Ramstein Posted February 14, 2023 Posted February 14, 2023 Weird A-A radar issue, F-18 first flight of the night, a-a could barely pickup aircraft right in front, came back after sortie, next group of aircraft I came across, the radar picked them up without radar hassle. Does the F-18 radar need the nav GPS system re-initialized, if it does that? in other words, without getting a new aircraft, should I reset it back on the ground? note: I don't move the aircraft until it is ready to go. Maybe it wasn't really ready to go? ASUS Strix Z790-H, i9-13900, WartHog HOTAS and MFG Crosswind G.Skill 64 GB Ram, 2TB SSD EVGA Nvidia RTX 2080-TI (trying to hang on for a bit longer) 55" Sony OLED TV, Oculus VR
Kempleja Posted February 15, 2023 Posted February 15, 2023 (edited) Incidentally, I also had a weird A-A radar issue last night that I have not had before. I played one of the default missions that comes with Hornet, on Persia map, where you have to shoot down six Su-25's with Sparrows. I shot down 5, but one got away and I started scanning around for it and just did not find it. Then looked it up on F10 map and saw it was heading north towards a distant airfield. I took the bearing from F10 map and went after it, pointing my radar at it, but it was just not picked up by my radar. I got closer and could see it visually, pointed my radar at it in TWS mode and RWS mode, switched between HI and MED (I was directly behind it, rear aspect), tried different scan zones, put my radar control to HUD and tried with LHAQ mode, still nothing. Dusk was setting in and the Su-25 was about to land, when finally from about 5-6 nm distance my radar picked it up. Edited February 20, 2023 by Kempleja
bonesvf103 Posted February 15, 2023 Posted February 15, 2023 There is the possibility that the bandit was too close to be picked up by the current radar scan. The radar is like a cone emanating from the nose of the aircraft, the pointy end of the cone on the nose. So very close to the nose, there is very little coverage--a bandit can easily be under or over or to the left or right of it as opposed to 50 miles away where the radar scan zone can be thousands of feet wide and high. There is also the possibility of the bandit being in the notch, not just the 90 degree aspect one, but at a co-speed and altitude where there is no doppler shift so the radar filters the return out. This then depends on your PRF setting. It should not in theory do that in PRF HIGH, but then that mode is not effective less than 25 miles out as much as it is above that. MED mode is susceptible to notch. TWS and RWS are both pulse doppler modes so they would be subject to the notch by default. Now as for using the HUD or the JHMCS--that one should work, provided you are pointed right at the target with it and as long as they are not notching you. Wel, actually i think you still can if there is a notch, just not as easily. But these modes are very narrow scans so unless you see them to know where to point the radar, you might not lock them right away. v6, boNes "Also, I would prefer a back seater over the extra gas any day. I would have 80 pounds of flesh to eat and a pair of glasses to start a fire." --F/A-18 Hornet pilot
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