I was about to post a new thread on this issue, then saw this thread as an opportunity to introduce what is to me a new discovery about the radar interface and has nothing to do with TM.
It's possible to turn off air search radar once you have surface radar installed and the radar control icons have become enabled. Up until now I suspect most people (incuding me) were under the impression there was no control at all over the air radar. When you progress in the campaign to the point where you can install Surface Search and the controls become enabled, there is a special combination of icon clicks which renders the air search innoperable. There may be a benefit later in the war when the IJN has radar detection thus making you more stealthy, but you can be cruely bushwhacked by aircraft at any time.
Radar Icon control functionality (un-modded sim):
Icons (when you click the master radar control group icon)-
Hand | Continious Search | Single Search
Normal Operation Air Search only:
When the Hand is dim yellow (surface search inactivated) and the two icons with circles to the right are dark (grey in un-modded sim) the radar controls are in AIR SEARCH ONLY mode.
Normal Operation Air and Surface Search:
Activating the HAND to BRIGHT YELLOW activates the Surface Search in continious search mode and retains the functionality of air search.
Note: If you have an icon display other than dim hand and two dark search icons OR bight hand and one bright Continious Search Icon, you will have air search disabled.
Normal Operation No Radar:
The hand is BRIGHT yellow and the two circle icons will be dim yellow (brownish). You can obtain this mode by activating the HAND (whch by default activates the Continious Search) THEN CLICK TO INACTIVATE CONTINIOUS SEARCH. This makes both the Continious Search and Single Search mode icons available.
Note: To recover from this mode, click continious search again which will activate SURFACE SEARCH AND AIR SEARCH. Click the hand again to return to air search only (both search mode icons are grey.)
Normal Operation Single Surface Search, no Air Search:
With HAND activated (bright) deselect Continious Search (both search modes will be dim yellow instead of grey) and activate Single Search icon (which will return to dim yellow after one turn of the radar dish.
Note: To recover from this mode where the surface search is disabled after one cycle and air search is disabled, click the Continious Search icon (both the HAND and CONTINIOUS SEARCH will be bright.) You now have both radars enabled. Click Continious Search again to turn off Surface Search and leave Air Search enabled.
Other way to think about it is clicking the Continious Search Icon provides the modes where air search is disabled.
I discovered all this by sitting in an intense enemy air environment and playing with the icons. I eventually found the combos where only my bridge crew visually sighted enemy air and I could return to seeing distant air radar returns.
Hope you can follow all that without pics.
It's a shame we have to discover this complex functionality after months of play with no assistance from the manual.
-Pv-
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