[REPORTED] SA page, cannot exit STEP mode

Hi there i have some issue after pressing step _pb19) i get the yellow square around and how i can switch it off ?? i wanna use back my tdc.

[REPORTED] SA page, cannot exit STEP mode

If you activate the STEP function on the SA page, the STEP box stays on and you cannot get the TDC back through normal means.

Normally, if the TDC controller is moved, the STEP box should disappear and you should return to the regular SA page with the TDC.

Currently, that doesn't happen. The only way to exit STEP is to hit SCS Left or Right (with the SA page on the AMPCD, otherwise SCS Right with the SA page on the RDDI), without having a sensor present on the corresponding DDI (otherwise it switches to the sensor).

Open Beta 2.5.5.33552, PG map.

FA-18C_SA_STEP_bug.trk

Certainly. Go to A/G mode and have the IMAV Display on the LDDI, the Radar on the RDDI and SA page on the AMPCD. In that combination, SCS Right goes to the Radar, SCS Left goes to the IMAV and the SA page is stuck in STEP mode.

This is an unlikely scenario, of course, but the bug remains, moving the TDC with the SA page selected doesn't exit STEP.

When we get the Azimuth/Elevation format, this would become a realistic scenario I imagine, with the AZ/EL on one DDI and the RDR ATTK on the other.

Is it an unlikely scenario, or unrealistic one, I will have to find out. I mean what are you doing with STEP while pounding the ground? Because you can break something doesn't always mean its a bug, sometimes its because you are breaking it ;)

Maybe I'm keeping an eye on that bandit that's far away enough for me to fire a couple of Mavericks, but I'll have to face eventually and I don't want to lose track of him.

I'm not doing anything that shouldn't be done. As Jak525 says above, there will be scenarios in the future where we'll regularly be having sensors on both DDIs.

Anyway, the issue is not what's on the other screens, it's that STEP shouldn't need SCS Left/Right presses to exit. Based on information I've found, STEP should exit either on TDC movement or 10 seconds after the last STEP button press. In both cases, the TDC should reappear on the last location of the STEP box.

Again, another unrealistic scenario, but as I said, I will ask again, but it came up when I was testing and I was told then that it was SCS right or left.

And I don't think it's unrealistic to have the Radar on the RDDI and the AZ/EL page on the LDDI or Radar + TGP in AA mode, for example. It seems strange that you'd be able to break the system so easily or that this particular function would depend on what's on the other two screens.

Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time, NL. If I'm coming off as a little combative, please know it's not my intention. I'm just trying to help, so you guys can bring us the best Hornet sim there is .

This is odd to say the least. As far as I know the basic A/A setup for the USN is az/el on the left, radar page on the right and SA on the bottom, which would make exiting STEP impossible.

So who is not to say that the info provided by the AZ/EL page doesn't give you what you need to the extent that you don't need to use STEP on the SA page?

It doesn't, cause it's the same info the radar page provides you with a few other additions, but it doesn't give you a God's eye view (ie just like in the radar page it's only providing info about the forward hemisphere).

That said, there's a possibility the TDC also has a "sticky" behavior to it where it sticks to and follows a HAFU if left alone on top of one which would alleviate the need for the STEP function. Even goes for pages other than SA. No idea about how accurate that is or if it's a thing in our legacy hornet version, though.

Anyway, we will find out when wags or someone else provides with more info I suppose.

I tried SCS left and right and neither of them have unbound the STEP box from a target on the SA page... in MP. I haven't tried SP, but for me that isn't a factor since I don't play it unless testing a mission quickly.

The only way I was able to unbind it, was zoom in to 5nm where there was no targets for it to STEP to and then it unbound, which I doubt it is supposed to work like that.

Early access :)

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=245628

It's most likely a bug. For now, SCS Right or Left might work, unless you have another sensor on the corresponding DDI.