Ground radar in the desert

[Gunfreak]

I made a training mission on South Atlantic map to bomb a bridge with the ground radar and jdam. It worked well  the map had large nice features to orient by.

So it worked great,  however I tried to up the challenge,  I made a "chemical weapons complex " some miles from Aleppo. I put to next to a small roundish lake. Hoping it would make it easier to spot.

 

But once I got in the air, I couldn't orient myself at all. Even tho I put my radar to a steer point just 12 nm from the target. I couldn't pick out anything. It was all just grey featureless nothingness. Are deserts particularly hard to work with the ground radar? 

[Bananabrai]

IRL, depending on your radars frequency and the grain size of the grains of sand, it can absorb radar emission or not. 

A cube shaped building should still stand out, I guess.
What aircraft were you using? All have different degree of fidelity more or less, some are bugged, etc.

[Gunfreak]

3 hours ago, Bananabrai said:

IRL, depending on your radars frequency and the grain size of the grains of sand, it can absorb radar emission or not. 

A cube shaped building should still stand out, I guess.
What aircraft were you using? All have different degree of fidelity more or less, some are bugged, etc.

I have no idea, why ED has moved this. I asked this in the F16 section. It has nothing to do with the syria map other then it happed to be the map was was flying on.

This was an F16 radar question not a Syria map question. 

[Bananabrai]

Funny, ok. Maybe ED knows its a map issue?

Well, now that you are here, I don't feel like Ugra is really reading this bug section. Reported two lamp posts last year, never fixed.
In contrary: Reported runway issues on South Atlantic map, Razbam fixed it almost immediately, even though they are also not very active in the forums.

Try to find a desert building on the Persian Gulf Map, maybe the problem persists and tag a ED moderator to move it back.