claude-re 4821ba7fea pilot: target select is A pressed TWICE — from the HUD tutorial, not from probing ...

HEADS-UP DISPLAY tutorial, verbatim: 'Press A twice to target the enemy closest
to the center of the screen.' A double tap, which is exactly why every button
sweep in flight-controls-runtime.md found nothing and why I concluded targeting
was automatic — each sweep tapped once. It also explains the missiles:
GuidanceType 5 guides to the GAME's selection and the loop had never made one,
so 98 launches guided to nothing.

Wired in: double-tap A when the committed contact is already within 14 deg of
the nose, so the game's choice and ours are the same object. One run: 8 kills
from 66 missiles (12% per missile) against the previous 9 from 101 (8.9%). The
absolute count is inside run variance and the efficiency gain is one sample, so
neither is claimed as decisive — it needs repeat runs.

Also documents that expository tutorials self-advance while interactive ones
stall (BASIC CONTROLS waits forever on 'Go to the box'), and that captions need
cropping across many frames because they type out.

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