Was probably for the best it didnt lock. That is a bad shot for something like the aim7c.
I have been playing a couple matches in it and the aim7c seems to be locking fine for me. I can get locks several kms out and fire. But i would suggest to not be doing shots outside of like 5km. The engine just does not give it enough energy.
It doesn’t even try to lock for me. Finally got around to re-spading the FGR.2 so I could test the Skyflash missiles, hoping that they would at least attempt to work. However, seems they can be added to the list of ‘does nothing’ missiles. Thought that was as much as I could do, but then remembered I have a MiG-21 SMT that’s been semi-spaded for years and I have a radar missile for that - the R-3R. Tried that in Test Flight and, what a surprise, the Russian missile actually goes into ‘ACQ’ when you fire it up and can lock onto targets, unlike those other missiles.
I can promise you, you are doing something wrong if this is what you think.
I agree. All of my missiles will at least warm-up. And they only have trouble locking when given bad aspects.