Stingray66 Posted July 29, 2011 Posted July 29, 2011 (edited) Threaders! Two somewhat basic questions whereto I did not find enough information in the manual/ forum: 1) What is the difference between UHF "main" and "both"? Sometimes people tell to switch to either position, and in the end I have no clue whatsoever about the difference. 2) When does a pilot use ground power? In the forum it turned out that definitely not for start up. But do pilots IRL request ground power during shut down? Or does the pilot leave this up to the ground crew? Thx for your help! Edited July 29, 2011 by Stingray66 Stingray ASUS P8Z68-V Pro - Intel 2500K @ 4,2GHz - Antec H2O 920 - 8GB Kingston XMP 1600 MHz - GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2GB - WD 1TB Caviar Black SSD Intel 311 20GB (cache) Textures: High | Scenes: High |Water: High| Visibility: High| Heat Blur: On | Shadows: High | Res: 1920x1080 | MSAA: x8 | Vsync: On | HDR: Normal| TSAA: On| Mirrors: Off | Civ Traffic: Medium| Res Of Cockpit Disp: 512 | Trees: 12000m | Clutter: 500m
MTFDarkEagle Posted July 29, 2011 Posted July 29, 2011 Not sure on 1) 2) Not. Used only for maintenance. Lukas - "TIN TIN" - 9th Shrek Air Strike Squadron TIN TIN's Cockpit thread
KillaALF Posted July 29, 2011 Posted July 29, 2011 1) "MAIN. In MAIN mode, the UHF radio acts as a transceiver, meaning that it can monitor the selected channel and broadcast on it. BOTH. When in the BOTH mode, the UHF radio monitors the guard channel and acts as a transceiver." From the manual pg. 143. So MAIN = selected channel, BOTH = selected channel + guard channel
Stingray66 Posted July 29, 2011 Author Posted July 29, 2011 Cheers! Thanks for the answers! Really appreciated! Stingray ASUS P8Z68-V Pro - Intel 2500K @ 4,2GHz - Antec H2O 920 - 8GB Kingston XMP 1600 MHz - GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2GB - WD 1TB Caviar Black SSD Intel 311 20GB (cache) Textures: High | Scenes: High |Water: High| Visibility: High| Heat Blur: On | Shadows: High | Res: 1920x1080 | MSAA: x8 | Vsync: On | HDR: Normal| TSAA: On| Mirrors: Off | Civ Traffic: Medium| Res Of Cockpit Disp: 512 | Trees: 12000m | Clutter: 500m
Paco Posted July 29, 2011 Posted July 29, 2011 Having the UHF radio in "BOTH" will allow the pilot to transmit and receive on the selected UHF freq and receive on the 243.0 which is Guard freq, also known as Air Force common. During an emergency, pilots will switch to Guard and transmit an ISPI format...Identification, Situation, Postion and Intentions. If his buddies are monitoring Guard on their radios they will hear the distress call and help. The reason for MAIN is to give the pilots the option to deselect that traffic on Guard and focus on the main freq of the radio. It's a useful function, just gotta remember to switch it back. The "BOTH" function has saved my butt more than once. Paco
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