cannot reproduce and missing track file Can’t lock with Tdc depress.

[Hell0]

Hello

 

New to this plane. When in the instant action 8vs8 I can’t lock. I move the cursor over the enemy and press Uncage then tdc depress and it locks for a couple of seconds but then the radar goes back to default scan. I get a big x mark after firing amram.

 

Thank you guys

[Hulkbust44]

Your radar isn't actually seeing anything. This is most likely due to the elevation scan not being within parameters to detect a target.

What you see is L16 information overlayed on the attack format and can not be targeted. (Yet feature we should have) what you end up doing with the TDC depress in essentially exmpty space is temporarily command the radar to do a few sweeps there, then return to previous settings if nothing is found. (This logic is again incorrect, but that's the way it works for now)


Take a look at Wag's radar videos

[pete_auau]

here  another  one  pretty  much  in  detail on what  to set  up on the  radar  page

 

[FrostLaufeyson]

It is very likely that the radar does not see any enemy aircraft because you have not manually adjusted the pitch angle of the radar. What you see on the radar page should be the information transmitted to you by your teammates through the data link.

As far as I know, the real F18 should automatically adjust the pitch angle when you press TDC on the target enemy aircraft. But not in DCS, this is very, very, very affecting combat efficiency.

[pete_auau]

40 minutes ago, FrostLaufeyson said:

It is very likely that the radar does not see any enemy aircraft because you have not manually adjusted the pitch angle of the radar. What you see on the radar page should be the information transmitted to you by your teammates through the data link.

As far as I know, the real F18 should automatically adjust the pitch angle when you press TDC on the target enemy aircraft. But not in DCS, this is very, very, very affecting combat efficiency.

if  you press  the auto  in tws  it  should follow  the  target  where ever  it  flies as  explained  in the  utube  i posted  above

[Razor18]

Another suspect for me is the default TGT aging of 4 sec for AMRAAM (which is pretty much against common sense in my opinion). Anyway, before going into combat, select AMRAAM, on RDR page press DATA and cycle the top row right button to increase 4 to 8 to 16. Then exit by pressing DATA again.

[Swift.]

24 minutes ago, Razor18 said:

Another suspect for me is the default TGT aging of 4 sec for AMRAAM (which is pretty much against common sense in my opinion). Anyway, before going into combat, select AMRAAM, on RDR page press DATA and cycle the top row right button to increase 4 to 8 to 16. Then exit by pressing DATA again.

It's against common sense because the correct logic is for the tracks to go into MEM based on frame time not a fixed seconds value. So the radar should automatically be given enough time to reacquire the target in the next sweep.

Right now in DCS though, this is modelled wrong.

[Razor18]

Sorry, you're right, not seconds but frame time.

[Hell0]

Thanks for the info.

 

Could you tell me what I’m meant to press after I slew over the target.

Im used to pressing TMS up from the A10. Is it enter.

Edited February 3, 2022 by Hell0

[Tholozor]

@Hell0 What you do depends on a few factors, such as:

• Has your radar detected the contact yet, or is it a Surveillance/Offboard track?
• Are you trying to just designate the contact as the Launch & Steering target (L&S) or go hard-lock STT?

[Hell0]

I think my problem is the radar slew azimuth? sorry.

 

Whats it mean when a target is red? Radar position is off? Or a data? Link.

Edited February 3, 2022 by Hell0

[pete_auau]

2 hours ago, Hell0 said:

I think my problem is the radar slew azimuth? sorry.

 

Whats it mean when a target is red? Radar position is off? Or a data? Link.

 

have  you watched  the  utube i linked  above  its  all  in there  explained

[Hell0]

35 minutes ago, pete_auau said:

have  you watched  the  utube i linked  above  its  all  in there  explained

Thanks man I get it now.

[wilbur81]

On 2/2/2022 at 12:03 AM, Hulkbust44 said:

What you see is L16 information overlayed on the attack format and can not be targeted. (Yet feature we should have) 

Believe me, that is a feature I'd love to have... but what documentation or evidence is there that we should be able to do this in the Hornet? It makes logical sense that the MC on the Hornet could be able to point the dish at the point in space that the datalink is displaying that the pilot wants to highlight, but then there are a few things that make perfect sense to me that the Hornet, apparently, doesn't have (i.e. - why doesn't NCTR print on the ATTK RDR?)

Edited February 3, 2022 by wilbur81

[Swift.]

38 minutes ago, wilbur81 said:

Believe me, that is a feature I'd love to have... but what documentation or evidence is there that we should be able to do this in the Hornet? It makes logical sense that the MC on the Hornet could be able to point the dish at the point in space that the datalink is displaying that the pilot wants to highlight, but then there are a few things things that make sense to me that the Hornet, apparently, doesn't have (i.e. - why doesn't NCTR print on the ATTK RDR?)

There's an entire maintenance manual about it for one. And its a feature that's acknowledged as needing to be added, by Wags.

[Hulkbust44]

Believe me, that is a feature I'd love to have... but what documentation or evidence is there that we should be able to do this in the Hornet? It makes logical sense that the MC on the Hornet could be able to point the dish at the point in space that the datalink is displaying that the pilot wants to highlight, but then there are a few things things that make sense to me that the Hornet, apparently, doesn't have (i.e. - why doesn't NCTR print on the ATTK RDR?)

Just as Swift said. Also, If you think it would be cool if the Hornet radar could do XYZ, it probably can...
There is so much crap that we don't have yet it's unbelievable.

And i've seen some documentation where NCTR prints to the attk.

[wilbur81]

4 hours ago, Swift. said:

 And its a feature that's acknowledged as needing to be added, by Wags.

Hmmm... have a link for that Wags-acknowledgment?  I've not yet come across it.

[Swift.]

7 minutes ago, wilbur81 said:

Hmmm... have a link for that Wags-acknowledgment?  I've not yet come across it.

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