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Yep, haven't had any obvious issues.

For sure would bring in some more challenging airfields to operate from.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38971/f-35s-and-f-16s-set-to-operate-from-austere-jungle-airfield-during-major-exercise-on-guam

Same, 6x AIM7 and 2X AIM9 gave me like M1.8 at 33k - oddly enough a clean jet really struggled to push M1.1 at the same alt. Really odd stuff. Moral of all of this is - high altitude drag seems a bit weird - especially that wall near 1.1

Yes sorry, I meant to quote the quy you were quoting. I agree with you.

Just did a quick and dirty spin around the block and here's what I found so far. - The engines catching fire at 30k+ feet around M1.1 seems to be resolved - You can reach M1.2-1.3 on the deck now with just two external tanks in the 14A - M1.6 around 25K with two tanks - Around 30k and above feet there seems to be much more drag than at sea level however, the thing struggles to push past 1.1 or 1.2 with two tanks, making it seem like there is way more drag at altitude than at sea level or below 25k. - the base AOA indexer brightness is increased now but the INDEXER control wheel still doesnt control the brightness of it (something the DECM switch used to do last pach). So I hope this feature gets added in the next one. Overall a decent improvement and I do hope the weird drag anomalies and the turn performance get fixed in the next one.

Based on what?

The Block 50 is not capable of that.

Just keep the current values and re-assign the brightness control to the actual indexer brightness wheel - anyone can then set his or her preferred values. Don't understand how this can be such a heated topic.

I found you need to pop up slightly, then enter a shallow dive to get the proper CCIP indication with retarded bombs. Doesn't seem to work from level or low level.

I haven't noticed any actual, quantifiable difference in my tests. The C goes for chaff like candy.

Can we exepect this to be implemented for each time you get an STT lock given the voice file is already implemented and is played while performing the respective system test?

It's nowhere near.

+1 In my opinion the most needed work for the F/A-18C to still be done. Fix the FM and FCS, then we can talk about the borderline useless A2G radar and SLAM-ER.

Chill dude. You seem way too invested in this. Point is, the indexer brightness wheel was not functioning and instead the DECM mode switch in the back controlled said brightness. It happened, someone figured it out, let's fix it asap. Simple as that. You also don't know what said SME saw on his screen. What if he had the ECM on and saw the indexer at max brightness?

Yeah no. This only affects more modern stuff - a 29A or 27S can absolutely be done since the US and other NATO allies/countries literally own them and know absolutely everything about them and their missiles. ED could absolutely do a 9.12 or 9.13 29A.

Confirmed.

Agreed. All of those issues need to be adressed in a "cleanup" update to bring the base product up to speed and not let all the new issues pile up even more. This is very basic project management.

So when are the winners going to be picked?

Cool! Hope a lot of fixes are included then. The 14 really needs a "cleanup" update to address all the numerous small issues, bugs and visual stuff still from day one.

Bruh...

Fingers (and toes) crossed.

As much as I'd personally prefer the older planes like the J-8 and Q-5, DCS seriously needs a FF SU-30MK[X] of some sort to simply offer a compareble equivalent to all the modern bluefor jets we have in the game right now. Let alone the multicrew aspect of it. Any well done SU-30 (which Deka are more than capable of given what they showed with the JF-17 for the most part) would sell like hotcakes.

Can we expect the early -A in the next patch?

This is hilarious.