need track replay Time to "bug" a radar target?

[jonsky7]

Hello,

Anybody else finding that it takes a considerable amount of time from when the radar finds a target to you being able to lock it up with TMS up?

The radar shows the little white square with a line, but it takes like 10 seconds for me to be able to lock it up. Once the contact is a little white square I thought that means the radar has found it.

Am I incorrect?

Thanks

[skywalker22]

On 9/5/2022 at 11:16 AM, jonsky7 said:

Hello,

Anybody else finding that it takes a considerable amount of time from when the radar finds a target to you being able to lock it up with TMS up?

The radar shows the little white square with a line, but it takes like 10 seconds for me to be able to lock it up. Once the contact is a little white square I thought that means the radar has found it.

Am I incorrect?

Thanks

General issue: this is what used to be an issue a couple of months ago (before last 2 updates). But it was fixed to extent that it does not bother (at least me) any longer. 

To your problem: you didn't provide us any track (evidance). You also didn't tell us which way is the aircraft you want to lock pointing, based on you flight path (hot, cold, flanking or cranking).

I assume you are in RWS mode, so you see small white boxes (radar contacts) which you cannot put into SST (single target track) because the radar does not get enough solild radar returns of that bandit. Try to narrow the area (piece of sky) you are looking at (vertical scan - bars, and horizonal scan - azimuth) to shorten the time of search. If this is not helping, the target must not be going hot based on your aspect.

If this is not it, please do a short example, save the track and paste it in here. Thx

[Yaga]

Also seems like there's an over-willingness by the fire control computer to corelate the new brick into the location of an old track. This makes it very easy to be looking in the wrong place, because the FCR gives you every indication that it is the correct location, falsely. 

Each patch feels like a slightly fresh variation on how the FCR track management/handling logic/whatever is strange, illogical, and utterly unhelpful for achieving the task at hand. But it always centers around old tracks ageing out, track donation, and the rules used for correlating tracks.  

[Moonshine]

Might also have lots to do with the lookup/lookdown penalty which is under investigation already