DCS F-4 Phantom - Air to Air Jester Guide

[@TrickerDCS]

Thank you all for the continued support and enjoy the F-4 Phantom Release! I hope this video will help you shoot down the bad guys! I tried to get some amazing external footage but for some reason in the current build of DCS, I have issues with track files for the replay. Hope this is fixed soon. Edit: The aerial refueling button is the uncage button, get tone, press and hold, and fire the trigger to launch the sidewinder. Jester Context Button Manual Location: f4.manuals.heatblur.se/jester/combat/overview.html

[@pyn3]

i sure do hope it “helps me the bad guys” 😂 all jokes, and thank you for all the videos

[@TrickerDCS]

@@pyn3 go get ‘em tiger!

[@kon1351]

DCS and still no fix for Tracks how many years now . !!!! crazy .

[@TrickerDCS]

@@kon1351 It was working for like one patch and then they changed something again and my tracks rarely work so that's why there's not so many external shots when i do multiplayer stuff at the moment.

[@pyn3]

i don’t think i’ve ever been so excited for an AI in a plane’s backseat

[@gnr2871]

Jester is honestly 90% of the reason I bought this module

[@EnigmaticPenguin]

Really looking forward to the Tomcat getting some Jester love once the F4 development shifts from being HB’s primary focus.

[@general11871]

Wait so this jester 2.0 isn’t automatically coming to the 14?????

[@petlemons]

@@general11871 Nothing happens automatically, someone has to do the work first.

[@Flob2359]

@@general11871it’s not something they can just port over they have to do some work on it

[@TrickerDCS]

I asked IronMike at Heatblur and this is his response. "We will try to backport as much as possible, but what will be possible remains to be seen after the release of the F-4. On release the Tomcat will not include any technology from the F-4 yet"

[@friedrichnix]

They need to make Jester modular, so that he's somewhat interchangeable. Would be really sad, if the later Aircraft get more powerful "Copilot" Features.

[@ColonelAkirNakesh]

Your tutorials are much appreciated, its been great seeing you back in full burner!

[@Mak10z]

Oooh Nice update to the Jester menu. not having to go back out of the section you're in to choose a different one is a great QOL improvement! I hope it gets back ported to the Cat eventually :)

[@airline3hum]

Great great video! I've watched tons of DCS F4 videos on this is one of the best. Simple, clear instructions. Thank you.

[@igorkratka]

Great demonstration. Thank you. Helps a lot with using Jester context button and how to switch between Sidewinder and Sparrow BWR and in cage mode. Bought Phantom a few days ago. Basically it works like Petrovitch in Mi-24.

[@riman8493]

Man, that is nice! I love how they keep improving the interactivity between pilot and Jester! GJ, HB!

[@Hammy_on_twitch]

Whhhhooo so hyped Step bro! Can’t wait to have you as my wingman!

[@brosefmalkovitch3121]

Once you see how these aircraft were actually operated and how much skill and practice it took to operate the weapon systems and stay within optimal parameters you finally understand just how much training and flight hours it takes for someone to become skilled at operating one of these things.

[@PaddyPatrone]

Hope to see this in the F14 at some point

[@TrickerDCS]

Heatblur said that they will try to backport as much as possible, but what will be possible remains to be seen after the release of the F-4. On release the Tomcat will not include any technology from the F-4 yet

[@charlesc7723]

D-day is tomorrow, ready to give it a shot. Great video and that is a massive shortcut.

[@peterblackburn5793]

Delayed 24 hrs

[@Raven-sv4es]

Very well done to you and heatblure, this is what I miss in the tomcat.

[@sedlo]

Nicely done! Loving Jester 2.0!

[@Mafuskas]

Tricker, loving your F-4 vids! I've always been a big fan of the F-5 and especially watching you fly it. The F-4 has that same gritty "manual" feel, but with more capability and more toys to play with. Jester looks awesome in this thing! I'm eagerly awaiting more, have a great day!

[@TrickerDCS]

Appreciate it brother!

[@HighAspect]

Must have video - well done… I hope this translate to the 14 , focus, cycling targets, etc would all be great

[@Tigermoto]

Thanks Tricker, been waiting for this one. As a solo pilot i needed to see what Jester could do for me.

[@craig8724]

Very nice video! Informative and fun. I can’t wait till tomorrow night.

[@wilbuzllf5057]

Very nice! Well done, this is looking great!

[@GW2Vids1]

Great job. Can't wait to see more tutorials from you!

[@SportDCS]

Thank you for putting this into context for us

[@mihkeltoomet213]

Nice! 😎👍 Such an improvement from F14. Btw, I was surprised that the sight ring (or whatever its called) in the hud, does not move where the bandit is locked, giving some kind of visual queue, where the radar is looking and tracking. Interesting logic back in 60s.

[@stewsaquarium1397]

When I try and do the BVR scan, jester just keeps saying I can't do that. I have radar on, master arm on, cw switch on, not sure why because he will lock a target but not scan

[@p7outdoors297]

Question. Are you over mountainous or wooded terrain? I find I have the most trouble with the radar there, both with Jester and as a WSO. In this example Tricker was over the water which is the best case scenario for the APQ-120s pulse system

[@Enigma89]

CONTEXT CONTENT 😎

[@TrickerDCS]

Context confirmed

[@zaelu]

How you quickly drop tanks? at min 3:13 What those gates mean?? at min 3:16 And why tapping the aerial refueling button at the end? min 6:17 Thanks!

[@dcsheinlein]

great video! You have a gift of explaining things

[@TrickerDCS]

I appreciate that!

[@schmeardo]

Nicely done, thanks mate.

[@huka-rt6ku]

love the liverie! applause for nice vid

[@IHeartLasagna]

i dont know what im doing wrong at around 12000ft i cant get anything on radar until ~5miles within visual range, no matter what i tell jester to do i cant get anything on radar. (my mission is set that 2 migs arouind same altitude coming straight at us)

[@2612563]

4:49 Tricker was in revelry of not crashing into that dead bird.

[@jep1103]

Fantastic and helpful vid thank you

[@Parabueto]

Looking forwards to using this in the F-4. If they can backport it to the F14 with the more capable radar it'll really shine.

[@louhodo5761]

Way smoother than the F-14 Jester interaction.

[@badassoptic]

4:46 single press the cage or something else? The nose wheel steering and the air refueling buttons are confusing. Can you make a video explaining these two please?

[@TrickerDCS]

I’m working the next few days unfortunately. Aerial refueling button is used to uncage the sidewinder, hold it down to uncage. NWS you need to press and hold when wanting to turn on the ground

[@104thMaverick]

We’re going ballistic Tricker go get em!!!!

[@TrickerDCS]

SO FRESHHHHHH

[@JulioDiNapoli]

Tricker amazing tutorial as always. Thank you ! Just a short question. Why did you use the A/A refueling button in 6:15 ? Thanks !

[@TrickerDCS]

It’s the uncage button

[@henryofskalitz2228]

Now only if we get jester 2.0 in the f14

[@TrickerDCS]

I asked IronMike at Heatblur and this is his response. "We will try to backport as much as possible, but what will be possible remains to be seen after the release of the F-4. On release the Tomcat will not include any technology from the F-4 yet"

[@ZoeSummers1701A]

"He's at our 7 o'clock high" - when the bandit is at 1 o'clock at most... sigh...

[@Praetoras]

It was a left to left pass how would that be 1 o’clock? 7 wasn’t far off if not correct.

[@HEATER_]

6:24 was the bandit in question.

[@shagrat47]

​@@Praetoras 6:08 "He's at our 7 o'clock high" while he locks the target in question? 🤔

[@TrickerDCS]

Although not perfect, I believe he was calling out the bandit that was already shot down but still falling out of the sky.

[@Scoobydcs]

6:50 what pinky switch? is it weapons selector like the tomcat??

[@TrickerDCS]

It’s called the pinky switch on the throttle to change between weapons

[@e1ndude]

just one more day and i can start asking for all the things i should do with it while also still failing to actually do anything with it :D gonna be great

[@AnthonyAdrianAcker]

I am having so many issues with Jester's context button. He just refuses to do anything most of the time and will only focus and lock targets once they are too close to fire on.

[@trxpiin4727]

i cant figure it out

[@TheCommo81]

what is the keybind for the jest wheel? I ran the cold start tutorial today (in VR) and was able to bring it up and tell ground crew to turn on external power, but I cannot drop the jester wheel after that for some reason. IDK if it's a bug. I have same setup in F14 using jester wheel and have no issues there, so I am thinking I don't have something set up right.

[@Rogeroverandout61]

Hi Tricker, so excited about the new F-4 module I’ve just installed it and began learning all the systems, haven’t left the ground yet though. Just a quick question the header menu wheel on my system seems quite large and down to the bottom left of my screen with the bottom section off the screen completely, on yours I see that it is in the centre of your screen, any advice as to what I need to do to rectify ? great content you are doing for the F-4E all very helpful thank you 👍

[@TrickerDCS]

Interesting, I've never seen this. Maybe your UI DCS Settings are enlarged?

[@Cheenostat]

My jester doesn’t do any of this. He won’t lock anything to use the sparrows. How do you get this to work so good?

[@danielpiazza5195]

hope they add this to the tomcat

[@vexingrabbit1824]

Their already doing this. It's called Jester 2.0 which will take awhile but it's coming to the Tomcat.

[@stewsaquarium1397]

Does Jester do a IFF check before locking?

[@cerealeggvr6942]

Can’t wait for tomorrow it’s my birthday and im getting the phantom

[@TrickerDCS]

Happy early birthday

[@cerealeggvr6942]

Thanks bro

[@EvansRG78]

Thanks Tricker! I'm trying to follow your instruction, but whenever I arm the master switch, the radar indicator turns off. The pinky switch won't bring it back. My WSO is good and locked and I have the "shoot" indicator, but no go on radar mode. What am I missing? Thanks in advance!

[@TrickerDCS]

Is your CW switch on and you have green radar lights next to it?

[@EvansRG78]

@@TrickerDCS I did not. That's sort of fixed my issue. Now I'm having a hard time with the sparrow actually firing after I get a lock.

[@DCS_World_Japan]

I really hope this gets rolled into the Tomcat!

[@kiekiek]

At the day the F-4 launches, my Ultrawide screen died. Back to 16:9 sadly, got an excuse to buy the alienware oled UW though. very tempting to see DCS with oled quality.

[@TrickerDCS]

Damn I’m sorry

[@Nsane211]

thank you

[@Surfingnet]

I find jester not very talkative. Is there more chatting depending on the context or is it only when you issue a command / when bogeys appear on the screen? Like I remember watching F14 videos where jester was talking when you fly too low, when you fail a carrier landing, when you do loopings, etc. Haven't seen that on the F4 yet.

[@TrickerDCS]

Don’t worry, there’s plenty of talking

[@nrosko]

Don't quite understand the advantage or disadvantage of CAA mode vs letting jester lock?

[@TrickerDCS]

No advantage, I like the CAA mode

[@eifionglyn]

Don’t know if there’s a difference between the preview build and the live release but the Jester context button long press doesn’t work for me.

[@TrickerDCS]

It was working for me the other day. Check the manual reference I provided for more info!

[@eifionglyn]

@@TrickerDCS Was working for me too today, couldn't reproduce the fault. Put it down as transient / operator error. Thanks for all the content and tutorials!

[@WhereNerdyisCool]

Sure would be nice if you demonstrated what buttons should be mapped since your audience is newbies.

[@DrSlaughterRex1]

Thanks for the good content, zaddy

[@TrickerDCS]

I’m trying 🦖

[@alexbroskow2108]

nice video but where is the jester wheel botton??? i can find it can you help me

[@TrickerDCS]

Jester ui action

[@sheila9358]

Any chance a keybind video?

[@TrickerDCS]

Check my latest video

[@denialmarble305]

is it possible to control the radar manually from the front seat? or can jester/backseat only control it?

[@TrickerDCS]

You can’t control it unfortunately

[@gallaghero7117]

MOM A NEW TRICKER VIDEO CAME OUT

[@TrickerDCS]

She’s my hero!

[@LaminarBubble]

why hit aerial refueling button just before firing missile? to uncage? why do you have to uncage to shoot? Im getting confused with when to use the nosewheel steering button and when not to.

[@TrickerDCS]

It’s to uncage it, it’s not required but it has a higher chance of success

[@raptoid2863]

Man I can't replicate with heats or radar tone or lock in the head to head on the MIG23 in the instant action on Caucus. Does anyone know why this is? I have much less trouble when I get behind them. AFAIK the AIM-9's in that mission are all aspect but I hardly get anything until after the merge, and even then I have some trouble, mainly with boresight and CAA.

[@bonedust5757]

What is the Jester wheel button?

[@TrickerDCS]

Jester action UI

[@tinglydingle]

Have Heatblur confirmed that the advanced features from this are being ported to the Cat?

[@TrickerDCS]

I asked IronMike at Heatblur and this is his response. "We will try to backport as much as possible, but what will be possible remains to be seen after the release of the F-4. On release the Tomcat will not include any technology from the F-4 yet"

[@tinglydingle]

@@TrickerDCS Cheers pal, appreciate that!

[@VonHoffnung]

Tomorrow is going to be quite the day...

[@UWfalcin]

Make sure to log in early to ECW lol…

[@VonHoffnung]

@@UWfalcin I stopped playing on ECW a while back...

[@UWfalcin]

@@VonHoffnung but now you’re coming back..

[@VonHoffnung]

@@UWfalcin nope

[@UWfalcin]

@@VonHoffnung I saw you my love

[@Loukuins]

Is there a radar gun cue available on the aircraft?

[@ikapustiv]

This is what online manual says: For air-to-air usage, the optical sight should be selected to A/A mode. In air-to-air mode, the optical sight functions as a lead computing optical sighting (LCOS), thus maneuvering in both elevation and azimuth relative to a radar locked target, or a default 1000' range setting in the event of no lock.

[@TrickerDCS]

👆

[@XCougar85X]

That context button would be so awesome to have in the Tomcat too. Big step up in functionality Edit: On that last kill, why do you have to press the AAR button before the trigger?

[@TrickerDCS]

Uncages the sidewinder

[@XCougar85X]

@@TrickerDCS Ah right. So it is basically an uncage for most weapons then? The Mav uses the same i believe? Thanks.

[@TrickerDCS]

@@XCougar85X you hold the aerial refueling button to keep the sidewinder uncaged. Also you use the aerial refueling button to move the seeker head of a maverick. Pretty interesting really

[@dannyd7714]

What do you press to uncage the Sidewinder?

[@TrickerDCS]

Aerial refueling switch, press and hold and then hold the trigger to fire

[@ColonelAkirNakesh]

How convenient when I try to refuel for the first time...

[@mikeck4609]

What’s the deal with “pressing the aerial refuel button” while firing the sidewinder? What does that do? Uncage it?

[@TrickerDCS]

Yah sorry I should have been a little more clear, it uncages it

[@mikeck4609]

@@TrickerDCSso the “cage” button is for the radar and the aerial refuel actually uncages the missle (as well as let you slew the camera on the walleye and a few other things I guess. Weird

[@TrickerDCS]

@@mikeck4609yah I was going to try and do a tips and tricks video but work got in the way. Aerial refueling button also does slewing of the mavericks

[@lokiv7]

@@TrickerDCS And this is because during aerial refueling, you get so frustrated that you just want to shoot the tanker down - so when you think of killing a plane, think 'aerial refueling' and press that. ? :)

[@TrickerDCS]

@@lokiv7 hah, usually it’s the trigger 👀💀

[@patrickthornton5053]

Razbam needs to take notes for the SE

[@berbeccristian]

Why do you always go to cage mode?

[@TrickerDCS]

It’s like going into boresight then pressing nose wheel steering goes into CAA which is like a vertical scan

[@Itistw_in1]

f 4 fanum??

[@bendevries5134]

ooh i hope that comes to the tomcat

[@TrickerDCS]

Heatblur said that they will try to backport as much as possible, but what will be possible remains to be seen after the release of the F-4. On release the Tomcat will not include any technology from the F-4 yet

[@FlameBot]

Hope they improve F14 textures as well

[@mayykara]

when 60 second to cold start short coming

[@TrickerDCS]

Delayed 👀

[@flavnet]

A pair of Mig-21s heading towards the Phantom that are tracked by Jester at more than 30 nm!?!? What simulator are you using? It's a miracle if the Mig-21 - that is coming towards me - Jester manages to hook it between 5 and 10 nm and almost always I can't even launch the sparrow because the Mig overtakes me. The second Mig that is shot down by a sparrow revealed to me that the scenario was programmed. The Mig-21 in the close fight never allows me to lock it with a sparrow and, if I'm lucky, I can only shoot it down with the sidewinder. I understand that this is just a video to show how the "Jester context button" works, but those who deal with the reality of the game will have a bitter surprise.😂

[@Graywo1f]

My maaaaaaan!

[@TrickerDCS]

I love when I press buttons and you do what I want you to do ❤

[@jamnuska]

W

[@eggroll9476]

Meow

[@TrickerDCS]

Rawr

[@JesterDarrak]

Press [J] to pay respects!

[@TrickerDCS]

Go to bed Jester!

[@JesterDarrak]

@@TrickerDCS It's game 7 Oilers - Canucks. YOU go to bed!

[@TrickerDCS]

@@JesterDarrakis that ping pong? 👀

[@peterblackburn5793]

For the Algorithm!

[@FJFuentesCO]

I don't know what it is, but my F-4 does none of this.

[@eggroll9476]

:3

[@Agent0range67]

THERE IS NOT BUTTON CALLED JESTER CONTACT BUTTON

[@TrickerDCS]

Context

[@Agent0range67]

@@TrickerDCS Thank you

[@plazma1945]

Tricker love ya but please use correct Brevity terms ensure that people who watch also use right terms too :) very helpful when you get into a LFE or event. when everyone is using right terms .. BANDIT not authorized to engage. HOSTILE authorized to engage - please please. Bogey unknown contact.

[@TrickerDCS]

I’ll be sure to use better brevity in the future thanks to you

[@plazma1945]

@@TrickerDCS, ❤️❤️❤️❤️😍

[@N238E]

Фантом

[@JamesHoes-zc7ok]

First, also fire video

[@TrickerDCS]

Thank you!

[@Duchovicius]

When Tricker explains stuff: after 10 seconds Fox-1 When Grim Reapers explain: 😴

[@arroyo_Lt0]

Early!

[@jamilayahyaoui101]

Idk how those studio and dev’s working with our venerable DCS World choice their aircraft...but if any dev read my coment pas bring us the stealth comanche chopper

[@TrickerDCS]

Do you think stealth technology would help you against the infamous ground AI in Dcs?

[@owensks]

Yeah stealth isn’t gonna help when a BMP from 3km away through multiple lines of trees can see you and one tap you

[@iNcog_AoE]

F14 jester is awful. Maybe this module would be usable.