Fjordmonkey

No, people just have a very strange perception that fighterjets (and aircraft in general) are shiny and smooth at all times, which is NOT the case when you get up close and personal to one.

And the fun ones, like Probe heat and heat in the CrewChief-divider. Every FNG on the Line burns himself on those at least once :P

Yep, that's a Belgian AF AM (A-MLU) Viper, with what's most likely the F100PW220e. Not entirely sure if BAF Vipers have gotten the 220e, but others can probably shed some light on that. The tweet you hear is from the so-called CENC, which drives the nozzle through bleed-air from one of the engine-stages (13th, but don't quote me on that as it's been FAR too long since I worked on the AM's). Would be nice, but also don't think the ANG Block 50's anno 2007 used PW-engines, and the GE129 doesn't have an air-driven CENC anyway. One can hope that we one day we get a model with an extended dorsal spine like the BAF and RNoAF-birds have.

But...but...MUH AIRQUAKE!!!! :megalol:

Strange issue. I just go to http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com, log in, hit Profile and then My Servers, and boom: Webgui. That would depend on you having the ports and such needed open, however.

Yep, worked like a charm! Chucked network.vault, started the server, and boom, got a username/password-request.

Cheers, Grimes! Will test :)

I've set up a small dedicated server on a separate computer for the gaggle of people that I belong to and fly with from time to time, but would like to have the server to run under a different username than what it currently does. How would I go about changing this? Of course, just wiping the entire DCS Dedi-server off the disk is one option, but that'll take a while even with the 500mbit connection I have at home. Anyone managed to swap the user on a currently running server?

Just remember that when anyone from ED say that something isn't too far away, Two Weeks™ is in HILARIOUSLY full effect. Mind that I wrote Two Weeks™ and not two weeks. There's a horde of differences between the two. The latter means 14 days, the former means anywhere from 2 hours to 15 years.

I can't even begin to imagine the utter hellfire that someone would catch for this. Sure, busting someone to E1 and getting a discharge is pretty bad (yet deserved), but I'd love to be a fly on the wall during the chewing out that would have been delivered to the the muppets that did it.

Now there's some Grade A idiocy if I ever saw it. Sure, a frog most likely won't damage the engine, but for fornications sake, it's a prime rule of working with aircraft: NEVER leave, toss, lob or throw anything in the intake.

I....DON'T love the smell of Hydrazine in the mornings! It's a very good indicator that it's time to feckin' run.

No use in releasing the template before the 3D-model is finalized, to be honest. Haven't seen any news about it being done, thus no template.

If the version of the jet depicted in the sim didn't have that capability in real life, then no, I don't want it. As Cupra said: The ANG-Viper anno 2007 didn't have that functionality, so I don't want to see it on the jet in the sim. If you want it: create a mod it.

Pfffft! At 156kg I'd make an excellent surfboard/floatation-device/splashmaker!

Nah, I prefer to not be flung into the cold ocean :P

I wonder how far a human would fly if strapped to the catapult... :bounce:

True, but the fact that it flew for X feet would be somewhat secondary to the fact that you had a raging fire going on at the flightdeck :P

Heh, this topic again... A Viperdriver coming in at normal carrier-landing decent-speeds, if he WAS stupid enough to attempt a carrier landing in the first place, would pancake the aircraft onto the deck something fierce, where it'd happily FOD itself to death while going off the edge of the flight-deck in about 40 000 individual and heavily on-fire parts. IF the aircraft and pilot MIRACULOUSLY survived the landing without damage and/or killing themselves, any carrier-launch, even if it was possible to attach the nosegear of the Viper onto the launch-shuttle of the catapult at all, would go something like this: Either the NLG would snap once the pilot ramped up the power, or it would rip the entire assembly off the aircraft the second the shuttle was released if it didn't break due to the powersetting required to get off the boat in the first place. Both incidents would mean that the Viper is now happily trying to ingest the deckplates and/or whatever came bouncing out of the aircraft as it slams down onto the radome and radar, most likely snapping the longeron (central beam of the nose-section going backwards towards the fuselage). The NLG and most likely large parts of the intake would land a fair distance in front of the carrier. However, nobody would bother even trying to track how far it flew since they'd be FAR more interested in trying to stop the raging fire that would be whichever parts of the Viper that was still on board, since those parts has a very nice mixture of fuel, various oils, a nice tank of Hydrazine plus a 5-liter tank of LOX (unless it was a bird that had OBOGS) all waiting to create bigger issues than a bigger problem than a Viper eating the deckplates would be. The Viper has never been, isn't, and won't ever be carrier capable more than once.

Why would I bother with something I know is doomed to fail horribly? I have zero interest in trying to land a Viper on the carrier. If I wanted to do carrier-landings, I'd fly the Su-33, the Boatbug or the Harrier.

And it wouldn't really matter if it was, since there's no BAK-12-systems modeled in the sim anyway.

Two weeks™ :P (C'mon, you knew that was coming..)

That would depend highly on quite a number of things, but given that the drag brace of a Viper is are substantial pieces of metal, and that the attachment-point to the bulkhead is a rather beefy piece of metal, it shouldn't be THAT hard to detect even to the naked eye. Of course, the brace would be held tightly against the attachmentpoint due to the weight of the aircraft itself, and might have broken once the wheel lifted off the ground and it was subjected to the airstream proper. It could also have broken once gear-retraction was commanded. Without actually fetching the wreckage from the sea and seeing the investigation reports and conclusion, all we can do is speculate.

Don't think we will, unless they pull the jet from the sea AND release the findings. Given that it was an operationally flying jet, I doubt they'd release that info. I read through many of the older mishap-reports we had at Squadron while I served. While interesting, they contained a lot of information that hasn't been pulished.

Never understood how that RDAF-mishap actually happened. I mean, from what I could see from the imagery, it looked like the entire drag-brace had broken off the bulkhead it was connected to. Even for old jets like the ones that the RDAF and RNoAF has, that really shouldn't be something that happens, let alone go unnoticed through preflight and/or maint'.