LockeyNoS7even Posted May 22, 2021 Posted May 22, 2021 I've recorded what feels like a bug with the F18 radar. It seems that when in TWS you can watch a contact fly towards you but when you try and bug the contact the radar antenna elevation is changed and this can cause the contact to be lost. In this video there is a contact 60 degrees left at 20,000. TWS is performing a 2B, 80 sweep biased where I know the contact should appear. This 2B scan covers 18,000 to 22,000. When I TDC depress over this contact the radar elevation changes and covers 7,000 to 13,000 which means the contact is lost after 4 seconds. Should the radar really be changing it's scan elevation?
LockeyNoS7even Posted May 22, 2021 Author Posted May 22, 2021 Forgot to save the track file for the above example. The same behaviour is visible in this track though. F18_TWS_Test.trk
Foka Posted May 22, 2021 Posted May 22, 2021 Next time with these kind of bugs it would be better to record film with AZ/EL on left DDI, it much better shows what radar antenna does.
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