DCS World - F-14 Tomcat - AIM-54 Quick Tips (RIO, 6 Targets, ACM) 

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Jabbers, what do you think about a decent JESTER tutorial in terms of detecting/identifying targets? I get shot down by enemies that JESTER didn't even detect and I've got a hard time to give him the right commands to do so. A tutorial would be much appreciated. BTW this short tutorials are great, I'd like to see more of those!

I appreciate the quick and simple videos. It makes it easy to quickly reference, especially if you're in game when watched.

Went into the merge last night with my cousin as RIO. Sorry, with my cousin as ballast. Got my nose on him. "Can you lock the bandit? "No" "Can you see his blip?" "No" "Can you see him out of your window?" "No" FFS Loosed off a hail-mary Phoenix in ACM. Tracked, splashed. Looked for ejection lever for RIO... Good tutorial. At least I know what I did was right now.

been LOVING your videos kind sir! i play DCS here and there and now have come back again to it and got the F-14. you have made learning it SO much easier and fun! Appreciate all the work you have put into your videos!

I think this format will be really useful for things that aren't well documented yet. Even then, it's nice to have the visual example.

Thanks - definitely a fan of the 'quick tips' concept, so thank you. Throw out a request, I'd like to see a quick tips on LANTIRN. Configure it on the ground, and then example hitting a target. Thanks again for your Tomcat videos!

That was a fantastic video, thanks Jabbers! People who are trying to get into the F-14 (like myself) have not really flown in modern jet sims before (I have stuck to civil aviation and ww2 sims for the most part) and so these simple things like firing off Phoenix's and tracking targets need to be explained in very basic terms to begin with for the masses. Thanks!

Most definitely like the idea of quick tips. Great video Jabbers keep it up my dude!

Love the new format of quick tips dude, you got my vote to keep it going ;-)

The in depth stuffs interesting but I forget most of it. Quick tutorials are better for me, especially when i forget mid-mission.

Oh man, thanks. I've been here trying to figure out the TWS multiple target thing against a cluster of Bears. I had the stupid ACM cover up, which as you note puts them to active off the rails. Time to go try it out!

Excellent those Quick and simple videos. Thanks!!

Very informative and to the point, please try cranking more RIO tutorials like these out. There's a pretty big demand for videos like these since the module just came out and not a lot of people have made these kinds of videos :)

Quick tips are awesome. Please keep doing these.

Great idea..lots packed in very informative

i flay the Hornet and the Viper and the strike Eagle well and now i am learning the Tomcat!! thanks this was so simple and so precise

Gave me everything I wanted to know about the aim 54 launching action.

you are my hero! More info on the rio role is awsome.

I love the idea of this series, as all the for example Aim 54 stuff is in one spot

Quick tips is a great idea! Thx for this.

awesome new series! Thank you!

I've been needing this, thanks!

great this, finally got to my F14 after a year in F18

Nice work jabbers !

Great quick video. Thanks.

This was really helpful! More like this please.

Great series. Keep it up !

I’d love to see a tutorial on using Jester in a realistic scenario. Going over all his different functions and how to properly utilize his AI. In any case, good tutorial vid as usual.

Thanks brother, keep these coming

could you go through the aim-54 line on the TID, give some details and examples of what we need to know for when to not launch vs a good launch time

This vid was fire. Thank you.

This is great.Thank you!

Quick tips is a fantastic idea.

Great video. I wasn't sure how to use TWS as it's not documented very well. I was also wondering when you use TWS, and when you use STT, and what the differences are between the two when using AIM-54s

Thanks again Jabbers🫡

I cant frekin wait to be able to toggle the flight stick away. Even with track IR i have a massive hard time seeing the lower screen for anything under halfway. :/ Great vid.

Yes this format is very helpful. could you go a little slower when selecting buttons in the RIO cockpit? It helps to understand the workflow. Keep them coming!

Good brief video. Would appreciate if you showed a bit closer what buttons you are actually pushing in order to do the commands. This is helpful when you're a newbie. Thank you.

awsome very easy to understand please do more Quick Tips it's exaclty the Tomcat community wants to have :)) pleaase do a video about the Data link, or the inertial navigation, or the tunning of both radios (i know that on is for the DL but i dont have any idea how to tune it and to use it!

Jabbers you good man

Thanks! Pete.

Legend!!!

This is an awesome video, I've been really waitijg for a quick guide on RU-vid. Could anyone possibly explain the differences in the Phoenix missiles we have? Many thanks

Hey Jabbers, I'm wondering why the targets flash in the TID, I've had this a couple times happen to me if the Rio seat, but I'm not sure what it means.

All of Jabbers stuff is very helpful to we noobs..

Thx so much

Sounds like a great series idea. Sometimes you don't want to trawl through a video for a little snippet of information.

My Fire Button in the RIO is not getting RED so i can not lunch PH from the ROI SET. Do I have the wrong missiles or do they have change something with the last patch?

Jabby the best :D

I've never worked out how to select targets on the screen in the RIO seat, what button do you push?

Quick tutorials are great. Thank you my man. How do you lean over like that? Is it tracking IR, or virtual reality? If virtual reality, which headset do you use? Thank you bud, going to go look for all the quick tips vids now.

I like the series

Well done, down to business!

Can you do a quick tip on how to employ the sparrow weapon system please. Great video BTW 👍

Is there a way to tell Jester to hit that "Next Launch" button from the pilot seat? Switching to the RIO seat isn't possible in MP, and sometimes Jester will bug low priority targets far away, leaving bandits right in front for later...

So you can only launch Phoenix from the rear seat? How did you select them?

Hi Thanks for the video ! Would you be able to tell how (if it possible) to shoot (from the RIO seat) to multiple targets with several missiles per target please ? For example if i want to shoot at 3 targets and after this to shoot a second missile on each target.

Welp, after watching this, I can safely say there is a lot for me to learn about the F-14.

1:02 Tomcat so powerful it goes in Air to Air Ground mode

Great video - would be great if you could do a keybinds video please 👍

Jabbers I forgot to ask you a question ...uuhh how to put the Radar silent as a Rio ? ...how does the jester do that ?? I don't remember if I ever seen how if you mentioned in previous vids ..!! Thanks a lot man

A quick question, I try to set up the keys on my stick for the target selection cursor. (You demonstrated at 4:50) But I can not find it in the key configuration. Would you let me know the exact name of it? Thank you very much.

Great video! What radar mode are you in that all targets are already marked and you just have to launch or is that Jester doing it for you? We're learning multicrew and learning the F14 at the same time and it never looks like that kid matter what mode we use 😬

What button do I press to get the cursor in Rios radar

What did you do wrong at 3:25 ish to lose lock on the Radar? I have had that issue working as a RIO for my friend. I am not sure why I tend to lose targets under 15 miles even when we are looking right at them in TWS.

Jabbers! I'm sure you can help me out with this one. I'm doing exactly as in the video/tutorial above but my AIM-54 keeps missing and missing its targets. Does not matter if it's 10 miles out, 20, 30, 40 or even more. TWS, 4 slow cargo planes with in 15 miles.. still misses all of them. What am I doing wrong? It's just crazy. They seem to track in the beginning but then just going straight/ OR sometimes trying to track but looses all its speed so even a cargoplane manage to escape. And yes, I fire from high alt with great speed beyond sometimes mach 1.2 etc. I've red some pages that says the Phoenix is totally messed up after an update but it cant be this messed up. Seems like im doing something wrong obviosly..? Thanks for great videos. Cheers, from Sweden.

I’d love it if you could have jester to be automated to a larger degree such as ‘look for targets’ as a simple command, and then he does his bloody job and uses different radar modes . Not 8x different types of command and sub menus, let him behave like a real Rio and search for enemies in order of threat

Is there a way to switch target priority from pilot seat? (For multiplayer, not possibile to switch to RIO seat)

in the pilot seat, if you see the contacts blink, that means you can shoot them without locking?

How can you tell when the phoenixes go pitbull?

Do you have to shoot from the RIO position or can this be done by the pilot?

love your videos bro, i just have one question. what are the specs of your rig? its buttery smooth and you have the mirrors on, looks great! i want what you have!

I never jump into the back seat and wonder, since filming, have any updates made changes so this can be done from the Jester Menu? I keep telling Jester to Lock on to Enemy Target (I can see their icon!) and he frequently won't. Most of the time he will give me a Phoenix lock on a formation and I will see the diamond, but I am unsure if that diamond covers all the aircraft within in? Maybe a better ask is...can I ask Jester to lock onto the next one?

I was gonna ask if theres a way to do at least scenario 1 using only just Jester and without jumping in the RIO seat. But I guess somebody already asked and answer was given. Instead; two follow up questions. Is there a way to get jester reprioritize ? I saw a PSA on reddit that Jester also adds friendlies into the priority queue. Anyway to confirm that or get him to stop doing that without jumping in the RIO seat ? Playing alone and in MP which doesnt allow switching afaik.

How do most ppl fly the F14? Do they operate both Pilot and RIO or do they fly with JESTER? I just can’t imagine switching to RIO and doing his job in a timely manner when an engagement is about to start

As a RIO there is an option to switch a flip for the Aim 54 to get also active right after launch (I believe PH ST?). I somewhere read that when launched in this mode with active radar tracking we got about ten NM less flighttime. So is this nonsense or is this a way to quick fire a full active missile on an opponent at a range larger than 30 NM?

How do you lock a target in TWS that the targeting computer wont lock automatically? I've had situations where I could see targets on TWS and they were either unknown or hostile, but the computer didn't lock them.

1:30 so jester has done that automatically and as soon as i launch a phoenix he will automatically select the next tws target? so i could littereally hold the fire button 6 times and run away and they will all go for seperate targets? is there a time delay or could i ping them off 1 after the next??

Hi, love the streams, i have the F15-C can you tell me how i get the afterburners to work??

This is great Jabbers thank you for that. Quick question Does Jester set TWS automatically or I have to ask via the "A" key?

But in online how we can launch if we are alone in cokoit ?

Splash, splash… sur..plashhh!

Hey Jabbers, early on during the hype, you showed a video of CCRP lobbing over terrain. After reading the manual, I realized that this was done through an IP to ground TGT mode for CCRP bombing. If you don't do it this way you have to visually acquire the target within 10nm - which obviously makes SEAD impossible using target designation rather than IP designation mode. My question is: can this be performed with Jester? I've tried multiple possibilities and it seems like the answer is no. what really sucks is that no human wants to sit in the RIO seat on a bombing run to plug in 3 mathematical variables to calculate IP to TGT point and ensure the computer calculates it when you designate the IP and that's it, whilst in multiplayer you can't go to the back seat to do it yourself. For some reason I cannot login to post on the ED forums, and I know you have a direct line to heatblur and extensive experience with the module, so i was wondering if you could shed some light on my difficulty if I am doing something wrong, and if not, to please inform heatblur, and request that a button to calculate IP to Ground TGT be implemented in the Jester menu for CCRP bombcat lobbing. Thanks in advance Jabbers, you've been great over the past few months hyping me up to no end in regards to this module.

And how did you let the computer set the priority ? I love you guys and appreciate the advise but it's always missing things, little things like how did you switch to the Phoenix when you were in the pilot seat? What are you doing in the back?? Ya think we can get a quick tutorial while you explain everything quickly?

Do a video on IP to TGT bombing modes please (where you preset a ground target before take off). Thank you!

Very nice, can you make a guide on the pal modes? in out lock unlock this kind of stuff? i can get it to work most times but then again sometimes i have to fiddle around with it to make it do what i want, clearly i don't understand the sistem properly

wait so you don't lock them with AWG9? how do you know they're locked?

Is it possible to fire multiple missiles on one target in TWS?

what would change in this instance if you only were using jester AI? Is there a way to change tws priority from the jester ai communication menu? Perhaps just create another video about just using jester from the pilot seat? Jabbers, this video was awesome and this new style of information is very informative. Thank you.

Quick & Dirty works just fine...

Question. Never played DCS, would it be moronic to get the F-14 as first aircraft and experience?

How do you know when the Phoenix goes pitbull?

IRL, how does the targeting computer know a target has been destroyed?

What happened to the dogfight series?

I can never get jester to lock multiple targets, he always seems to revert to STT, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Ancient Chinese proverb say - man who does not wish to look around pilots stick must press Backspace :)))

What's the range on the 54's??

DCS: Where quick tips videos are at least 8 minutes long

It seems that Phoenix missiles are even much easier to use when compare to AIM-9? 😂