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TAW-Prof

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  1. Terry, I would reccommend using nose fuses. Some testing shows that nose fused allow for drops at lower altitude. I use 1 second nose fuses which allow from successful drops at 30-50ft 270 mph without bombing myself. Tail fused bombs don't arm at this altitude.
  2. How about makinbg the sight adjustable, as was the case with rocket equipped Mossies?
  3. The Mosquito was designed as a 2 crew aircraft and like the others in DCS (F-14, MI-24, AH-64) it really needs 2 crew members to operate it effectively. However, unlike the others there is no AI second crew member (Nigel the Nav?). Can we have an AI Nav please? IMHO this would allow the following: Create a route, ideally through the use of the F10 map (as per Viggen & JF-17) but also throught he Mission Editor Get directions from the Nav to the current waypoint (xxx degrees for yy miles) on the route Get heading & distance for previous or next waypoint or home base/landing airfield Change the route (current waypoint) to the previous or next waypoint Tune the radio Select beacon for homing Likewise an AI pilot could be commanded to: Steer heading xxx Set altitude to yy00 ft Set speed to zz0 mph Given the work done on the helicopter copilots I would have thought that it should not be too dificult to port these across to the Mosquito which would make a huge improvement to what is already a great module. Thanks
  4. Joystick Gremlin is very good for sequencing. I have mapped the whole engine start sequence to a single button on my throttle!
  5. I created a mission with a Mosquito next to both a helicopter FARP and on top of an invisible FARP. Starting with either Ground hot or plain ground it was not possible to contact ground crew. Track attached. Is this normal or a bug? Thanks Prof Mossie FARP.trk
  6. Point well taken. It does not handle 3 axis for 4 axis controls well. I haven't noted (because I haven't looked) that it automatically synced after selecting "both" and waiting without doing anything else.
  7. TAW-Prof

    Stopwatch

    There is also this: Could be useful BUT it uses the same bindings as SRS so can be a bit of a pain to move
  8. I've had the same problem - once you switch back to "both" they sync level positions. The 2nd time did you happen select "both" engines again?
  9. "Rated Altitude", sorry I'm not sure what this means either - I'm just reproducing what was in the report. Mosquito B Mk IV has either a Merlin 21 or 23 engine, according to the Pilots Notes (page 6) here: https://www.avialogs.com/aircraft-d/de-havilland/item/104130-a-p-2019d-pilot-s-notes-for-mosquito-biv-merlin-21-or-23-engines. This seesm to tally with the Wikiepedia enter here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rolls-Royce_Merlin_variants . Granted this is hardly a definative source! Given that the report is 1942 it can't be using one of the later merlin engines. I a 5-10 degree dive (50% fuel) I can get 350 mph ias with full revs and throttle forward to detent. Boost is about +12. Still accellerating when diving from 25,000 to 20,000. I suppose it all depends on what you class as a "shallow dive" it looks like my shallow is a lot steeper than your shallow. Anyway much of this is academic. IF, and it is an IF, the report is credible then the impact of closing the shutters is larger then currently modelled in DCS. This is NOT to say that its wrong, the source that I am quoting may well be wrong. If you have any other sources that give any indication as to the drag change on opening/closing the radiator shutter then please share it. Thanks Prof
  10. The quote is lifted from the report. I guess they used IAS as that was what the pilot could see. Whether you believe this is credible is a good and worthy question. I'm just putting this up as evidence for the difference in drag with shutters open/closed. There may be better evidence out there. Given that this was written in a WW2 Mosquito squadron it can't have been too outlandish. In Mosquito Intruder (I believe also published as "Terror in the Starboard Seat") Dave McIntosh says that he saw 350 "on the clock" when diving from 10,000 ft after a V1 and that they leveled out doing 400 mph but "[the wing] was flapping up and down like a seagull working in a huricane." According to this: https://aerotoolbox.com/airspeed-conversions/ 350 mph IAS @22,000 ft is 480 mph TAS (M 0.685), my original numbers were TAS in knots (mea culpa and now corrected/editted) Even if these are TAS rather than IAS the drag difference is essentially the same (7.95% if IAS and 8.39% if TAS), so call it 8% either way.
  11. This might be "correct as is" as I only have 1 source. Reading "Target for Tonight" by Sqn Ldr Denys A Braithwaite DFC & Bar (ISBN: 1-84415-159-X), I came across this report of an encounter in a Mosquito (probably B IV) and a pair of FW190. In this (Appendix One, Note (c)) it states: "... Maximum i.a.s. attained by Mosquito at rated altitude (22,000 feet) was 350 m.p.h. i.a.s. in gentle dive. (Note: approximately 15 m.p.h. gined by closing radiator shutters)." Assuming that the 350 was with the shutters closed this would be 335 mph open. This equates to an 8% reduction in drag (TAS open = 461.2 mph, TAS closed = 480.7 mph & drag reduction = 1 - [TAS open]^2/[TAS Closed]^2) This is equivalent to an IAS of 240 mph shutters closed and 250 mph open at sea level. As said, this is a single source so SMEs may have better information but I thought it might help tune to flight model. Keep up the great work.
  12. How about: Ground crew > close cockpit door ? In the JF-17 you now have to remove the intake blanks and cockpit ladder. Even harder to do when strapped in!
  13. When Unlimited munitions are selected there are no issues with rockets for the Mosquito. However, when this is unselected the only rockets availible are the RP3-AP 25lb AP Mk.1 (presumably the "RP-3 AP" in the AG Rockets section), the two other rocket types are missing and cannot be selected when in the aircraft. Thanks
  14. I might give this a go then. Shame it can't just popup by your right knee or place it mid air and turn on/off. Thanks for the info though, very useful.
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