DCS WORLD 2.7 UPDATE - F/A-18C Hornet Beginner Series: Air to Air Radar Usage  

Sorry, super late getting to this one... S MODE refers to the selection of missile you're firing. When set to manual, you can press the AMRAMM button (I think it's '3' by default?) multiple times to toggle between which pylon you want the AIM to fire from. Setting it to Auto removes that ability and instead will come off the rail of whichever AIM makes sense. Ex: If the bandit is ~20 miles out at 11 o'clock the S MODE will release an AMRAMM from the left-wing (or left nose if none on the wings), similarly if the bandit is right at say 1 o'clock it will release a missile from the right-wing or nose.

Wow.. Thank you. Ive read and watched so many videos and no one break it down in a way that I can understand like you did. Seriously Ive spent WEEKS trying to learn the f18. This is by far the best.

Just getting into DCS, so I'm playing through the trainings and watching tutorials and your channel is gold! Very easy to understand and I love the RU-vid bombing mission I found this morning. Thank you!

I've watched a lot of videos on the radar of the F18 but yours was by far the easiest and most complete to understand. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge with the community. Learned a lot!

Oh no.....another study video!!! This Will take time to absorb. Thank you SO much for this.

One of the easiest video to understand thank you

Mate your Hornet series videos are top notch, exactly what I needed. The radar's been intimidating so this is great stuff. Thanks!

Thank you... keep the updates coming. Great to see these redone with the new updates.

I have been out of DCS and the Hornet for almost 2 years. Getting back into it is a challenge, with everything that has changed as well as remembering everything that that I knew before. Your series of tutorials are absolutely amazing. Thank you for the time and effort that you put into each one of them and don't change a thing about them, they are perfect.

Your f/a 18 videos have really saved me. Thank you for putting in the time to make these videos!

Great stuff man! I really appreciate the walk through. I've watched some of the others, while they're good this one goes into examples and great detail. You've helped me understand why i didn't have any contacts show up. Keep up the good work my dude.

This really helped me break out of the basics. I’m grateful

Thank you so much, just started playing and this helped me a ton!

Awesome. Consider myself 'competent' with the Hornet (due to your Dummies series) but this review was excellent. Keep this refresh series going - very necessary. Lots of channels are doing patch work videos to catch up on all the updates and add them to their already 2 year old libraries. You are redoing the whole series which is just more complete and thorough. Best hornet series on RU-vid.

Good job, mate....this is the one i was looking for...i have looked at other vids, but not a single had give me the right informations, i struggled with a radar lock and DL infos...this one has done it. Thanks.

Really solid video man, thanks for taking the time to make this

Getting back into the hornet and your hornet vid series has been my go to m8

Excellent tutorial, really made things easy to understand and explained what I have been doing wrong when trying to find targets.

…that is an awesome video!!!

Tks! Very nice tutorials for the community !!

Man this video taught so much! Thank you!!!!

cheers man the vid helped a lot you made it really easy to follow along

Yes! Been waiting for this

These have been really useful. Thanks!

Thank you so much, the best radar teach in youtube😊

Bloody great work. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃

@TorniQuetHD, thanks for a really really good video explaining the A/A radar in conjunction with Aim 120 and Aim 9X!

Brilliant tutorial, thanks.

Amaze vid. Come back please

Legend🙌

Excellent thank you.👌

Thanks!

Awesome channel. This is where you get to learn the actual sh*t. Theory put to actual use.

My go to video for A2A radar in F-18. Most informative, thanks 🫡 What chance of a supplemental covering ‘RAID” mode, to ripple off AMRAMM’s on multiple targets???

Hi! I really like your tutorials and your way of teaching here. From now my favorite channel for DCS training. But it’s a while since you posted a video now, so are you planning something more or what is going on? Btw I and probaly many others would love to see some F-16 guides here also. Greetings from Norway.

This video made it so I could jump in an 18 and help out In the RotorHeads server. Bravo!

The HI/MED part is wrong here, you don't need to be in HI mode for hot targets and MED for cold. Quote from the manual: "Medium PRF minimizes “blind zones” reduces false targets, better all-aspect detection but has less detection range. High PRF has greater range but has inferior low to medium aspect detection. Interleaved alternates Medium and High bar coverage."

I’m new to dcs and I frickn love it!

Really good explaining you are doing here. One thing I noticed you put a lot information in and introduce different terminology like notching etc.

Thank you for the clear and concise breakdowns, you've made me a better Hornet driver for it. I especially appreciate that you explain why you do certain things as well as how to unf@ck yourself if you goober it up. Please keep up the great work and keep the content coming!

Love your videos, but you got a thing wrong there. When you are slewing the cursor down towards the bottom of the screen, or up towards the top, the measured altitude readings of the radar vertical envelope don't change because the cursor is tilting the radar up or down, It is because the readings of the radar "cone" ahead of you change as you get closer or further away from the plane. The curser close to the plane will always show a smaller differential as you get closer, the top and bottom readings getting smaller. Conversely a cursor slewed very far away will show a much greater distance between the values, with heights and depths showing much greater differentials. Think about turning a pyramid on it's side with the plane at its point, and start measuring slices of the pyramid closer or further away. The cursor doesn't tilt the measurement, it just measures a bigger or smaller slice depending on how far away you are from the base of the pyramid. Other than that, great stuff!!

Great video. I have the X56 also, but seem to have run out of buttons the way I am currently set up. At 42:33 you mentioned you have HOTAS stick bindings for Right MDI PB1, PB13, & PB11/12. What HOTAS buttons are you using for those PB's?

Not sure if I missed you mentioning this but for selecting a radar contact in TWS mode I always hit the middle button on the right that changes it from “MANUAL” to “Auto” which makes the radar search area follow the target you have locked up which is crucial if you’ll be cranking the plane left and right to bleed off an enemy missile’s energy that way it’ll keep lock easier all the way to the edge of the radar gimbal limit

Thank you so much for this series! You have single-handedly helped me relearn the hornet! Question on the AMRAAMS in TWS. When we launch on a target to de need too keep them locked up until the missle goes active or can we turn and burn away?

i'D LIKE TO SEE ONE about D/L radar contacts and the target symbology on your radar and what the shapes mean.

After going through many, and I mean many big RU-vid channels trying to learn the basics, your rendition is by far the clearest, the most suitably paced for my level of learning, very grateful to have come across your contents!! I just want to ask, bit off topic, did you map your A/A, A/G, and master arm/safe controls to anything? What did to map them to?

My favorite is when I'm in TWS and firing on multiple targets and as I switch I start tracking the missiles I just fired. That's the best.

Gotta say some guys prefer to have a sparrow on multiplayer servers to avoid friendly fire. In cases of messy furballs of friendly and enemy fighters you'd want to make sure your AMRAAM doesn't accidentally pitbull onto a passing friendly.

nice toturial. just a suggestion it would be a lot more easier to watch these videos if the toturial name was in the start of the video title and in the thumbnail so its easier to know what the toturial is actually about before i click on the video.

Thank you. Question: how do you choose a target out of the ones softlocked in TWS? Been struggling with that thing. A small note on 38:20. The numbers change because the radar sight is a cone. The cone is narrow near our aircraft and widens with the distance. The numbers are the top and the bottom of the cone at given distance. That also leads to the fact that the distance between the sides of the screen is actually very short near the bottom and much longer near the top.

Any chance for an updated Harm tutorial? I need to take out the the SAM sites before I can drop any bombs :)

Very nice tutorial but I cant still lock on target so I have to use Aim9s only.

If we didn’t have RU-vid where and how do we find this info? Does the game come with any manuals or is it all community education? I’m really interested in getting into this game bc it looks so fun but it also seems so detailed and complicated Also, if you’re looking for an F22 they just don’t show up on radar, correct? Bc of the stealth?

awesome vid. I believe there is a way to display the target/aim on the hud but it would also move out of the hud and showed up if you move the screen for example if using VR or TrackIR it would lock the target without the need to move the nose of the aircraft towards the bandit. it would lock it by just moving your head towards the target/plane (using TrackIR) what do I press to activate that ? Id appreciate the help. please

That was a great video so useful! I just have a question not sure what I'm doing wrong and can't find the answer anywhere. I'm playing PVP and I can see the datalink on the attack radar and i know I can't lock it. I change the elevation Like you say to match theirs but it's still not giving me anything like the block that I can lock onto. Sometimes I'll try from 80nm all the way until 20nm and then sometimes I get something it's very inconsistent. It's not as quick and easy as you show in the video not sure where I'm messing up

Bro, can u make a mission like it was with Basic Flight Consolidation?

"S Mode" is apparently a classified function in the real jet - and DCS doesn't model its function at all. Not an expert, that's just what Reddit reckons anyway. I assume its visible in reference photo's of the real jet, so ED put it in, despite not knowing themselves what it's for.

How to abort a rws or tws lock?

22:31 don't do that, just press SCS aft twice. Since the HSI is in the AMPCD, SCS aft once sets TDC priority, aft again with HSI as TDC priority swaps to the SA. With the AMPCD on a display that can't accept priority, SCS aft cues HSI. Don't think I've ever pressed the HSI or SA buttons on the AMPCD. Since you didn't mention it, at 26:27 to the right of the call sign is the aircrafts fuel state. 31:50 This is not true. Zero difference in targeting between RWS and TWS. A RWS L+S is the same as a TWS L+S. 32:36 To be clear, a STT "lock" from TWS will still warn the target. 37:30 L+S designation* 38:09 That is not what's happening. The radar elevation IS NOT CHANGING. Think of the radar scan as a cone out the nose of the aircraft. The closer you are to the nose of the jet, the smaller the width of the cone is in the y-axis. Hence why you upper and lower scan volume boundaries increase when moving the cursor away, and increases when you bring it closer to the aircraft. 39:58 That track is not notching, he's simply outside of the radar maximum range in MPRF. 41:28 you lost lock because you told the radar to point elsewhere... plus you didn't adjust the hit age out on the data subformat. 42:55 You can just use the TDC 44:31 Same is true for positive Vc in general 45:20 To clarify you can only notch an emitter that is above you. Notch works from you hiding in the ground clutter. I noticed that you didn't mention NWS for track stepping. 52:08 all that can be done with the HOTAS by default with the TDC.

Hey, I been asking in forum about targeting helicopters. Or is there a setting we need to set to detect those enemy helicopters? Radar may show them but you cantt lock them... please help. Some people say it is bug.

The AIM 9 is not radar guided.... There is no "radar configuration" for them...

Can you work for grimreapers so they can have better tutorials

My god!!!! Amran 80 Ona copse, get a diamond on the tdc, use the sa page to pull in the……..e2 brah. I’m flying spitfires now on Normandy 2.0. I’m frustrated enough dealing with the difference between boost and rpm. It’s getting up my nose. Jargon and abbreviations are annoying, nonsensical. Dcs has been run and taken over by dweebs who don’t work a 9 to 5.