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You flew at that speed at 2000 feet? That’s you problem right there.

That’s great and all but what were your cruise settings? What altitudes did you fly at for each aircraft? What throttle settings? also if you don’t like the mig why are you here?

It’s a good incentive to not get shot down in multiplayer, makes me fly a little more realistically, reminds me not to take risks as a full start and INS calling awaits if I mess up.

Holy thread necro Batman seriously though why did they misspell night?

It’s been a while, I’m doing the F4 mig killers campaign at the moment, they’re a Mach 4 missile, though the top speed varies wildly. It’s dependent upon your launch parameters, a Phoenix launched down low in the thick atmosphere will be much slower and have a much shorter range than one launched up high.

Get yourself high and fast, the less atmosphere the phoenix has to go through means less drag, if you can get through the transonic region to Mach 1.2 (a lot of drag in the transonic area) before you launch that’ll help too.

When you’re on finals and you’re all nicely trimmed out use power to adjust your glide slope.

The old tgp needing a restart was a bug iirc

Is that the window with the drawing tools in it?

When in VR the input window where you can write appears at the front of your view where the jester wheel normally appears. It’s a bit inconvenient but it’s apparently a limitation of the DCS engine.

Don’t you think the design teams and engineers have been through all this? It’s fun to imagine what would I do in their shoes but these people know what they are doing. When is the last time you heard of a screen failing in an aircraft? This isn’t new technology any more.

Grease pencil works in VR, I was using it yesterday. The only issue is the input window appears at the front in the same place as the jester wheel but that’s a DCS limitation.

Turns out I had set the aircraft wear to 45% when I created the mission file. Just for the fun I set it to 100% to see what that would do.... On one occasion the Pave Spike actually zoomed out further when i tried to go to 4X zoom which i thought was hilarious.

That’s nuts about the gun camera, forward vis out of the phantom already sucks with the rwr display and the equipment for the pave spike up there. mcdonnell douglas really didn’t care too much about pilot ergonomics when they developed the phantom.

For the people having trouble, what headsets are you using? I’m still using my old valve index and don’t have any trouble with the cockpit being too dark. also don’t forget the phantom is terrible for cockpit ergonomics, it is / was dark, with controls and instruments in dumb places (ger and flap indicators). There’s a reason they don’t make them like this any more.