BlueRidgeDx

My wife has Hello Kitty "unmentionables". I like Hello Kitty.

Yes, do it! My daughter will be thrilled!

Sel, Don't let these guys jerk your chain. I had to google the term "bronie", but I'll admit that the show is actually pretty clever. I've got about 69 episodes on the DVR for my daughter, and we enjoy watching them together. It would be better if you could keep all the existing panel lines and details of the original skin, and just add your stuff as another layer on top. It looks awfully plain without any panels or rivets. I downloaded the skin, and I'm going to let my daughter fly it this afternoon. Good work!

Yeah, but 90 knots is the stall speed for an A-10 at it's empty weight, which is a condition you'd never see in real life unless you took an empty airplane up and then ran it out of fuel. Besides, ill say one more time, you're not supposed to land a jet at stall speed. This discussion seems to have become "how unrealistically slow can I fly". There are margins built into the approach and landing speeds for a reason.

120 knots is the slowest touchdown speed you should ever see in the A-10, since that's the speed for a 30,000lb airplane. You need to add 2 knots per 1000lb over that weight. Of course, touchdown speed is 10 knots slower than approach speed. Anyway, 12 knots is at the high end of the range; you might only get 4 knots of warning. At the low end of the range, you'd be 26 knots below approach speed, and 16 knots below landing speed. Bottom line is that you should never, ever get slow enough during approach/landing to trigger the stall warning during landing in a jet. Nevah! :)

Sweet Jesus, man! Why? ;) My 4 year old daughter LOVES that show. She's always going on about Princess Celestia, Twighlight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, and that little dragon whose name escapes me. When asked, she can identify TMS, DMS, the pickle button (her favorite), and the Boat and China Hat switches on my TM Warthog. She loves shooting the gun, and now she'll be able to do it in style! Thanks!

Generally, approach speed is 1.3Vs. Approach speed is 130 knots for a light A-10, so that makes stall speed 100 knots. Touchdown speed for the A-10 is 10 knots less than approach speed, so 120 knots. That puts you 20 knots, or 20% over stall speed at touchdown. I'd have to look up the regulatory requirements, but if my memory serves me correctly, the stall horn (or stick shaker on big airplanes) comes on at 1.03 or 1.05Vs. That's not a lot of wiggle room. In the A-10, if the gear or flaps are down, the stall protection system activates a stick shaker at 1 to 2 cockpit AoA units below the stall, which gives 4-12 knots of margin above stall speed. So as you can see, if you get the stick shaker during landing, you're way too slow.

Lots of different opinions here. Moa's advice is pretty solid, with the exception that you should never, ever make a full stall landing in a jet. The Stall Warning should not be heard. Also, there's no real point to aerobraking the A-10, and the -1 manual states that the most effective way to slow down is in a 3-point attitude with speedbrakes 100%, and maximum braking. In practice, maximum braking isn't needed unless the RCR is low, or the runway is short.

I've done a bit of looking around, but haven't found anyone who's actually modded the Warthog's slew switch. Given the quality of the unit, it's hard to believe that they gave the slew switch such little thought. I was thinking it might be feasible to remove the existing "fixed" button, and instead attach a new "spiderweb" hat to the end of the microstick, perhaps cutting the length of the microstick if necessary. Does anyone know if the stock molded switch is easily removable? I got my Hog as a Christmas gift, so a solution that involves a hacksaw/blowtorch is a nonstarter for me. I've seen lots of picture of the inside of the stick handle, but none of the inside of the throttles. Anybody have any insight?

Unless the CDU is coded incorrectly, then yes, you do. The CDU winds are entered as a direction FROM, as are all winds in every facet of aviation. The Mission Editor winds are entered as a direction TO, unlike anything in aviation. If you want to use the ME winds in the CDU, you MUST switch them.

"Mild copyright infringement"? You mean steal someone else's work because you have no self control and a deferred moral compass? Nice, dude.

What a waste of electrons. If you don't like it, vote with your wallet and don't buy it. That's how capitalism works...there is no such thing as the "correct value" for a service or product. The value is whatever the market decides it is. There's nothing stopping talented developers from producing freeware products, so why the backlash? The truth is, if one can make some revenue off of their effort, they are willing to invest more time and effort on future products, usually resulting in an increase in quality. How is that bad for the community? Try looking at the 3rd party addon ecosystem surrounding the MSFS franchise (Flight excluded), and tell me that it's "moronic" to spend more money on an addon than the base product. Or that the community somehow suffers as a result of payware addons. I think it was said somewhere in that diatribe that "one person's idea of value is worthless", and I couldn't agree more. :rolleyes

Sitting still on the ground, or flying straight and level for a period of time will cause the INS transfer alignment quality to degrade. The transfer alignment requires that you change heading, not simply bank the airplane. Make a couple s-turns (30deg of heading change each) and you should be all set.

Reverse it.

I don't think the answer to that can be found in a public source. Edit: I lied. There are actually a few online sources that disclose the capability to deselect GPS updating. Here's one: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/jdam.htm

You're right, Speed. JDAM GPS corrects for INU drift. WCMDs have no GPS correction, hence a higher CEP. Both weapons are indeed navigating to point in space defined by a set of coordinates, and an elevation. Both weapons derive their present position using the aircraft's EGI (or equivalent system). WCMDs can be dropped as a conventional CBU without INU guidance, but JDAM can't. By nature of its design, if a JDAM lost it's GPS signal during guidance, it would continue to guide via INU only.

Bluepilot, Sorry I wasn't making sense last night...I think you understand how it works, but they way you describe it isn't correct. In the link I posted, take a look at the symbol again The circle represents the station. The stem of the symbol pivots around the circle to indicate the direction from which the wind is blowing. The end with the barbs is upwind. Like in your example, the jetstream is blowing west to east (left to right). The symbols are facing left, into the wind. See why ED made it the way they did? It confuses people. :)

Take a closer look, those wind barbs (that's what they're called) are pointed into the wind. Looky here: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/synoptic/sfc_plot_symbols.htm Scroll down to the "Wind Speed & Direction" section.

Sorry guys, it's late, and I must not be making much sense. Yes, the arrows are "correct", which is the crux of the issue. The arrows point in the direction the wind is blowing to. You're literally setting the "heading" of the wind. In the real world, the arrow would be facing the direction the wind is blowing from, which "some people" might find counterintuitive, since arrows generally denote the direction something is moving, not vice versa. I don't personally agree with it. It's obviously backwards to anyone who watches the weather channel, or knows anything about aviation, but it is what it is.

I believe it's an intentional design decision. For casual users, describing wind direction "from" is counterintuitive. Most people would assume that wind direction is similar to a heading - as in the direction it's going, not the direction it's coming from.

I'd have to run the sim to see if the briefing matches the editor or not. But yes, the editor is backwards...if you set wind to 090 degrees in the editor, you're telling the simulator to make the wind blow toward 090. However, in aviation, the wind would be interpreted as "from 270". You should enter 270 in the CDU.

Waxi, Just be careful with the wind...the mission editor displays wind direction TO, while the CDU displays wind FROM. If you enter the same values into the CDU that you entered into the ME, everything will be off by 180 degrees. In real world flying, all winds are described as FROM.

Yaw SAS provides turn coordination.

Want some constructive criticism? Next time, setup your profile on the ground, so you don't have to screw with the DSMS while you're flying. During the roll-in for a 45 HADB, don't pull the power back to idle or you'll end up too slow. Stand the throttles up at mid-range. You had your track set okay, but you were more than 15° shallow, 500ft high, and 50kt slow at release. The abort window is +/- 5° from planned, and +/- 25kt, so that first pass should have been aborted. The SEM started out great with a 4g pull, but then fell apart. Make sure the TVV stays within 2° of the horizon, and get back up to 4g for at least 60° of turn. You just kind of "floundered" there while you tried to score your own bombs. Never, ever, try to score your own bombs. Fly the airplane. The second pass looked better, I think you were only 10° shallow and 40kt slow. But that SEM was all over the place. 6.5g's and a chopped tone mean you're pulling too hard. You ended the second SEM the same as the first, with the nose high, and insufficient G. It's the details! :book: :smartass::joystick:

The extra unmarked position of the Intercom Rotary Selector Switch enables TACAN audio (morse ID).