Ironmike:thumbup:! My congratulations for the Heatblur F-14!
It’s like the real aircraft! simulating the unique flying qualities off the F-14 and beyond!
The F-14 is built as strong as a train! Grumman Iron works!
So you could do thinks with them beyond what you could do with other aircraft, or in newer aircraft it is blocked by fly-by-wire computers.
In the 80’s the F-14A was often configured beyond Natops manuals by well-trained and experience F-14 Crews , to compensate for the TF-30 shortcomings.
Thinks like over-G (8-8,5G was not uncommon during training) , deploying the glove vanes, deploying flaps at much higher speeds and G load, shutdown the AWG-9 radar and therefore to shut down the cooling to it, which could give you more thrust for the TF-30’s(less bleed demand).
This in combination with the correct rudder and stick input makes it a formidable BFM fighter, but also a very tricky fighter at the edge of the envelope, it could backfire quickly!
From my understanding, AUX flap circuited breaker was pulled to keep the AUX flaps UP when selecting Full flaps. The AUX flap had no advantage in BFM and only causes extra drag and where more vulnerable to break(G load), but the main flaps could handle the optimum 200-350kts speed regime! When the circuited breaker was pull the wing sweep was disabled!
Regards Erikki
