near_blind

What were the circumstances when you ran into it? I haven't seen the fuel drain issue in months

Were you respawning by any chance?

Sounds to me like an issue with execution

The Zero Doppler Filter still exists. If closure drops too low, the lock will drop

The GBU-32s in that one photo disagree.

I believe there's a fix for this in the next patch

The news is that it's coming eventually.

Here's a video where an F-14 doesn't explode while pulling 16Gs https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

The wing sweep settings are intentional, the game only allows one "configuration" for spawns apparently, and this was the solution to prevent the F-14 from destroying itself and other aircraft by spawning into carrier decks with the wings unswept.

Having hopped in with the latest OB. I spawned on the runway with wings in over sweep. This is expected and intended as a fix for carrier stuff. You now need move the wings forward into the spider detent and reset the CADC. I was not connected to ground power or air supply at spawn. I could contact the ground crew over the intercom to connect/disconnect ground air supply, and they responded I could contact ATC over the radio with the proper frequency selected, and they responded. Think of the wing sweep handle on a track that goes from 20 to 100. The handle should only be able to move between 20 and 68 using the hat switch and/or the auto program. The EMER/OVER flag should only raise if the handle reaches 69. Right now it's raising when it reaches 68. In all of my testing it's just been a visual issue, it would hit 68, the flags would raise, but then if you slowed down/manually moved them forward with the hat, the flag would lower and the auto/man flag would come back up as expected. I've never seen it go to EMER/OVER and get stuck there without me moving the handle physically. This should be fixed in the next patch.

Were you able to contact them to get the ground power/air connected? This is a visual bug with the wingsweep indicator and shouldn’t actually effect the wing sweep schedule/behavior. It should be resolved next patch I’ll take a look when I get a chance

Any mods installed?

What mode are you trying to use? What speed and altitude are you at while trying to engage the autopilot? Are you level? climbing? diving? I'm not sure what knobs you'd be rotating, but you've got A/P master set to on?

Nothing but a lame pun. SAAB makes the Viggen, Gestapo were secret police of Nazi Germany. Gestapo + SAAB = GeSAABpo The accepted reason we're probably not going to see a JA-37, especially a late one, is that certain parts of it's systems were iterated upon to form the basis of the Grippens systems, and are still considered Swedish state secrets. Maybe we'll get an AI one someday.

Do you want to get disappeared by the GeSAABpo? This is how you get disappeared by the GeSAABpo. The secret of the datalink must be maintained!

Here's my confusion though. You're alternating between you can't see the switches, and you don't like how they look. Some people in the thread are indicating they can't see the switches with their hardware, and then there's a conflation that this is because of how grimey/dirty/etc the cockpit is. Where I'm coming from is a hypothetical clean up isn't going to help much if you can't read the switches in the first place. Here's "our" actual Tomcat Note that for most of the controls that a pilot is likely to meaningfully interact with in the course of flying or fighting the jet: the ACM panel, the PCDP, the instrument panel, the labelling is about as clear as in our jet, which is about as clear as in the pictures that allegedly show a "clean" cockpit. I don't see how if people already can't read the text that is about as clear as it got, making the dirtier text cleaner is going to help much. This strikes me as an issue with a user's hardware setup, but that's just me. If it's an issue of taste, I don't understand how the cockpit can be objectively wrong if the only evidence against it is subjective taste. I haven't seen anything that clearly proves that F-14 is unreasonably dirt except the opinions of people who have not sat in one, and a couple of pictures showing areas of the cockpit that look pretty similar to what we have. On the contrary there's a post from someone who's sat in F-14s as they were that says it looks about right. I've talked to multiple friends who have flown naval aircraft who all agree it looks about right for a working cockpit. If you want your cockpit to be clean because you have a romanticized view of something akin to the SF2 mattel cockpit, that's fine, but that's not a reason to change the aircraft. That's what mods are for.

Mach .9 is on the edge of where the autopilot is going to lose effectiveness because of transsonic shenanigans. I'll check if it's expected to be able to hold, but you might be going too fast. null Checking the NATOPs, See if the problem persists if you're not at M0.9

- the missile mode switch, master caution reset switch, SEAM, collision and hot trigger lights - both engine stall annunciators - both banks of VDI caution lights - The entire threat warning indicator - the entire left hand, windshield warning indicators - the entire VTR box - the entire HUD camera control head - the emergency hydraulics switch and control head - Master Test Panel - both floods and the taxi light switch - both banks of VDI caution lights - Hydraulic isolation switch labeling - the throttle markings - backup ignition switch - throttle mode switch, backup ignition switch, right and left engine mode switches, - the entire SAS panel - VEC/PCD switch I can make out all of those switches, even the non-interactable ones. Can you not?

How fast are you going? and at what altitude?

That is a list of things in the cockpit, yes. I can see a number of them in that screenshot, and to me they are _clearly readable_. Are they not for you?

I didn't exactly come to my user name at random. I _do_ have an astigmatism and glasses so thick you can cook ants with them on a sunny day, and yet I find the cockpit perfectly readable. I honestly can't see a difference between the supplied images of a supposedly "clean" cockpit and what I've posted when it comes to the button or switch labels. I'd agree the HB advisory lights are a little more diffuse, but at the same time I've got no trouble reading them. Of course everyone is different, my eyesight is not your eyesight, I merely find it funny that the person above accused the artist of having sight problems, yet here we are. I might also suggest that at some point, that isn't a Tomcat issue, that's a vision correction issue. Failing that, Xtreme mods exist for this sort of thing.

Y'all really can't read that?

Aren't there two versions? One was an abbreviated Instant mission, and the other was the original

So is it an AIM-9L, an AIM-9J, or neither fish nor fowl?

Closest you could do would be an offset attack, but you'd still have to visually designate the initial point. The original ground attack capabilities of the F-14 are firmly in the realm of daylight bombing with visual delivery.