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- Ground Attack
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- The first method of ground attack is with cannon or unguided rockets. To
- use these, fly in slowly with air brakes on and simply line your sights up
- with the target and fire the weapon. Use long bursts of cannon or salvos of
- rockets to destroy enemy buildings or "hardened" targets.
- The F/A 18 also carries AGM-65B Mavericks which are optically guided
- missiles. To use these guided missiles, point in the direction of the enemy
- target and press RETURN to lock the missile on. Then press the middle button
- to launch the weapon. Several missiles are often needed to destroy the enemy
- target. Mavericks are expensive weapons, not to be wasted on minor targets.
- Valid targets show as yellow on your radar.
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- Navigation
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- The easiest way to get to the target area is to use the preset waypoints.
- These are programmed into your plane's onboard computer, allowing your
- inertial navigation system to guide you to the target area.
- Waypoint O will always be your home base and so can be used to find your
- way back after a strike mission. Other waypoints will mark targets, or
- simply your flight path, and these should be flown to in numerical order.
- Your plane has several ways of telling you which direction to fly in, in
- order to get to a certain waypoint. First use ";" to toggle to the correct
- waypoint. Then use either the marker at the top of the HUD display, or your
- pointing compass, to head towards the waypoint (turn to the left or right
- until the large green needle is pointing upwards).
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- Press SELECT to end basic training