Ddg1500

It’s been a while no see dude, I have basically solve those tomcat speed problems through some aggravating mistakes and pain, I have to say refueling is probably harder than case1, it’s a precise work, you could smash on to the deck if you want, but it would be highly unlikely for clumsy players to stay in position of refueling for long

Yeah, for me I would like to leave the wing sweep to CADC as sweeping too backwards creates too less lift and it would more likely to pitch down a lot during refueling and that’s why I usually would sweep the wing forward to keep the some more lift

Hello, I’m gonna give those fresh f14 pilots some useful tips for aerial refueling, I will provided in a list of tips. You could correct me if I’m wrong, I’m happy to accept your opinion 1 TRIM THE AIRCRAFT, tomcat doesn’t have fly by wire which requires some but not constant trimming to balance the aircraft’s AoA and vertical speed, if you don’t trim but instead wrongfully use full stick to control the aircraft then you will be impossible to refuel as it will pitch up&down drastically, so LEARN TO TRIM. 2 CONSTANT THROTTLE ADJUSTMENTS, tomcat both A&B requires CONSTANT &small while sometimes slightly excessive throttle adjustment to control the approach and leave speed to the basket, if you only make slow and nearly static throttle control, then you will quickly realize that you will either overspeed, or simply to slow to react to the speed of tanker, if you make constant adjustments, you will realize that tomcat is much easier to control in speed than a nearly static throttle , furthermore, the throttle also exert a massive impact on the unpredicted sink or rise due to turbulence, correctly adjusted the throttle up and down together with slight stick control will magically and effectively reduce the effects of turbulence, trust me 3 Don’t be rushy to catch up the tanker, many fresh f14 pilots are rushy to catch up the tanker and result in excessive overspeed and outpace the tanker, like I said, constant throttle adjustment is the magic wand to approach to tanker steadily without excessive overspeed. 4 The correct way to control the throttle is like pushing it forward slightly to certain extent to engage an approach and return slightly when it is too fast, and with constant small adjustments to throttle up and down will make f14 apparently more controllable in approach speed, and you will also find that you don’t need too much stick adjustment to stabilize to aircraft. 5You would need some slight but not too much stick movement before the contact and after to stabilize, you would need experience to learn it 5 The DLC thumb wheel will also help you to extent and retract the leading edge slats to compensate the undesirable pitch, heatblur didn’t mention this functionality in the manual but it act works. Trust me 6 You will realize that throttle adjustment will result in significant oscillation which is reasonable since you are not flying perfectly flat but with a little pitch up as seen in your hud ladder, if you realize that you have pilot induced oscillation, try to correct it with small throttle adjustment and small stick movement, you need experience to learn it so be careful, many people don’t realize this issue and had caused serious problems when contact so BE AWARE And lastly, get yourself a good flight sim rig, it’s straight impossible to refuel with keyboard

Well, you made a fairly good point, I would also want more of those including the reagan

Hello, it would be very good if there could be a chance, that ED could bring the Reagan into super carrier module,

Thanks, after i tried your approach, the problem is solved, and i would further comment there was still some lateral movement after brake below 80 knots, use nws to correct it intead

This is my most recent touchdown, it is so far one of the less distributing situation among many of the chaotic touchdowns, in all three video i tried to correct the sideskid using full rudder and lateral stick movement, i even immediately engaged brakes after touchdown in video 2&3, yet the tomcat still have uncontrollable or even more sideskid after slowing down, if this was normal situation the aircraft would have run out to the grass in majority of my situation, i just can't slove it, it upset me a lot, the aircraft is ok for a moment while still having some speed, but would lost control after slowing down, in general it would be hard to control it not to rush out, the video may not look so serious it was because i done my best to control it, and it was one the less worse ones

Yes, I’ll probably check if there was some double binding issue, but would likely with no results, cause I’m confident that there is no double binding issue for me, and honestly after at least 20 times trying, I really don’t know how to sort this thing out, if this was what real tomcat pilot’s experience, then they would 10/10 rush out of run way And what is that spike on the brakes you mean?

The only possible explanation of this unprecedented issue is probably due to the reason that heatblur modified the ground handling of tomcat Which they did post on their website

So what exactly should I do?

No, I didn’t

Hi, recently I picked up tomcat again and tried to land on the ground at Neills Air Force base, everything was fine before final touch down. After touchdown, I found tomcat particularly prone to sideslip on the runway, I tried to compensate this problem by engaging antiskid spoiler with combination of rudder steering, and with full wheel brake, but tomcat still seems very prone to sideslip or even full drift after touch down, what is more awful is the rudder and spoiler would completely lost effect after lowering to certain speed, making aero steering completely useless, making me always rush out of the runway with no choice. I would say I have never met with this issue ever before, and I tried to repeat to solve it it at least 16 times with no solution. maybe this is because heatblur had modified the ground handling of tomcat could someone offer me a solution?

Yes, I used it highly frequently

Hello, I have been training carrier landing in f14b for some days, I found something very weird with its FM and engine performance during carrier landing. the first and foremost is that the thrust of f110 is somewhat smaller than tf30 at certain rpm, the f110 seems to generate less thrust than tf30 at the same rpm say like 85%, and to basically equalize the thrust with tf30, the f110 would need around additional 5%rpm to match that of the tf30’s, which is very weird especially considering f110 is apparently more advanced than tf30 with greater thrust. Second, the f14b’s sink rate and speed seems harder to manage than f14a, for example, at 85% rpm, the f14a can remain static in speed and level in sink rate during the final banking, however , if that was f14b then it would quickly stall, if I try to increase the thrust to 87% it would still stall(which reflect the first problem), though i can correct it by increasing rpm to 90%, but another new problem emerged which is too much thrust, making the sink rate to 1-3 above zero, after numerous try, I found that there just seems to not have a intermediate rpm that can both ensure that the aircraft is on speed while having a low or 0 sink rate with stable speed, which troubled me quite much. I think this could likely be a glitch in the flight model, I think heatblur should re-examine the low speed engine performance of f14b. And yes, I can replicate it

I personally think my i7 7700 is capable enough not to have a overload problem, as the in-game processing demand is far higher than the one of search engine

Hello, about serval month ago, there was a server list freeze problem that happens when server search server reach a certain number, the control would freeze and everything became unclickable. it happens again now, I tried to restart the game or wait until the server to respond but were unhelpful can anyone give me a solution

I found just now that the server list in beta version would completely freeze after searching for server for a certain time, making every button in the server list and around unclickable, but the game would be still running, I could only quit the game by the task manager, is there any solution to it?

I see , thanks

I don’t know if this is just my personal experience or not, it been some weeks since the release of this module and yet I still haven’t seen any f15e flying in the sever, supposedly it should be all over the sever, I’m using the steam version without beta version, can someone give me a answer

Recently I’ve practiced quite a lot on f14a and b’s carrier landing, I basically overcame numerous difficulties such as trimming the aircraft; trying to catch the E brackets for extended period with mature use of dlc to control the sink rate and E bracket and so on. Despite considerable improvements, I found that the most deadly phase(personally)in carrier landing is not the final glide down to the deck, but the banking turn before the glide down. Because at this phase, f14B (fuel 7500 clean load out)would need 90% rpm at around 140 knots to ensure not stalling, which is a very low speed, if you stay below 90% rpm or slightly below such as 87% rpm while staying at 140, you will highly quickly find the aircraft is still slowing down rapidly and is stalling fast instead of remaining at around 140 and being stable at banking.( many people have speed around 150 or beyond when banking, without catching the E bracket, that’s just not the correct way to do carrier landing, the correct way would be the one done by reflected simulations) At this moment, you either throttle up immediately to full military power or even afterburner to gain speed , or crash the airplane, which I experienced both multiple times. Furthermore, you still need to catch the E bracket, and when you begin your banking below the mentioned power and speed(90% 140) you will immediately find the E bracket plummet down to a very low position and you literally are stalling To solve this problem, I would recommend advance the throttle immediately to 90%( f14a would need around 85%) while maintaining at around 140 knots accompanied with dlc adjustment to making sure the banking is stable, while catch the E bracket. I’ve strong respect to those real tomcat pilots, if this is exactly what they experienced in real life, then they are absolutely elite of elite, because they are risking their life to tame such a hard aircraft many times a month, which would make landing hornet apparently easier. Disclaimer: this article only represents personal opinion of the handling characteristics of Tomcat, it does not represent the opinions of other people.

Hello, recently I’ve been try to pick up both f14 variant’s case 1, I found the E bracket on the tomcat really hard to catch, I did trim the aircraft with careful throttle input. In most cases the e bracket is too high to catch due to high speed, and by the time when E bracket is reachable, the aircraft would have nearly stalled, let alone for the banking before the final approach. There is another problem at this state, the f14A’s engine would be highly susceptible to compressor stall and would stall every time when the e bracket is catchable making landing very, very difficult. I would say it would be easier if I don’t try to catch the e bracket to land the aircraft. Is there a solution to this problem?

Just found out recently that f14's control senstivity would differ according to the different air speed, the faster the plane flies, the more senstitive the control would be and vice versa, which clearly reflect the high fedility of the FM, and i also found out f14 is much less sensitive and easier to refuel at low speed like 180knots or below with tanker like kc130, but however, if refeuling with a tanker like kc135 at 280 knots( or 0.7 mach), then the jet is literally unrefuelable because of the horribly sensitive control (personally) cause by the faster air flow which generate more steer force, which make accurate control almost imopssible(i'm using a virpil hotas with no curves), i realized this by repeatedly trying to refuel in kc135 and always fail, so far i i've never made any contact with kc135, but with kc130 at low speed, it suddenly turns possible, so air speed is denfinitely a factor in air to air refueling. the slower the tanker is, the more refuelable the f14 is.

Hello, i'm a big fan of heatblur's f14 moduel, recently i've tried to do aerial refueling with my virpil hotas, but i always can't put the probe into the basket, mainly because the f14 is too sensitive over contorl, it either pitch way too sensitively or bank too much, even if i sweep the wings to bomb mode or give it a curvature of 25 on both x and y axises, and make the most minor control over the stick, it still fly too sensitively, so i think there might be something wrong with the flight model, after watching some real refueling footage, i think their is some huge difference between the flight model and real life. in the footage(see 4:46), it's seens tomcat is apperantly more controllable at all aspects at aerial refueling in real life, whereas in dcs tomcat literally would fly over if done the same, i've tried multipule times and i can confidently say that, so maybe there is some inaccuracy in the flight model. Maybe it needs some more tuning on the flight model.

i just restart my sas and autopilot is still not working

yes