Any advanced radar usage guides out there?

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I’ve been enjoying climbing every match in my 12.7+ planes, I find it a lot more fun than just mudsucking every match and fighting in a furball even if I don’t do as well currently as I would otherwise. But I feel like playing up here you really need to know how to work your radar beyond just basic stuff to actually have some kind of situational awareness. I’m pretty sure most of my deaths up here are to people getting within 15-20km of me without my knowledge. I started using tilt controls recently and that’s helped a lot, but I think there’s a lot more to it.

Another problem I’m having is say I see someone contrailing in the distance, I point my plane at them and just kinda wait for the radar to pick them up, sometimes it will take almost 5 seconds to, I’m assuming reducing my scan width will help get them on radar faster? Does scan depth/range matter for that? A lot of situations where If I got a lock even just a couple seconds faster and launched sooner I would have lived or won an engagement I lost being able to go defensive faster etc.

I get some basic things like headon modes are better for those situations but I don’t really understand the actual mechanics or advantages drawbacks of headon vs regular TWS, is there ever a situation you want to use the non TWS modes? I have the auto cyclic targeting on which kinda sticks my radar in place and makes it unable to scan far left/right on those planes that can, a million questions for sure but pretty much all the guides I’m looking for just give you enough knowledge to sling fox 3 and don’t really cover how to use radar for situational awareness, or go real in depth to things like what modes to use for what, what scan modes to use and when, etc.

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There’s many guides on radars on YouTube. Many would recommend Defyn.

You should be able to get a RWR warning when a missile is coming unless you are sideways and the missile is on the RWR’s blidspots. If what you’re doing is BVR, you should know that the RWR also tells you an approximate distance (from what I’ve seen) of the missile, and you should be able to notch or manoeuvre when necessary (have in account that some planes are heavier and will take longer to get into a notching position) I think I don’t have to say it but up there, you can ‘only’ notch (I think you already know what that means but hit me up if you don’t).

As for the Radar, if you see a plane’s contrails you can either go with ACM (or HMS) which will be faster as it automatically searches for the target and locks (although most planes are limited to a 20 Km range). Reducing scan width will also help on SRC or TWS modes and so will the range.

Be aware that if you use your radar, you give a radar signal to the enemy through the RWR, so be careful as it might sometimes be better to shut off the radar (it depends on the situation).
Basically, you should be able to find videos focused on radars and not how to SPAMRAAM.
Have a good day.