A question about weapons and radar thats driving me nuts

[Dudester22]

Can someone please tell me if I am doing the right thing here because I cannot find what I am looking for in the manual. What I want to know is when I enter (LRS) Long Range Search mode in the F15 fighter, do I first have to select Vertical Scan or Boresight mode before I select LRS mode? I ask this because when I select (LRS) on it's own I get no scanning until I have selected either Vertical scan or Boresight mode first. What I was trying to do was select my aim 120 missiles and then hit key 2 which takes me into LRS mode, but like I said there is no scan untill I select either Boresight mode or vertical scan mode first and then LRM.

 

Also, does the Aim 120 missiles only have a range of 10 miles? Because when I do manage to lock on using the Long Range Mode it tells me to shoot at a range of about 13 miles or less. I hope someone can answer these questions because I am unable to play the game untill I know the answer. Thanks!!

Edited May 6, 2011 by Dudester22

[xxxc]

What I want to know is when I enter (LRS) Long Range Search mode in the F15 fighter, do I first have to select Vertical Scan or Boresight mode before I select LRS mode?

No.

I ask this because when I select (LRS) on it's own I get no scanning until I have selected either Vertical scan or Boresight mode first. What I was trying to do was select my aim 120 missiles and then hit key 2 which takes me into LRS mode, but like I said there is no scan untill I select either Boresight mode or vertical scan mode first and then LRM.

if you can't lock a target from LRS mode (can't get into the STT mode) even through you're doing exactly the manual tells you to do, try to unselect "game avionics mode" in "options" and see if this fixes your problem.

[EtherealN]

I ask this because when I select (LRS) on it's own I get no scanning until I have selected either Vertical scan or Boresight mode first. What I was trying to do was select my aim 120 missiles and then hit key 2 which takes me into LRS mode, but like I said there is no scan untill I select either Boresight mode or vertical scan mode first and then LRM.

 

Did you turn the radar on? (Keyboard I)

 

Also, does the Aim 120 missiles only have a range of 10 miles? Because when I do manage to lock on using the Long Range Mode it tells me to shoot at a range of about 13 miles or less. I hope someone can answer these questions because I am unable to play the game untill I know the answer. Thanks!!

 

Range depends on target aspect, speed and altitude. Range can be anything from 40+ at angels 40 on a front aspect target, to 5ish miles on a rear aspect target at low altitude. (Lower altitude = thicker air = more drag on missile = lower range. And aspect and speed obviously influence actual flight distance of the missile - a rear-aspect target going mach 2 might require the missile to fly for 30 miles to hit even though the target initially was only 5 miles away.)