Countermeasure series

[Hotschi48]

Am new to these things on planes. Now I got a plane with flares (A-1H) and I see there are some available settings - at least in Test Flight.

There's

#1 Countermeasure series periods - the default is at 1.00s
#2 Countermeasure periods - the default is at 0.10s
#3 Countermeasure series - the default is 1

While I understand #3 (one tab at the key fires 1 flare) but what are the other 2 settings for?

[HansGruber]

It's used to program automatic countermeasures. This is a separate key from the one to pop a single flare.

You're looking at setting how many flares, In what interval, and how far apart.

Setting series to 2, periods to 0.1, and series periods to 5.0, for example, should allow you to toggle on the auto drops and then you'll pop two flares 0.1 seconds apart, followed by a 5 second pause, then two flares 0.1 seconds apart, 5 second pause, etc.

This is like the systems real aircraft use to automatically pop a flare every 6 seconds or something when in dangerous areas.

[Hotschi48]

Thank you for this helpful explanation, very much appreciated.