Maverick Issue

[Zad Fnark]

Hi everyone,

I'm havinng some issues relating to my use of AGM-65s.

I'll start a mission carrying 4 of them.  I can fire off the first three, but when I pull the trigger to activate the last one, nothing happens.  I can't activate the last missile.  No picture comes up on the radar screen.  Not sure what's wrong.

If I'm also carrying bombs on the centerline, I can only fire off one Maverick and then am unable to activate the next one.  Oddly enough, after shooting my one Mav, I also cannot drop the bombs.  Jester won't do the ground lock-on thing and I can't do any drop.  This was set to dive-toss.

Thanks for any help.

ZF

[Zabuzard]

Hi everyone,
I'm havinng some issues relating to my use of AGM-65s.
I'll start a mission carrying 4 of them.  I can fire off the first three, but when I pull the trigger to activate the last one, nothing happens.  I can't activate the last missile.  No picture comes up on the radar screen.  Not sure what's wrong.
If I'm also carrying bombs on the centerline, I can only fire off one Maverick and then am unable to activate the next one.  Oddly enough, after shooting my one Mav, I also cannot drop the bombs.  Jester won't do the ground lock-on thing and I can't do any drop.  This was set to dive-toss.
Thanks for any help.
ZF

Could you send a track or short video? Or perhaps a screenshot of your and Jesters cockpit front panel when you are in that situation? Cheers

[Zad Fnark]

Thanks for the help.  Two pictures and the track.  FIgured the track is more useful since you can look around at will.

I lost use after firing the first missile this time.

EdMission.trk

[Zabuzard]

I dont see anything odd on the screenshots. Thanks, we will have a look at the track! :)

[SomeCallMeTim]

I'm getting the same issue. Selecting both the left and right side racks I can fire the 3 mavericks on the left rack but the TV never comes up for the forth missile on the right rack when you press the trigger to activate it. Also shouldn't it fire from alternate racks rather than firing all 3 on the left rack then swapping to the right rack? If I just select the right rack first before firing an mavericks I can fire from that rack and then swap the selection to the left rack and fire from that one.

[Zad Fnark]

With me, it seems pretty random how many I can shoot.  Once I got through 5 of them and couldn't fire the sixth.

Yeah, I don't care for all on once side going first.  It messes up the trim.  

Glad somebody else sees this too.  

Edited June 4, 2024 by Zad Fnark

[Mike_CK]

Safe to say this isn’t working as designed. Did any of you guys having this issue send in a track file? Seems like something that would be an easy fix. I have not had the issue with them not firing but I did notice the “one side at a time”. I know it’s a silly recommendation…like “is it turned on”. But once you fired 3, did you make sure the weapon station on the other side with your 4th, 5th and 6th mavericks was activated? I turn on both at the same time but if you are only doing one, you have to remember to activate the other.

(At work so no time to read through the thread: apologies if you’ve gone over this )

[acdelta57]

same issue here, even in the tutorial mission I can launch the first with 100% success, then after that sometimes I can get the next 3 off or sometimes not even a second mav. Recycled everything and still no TV screen when gun trigger depressed. I dont think I have ever been able to fire all the Mavericks yet

[Romandv]

Same thing - the first one is always fine, then tv won't turn on. It's not always like that, if I start in the air more often works than not.

Edited June 4, 2024 by Romandv

[GladiatorDPR]

Are you guys going past the 30 minutes of warmup time?

[Romandv]

2 минуты назад, GladiatorDPR сказал:

Are you guys going past the 30 minutes of warmup time?

30? 

I've run the airplane in the air for testing, there's no need to warm anything up in there.

Edited June 4, 2024 by Romandv

[GladiatorDPR]

You have to use the mav within a 30 minute period after warming them up 

[Romandv]

4 минуты назад, GladiatorDPR сказал:

You have to use the mav within a 30 minute period after warming them up 

Thanks, now I see what you're talking about(looks like I need to reread the manual). In any case, the 30 minute limit was definitely not exceeded

Edited June 4, 2024 by Romandv

[GladiatorDPR]

4 minutes ago, Romandv said:

30? 

I've run the airplane in the air for testing, there's no need to warm anything up in there.

 

As per the manual it takes 3 minutes to warmup the mav before it is armed. Once armed you have 30 minutes to use said mavericks.  

1 minute ago, Romandv said:

Thanks, now I see what you're talking about(looks like I need to reread the manual). In any case, the 30 minute limit was definitely

Yeah if you were within the time frame then that's no Bueno. 

[acdelta57]

can confirm not exceeding 30 minutes. Cant even get the first one to show properly on MP

[Zabuzard]

Can you guys share which exact loadout you used? Including the rack names please, thanks.

Did you perhaps use a triple rack loaded with only one missile or similar? If that's the case, perhaps you are currently on one of its empty positions. Use the Missile Reject switch once you are on that station (behind the stick) then (the switch only cycles on the current pylon, not across).

[SomeCallMeTim]

So far I've only tried the Maverick Bs and Ds loaded in triples on the inner right and left stations. For me it's only stopped working on the 4th Maverick but I've not tried it enough to see this is always the case of if it can be random.

[Zad Fnark]

I believe I was using 2x AGM-65D Maverick D (IIR ASM)  LAU-88 on both stations.  No rack name given.

[acdelta57]

AGM 65 Bs on lau 88 would not even let me pop the first cover off today. A restart and taking double racks I was able to launch for the first time ever all 4 mavericks. Went back up and couldnt blow the cover off any of them again. Even messed with the missile reject switch. No luck, In flight I also shut down everything and re set no luck.

I did however notice something interesting every time I couldn't get the cover off, my pipper even tho in AG mode was giving me A2A locked on signals...I even had jester turn radar off....weird.

Edited June 6, 2024 by acdelta57

[Zabuzard]

Please make sure that you did not accidentally enter CAGE mode. That would override the plane into a A2A configuration regardless of selection.

[acdelta57]

9 hours ago, Zabuzard said:

Please make sure that you did not accidentally enter CAGE mode. That would override the plane into a A2A configuration regardless of selection.

wowwww this was it i think. I had a conflicting button for cage. Is there an other way to exit cage mode other than cycling weapon selector? 

[Zabuzard]

wowwww this was it i think. I had a conflicting button for cage. Is there an other way to exit cage mode other than cycling weapon selector? 

Jester context action double click.
(a real wso can click the air-to-air button/lamp)

Glad this was the issue! Nice

[Zad Fnark]

I'm pretty certain I never hit cage at my end.

[Gianky]

As of last patch, I'm having issues with the Mavericks, too.

I only used the B version, in the training mission and in the Faralon IA mission.

The issue is, at a certain point (I'm assuming randomly, since I couldn't notice any recurring condition) the seeker head stop moving. I have the joystick mapped on a hat switch on my throttle and the ARR on the stick: I press down the ARR (I can hear the sound), then start moving the hat switch, but the cross in the scope doesn't move. I had the cage button mapped to the depress function of the same hat I use as the forward hand control, but I unbound it and nothing changed.

EDIT: Just to be clear (English in not my first language), when I wrote "as of last patch" I didn't mean that it happened only after the patch, it was happening even after the initial release. I just meant "Even after last patch".

Edited June 7, 2024 by Gianky

[Legs]

Having issues with D Mavericks. Triple racked. Aircraft seems to be configured correctly (Direct. TV, etc) but when i pull the trigger to wake it up, the display does not come up. Cant really think of anything that i am forgetting.. MA is up, Stations are hot and armed. Can send a trk if truly needed.