USAF-Falcon87 Posted June 23, 2020 Posted June 23, 2020 Hi all, Been trying to learn the Tomcat, and I have run into a problem I just can’t seem do figure out. Doing a (homemade) mission with three possible aircraft: one airborne and armed, one hot start on the ramp armed, and one cold start on the ramp armed. All is fine from the airborne and hot start birds, but when I launch from the cold start, I CANNOT get Jester to lock any targets on radar in any mode. After completing the preflight, getting a “ready to taxi” indication from Jester and getting airborne, I have him go active on radar and set mode to TWS. If I swap to the RIO seat, the radar switch and the TWS switch are illuminated, but Jester never sees a target. If I flip the ACM switch I can go to VSL and get a lock, but that’s the only way I’ve found. Obviously I’m missing a step in the preflight, but I have no clue what it is. I don’t know if this is related, but I also can’t flip the TACAN CMD switch to NFO on the cold start missions—it goes from PILOT to blank. (Could be completely different issue, I dunno) Appreciate any suggestions—thanks! Ric
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