[WIP] Refusal to Lock Targets!!!

Jester has a real problem with not locking obvious hostel aircraft. Even after they lock us up and shoot at us, and RWR showing 2x29's, and he's calling, "nails," he refuses to lock them up. That is crazy!!! I started the jet up and took off as soon as physically possible. I didn't wait for anything. I told Jester, "Go Now" as soon as the second engine came online. I disconnected and taxied out and took off. INS came up before engagement. The two 29's never showed hostel on the radar, so it seems that Jester will not lock an unknown target even though every thing else says hostel. This can't be realistic...

Can you add a track and explain the conditions a bit further?

Tell him to lock "target ahead", instead of "enemy target ahead". You can even tell him to lock a "friendly target ahead"...

Not sure if anything INS related is causing issues, but it shouldn't AFAIK the radar is autonomous from INS.

Jester has a real problem with not locking obvious hostel aircraft. Even after they lock us up and shoot at us, and RWR showing 2x29's, and he's calling, "nails," he refuses to lock them up. That is crazy!!! I started the jet up and took off as soon as physically possible. I didn't wait for anything. I told Jester, "Go Now" as soon as the second engine came online. I disconnected and taxied out and took off. INS came up before engagement. The two 29's never showed hostel on the radar, so it seems that Jester will not lock an unknown target even though every thing else says hostel. This can't be realistic...

I have tried several missions and Jester won't lock non-hostel targets so that a missile can be fired at them from BVR...SEVERAL times...It does not work...

Odd, I can get him to lock just fine, be it in TWS Auto, STT, or PD-STT

Jester has a real problem with not locking obvious hostel aircraft. Even after they lock us up and shoot at us, and RWR showing 2x29's, and he's calling, "nails," he refuses to lock them up. That is crazy!!! I started the jet up and took off as soon as physically possible. I didn't wait for anything. I told Jester, "Go Now" as soon as the second engine came online. I disconnected and taxied out and took off. INS came up before engagement. The two 29's never showed hostel on the radar, so it seems that Jester will not lock an unknown target even though every thing else says hostel. This can't be realistic...

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Let me take a guess, did he fail to lock a target in between 20~50nm?

Hmm Jester seems to do ok for me with the longer range stuff using TWS. Sometimes he won't lock something right on my nose, but they may be beaming thou. But I was approaching the rear of the friendly tanker at about 10 nm yesterday and asked Jester to lock friendly ahead - got "No can do" - you wat mate? PAL it is then I guess, go back to Angry Birds Jester.

Speaking of PAL, I thought that was only out to 15nm (page 231 in manual) - I locked another tanker at 21nm the other day?

Here's a track of my attempt to shoot down a pair of Su-27, but Jester wouldn't give me a lock, or I couldn't see the lock on my HUD...

F-14B Problem Lock On.trk

Be patient...I fly away from the action till my systems are up. Also, the track may not work right...as usual...;)

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I've had the same problem in the Gen 3 quickstart mission, I think the distance at which I was asking him to lock the Mig-23 was 15-20 nm. I ended up just closing a bit and using PAL to get a lock myself.

I've had the same problem in the Gen 3 quickstart mission, I think the distance at which I was asking him to lock the Mig-23 was 15-20 nm. I ended up just closing a bit and using PAL to get a lock myself.

Try that with 2x Su-27 with a full missile load...