correct as-is Bug in f-16 amraam mission?

[BaronVonVaderham]

Before actually reporting a bug, I’d like to check if this is something I’m doing wrong.

I’m doing the aim120 amraam mission that comes with the f-16. In this mission you first do an stt shot on a single bogey, I. The second part you engage two bogeys and are supposed to fire the first amraam before it becomes active, wait for it Togo active, the. Unlock and target the second bogey and fire a second amraam, and the third part is a mad dog shot on a single target.

I noticed that I don’t always get bogeys on my radar. Sometimes the first bogey does not appear, though out of the twenty attempts that happened once, at most twice. The two bogeys on the second part however, often fail to show up, maybe once every two times.

now I do rush through the briefing and switch settings before the in flight briefing is finished. And I also noticed that the highlight box for the map range button never goes off.

I also notice that if the two bogeys are not within my amraam steering error circle, my radar will not pick them up, which is weird when I use max azimuth and max elevation. I know that this means the radar is slow to refresh and detection is tougher, but it does avoid missing the target due to wrong heading or pitch. In any case I found that I lose locks very quickly in the second part when chasing the two bogeys, and often I have to reacquire a lock.

so… since it seems as if I’m not using the radar correctly, I wonder if missing the two bogeys once every two attempts is a flaw with me, or a flaw with the mission.

note, sometimes I see them visually right in front of me at 5nm, but my radar still doesn’t see them (this happened twice). Changing radar range did not make a difference in this case, and I could only use the mad dog approach.

[razo+r]

When you say you use max elevation, are you moving the radar antenna fully up? Because that would mean you are only scanning almost straight up instead of ahead and that way you'll never see targets in a usable fashion.

What would also help is a short track or video.

[BaronVonVaderham]

I’m not touching antenna elevation actually, only the mfd. 

how do I get tracks/videos from dcs?

[razo+r]

After a flight in SP you have the button "Save replay" in the debriefing screen. Press that, save it somewhere where you can find it and upload it here.

[BaronVonVaderham]

I found the dial of my antenna was completely to one side. After that I had a problems I had to troubleshoot, so it took me some time to try the mission again. I managed to get all the bogeys show up consistently. But I believe the radar is modeled quite realistically, as in, at 80miles it doesn’t work very well, haha! At 40 miles things show up. So the first one I get. Insistently at 30-40 miles. The second sequence, a pair of sun’s, I actually have to get to the waypoint quickly, or they will gone way passed the waypoint, and I won’t spot them until I’m right on top of them. I managed to get them consistently. Somehow the radar struggles more with that pair, maybe because they fly perpendicular to my trajectory. If I rush things I can just about shot them down in line with the given instructions.