Machalot

Maybe my addition to the bug report is that RB15s also don't detect them.

Previously in this thread it was clearly stated the aircraft is capable of flying safely with 4 in terms of mass, inertia, and aerodynamics, but is only wired to power and communicate with/ control HARMs on 2 of the pylons. I always thought K was for Kombat.

Leaving early will definitely cause problems. Make sure you wait until they're done, because I think the last steps they do are to set up the aircraft's Stores Management System.

I joined the Hoggit Persian Gulf server, loaded RB15s, and flew toward a pair of oil platforms near an island. The radar never showed any returns from the oil platforms, though it showed other ships en route and the nearby islands. I set Bx8 to the location of the oil platforms by using the relative position of the island. The RB15s flew directly past the oil platforms aa if they didn't exist. No track for this yet because it was a very big and long mission. Is this a known issue?

Ok,I didn't know there was a slave function for Mavs to waypoints.

From my reading of the OP I think it should be the last two bindings in the list.

I'm unclear what Mavericks have to do with this. They use their own onboard seeker, not the jet's INS. Is there something I don't understand?

I would guess this is to avoid contact between the station 2 store and the deck.

Interesting. I read elsewhere on these forums that IRL mil power takeoffs were common, and that AB takeoff was limited to stage 2 to avoid damaging the runway. I don't know how reliable the source was.

At the same time, the dry thrust seems underwhelming. The jet struggles to get off the ground without afterburner.

Sorry, that was just poor writing on my part.

Good to clarify. What I meant, but wrote ambiguously, was the only types of true bombs it has are unguided M71s (BK90 is a munitions dispenser), without the laser or INS/GPS guidance available in other jets -- no equivalent for GBUs. So employing bombs requires flying skill. Not to say it lacks other types of guided weapons.

Anyone noticed if the nozzle position is absolutely fixed in each zone, or if it has a specific position that varies with Mach and altitude (but not with thrust lever setting)?

I don't know why that should matter. In NAV the aircraft should still navigate and measure the aircraft's motion as the ship moves, just without the benefit of increased accuracy from error correction of GPS.

"Narrow wheel base"

Yeah. "Turn Capabilities" is a bad title. It's just the solutions to the Aernautics 101 kinematical equations for steady level turns, which is purely geometrical and independent of aircraft type.

It took me a while to learn how to operate the weapon systems. Then it took some practice to develop the flying skill to effectively employ the bombs using the bombsight. It takes more flying skill than the A-10 or F-16 to employ weapons accurately because it has only unguided bombs and generally no CCIP mode (only for very specific situations). But once I developed the skills and muscle memory, it became very gratifying to deploy weapons. The the low level high speed flying (25 m altitude, Mach 0.9 typical) is a blast.

I think repairing resets a lot of things to their original state. I will test this again next time I play the Viper.

I think that makes sense, since the receiver queue forms on the left, and that avoids forcing the second receiver to cross over an aircraft on the left basket to reach the right.

I think that depends on altitude.

How would you even get an alignment with -289 ft altitude as shown in the picture?

Slightly off topic but I just saw another thread complaining the STD HDG align always reverts to the original spawn point rather than storing the state at shutdown. Are you seeing different behavior?

Could you also use Vertical Scan mode?

I haven't verified it myself. To test the range, you could quickly go TMS right to ground stablize (area track) and take a laser range measurement using first trigger detent. The range shows up with an L in the lower left portion of the TGP display, in nautical miles. It should be half the radar range plus a little bit for Pythagoras.

I think ED determined that was not a realistic feature of the TPOD, and it was replaced with Snowplow.