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I am speaking from off the top of my head from my past experience with
the original F4, but I would bet
that in easy avionics, it is still the same.
Your left MFD shows the red and blue triangles right?
All the red are enemy! (Is that easy or what?!)
You are in the center of the MFD and all planes within the proximity of
your radar distance setting are shown around you 360 degrees. But you
can only target planes within 60 degrees in front of you.
You should see a cursor in the center of the MFD that you can move with
the arrow keys.
Push "enter" to select your A-A weapon, place the cursor in the left
MFD over one of the red enemy triangles, then push 0 on the numpad to
lock. When you are within range, "FIRE" will show on your HUD.
When the missile goes "pitbull" (within the range of it's own
seeker-head) you can lock up another target.
I believe "target nose" (delete key), "target next" (end key), and
'target previous" (page-down key) still works also.
"In the left MFD I see bogeys, red triangles, close in and in front of
me. But I see nothing in the sky in front of me. And there's no target
box
(or is this because of the simple setting?) Even though there are
bogeys on the radar, I see nothing to chase around. How can I tell if
they're hi or lo? "
The red triangles on the MFD should have a number to the left of the
triangle. 0 means it's at the same altitude as you, 1 means it's a
thousand feet above,
-1 means it's a thousand feet below. When you "lock" the target, and it
is directly in front of you, you will see a target box in the HUD. If
the target is to the left or right of you, you will see a line coming
from the gun cross in the HUD that points to the target.
The reason you do not "see" anything in front of you, is usually
because your target is BVR. (Beyond visual range.) If you look at the
left-top of your left MFD, you will see a number that represents your
radar search distance. I think by default it is set to 40 miles, the
outer ring on the MFD being 40, so you can gauge pretty much how far a
target is from you if it is between the outer ring and you.(center)
You can toggle the distance by pressing F4, (farther)
or F3.(closer)
If you want to use labels, shift-L shows everything within 5 miles, and
control-L shows everything within
40 miles. (Not sure of this distance.) (Just pushing L toggles zoom
view on and off.)
Your distance missiles are radar (AIM120) and you must have a lock to
use them, or they will go "Maddog" and find their own target, basically
in front of them, so make sure you don't fire Maddog if there is a
chance of any friendlies in front of you.
Your AIM9's are usually rear-aspect missiles. (Heaters) meaning they
work best when you are behind your target. But I have used them head-on
and side angles with great success.
If you ever get the chance, try to pick up the original 3-ring binder
manual, as this will give you all the info you will need to learn the
functions of your HUD, MFD's, radars, weapons, etc. because the
realistic mode looks and feels much better than "easy."
You don't have to sit there and read the whole thing, just find the
section pertinent to what you are doing at the time and read THAT. Just
use it as you need it.
>From what I have heard, the PDF manual is almost the same as the
original, but inconvenient because you would have to print it out to
have it in front of you while you are trying to learn. I would just
print out a section or page as I need it, instead of printing the whole
thing and paying $500 dollars to print and bind.
%^)
Hope this helps,
E-Man
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