User manual

New DED “preset” Falcon 4 Channel Function
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6.9 MICRO-MANAGING THE STORES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
The Stores Management System (SMS) in Falcon has received a complete overhaul. Much of
this work will be somewhat transparent to the user, but the improvements are there nonetheless.
Many of the improvements have been to make the code more consistent, efficient, cleaner, and
more “friendly” in terms of playing nicely with other parts of the Falcon code. The following is what
the end-user will see, when comparing to previous versions of BMS and Falcon.
A long-standing problem with Falcon and it’s SMS, was the fact that it was unrealistic in jettison
procedures—both selective jettison and emergency jettison. Essentially, when jettisoning stores
(weapons), the entire store/pylon assembly was jettisoned from the wings. In reality, the
circumstances of what comes off during a jettison greatly depends on what weapon(s) are
carried, whether or not the aircraft is carrying racks (launchers) or something like a TER (Triple
ejector rack). The basic point is that the wings would essentially be empty of all pylons (excluding
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