Falcon 4 BMS Tutorials: FCR, AIM-120, AIM-9, HMCS, Dog Fight Mode

0:00 FCR Basics
13:20 AIM-120 AMRAAM
27:00 AIM-9
34:56 Dog Fight Mode
40:29 HMCS

[@FalcoGer]

actually the range of the radar is 160nmi. zooming in or out does not alter the range, just the filtered picture you get. the correct term for the shape of the radar beam would be a cone. If you already locked a target, you will not loose that target if it dives below your radar elevation envelope. The radar will look for the target in the last spot it saw it every so often and adjust elevation if necessary. It is of course always good to have the elevation set though. The radar does not interrogate. It scans through a database file on how different aircraft look like on radar from various angles and tries to find a match. If there is a clear match it will display such a match. The radar gets better resolution if the contact is closer. In the real world, things like exposed engine turbines through the air intake can create a good giveaway because the radar can actually count the turbine blades, although I doubt that's modeled. You don't have to use the FCR for the amraam. You can fire them in boresight mode. Not advised though. The bracket thing is actually called the dynamic launch zone. Or DLZ. The circle of the missile shows valid firing solutions. It's size depends on range to target. If you're at close range, the circle shrinks because the missile can not turn in time. Any solution in which the small circle is within the larger one is okay. If you want to give the missile the best amount of energy, not wasting any for initial turning for intercepting, then you want that small circle dead center in the larger one. You don't want the target on boresight. You want the intercept point of the missile on boresight. The amraam doesn't need radar guidance. you can just leave it be and it will proceed to the last known intercept point and turn it's radar on. You will likely miss, or hit something else. The F-16 can engage multiple targets at once, just need to have them softlocked. When softlocked, you can use tms right to cycle between the targets. That is best done not in tws mode, as cycling through the contacts can take some time. You didn't go over the missile timer. All the MFD labels are showing what the current state of something is. If you click cool, you disable the cooling as the missile was already being cooled.

[@Allroundeath]

38:43 "This is a circle, okay?" Love your videos dude, they've helped me quite a bit. Would love to fly with ya one day.

[@oldgoat5]

I am a beginner to the f16 and I find the details extremely useful. I think probably the only people who don't care are the ones that probably would enjoy a game over a study sim.

[@echionsim2177]

Great tutorial Krause, straight to the point, useful and very well explained.

[@Steven-zp8hf]

Awesome tutorial to get someone up and running. Havent touched F4 since AF (been playing DCS) and really needed this video. Thanks!

[@mnnorseman64]

Thank you for taking the time to do the videos. I have been out of falcon for many years and am returning, so these really help.

[@wedge_one]

It was very helpful. I was training in a instant action scenario and this cleared all the doubts I had and why I was having issues with my locking, radar and missile. Thanks for the video!

[@Buzmanni]

Nice tutorial. You explain things in a coherent and clear manner and don't ramble which is unusual for many people who make tutorials. Your tutorials are also pretty much the only source for people new to Falcon series, at least that I'm aware of. Keep up the good work.

[@xxEmanxx]

Have truly enjoyed your videos and have BMS installed but totally had no clue how to operate weapons. (Can barely fly!) All the reading in the world did not help. But watching your tutorial gives me easy information to try. Managed to find out what TMS was and mapped it to my stick. Thank you.

[@mcintoshdev]

Great great great video! I learned a lot of new things and techniques that I will employ ASAP!

[@panimala]

Thanks a lot for these tutorials, they are mighty helpful for people new to Falcon 4.0 with BMS such as myself!

[@Hexdogbone]

Im hooked on BMS. Had the falcon bug licked for a while until I started watching your training vids. Great tutorial bud. Nice work.

[@ghost2031]

Thank you for these awesome tutorials on BMS. Mandatory stuff.

[@Worther12]

Great tutorial.....was struggling with FCR - Thanks!

[@VeteranLu]

you're a better teacher than my flight instructor.

[@uscstaylor]

Please keep up the tutorials Krause they are really helpful to pilots trying to learn the Falcon, thanks buddy

[@ILLFINGAZ]

Great tutorial and a excellent job making this video. Was playing last night and ended up getting 4 kills on Falcon 4 AF, all because of the info I got from your video. Just ordered my TrackIR 5, cant wait for it to come in. Keep up the good work.

[@danielvermeere7916]

The teaching videos are very good all the subjects well covered one of the only people to cover all the points in detail and clear .

[@MistorGator13]

This is EXACTLY what I needed to know. I play Over G fighters. I'm contrasting the games/sims. I watched the WHOLE video, patiently, thanks!

[@tex148th]

You've done a terrific job... Thanks a bunch !!

[@petergarnevicus9755]

Very Good tutorial for the beginner . Appreciated the the effort and willingness to post this

[@marlo3d288]

I want to say thank you for all of your great tutorials. Its realy helpfull for me, just starting to play Falcon BMS. Realy nice job. Thx!

[@tanit]

@dlgustn12 Check out my latest tutorial on controls and data cartridge. You need a data cartridge setup.

[@tanit]

@erad1c80r Check out my latest tutorial on controls and data cartridge. You need a data cartridge setup.

[@AidanMillward]

I'm not getting the launch zone bracket on my sidewinders. Is there something I'm not doing right? I've set up my data cartridge as per your tutorial.

[@AidanMillward]

No matter, I wasn't using TMS up to acquire a target first

[@Mesofs9]

Very usefull! flew falcon when there was no HMCS available yet (around 2000 or so) now im much more effective in dogfights!

[@Jellybeantiger]

Dusting off my old Cougar again. Thank you Benchmark Sims!

[@the_eagle_of_masyaf]

Though it's for 11 years ago, i'd like to say thanks ,great explanations

[@ThreeNineLine]

Awesome stuff. As soon as I can get my copy of F4, I will be back to dig into this! Thanks for doing this. Seriously..thanks!

[@avmf631]

Excellent video. Very helpful for Falcon pilots.

[@JRollonPlanes]

Incredible tutorial!!! Please more!! the simulator is really hard to learn from manuals. This make things easier! Really Thanks!

[@museste]

Awesome. Thanks for a clear easy to understand tutorial

[@Phantom3632]

just found ur nav tutorial, all has been explained. sos for the panic dude and thanks for the great tutorials

[@tanit]

@Shurryy Keep in mind if you hold down TMS up it will focus the radar beam on a narrow area of the sky which can allow you to acquire and lock onto a target quicker. Also consider the geometry of the nose while using the radar. If you are at high alt, and nose level, it will be difficult to lock onto a radar contact which is low - you need to aim your nose at the target. It's a search light, not a solid wall that comes out from the nose.

[@MarsMan10000]

Fantastic tutorial. Thanks a million

[@kavelenko6501]

This is still a very helpful video for pilots new to BMS.

[@Tomatow]

Hey krause good tutorial as always Just a small note. A decent reason for a fox 3 long would be to force an enemy into a defensive posture so that they (lets assume a russian radar semiactive radar missile) would be forced to break lock while you press up closer to them for the kill

[@cantoncanister]

mate keep them coming! thank you they contains all the needed info

[@harrystumbauer]

JUST AWESOME MY FRIEND LIKE ALL OF YOUR TUTORIAL VIDEOS!! KEEP IT UP!!!

[@PantsuMann]

Epic tutorial. Thanks a bunch!

[@Phantom3632]

just in case anyone is wondering if i may add, AMRAAM stands for Advanced Medium Range Air - Air Missile. and the HUD modes MRM and SRM stand for Medium Radar Mode and Short Radar mode. Awesome tutorial btw :)

[@DavidFors1]

Great video. Keep up the good work.

[@grazydine2]

Thank you so much for doing this man. Really appreciate it !

[@christopherrollandwilkins6298]

I would say that this dude knows the most about BMS that found besides the pilot creators yet

[@nice0shot]

Excellent tutorial!

[@snipersas]

thanks a lot for these videos man, great work

[@Pissrattan]

Helped me alot, Thx Krause!

[@jayveecee1]

Thanks Krause, you the man!

[@kylania]

Don't even have this game yet and found that tutorial quite amazing! Thanks :)

[@orejas14]

Absolutely helpful. Thanks !

[@sfrgth457]

You can also use the TGP(Targeting Pod) in A-A mode with the max zoom to see the planes and identify them.

[@Fusionprogamer]

Yeah np glad to help and yes Bulls-eye is a lot simpler then you think. I'm not the best at BMS just got into it my self but from my years of sim experience I feel I can safely say bulls-eye is a predetermined location. When someone calls out bulls-eye 235 095 you then want to make your HSD on the MFD your center or interest and slew the cursor until it reads at the bottom left 235 for 095. You now have the location of what ever was called out.

[@schmalzfaust]

now thats a tutorial! just downloaded BMS yesterday and leaning it now :)

[@GShock112]

You've done a pretty awesome job with these videos of yours. I could technically restart playing F4 just by watching your tutorials. :-) For Example, you showed me why the wingies were not shown on the right mfd (sorry forgot the acronyms) :-) Anyway this about the IFF is absurd. Anything is better than the nothing we have now.

[@Essah15]

great video! well done. thanks.

[@PapaSwartz]

HMCS = Helmet Mounted Cueing System. Incase you wanted to know. Excellent videos. Keep it up!

[@breathcancer]

Cool video as always!

[@tanit]

@Squirrellicious Cursor slew (default keys are arrow keys) then press TMS up (default numpad 0) to lock onto the contact. Numpad . for TMS down - which unlocks the target.

[@msackett4858]

Awesome just Awesome im a Newby to BMS so vid was very helpfull Great stuff Many thanks :)

[@tanit]

@n00p3 The radar gimbals the seeker head of the AIM9 toward the radar contact, otherwise the seeker head is just centered in the HUD (the diamond). So if you were to launch, it would only be effective without lock if it was relatively centered in the HUD and you heard a tone. I mean there's always a chance it will acquire after launch if you just pickle it off, but for best results make sure the radar is locked onto it.

[@KamykSolo007]

Thx m8 for vid, really good job!

[@pelimies1818]

Great tut!

[@Fusionprogamer]

HOTAS TMS UP. You can find its key stroke in the manuals that come with BMS or by finding it in the list of controls in setup. Also it may sometimes be auto mapped to your HATOS (joystick) POV 2 up.

[@ricardodrmthtr]

Thank You Very Well Made Tutorial Help me a LOT!!!!!

[@jtrivino28]

Awesome video

[@ELDLtenors]

awesome i took some epic notes

[@SplashHawk]

great tuto as usual, thank´s ! Please full cover of DLINK in next tuto :)

[@humbertoborrego3659]

Excellent, thank for your work in preparing these, would like to get back into falcon, but don't know the best simul. if BMS or other, and need new computer.

[@GtaMoviesGuy]

Excellent tutorial! Although I do have a question that I think someone could help out with. If I select the dogfight mode and setup a team furball and all that good stuff I can only track my enemies for the first few seconds, later on everybody kinda scatters around and they're all over the place, my FCR is constantly blank and no matter where I fly I just can't seem to reacquire enemy jets. What can I do to locate my targets more easily?

[@antoniocarona3598]

Great video, sure it helps a lot the newcomers to the game and to the Viper World! One thing i'd to like to ask you is, what is your setup? Standard PC, HOTAS, plus what? how can you have a HMCS? Thanks a lot, subscribed!

[@Aolen75]

Great tutorial thanks

[@ilcontezio01]

Hi Tanit, awesome tutorial, a real treat! I am looking for more detail about the AIM-120, but I am struggling to make sence of the manuals. Can you go into more detail about weapon settings, M/F poles, how do I know when the missile goes active and I don't have to keep the target tracked (it was clear to me in AF, but not in BMS), timing information... If you could do that it would be amazing, thanka a lot

[@BountyHunters187]

Dear Fusionprogamer.... THANK YOU!!! THANK THANK THANK THAAAANKKKK YOU!!!! Im not kidding i was going CRAAZZZYYYY...reading manuals and stuff..Pressing page down...Didnt work.....In the Setup i was looking for "locking" :) .I always could be able to lock on in the Dogfightmodus.... omg thank you again :D Now i will have alittle bit more fun with that ultrareal sim :)

[@snras4927]

really good, thank you

[@GiangNguyen-ik4tc]

Great tutorial, very detailed. But can I ask how can you move the cursor within the FCR to lock up enemy targets?

[@echionsim2177]

+Giang Nguyen BMS 4.33: you look for 'TQS: Radar cursor' in the controllers section.

[@JayDeLaTorreD]

I really like it!

[@HotaruZoku]

+Jorge De La Torre Dávalos +like for that name

[@yoker300]

Thank you so much!

[@laMoort]

Good job, keep up!

[@BADKALOS]

Good toturial like and subbed from me.However they could be better if you had used some shapes and symbologies to explain better the radar.Keep up the great work because there arent a lot of toturials for falcon and is a little hard for us the newcomers to understand fast the f-16's complex systems.

[@Macbille]

I love tutorials

[@fisgasfighties]

Hello Krause. Your Falcon BMS Tutorials are awesome and i've learned a lot from them. Can you please make on on the usage of JDAM's? Thank you for all the videos and keep up the good work.

[@mezza205]

really good tutorial thx m8

[@Jetman123]

Great video, but I'm surprised you didn't cover how uncaging the seeker head permits stealth attacks without using the radar. That's always fun if you can sneak up on people.

[@Fusionprogamer]

Oh and one last thing the latest Saitek stick is currently the X-65F. But the best stick on the market is the Thrustmaster Warthog and its only a 100 bucks more so if you have the money for a X-65F I suggest spending the extra 100 on the Warthog. Oh and Track IR HELPS A LOT. I had a lot of trouble getting mine working at first but I love it now and couldn't fly without it.

[@n00p3]

@tanit ok didn't expect that. Thought the AIM-9 fired in passiv mode would be as effective as with radar, cause it is not guided with radar. And also the AIM-120 when target is in pitbull-range. So, thought wrong, thanks for your answer.

[@timaugenstein6970]

Krause do you have any intermediate tutorials on weaponry I'm brand new and though your vids are cool to watch and learn you're saying things, or are a points that I don't know. I love the game and want to learn

[@tanit]

I use trackir with vector FOV control. The HMCS is a knob above the ECM planel.

[@jdizzle-hx2xq]

very nice video.

[@simace4998]

Hey good tutorials i watched them all. Are you using any mods

[@KarayaYT]

Total greenhorn here but what are the commands used to lock/unlock a radar contact once the pipper is on it?

[@elpizzle]

TMS up= locks TMS down= Unlocks

[@danielpassmore5026]

tms up twice for hard lock

[@BountyHunters187]

In the early sims it was like : "Alpha, Vector to Target 090". So that was easy, just heading that course. Im pretty sure Bullseye is not soooooo complicated like its beeing to me right now. ANYWAY: Thank you again for your answer. I finally locked on a Target today BVR and shot one down lol. :)

[@chortle12345]

Great video; I D/L'd 4.32 and updated to patch 7, but I don't know how to TMS- I bought Falcon 3, then 4.o two days after it came out, but I left it for many years. Trying now to relearn the sim.

[@calumlittle2]

Ctrl and the arrow keys if I remember correctly. I am a total expert at this but I still like to watch these from time to time as they are by far the best tutorials.

[@tanit]

In real life there is a reliable IFF (identify friend or foe) system, the radar returns will show as RED (confirmed hostile), yellow (unknown), green (friendly). I actually saw an IFF system on an AWACS and this is how it worked. Unfortunately the BMS team didn't feel they knew enough about IFF to model it. You need to declare all contacts with AWACS (q menu) to interrogate them, and correlate RWR spikes with radar picture for situational awareness.

[@nickfranz5704]

thanks chris,as always, extremely helpful! one question though, after you enter dogfight mode with 'D', what do you press to get back to normal mode?

[@musicmystro]

press the C key. It cancels any override mode

[@GShock112]

I am curious about your setup. How can you zoom in on the mfds and the views? What's the key? How do you bring up the helmet mounted hud? Haven't had time to study documentation (yet).

[@tanit]

@henriquecsouza Just go into advanced under control settings. Change it from Z Axis to POV for trackir cockpit view.

[@FearDivinity]

How do we make missions with just a few bombers orbiting around? I can't seem to figure it out. Any chance you could make a quick video about that for practicing?

[@SamFarrow]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge like this Krause, your videos are excellent. Is there any way of importing your keystrokes because my default ones are completely different to yours. It would be very helpful if we were on the same page. Thanks again! S.

[@SamFarrow]

I found your data entry and setup video. Question answered. Thanks again.

[@cwall100771]

Tanit: You have done a great job of walking a newbee through the F-4BMS basic. As I follow each tutorial, I get better and better. Do you have plans for different theaters?. I like the Korean but, it get old. Thanks, Wolf

[@kanskejonasidag1]

Great video. The one thing that is really confusing to me is the range of that AMRAAM-shot. The indexer showed you an appropriate range, and you took the shot. But when looking through the cockpit window the aircraft seemed to be very close, just judging by the visual contact. Amraams are know to be bvr-missiles, right? If that was a appropriate range to get a kill, I'd say the amraam is pretty darn far from a bvr-missile. Now, is that just the game modeling the whole thing in a unrealistic scale? Or is it a long range and just looks like it's close?