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Understanding the radar
ryanbatcund:
Very neat addition... the radar is probably overlooked by a lot of people, but it is very detailed, for an FS addon hehe
I have a few questions about the buttons. I labeled them on this image. I already know what 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 do.
I sorta figured out what 6 and 7 do, but not exactly how they do it...
what does button 3 do?
I need some help with the radar symbolgy... What do the numbers when I ID a target mean? 0.4 and 9? does that mean 4000ft and 90 kts? what about the numbers on the side of the radar mfd? 30.1?
I like how you can change the azimuth of the radar sweep, that is sooooo awesome!
Thanks for any tips!
ILove2Fly:
Ryan, for those of us, like me, could you put up that screen shot again but with a detailed description of all the buttons that you labeled that you know what they do? It would be greatly apreciated.
Thanks. Paul
ryanbatcund:
Sure!
1 = menu, access to the other screens
2 = radar sweep azimuth (angle in degrees, watch the vertical bar sweep left and right when you change it)
3 = I dont know yet
4 = increase radar range
5 = decrease ""
6 = not sure, but somehow it locks the nearest target
7 = same but in the opposite order I think
8 = contrast, drag it with the mouse button (hold it down)
9 = brightness ""
10 = day/auto/night mode, quick change for brightness levels, click and drag
ILove2Fly:
Excellent! Thanks a bunch Ryan.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: ryanbatcund on October 29, 2007, 03:26:58 am ---I sorta figured out what 6 and 7 do, but not exactly how they do it...
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They lock to the next visible target, in up or down direction.
--- Quote ---what does button 3 do?
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In the real radar, it changes the vertical sweep pattern of the antenna. Here's it's just for cosmetic purposes...
--- Quote ---I need some help with the radar symbolgy... What do the numbers when I ID a target mean? 0.4 and 9? does that mean 4000ft and 90 kts?
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Nope. Left number is Mach N. of the target, right number is absolute target altitude in thousands of feet. In this case, it was flying at Mach 0.4, at 9000 feets.
--- Quote ---what about the numbers on the side of the radar mfd? 30.1?
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That was reading -30.1. It's the altitude *differential* from the target, in thousands of feets. Since you were flying at 39000 feets and the target was at 9000, the differential was -30100, negative numbers indicates the target is below you.
Also, note the caret range symbol > on the right side of the screen, It's a visual representation of the target range, relative to the current scale. So, in this example, since you had the range set a 40, and the range symbol was slightly more than half screen, it was indicatin the target was at about 22 nm from you.
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