BMS F-16C/D 4.34, Flight Manual

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T.O. BMS1F-16CM-1 BMS 4.34 Change 2.00
BMS 4.34 Dash 1
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The Menu page is the link between all subpages. It is displayed when the DA button is depressed
while that particular page is already displayed (pressing FCR when FCR is already being displayed for
instance).
You can thus access any subpages in any master mode from this page: Stores Management System
(SMS), Horizontal Situation Display (HSD), Data Transfer Equipment (DTE), TEST page, FLCS page,
Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) page, Terrain Following Radar (TFR), Weapon (WPN) page,
Targeting Pod (TGP) page; Fire Control Radar (FCR), BLANK page, HARM Attack Display (HAD)
page, Reconnaissance (RCCE) and RESET page.
1.4.2. Sensor of Interest (SOI)
You will need to work on one MFD rather than the other one sometimes. To let the system know
where you are focusing your attention you need to use the Sensor of Interest mechanisation. Imagine
the following example: the FCR is SOI and set on the left MFD and the HSD is on the right. You would
like to delete a threat ring on the HSD but if you move your cursor the captains bar moves both in the
HSD and the FCR. To tell the system that you want to work specifically on the HSD, you need to make
the HSD SOI. To do so, simply move the DMS (Display Management Switch) on your HOTAS down.
The SOI toggles from one MFD to the other. The visual cue for MFD SOI is the big square box drawn
outside the OSB labels. If a MFD is not SOI the text NOT SOI is displayed in the centre, reminding the
pilot that this display is not the Sensor of Interest.
Above, the FCR on the left MFD is the SOI and displays the large square SOI cue around the edge of
the display. The TGP on the right MFD does not display the SOI cue and instead shows the NOT SOI
cue in grey in the middle. Only one MFD can be SOI at a time.
DMS up selects the HUD as SOI (if the HUD is in a mode allowing SOI). In this case the SOI cue is an
asterisk shown in the top left corner of the HUD. DMS down toggles SOI from one MFD to the other.
Since BMS 4.33 slewing your ground cursor position (System Point of Interest or SPI) will effectively
slew your current steerpoint by adding a system delta to all steerpoints. All NAV and weapon delivery
steering and symbology, including the great circle steering cue (tadpole) will be referenced to the
amended steerpoint(s). The CZ mnemonic will be highlighted in aircraft with the Nav EGI upgrade if a
system delta exists (i.e. SPI slew).
Pilots should use the following routine to revert the system solution back to the original navigation
solution if cursor slews have been made:
TMS down - Cursor Zero - Wide Field of View (OSB#3).
This habit should be developed after each cursor slew phase and at each IP if cursor slews have been
made.
Please see the chapter on SPI Management in the TO-BMS1F-16CM-34-1-1 for more details.