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Thanks for the expansion on the application of these workarounds.
Does the development/beta teams know about this trouble that we don't seem
to suffer as much with on IL-46 as we do in COD? (I assume yes, but had to
ask to be complete). If not where do we put in a bug/enhancement request?

Now at the expense of asking a dumb question...
How do you know that the a/c blanks out between 800 and 2000m, like how do
you know something is missing if you can't see it? Was it flying straight at
you the whole time?

I was thinking about a mechanism that might help us with these kinds of a/c
spotting issues. WHy not make a hybrid between padlock and lock on?
So if you look at a position in space, you can hit a spot&lock key function so
that if there was an a/c (within an acceptable visual range of a pilot with 20/20
vision, say at 3km head on per that Navy chart for a fighter sized object)
that it will lock on and zoom in at the bogey for say 3 seconds. This would
emulate squinting and seeing the plane (no matter the pixel and resolution)
setting for a short time. Thus its not a fully automagic padlock, and its not a
box or icon text either. But just allows a short time to see the object better.

Another way to visualize this would be like how we can put our fingers on the
text on an iPhone or iPad and a small zoom in magnifying glass comes up.
The pilot really has to be looking in the right spot in the first place to evoke the
use of the squint2magnify/spot&lock feature. So its not some magical radar padlock.

THis could be an optional feature for the hardest of core players, or have a time
and range selection variable (within an acceptable range). The size of the
space to be magnified could be limited to a few rads, again selectable and
enabled by the host and INI file or GUI. Even the time between being able
to use it can have a timeout so its not overly abused. Kind of like a setup
and hold spec for a edge sensitive flip flop spec. (but I digress, sorry).

Just some out of the box thinking here.