WarthogOsl
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Today, after updating, I was trying to connect to an MP server, and timed out connecting to it. I saw the timeout dialog, but after I dismissed it, I could not open the main menu. I ended up having to go into task manager to quit the game. This happened several times. I feel like this was happening a while back, but was fixed?
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Yeah, I don't get why you'd need the zero doppler filter for that reason then.
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Is PD any more prone to seeing the inside of the radome versus pulse radar?
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I'm not sure it really says that, or perhaps it's badly worded. If you look at the diagram of the DDD with an target at 7 various aspects and rates of closure, only the one flying at 90 degrees to the radar is invisible.
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I think some were taken directly from Navy, Grumman, or Hughes sources. Some appear to have been redrawn in a slightly different style, presumably based on those sources. Here's an example from Stevenson's book, which is credited to U.S. Navy:
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Fwiw, most of these graphics appeared, in their original form, in James Perry Stevenson's "F-14 Tomcat," from around 1975.
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In DCS, at least, it's possible to move the wings just after shutting down the engines. There's still hydraulic pressure, I'd assume.
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So should it be yellow tinted tape then?
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If you don't have a stick extension, try refueling with the wings in bomb mode. It tends to be less pitch sensitive.
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Here's me last night, 26 miles away when the first missile impacts. I wasn't even trying that hard, fwiw (cranking, but not quite to gimbal limits). Launch was at 53 miles from 40k.
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F-14A/B Flight Model Tuning - Guided Discussion
WarthogOsl replied to IronMike's topic in DCS: F-14A & B
Probably Kurt Schroeder, as he's been interviewed a few times. I think Dale Snodgrass (whose father worked at Grumman) also called it a 10G airplane. -
I'd be surprised if those buttons got pressed enough to get worn out from use faster than any other buttons in the jet. It also seems like the issue only affected the 2-stage buttons. For example, the master caution light/button doesn't have anything retaining it when the metal plate-fix shows up on the ACM panel.
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I assumed it was more of a design issue with those buttons.
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How did they fix them?
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F-14A/B Flight Model Tuning - Guided Discussion
WarthogOsl replied to IronMike's topic in DCS: F-14A & B
My copy of "The Encyclopedia of World Airpower" shows 82,000lbs, as does the appendix of Heater Heatley's "The Cutting Edge." -
For sure, but not the early hi-viz liveries, as I said. Definitely not VF-84 in those days.
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Yeah, I have a few of his, as well. However, while I'm not really a rivet counter, the turbine warning stripe should not extend across the middle of the fuselage on any of the early liveries.
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Like that, yes, though there's a small, but noticeable inaccuracy on that version (hint, it's toward the back).
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Ah, but notice I said white flaps...because by 1980 VF-84 still had white bellies, but the tops of the flaps and stabs were gray instead of white.
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I'm really curious as to what new liveries we will get (still hoping for early, white flapped, VF-84).
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i agree, it's great! BTW, here's another new one I'd recommend: the soft cover version of "Half Century Baby!" This was originally a larger format hard cover that was pretty expensive. I had tried ordering it a few times, and kept receiving it damaged. The soft cover is only $14 on Amazon, though, and I'm very happy with it! Lots of pictures and new side-view art work.
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F-14 right engine artwork with afterburner in the F2 view
WarthogOsl replied to scommander2's topic in DCS: F-14A & B
It's been like that for a long time. Basically, any time you switch to an external view, it shows the afterburners lighting up, even if they were already lit. -
The U-2 can do other things aside from photo recon...for example signals intelligence stuff. It can probably do that while loitering out of range of SAM's. Satellites can't loiter.
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JPS wrote a great F-14 book as well!
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Keep in mind the U-2 is still in service. Among other things the SR-71, by definition, could not stay on station or loiter for very long, could not do real time data transfer (the U-2 can), and was of course, very expensive to operate.
