Radar on by Jester

[Shmal]

Hi, Heatblure!

I see a trouble with the ability of Jester to turn on the radar by himself.

It is not realistic, real life, to turn on the emission without permition of the commander!

I noticed the dropping FPS on take off and even freezes, it makes me think that the radar on leads to this, because Jester turns it on immediately

after wheels up. 

Also, Jester periodically turning it on by himself even after command due to the menu to turn it off.

For example, while air refueling he's doing it. While combat flight the emission without need might to be destructive.

Don't you think to fix it?

 

Thank you!

 

[Zabuzard]

It is expected behavior that he turns on the radar after getting airborne. Otherwise you would be lost in a mission where your base is under attack for example.

The reason he might turn it on during AAR is that you probably closed the refueling door - likely to reset it, in which case Jester thinks you are done with the AAR, so he turns the radar back on. It is difficult for Jester to understand whether you want to refuel or perhaps just escort a tanker (with radar engaged ofc), so his current set of conditions is very carefully chosen to make sure you don't end up in a situation without radar when you actually need it. Needs more fine tuning of course.

The current radar on/off commands in the wheel are only momentarily and get overriden whenever Jester reaches a triggerpoint in his logic that would tell him to turn it on/off, hence you are seeing this behavior.
It is planned to add a permanent radar on/off command for the case where you really want to go silent until you tell him otherwise. But this command is then supposed to turn off more than just the radar, also the jammer and similar emitting equipment.

[Shmal]

I got it! Thank you for an answer! I will wait future changes!