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Please Please Please add the feature to "scroll" through radar ranges and azimuth in TWS


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On 29.01.2021 at 12:51 AM, GGTharos said:

There was a post where they said this was unrealistic for the software build that's modeled.

Exactly this.

 

On this video there is probably F-16C block 25 first operational in 1984, later integrated with AIM-120. It has single color green displays and slightly different software.

 

We have block 50CJ, if ED stated it works as intended they have some documents or SME to support this.

 

IRL they probably changed that intentionally, we have ~2007 standard, it may have something to do with not messing with track files in TWS by accident? some signal post processing? or with some other modern gizmos they use IRL and we don't even know they exist.

 

Maybe later on ED is going to add some functionality which will make clear why IRL they did something which at first glance, looks like a downgrade in ergonomic.

 

Or it has something to do with classified functionality and we will never know.


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Or pilots found that their hands are on the controls too often and they bump into a different range, changing the picture without meaning to (and while not looking at the radar) thus making things confusing.

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1 minute ago, GGTharos said:

Or pilots found that their hands are on the controls too often and they bump into a different range, changing the picture without meaning to (and while not looking at the radar) thus making things confusing.

I also thought about that but IIRC in RWS scrolling range still works with slewing cursor.

 

So it looks like it has something to do with TWS-specific workflow.

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Don't quote me on this, but IIRC the reason the TWS doesn't change scale is that it's not meant to be used until you're committed and melded to a group. It's usually set to 40 miles due to this reason you simply don't need a range longer than 40 miles for regular engagements. If you need to scan wide swathes of airspace further away you should be using RWS. Due to minimum abort ranges you probably will never get closer than 15 miles to a target in a realistic combat scenario so lowering the scale is also not needed. And since you have the EXP mode (even though it's current implementation in DCS is far from perfect) you don't need to reduce the range to see individual targets more clearly.

 

And building on the previous point about the Block 25, back in those days the F-16 only carried sidewinders so having this kind of functionality that is optimized for long range engagements simply wasn't needed.

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