correct as-is Donors visible on HSD with FR OFF

[dmatt76]

Don't know if it is a bug or feature
If you set your Friendly Filter to OFF on HSD, it still shows donor aircraft, member and all other dissapear.

Edited January 7, 2024 by dmatt76

[SaladinoSaurus]

Great catch, that is a bug,.

According to the MLU M3 pilots guide manual on page 206 all these OSB rotary functions are described:

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The friendly declutter rotary options are stepped through via OSB 9 (this rotary is only available with MIDS installed). The options are:

1. Friendlies On (FR ON) - Displays all A-A Link 16 PPLIs.

2. Flight On (FL ON) - Declutters all air PPLI friendlies except those flight members programmed (up to seven aircraft) and donors (up to 4 aircraft).

3. Friendlies Off (FR OFF) - Declutters all air friendlies including flight members

In DCS 2.9.2.49940 this behavior is as you shown in the screenshots, wrong.
I have added a track below, which shows even weirder behavior ? removing SOME friendlies, but not others? I assume something messed up with the "recent" datalink rework/update to DCS

 

HSD friendly decluttering bug.trk

[Lord Vader]

Hi @dmatt76 and @SaladinoSaurus

I have reported this internally for further analysis.

[Lord Vader]

Hello again guys.

After further analysis, we've reviewed out documentation that refers to our F-16C Block 50 CCIP model and have found that the M3 document you guys are using as reference has a  different explanation of the filters and what they do. This was refined by the manufacturer and our representation of the "FR OFF" functionality is correct.

The track that was supplied, however, does seem to show a wrong depiction of the PPLI being shown despite being removed by the filter. That's because, unlike what the mentioned M3 document implies, that all "Friendlies" are removed, in this particular Block 50 CCIP update for the C/D versions, the indication is that only PPLIs (members and donors included) are removed but SURV targets supplied by the AWACS remains and that's what you are seeing in your track.

I understand this may sound wrong, but this is what the documentation shows. So when you activate the filter "FR OFF" it is working, but you're still seeing surveillance tracks supplied by the E-2/3. If you remove the AWACS from the mission, you'll see this filter working correctly.

That being said, while analysing this matter we've found another issue with the "FL ON" filter not correctly removing non-donors.
This has been corrected internally and will be included in a future update. 

Thanks again for alerting us to this, appreciate your care. 

[Tholozor]