George is a fickle thing. Bug or problem between back seat and controls?

[shadowborn]

Hi.

I have been flying the Apache quite a bit, and I really appreciate the latest changes to George, especially him being able to put TADS on targets engaged with the FCR to allow me to do BDA. However ...

I find George works so very sub-par for most of this. Tell him to scan an area with TADS, he does. But then he suddenly stops scanning. He suddenly puts the aircraft back to "safed" for no discernible reason. When I have a whole field of targets right in front of me, he does not see any of them. When he finally gets coaxed into tracking one of them, he says "out of range" while the target is, like, 50m in front (maybe he means "minimum range"?). When we crash, and under certain other circumstances, he keeps repeating "aircraft armed!" like a broken record, being incredibly annoying. Besides, this is similar behaviour to what wingmen exhibit when calling out spotted targets: Repeating the same call forever, every five seconds, like a record, potentially until the end of times (or fuel).

All this greatly ruins immersion for me, and constantly nudging George to do stuff makes any mission tedious and, if George is not being useful after 40 minutes of low-level flying under the radar, plain out painful.

Now, this is honestly so bad that I wonder if it's me. Am I doing something wrong, am I too impatient, do I have some kind of missconception about how to use George?

Your experience and opinions would be welcome.

Thanks.