Ivandrov

High speed is achieved by not only just having a clean jet but one that is defueled as well, you can cut 10000 lbs of weight just by decreasing the fuel to 50%. Also you need to have a specific climb profile as described above, thrust decreases with altitude but increases with speed, drag decreases with altitude. You need to balance the two in order to achieve the speeds you want.

Tried a cold start, hot start, and an in-air start, with and without having the NAV pod already loaded. The boresight is always zeroed out, and no values seem to be stored anywhere, kneeboard or anything. I had one cold start where the NAV pod was horribly off boresight, the nose of the aircraft was quite visible throughout the entire flight in the upper left corner and isn't accurate at all at long distance.

I gotta say, this was pretty poorly "announced". I get that the LITENING in its current state is a bit of a mishmash, but it's quite a large change and some people are worried about the specific implications this will have with TGP use in the Viper.

Then present the contradictory evidence. If you're not accusing them of incompetence or dishonesty, then they have no reason to present you anything to prove they are right. You are the one that wants the change. You are making the claim that they are wrong therefore the burden of proof falls to you. If you truly believe that they are not dishonest or incompetent, then you should not have a problem with them making an internal comparison without revealing what their side of the data is.

I gave it a shot at night and managed to take on about 5000 lbs. I'm happy with that.

Ok, so, would you recommend I try to do it at night then with an F-15 or something first? I've been trying to stop looking at the boom as others have suggested and just focus on flying the aircraft in formation with the tanker. So, it seems a bit counterintuitive to reference the boom to me.

Thing is, it seems to me that the light on the right os significantly harder to see then the leftmost one. Is that also normal?

The left side light is ok. But, I can never seem to get visual on the right side light until I am already too far forward.