I have found it's possible in the fleet boats to accidentally turn the air radar off and not be able to get it back on again. When you have the SJ radar installed later in the war and the radar controls are disabled, it's best not to play with the icons too much. Last night I was cruising home and like a fool decided to shoot down one of the betty's which were getting on my nerves. This of course caused a relentless cascade of h8k's which have an extremely long range and large bomb load to follow me across the ocean. I was playing with the radar icons while watching the next incoming air contact and the contact dropped although I know it was still coming in. No matter how hard I tried to reconfigure the icons to get the air mode back, it would not and I had to suffer the next four aircraft by visual only. I finally saved, restored the save and the air radar was back.
I managed to get two engines on one the the h8ks to catch fire. It flopped around, dropped another stick of bombs and flew away. Wasted ammo.
Moral: Don't play with the radar icons while in contact with an air target.
-Pv-
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