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set g_bhudAOA 0

Note: This feature is disabled on the F16.

6.4

VOICE MESSAGING SYSTEM (VMS) / BITCHING BETTY

The VMS - MAL/IND button now plays all VMS words once while holding the push button

(release the button and the litany will stop). Also added a bit to the shared memory to indicate if

the Autopilot is engaged or not. Useful for driving the correct sort of magnetically held toggle

switch for a physical cockpit MISC panel.

VMS – SOUND: Updated sound code to allow the VMS system to play the test message on the

ground, but only if the MAL/IND light is pressed. Code updated to use the proper sample that has

Betty say all the words in her vocabulary once each for the test.

6.5

UHF RADIO FIX

UHF panel controls should only affect the COMM1 UHF radio, not VHF COMM2. UHF function

knob does nothing now; instead the UHF panel channel controls are activated when the AUX

COMM panel CNI switch is in "backup" (per the real jet). The reverse video for transmitting

should work properly in all cases now (it used to only get drawn highlighted properly if the UHF

radio was displayed in line one of the DED).

6.6

ANTENNA ELEVATION

BMS 1.03 changed the way the antenna elevation tracking works. This was done to fix a bug

where the ACQ cursor would occasionally show 0/0 for the altitude limits after an undesignate

command in situations where it should not tilt the antenna down. Study of this bug revealed that

the game code wasn't managing antenna elevation very well. New code makes the antenna

elevation knob the reference value so that for all but STT and TWS (with a bugged target) the

antenna elevation is set to whatever the knob position says it should be. This is how it works in

the real jet as far as we can tell. This gets rid of the situation where the 0/0 radar elevation limit

values were broken so that bug should be gone. It also means that you have a better way to keep

track of the antenna elevation position simply by looking at/feeling the knob position. This also

makes it easier to sync HOTAS control positions to the game. It also, by the way, means that the

knob position can be set independent of the radar mode (if you are in STT and move the knob,

when you undesignate, the elevation will revert to wherever you moved the knob to during STT!).

Also changed is the way "attach" works for SAM AUTO mode. Now the cursor should attach

more readily again but as per a previous fix it will not stay attached if the radar track degrades or

is dropped or if you make a 360° turn.