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Also, don’t forget that when you’re refuelling, the tanker is putting something into your aircraft not the other around.

Come to think about it, pilots always refer to their aircraft as "she/her" while refer to the tanker as "Mr. tanker", so it make more sense for the tanker plug the boom into an aircraft to refuel.

This ^^^ and the stereotypical Hornet pilots in DCS are noobs. The Hornet is for noobs and the Viper is for men.

At least in the Viper you have the speed to disengage if you get into a bad situation. If you get into a bad situation in the Hornet and trying to run away, you're most likely get caught up and swatted out of the sky like an annoy little bug. Who needs a better radar when there is AWACS in the air? At least the F-16's official name: Fighting Falcon is a majestic bird while the F/A-18 is named after an annoying little bug that everyone considers it to be a pest. All jokes aside, I love both of these aircraft as well.

I’m curious, what do you do when you face better air to air fighters such as the F-14, F-15, and F-16 in the Hornet? They have a kinetic advantage over you and you can’t run away from the fight.

Haha, a little trash talk is always fun. Despite that Hornet fans are winning in the poll they appear to be losing in why their aircraft is better than the Viper. I guess Hornet fans aren't as passionate as the MiG-21 fans. If you diss the MiG-21, they will try to hit back with everything they get. **Spoiler Alert** They have a nuke.

Really? I thought the Viper is harder to refuel than the Hornet since boom refuelling is harder than the probe and drogue refuelling. I haven't try AAR in the Hornet yet but I can say that AAR in the Viper is not easy.

I started a thread about a F-16C vs. F/A-18C a few days ago, You can find the thread here: It seems like more people prefer the Hornet. I have flown both of these aircraft but I favour the Viper slight due to its better performance and its system is easier to manage. Also, I feel that the Viper is more satisfying when landing. I'm curious, what make you favour the Hornet more beside it being a more complete module?

I found myself flying the Viper more often than the Hornet recently due to the extra performance. If I want to do carrier ops, I always fly the Tomcat. However, I feel that I might be flying the Hornet more often once the Marianas map is released due to its anti-ship capability.

The friendly rivalry between the Air Force and Navy: In DCS, we have the F-16C, a multirole fighter for the USAF, and the F/A-18C, a multirole fighter for the USN. Which one of these plane do you prefer more? And why?

Does anyone have any tip for landing the F-16 with asymmetrical loadout? I found it pretty difficult because you need to re-trim the aircraft when your speed changes and your speed will constantly change during landing.

I usually fly with 4 AIM-120C + 2 AIM-9X + 2 wing tanks loadout. The problem is that I kept the afterburner on most of the time which cost me a lot of fuel. I got this bad habit from War Thunder. And when I need to land because I'm low on fuel sometimes it can lead to disaster like this: (This happened in a Liberation sortie where I only managed to get 1 AIM-120 off before I ran low on fuel) I guess I need to remember that DCS is not just a death match and limit my after burner use a bit. As for Tacview, I haven't downloaded it yet. I wonder whether it is free since I occasionally heard someone does give away for Tacview on YouTube.

One of the biggest problem I have with the F-16 is that it has poor fuel endurance. I had several incidences that I'm running low on fuel in the middle of an air to air engagement and having to disengage and RTB because I left the afterburner running for too long (I blame War Thunder for this /s). I usually run two fuel tanks so I'm wondering whether running three fuel tanks is worth it. Also, how do I when a fuel tank is empty so that I can jettison it?

Interesting. I'm not sure what's the max range of the Viper's radar to detect a fighter sized target (I haven't got the time to dig through all the manuals so please don't judge me on that) but I heard from somewhere that it's around 40 nmi or so. If that's the case, the Viper might still have an advantage in air to air since it got the kinetic performance to sling an AMRAAM at 40 nmi. I'm not sure the Hornet can do that tho.

I have been hearing a lot of contradicting comments about the Hornet's air to air capability lately. On one side, some people think that the Hornet cannot beat or have the ability to run away from a properly flown F-14, F-15, or F-16 in air to air engagements unless merged due to its slower speed. On the other side, some people think that the Hornet actually have an advantage in air to air engagements because of its avionics (the Hornet has the best radar, ASPJ, and a lot of tools that can give you a great SA). What do you guys think about it? Do you think the Hornet is on par with the F-14, F-15, and F-16 in air to air engagements?

I noticed that the F-16C has a tendency to flip over if you’re not careful when taxiing and I have trouble to keep it on the runway after landing even when the nose wheel steering is off (guiding it to the runway isn’t very hard tho). I’m wondering how I should steer it to keep it on the runway. Should I use the left and right wheel brakes to steer it instead of the rudder? Also, when is the best time to idle the throttle and flare?

I’m kind getting mixed messages about how to launch the AIM-54. I read the article about the AIM-54 kill probability on Fly-and-wire and it stated that the AIM-54 is the most reliable when launched at high altitude around 35 nm. On the other hand people suggest to fly the F-14 at low altitude and launch the 54 at targets above you to prevent notching. The MLC filter will be off when you’re more than 3 degrees below your enemy so that the enemy cannot notch the AWG-9 radar. I also saw videos of an Italian YouTuber getting a lot of A2A kill in a F-14 when flying low and launching the 54 at around 25 to 30 nm. What’s the tactics for flying the F-14? Should I fly low or fly high? Which AIM-54 variant do you think is more useful? The 54A mk.60 with a longer range or the 54C with better chaff resistance which might help to prevent notching?

Tbh, I don’t think the AIM-54C need to go active on its own like the AMRAAM. The range advantage that the 54 offers easily makes up for the lack of ability to go active on its own. If you utilize the range advantage and the countermeasure resistance of the 54C and follow BVR timeline, you can even give the most advanced fighters (the F-16 and F/A-18) a run for their money in BVR (if you lost to a Hornet in BVR when you have AIM-54 equipped, it will kind make you look bad). However, a command for Jester to set missile mode to PH ACT (Phoenix Active) or turn MLC off will be nice, so if you’re reading this developers, please consider this feature. With that said, I’m all in for the changes of the AIM-54C’s guidance if sources become available.

I upgraded the RAM on my computer to 32 GB today so I think I’m finally ready for some multiplayer action. I prefer PvE since I found most of PvP modes are meaningless death matches (I had enough of this experience in War Thunder). The only PvE servers I heard about are Hoggit GAW and Through the Inferno server. I’m not sure how noon-friendly these servers are (I’m pretty new to multiplayer). Do you guys know any other PvE servers? And what are your favourite PvE servers?

Hi everyone, I wonder which target size I should use when launching the AIM-54 Phoenix. From my understanding, the target size affects the missile activation distance when launching the AIM-54 in TWS mode. With large target size, the missile will be active early which gives me the flexibility to engage other targets or go defensive. However, a early activation will give the enemy more time to react and it might be easier for the enemy to evade the missile. On the other hand, small target will make the missile to activate when it’s closer to the enemy and give the enemy less time to react but make me more susceptible for return fire (the AIM-54 won’t go active if the lock is lost before activation). Which target size do you think is more useful?