SgtPappy

Such disappointment. You'd might as well be that last girl at the bar.

I'm just a nerd.

Don't you worry about the A4 gunsight's many intricacies. When all is working well, you just have to aim, press and hold a button and release. The radar does all the work for you. All the complicated parts are used if the gunsight fails because the predecessor, the A-1CM gunsight, often broke and Hughes didn't want to take any chances when building this one. And indeed, sometimes it broke as well. I don't know how this will be modeled in-game. Perhaps if you get shot in the right place, out goes your AN/APG-30 radar or maybe some gyros will break.

Absolutely stunning! I'm saving these to the HDD. Although I'm still hoping that pitot tube will be fixed before the Steam release in August.

Wow, ok. I suppose it is more reliable than I had thought. Thanks!

It never occurred to me until recently, but how does the A-10C A-G gunsight know exactly what the terrain elevation is for the GAU-8? That is, how does it so perfectly adjust for the terrain so that it can tell the pilot where the rounds will fall? It has no radar, so there are no radar reflections from the ground to detect. I would assume GPS makes no sense because it isn't perfectly accurate and it would need a terrain database and location to give the aircraft data. So I am left to assume some kind of laser-reflection from the pave penny does the terrain detection. Just guesses, but no real answer.

Ah, I FINALLY did it. Turns out a quick calibration in Windows is all it took.

Yea, sadly no matter what I do, I have to oscillate the stick up and down. I can never have such a small input as to keep the plane at a level attitude. :(

He's not talking about the hard wing Sabres. He's talking about the F-86F-35 which is what we have. Not a single one of those were in the Korean War, but as I stated above, externally, the plane is identical to the F-86F-30 which did see war action. Also no F-86A's were converted to 6-3 configuration. Only E's and early F's.

Well, damn. I'll have to invest in a new stick then... or get reeaalll good on my current setup.

This is correct. The F-86F-35 and F-86F-30 variants are so incredibly similar though, it would be absolutely no problem to simulate Korean War combat with our model. Just don't use the missiles. Externally, the two planes are essentially identical.

Have any tips for me? I've got a Logitech Extreme 3D which is years old but works so well. It's only in IFR where I get most issues. Trying to keep the plane from pulling up as I speed up or dropping its nose when I slow down is the biggest issue. I overcompensate inputs even with the smallest displacements of the stick. Should I put my Y-axis curvature up higher or something?

The slats were on the original production Sabres from F-86A to early F-86F's, as well as the F-86K. They were removed midway through the F-86F-25 and -30 production around 1952. These aircraft also have the "6-3 wing" which are the same as the regular wing but with a leading edge extended at the wing root by 6" and the tip by 3". The higher wing sweep created by the 6-3 extension also created the need for the fixed wing fence at 70% span to reduce spanwise flow as I mentioned earlier. This wing change necessitated a removable triangular prism-shaped section at the wing root to access the ammo bay doors which on previous planes were unblocked. This is probably the easiest way to see the 6-3 wing if the wing fence isn't visible. Our version is the F-86F-35 which was in production during, but showed up right after the Korean War. After the Korean War, the F-86F-40 was introduced with the same 6-3 wing, but with a 12" wing span extension on both wings plus re-introduced slats and a straight pitot tube. The Canadair Sabre Mk.6 (a.k.a. CL-13B) also reintroduced the slats,but not with the wingspan extension.

Lucky you. I'm 100% convinced you need a real, $200+ stick to even refuel. I've never been able to connect to the tanker for more than half a second as of yet.

I don't believe you're looking in the right place. What is it that you are showing us in your picture? Slats are high lift devices that are attached to the wings whose purpose is to energize the boundary layer of air over top of the wing surface at high AoA, producing lift. Ours has wing fences, which decrease the amount of span-wise airflow that would otherwise reduce the effective lift over the wing. Yes, I suppose the pilot will provide those.

It is slat-less.

What's so "below ED quality" about them?

He means torque as in prop wash, not torque as in moment or the gyroscopic effects from angular momentum that you're likely referring to. Don't know if those things are modeled or even need to be.

The F-86 has no such stall buzzer or light. Like in the P-51, the pilot must feel the subtle buffet. Though the plane has a smaller static margin than the P-51, it has no prop wash with which to contend, so physically flying the plane should be easier at combat speeds with the exception of G overshoot which happens more easily in this aircraft.

If you pull any positive G's you will hear the P-51 whistle. Hit F3 and if you turn hard enough, you'll hear it. It's awesome.

I have seen art from this before. Luckily in Canada, they teach us French in school. The illustrations are fantastic. Worth a look even if you cannot read French.

Chances are it would be the AIM-9B, at the time called the GAR-8. I don't know of any other variant of AIM-9 which the Sabre actually used to score kill with.

That's interesting, I hope so. It's a post-war F-86F so it would have the ability. We'll have to wait and see.

Well the -35 block of the F-86F was actually purpose-built to carry nukes and the cockpit screenshot says it's got controls for LABS. That's the only real difference between the F-35 and the F-30 that served in Korea. They might just not model that part though because, well, nukes.

You are correct, and this actually was the case. The training films for the aircraft taught the pilot to bow his head as the canopy closed because of this. Also later German-flown Canadair Sabres with larger ejection seats had a modified rail that moved the canopy up as well as back. What still needs to be corrected is the pitot tube. It isn't bent like it should be on all hard-wing F-86's.