LilMak, CAV: I think what you are seeing is how "seen" works, so here are the rules.
A contact is "seen" when any friendly player sees it:
- That friendly can be in flight or in the tower, and that includes you. Sitting on the runway or in the tower, you are seeing for your whole country.
- Seen range is out to dot range, about 7.5 miles in the MA. That is a lot farther than icon range.
- It needs a clear line of sight: not through terrain or clouds, and not in the sun.
- AI planes do not see for anyone.
Radar towers have nothing to do with seen contacts, so dar down does not stop them. Dar down only stops the 5 second radar dots.
A seen contact updates every 20 seconds and stays up to about 35 seconds after the last sighting. That is why a plane that just landed can still show on the clipboard for a bit.
So with dar down at your base and you on the runway, bombers crossing the ring within about 7.5 miles of you are "seen" by you.
If you still see one that nobody within about 7.5 miles could have seen, an alt print screen of the clipboard plus where every friendly was would help me track it down.
HiTech