the nose at same height. Launch all Phoenixes!

 

after that.... meh, he might as well eject and walk/swim home.

[QuiGon]

Flying mostly as a RIO, IFFing targets at close distance is a pain in the ***, as the radar cone is very small at close distance which causes contacts to drop out and reappear without their assigned IFF designation pretty often. I pretty much gave up on IFFing contacts in a furball at close distance in TWS and instead STT them to be able to properly IFF them.

I don't really fly the F-14 as an pilot, so I have no experience with Jester, but flying as a RIO I can very much relate to how you guys describe Jesters behaviour.

Edited August 20, 2019 by QuiGon