Instant Action Mission - Hunting the Jeff - why won't wingman engage?

[Morat]

Hi,

first up I can't get the simple comms menu to work on \ or shift \ (nothing happens) so I used left-win-B and the command "Flight Engage Bandits" does get issued.

My wingman just flies around dumping flares until he gets killed. Is this intended?

Cheers!

[near_blind]

With Easy Communications turned off, you have four communications options. \ is for shouting at the ground crew, and is generally disabled after take off in high fidelity modules. Shift + \ is your intercom, in single player it really doesn't do anything for you. RAlt + \ broadcasts over the pilot's radio. Rctrl + \ broadcasts over the RIO's radio. Looking at how the missions seem to be generally set up, you should be able to talk to your wingman using either the pilot or RIO radios (they're both tuned to the wingman's frequency).