COM pages

The aircraft keeps a table of sixteen laser codes, each with a letter A to R (there is no I or O). Everything else refers to a letter, not to the number:

• the LRFD, your laser rangefinder/designator, fires on one letter’s code;
• the LST, the laser spot tracker, looks for one letter’s code;
• the four missile channels each hold a letter, and a SAL Hellfire’s primary and alternate channels are chosen on the WPN page.

All three pages show the same table, each letter beside its button with its code. They are reached from the WPN page: T1 CHAN and T4 CODE. FREQ is on the CODE page’s T5. B1 returns to WPN. The COM button on the bezel is not simulated.

Defaults

	Letter	Code
LRFD	A	1111
LST	B	1112
Missile channel 1 (primary)	A	1111
Missile channel 2 (alternate)	B	1112
Missile channels 3 and 4	C, D	1113, 1114

Out of the box, then, your own laser and your primary Hellfire channel are both on 1111, so you can lase for your own missiles straight away. To fire for someone else’s laser, or to lase for another aircraft, set the codes to match theirs.

FREQ: setting the codes

Press a letter’s button and type its code on the KU. A code is four digits from 1111 to 1788: the first digit 1, the second 1 to 7, the last two 1 to 8. This is the same code ACE uses for lasers, so it works with other ACE laser designators and Hellfire-type weapons.

CODE: LRFD and LST

T2 SET chooses what you are setting, LRFD or LST. Then press a letter: that letter’s code becomes the LRFD’s (or LST’s) code. The boxed letter is the current one.

CHAN: missile channels

T2 to T5 choose missile channel 1 to 4. Then press a letter to put that code on the channel. The boxed letter is the channel’s current code.

The Hellfire looks for its primary channel’s code. The laser fires on the LRFD’s code. Lasing for your own missile needs both to be the same letter, or two letters holding the same code.