icetear Posted December 31, 2023 Posted December 31, 2023 The topic could be a little off topic... I apologize in advance. I watched several FA-18C RADAR videos in which the authors proposed different settings for the RADAR used with AIM-120 versus the RADAR used with AIM-9 in order to optimize the RADAR utilization. See or this The settings take a little bit of time to be completed. Doing them once is probably not a big deal, doing them all the time at the beginning of a (training) mission seems unnecessary. I could not find a way to script just these RADAR changes before taking off or immediately after staring a (training) mission while being airborne. The settings are essentially a set of PBs pushed on one or more MFDs. I've seen how to modify the Autostart sequence. I don't think that what I'm describing falls into that category. Any thoughts, suggestions? Thank you
Solution rob10 Posted December 31, 2023 Solution Posted December 31, 2023 I use AutoHotKey (free) to push the required buttons to set things up.
icetear Posted December 31, 2023 Author Posted December 31, 2023 13 minutes ago, rob10 said: I use AutoHotKey (free) to push the required buttons to set things up. The PBs in MDis do not have any keyboard keys associated to any of them. I guess I'll have to assign 20 or so keyboard keys to the PBs of interest (alter all, not all of the PBs are needed to setup the RADAR)) and work with them in AutoHotKey or maybe VoiceAttack?
rob10 Posted December 31, 2023 Posted December 31, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, icetear said: The PBs in MDis do not have any keyboard keys associated to any of them. I guess I'll have to assign 20 or so keyboard keys to the PBs of interest (alter all, not all of the PBs are needed to setup the RADAR)) and work with them in AutoHotKey or maybe VoiceAttack? Yep. I thought they had default keypress bindings, but I set that up many years ago now so I could well be wrong. Here is my AHK setup for setting radar (mostly matches "Like a Boss" video IIRC). AIM-7 was separate since I tend not to carry them very often. You'll need to change the keybinds to whatever you use and pick what you want to activate it. Currently it is set for Device 6, Button 6 on mine which happens to be one of the buttons on my WinWing MFD's. You can set it for a keypress or keypress combo, just make sure you don't use the same one in game or it'll activate both functions. Radar setup - F18.ahk Edited December 31, 2023 by rob10
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