You can also reject the currently SST'd target for a certain number of seconds with SCS Right and the radar will attempt to STT the next target that meets criteria, disregarding the previous one. Fast ACQ is important, because it allows you to enter STT immediately, without having to go through the step of designating an L&S. If the TDC is over a contact, whether that contact is the L&S or not, it'll STT that contact (that's called Fast ACQ). Without an L&S, it'll STT the highest ranked contact.

Also, TWS will force smaller scan patterns to ensure higher trackfile quality.ĪACQ is context sensitive. Another difference that showcases that is that TWS AUTO will center the scan pattern on the L&S target and TWS MAN will center the azimuth on the TDC. You normally use RWS for general search over a wider volume of space and switch to TWS when you want to focus on a single/group of contacts and improve trackfile quality. RWS and TWS mainly differ in their usual trackfile quality. Rws can absolutely be used for firing solution, (it switches to STT) and it is by no means low fidelity. Actually, I've got out of it a couple of times by accident but didn't know how.Ī couple of times it looks like I have returned to the RWS screen, but the up/down arrows to zoom in/out where not there. How do you move the diamond out of the radar DDI an into the other DDI or the MPCD? It seems that once I get into the radar DDI I'm stuck here. However, you also seem to be able to select BST, VACQ and WACQ within the gun selection, effectively overriding GACQ. This will put the radar into STT when within 5nm of the target and it will guide you towards it for a good shot. Next there's VACQ by pressing down and WACQ by pressing left, but I don't get why you would use them over BST or AACQ, or even TWS for that matter (yes, I know TWS is BVR but it still seems useful within visual range)?įinally there's GACQ which you get to not by using the SCS, but using the weapon selector bringing up your gun. But why would you choose this mode over, say, AACQ?

Pressing up on the SCS gets you BST, which stands for 'boresight', it searches targets out to 10nm and will lock a target into STT when within 10nm and inside the dotted circle. Because you're in visual range of the bad guys, you lose the display on the DDI, right? Anyway, there seem to be four sub-modes: BST, VACQ, WACQ and GACQ. This is why TWS can be used for a firing solution, and the bonus being you don't have to go into STT and set off the bad guy's RWR. TWS is the same emission as RWS but narrows the scan range which gives a higher refresh rate making the tracks more accurate. It has the additional layer of LTWS to display tracking data, albeit can't be used for a firing solution because the fidelity of the track is not fine enough. This seems to be the 'default' setting once you go into AA radar. For AACQ you hit right on the SCS.īVR consists of two 'sub' modes, RWS and TWS: RWS which is low fidelity and can't be used for a firing solution. So there are four 'main' modes, being: BVR for outside 10nm and is the default when you display the radar first time ACM for dogfighting within 10nm STT which for any kind of range but used to get a good shot off and AACQ which just puts the radar into STT the moment it detects a target. Here's a short little write-up based on my understanding, wondering if people can correct me where I'm wrong and respond to my questions? Trying to get my head around this radar and the various functions is doing my head in.

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