check procedures CMDS Programs 5 and 6 are swapped.

[MeanJim]

It's been a few months since I flew the Hornet, so I loaded up my personal training program to re-familiarize myself.  I got the CMDS switch for/aft functions mixed up, and I pressed CMDS forward while in MAN defending a missile thinking I was dispensing the manual program selected, but instead it was dispensing program 5.  Program 5 used to be 1 flare, 1 chaff repeating 2x, but it's now 2 flare, 2 chaff, repeating 20x, which was the default for program 6.  Program 6 is 1 chaff, 0 flares, repeating 4x.

I went to the DTC editor and the defaults there are as they've always been.  I had to go to the editor and select the aircraft, and check the box to preload the default DTC otherwise I get the wrong program 5 and 6.  Shouldn't it do that anyway?  I get the correct defaults in the F-16 without having to check that box.

 

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

if you create a DTC file with the settings of your choice, you can then load the file onto the aircraft. And you will have your preference.

In the video you dont seem to load any DTC file. 

thank you  

[MnMailman]

I too have noticed trying to do the countermeasures programming in the jet is a mess.  Nothing I set in the manual 1 slot saves, the game just releases the default setting regardless.

  Used to work as it should until one of the recent updates.

Edited Tuesday at 02:00 PM by MnMailman

[BIGNEWY]

1 hour ago, MnMailman said:

I too have noticed trying to do the countermeasures programming in the jet is a mess.  Nothing I set in the manual 1 slot saves, the game just releases the default setting regardless.

  Used to work as it should until one of the recent updates.

please do not hijack the thread, if you have a different issue make a new report with examples. 

thank you 

[MeanJim]

8 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi, 

if you create a DTC file with the settings of your choice, you can then load the file onto the aircraft. And you will have your preference.

In the video you dont seem to load any DTC file. 

thank you  

I've never had to create and load a DTC before and it loaded the correct default programs.  In the manual on page 418 it says that in MAN mode, dispense switch forward dispenses manual program 5, and dispense switch aft dispenses the selected program on the EW page.  At the bottom of the page it says:

"An additional dispense button mounted on the left console near the throttle may be utilized to dispense a large
volume of chaff and flares (40 cartridges of each) over the span of 15 seconds, which should only be used to
egress an area with heavy air defenses and return to friendly airspace."

That button now just dispenses 4 chaff by default.

[Muchocracker]

Just change the program in DTC. The manual is out of date regardless now

Edited yesterday at 12:38 AM by Muchocracker

[MeanJim]

Today's update fixed it.  Programs 5 and 6 are back to normal.