JAS Air FAQ

  1. Understanding Time in JAS
  2. Block Planning for DCA
  3. How do I tell the difference between Block and Specified planned DCA?
  4. How do flights get planned to fill DCA orbits?
  5. What is the difference between Alert 1 and Alert 2?
  6. How can I tell the difference between Alert 1 and Alert 2?
  7. Hints On Planning DCA Alert Level 1
  8. What does DCA Alert do during scramble execution?
  9. Hints on ADP construction?
  10. Why do I get a sim break on A2A attacking a ground BSE?
  11. Hints on High Resolution Air Refueling (Hi Res AR) planning?
  12. Why do my flights get canceled?
  13. If I want to close the base for a while, how can I do that?
  14. Is there a landing delay?
  15. Why don’t some of my cruise missiles kill anything?
  16. Why do I have (insert number) cruise missiles in a particular Air Unit, but that Air Unit fires (insert greater number) cruise missiles during the campaign
  17. How does GPS jamming work?
  18. How does jamming a SAM site work?
  19. How does SEAD work?
  20. How do I set up pushes?
  21. How does Threat Assessment work?
  22. Why is it that if I deliberately try to target one BSE (ex. a facility), sometimes the model will insist on targeting another BSE at the same location?
  23. What is "Perceived Damage Level"?
  24. How do I view my instruments while the sim is running?
  25. What is "Reserve"
  26. Why does my Air Unit’s sorties show up in the Launch Inventory, but not in the Allocation Inventory?
  27. Why do I have launch block "end" times which are before my launch block "begin" times?
  28. Why does my Air Unit Status Report show no aircraft left, though I can only account for killing all but one?
  29. How does the TPFDD work?
  30. Why doesn’t my TPFDD-delivered squadron fly?
  31. Why doesn’t my TPFDD-delivered squadron fly the correct number of sorties?
  32. What does TPFDD Pref Mode "A" mean?
  33. How do I move/relocate an air unit (squadron) to a new location?
  34. Why don’t my targets get planned?
  35. How do I plan Preassigned Missions (PMs)?
  36. Do PMs Air Refuel?
  37. My ADP orbit Preferred Platform list shows an asset quantity of 2 aircraft per orbit, but one of my platforms is planned with only 1 sortie per Flight. Why?
  38. Hints on Air Launched Cruise Missiles?
  39. How do standoff SCLs work?
  40. How does an SCL’s standoff distance and the platform’s sensor range affect "overfly" targeting?
  41. How does an SCL’s standoff distance and the platform’s sensor range affect "standoff" targeting?
  42. What is/should be the relationship between an SCL’s standoff distance, and the platform’s sensor range?
  43. How does an SCL’s standoff distance and the platform’s sensor range affect ALCMs?
  44. How does an SCL’s Fuel Penalty work?
  45. Why doesn’t a squadron get allocated to do a mission for which it has the same preference as another squadron which __does__ get allocated to the mission?
  46. What triggers a S2A Engagement?
  47. Issues with Amphibious Waves adjudication?
  48. How are Weather Bands defined?
  49. How are RCS aspects used?
  50. How is RCS Factor calculated?
  51. What are the Sensor Profiles used for?
  52. What happened to the SOP Data, ROE Data & MinConfig data tables?
  53. What is the "glimpse" radius, and what is it for?
  54. In the JAOP GUI, what does "Success Necessary" mean?
  55. In the JAOP GUI, what does "Has BSE Types" mean?
  56. How are Category Code, Priority, % of Targets to Attack, Required Target Damage %, and Success Necessary used in the __TCT__ JAOP GUI?
  57. How about the instruments related to JAOP and JTCB planning?
  58. What is the "required damage level" for CAS?
  59. Do aircraft that are transferred to Air Ops change their state from Open to Revetted?
  60. In Air ATO Exec Order Cx, why do I see an "InvalidatedInstruction" which later launches?
  61. How are perceived target resource items fused to determine perceived target value?
  62. What’s the difference between an "Area" and a "Point" munition?
  63. What is the target Discrimination Factor?
  64. What do the A2G instruments show?
  65. Why is A2G killing 1xE<sup>-17</sup> of some resource items?
  66. In the AME Arrival instrument, what’s the difference between AirToGroundStrike and MultipleAirToGroundStrike?
  67. What has changed with A2G adjudication in R2.0SR2.30DTRA? Why does each stick report in a separate line of the Adj A2G KVS instrument?
  68. How does refueling at a FARP work?
  69. What do the altitudes in the AME Arrival indicate?
  70. Can JTCB missions target moving targets?
  71. Can JTCB missions engage target BSEs in a NoFireZone?
  72. Can OnCallStrike engage a BSE in contact?
  73. How can ships be adjudicated by Air?
  74. How can submarines be adjudicated by Air?
  75. How does MaRV (Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle) adjudication work?
  76. What is the difference between ships in Standby vs. Standdown?
  77. When a ship is killed by A2G adjudication in a port, why can’t I know which ship BSE was killed?
  78. What altitude does HCAS use?
  79. How often do the HCAS orbits relocate to a FARP which is moving?
  80. What altitude does CAS use for its orbit? I can’t find where to enter an orbit altitude
  81. What happens to the sorties allocated to CAS if the air unit is out of range of any CAS orbit (since they won’t be plannable)?
  82. Do CAS alert aircraft refuel?
  83. But do they plan on using their range or their radius before refueling?
  84. What is the alert CAS launch delay?
  85. When an alert CAS Flight launches, does it go to its orbit or to the target?
  86. Why don't my flights adjudicate once they reach their target?
  87. How does ABL engagement by side work?
  88. What target altitude is used for S2A adjudication
  89. What are PhaseIndependent, StateIndependent, and a state called "DEFAULT"?