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Well, the earlier aircrafts (Tunnan and draken for example) i think were pretty heavily controlled by ground controllers, the Viggen of course was too in some sense but it was designed, i believe, to be more autonomous but they always flew along a pre planned route using the radar assisted inertial navigation system, so there was really no need for beacon navigation. Most likely a system like that would not work in wartime anyways, being sabotaged by pre invasion special forces and what not, so why implement it in an aircraft design to operate during full scale war. :P The Gripen of course is a different beast with GPS and all the other modern bells and whistles. :P

Easy coms doesn't work in the Viggen atm, if enabled the radios doesn't work at all. Are you contacting him on the correct radio and frequency? To change frequencies use the top row on the front most radio to select the preset frequencies (1 or 2, the frequencies set to each button is detailed in the kneeboard) or select ( - ) to use the frequency manually entered on the front panel of the cockpit.

Afaik, it doesn't no. :-)

Well, that's probably the problem then. You aren't supposed to be able to keep level flight, the landing path should be a steady controlled descent to the runway threshold, if you are able to maintain level flight at any point during the landing procedure you are going to fast. Disclaimer: i am in no way a landing expert, but there are tools in the Viggen to help you make landings easier. Lower your landing gear and put the master mode to the visual landing setting (Land P/O, i believe?), if you'd like to can also choose to arm the thrust reverser at this point. Put the glide slope indicator (the split horisontal line with a . in the center) shown on the HUD on the runway threshold and keep it there. If you want to you can activate the auto throttle (AFK), that will enable you to only care about control inputs and not have to worry about the throttle. If the AFK is enabled, all you need to do is keep the glide slope indicator on the runway (If done well, you will have a more or less constant AoA of 12 degrees on the AoA indicator the the left just below the HUD). If you armed the thrust reverser, as soon as the nose wheel touches down, apply full dry thrust (no afterburner). when your speed decreases below ~100km/h decrease thrust to ground idle and disable the reverser and brake using the wheel brakes. The AFK aims to keep you at a constant Angle of Attack of 12 degrees, and that should help you achieving a steady descent path towards the runway. Also, there IS a landing tutorial in the game, i get the impression that people haven't seen this. :P Just fly that over and over and you will get the feel for what speed to strive for and how far away from the runway you will need to be when you start your descent path. Note: All of the above requires that you start your descent at an appropriate altitude and distance from the runway. The higher you are the farther away you should be, i guess. :P As you can see in this video the Viggen has a fairly violent landing compared to a lot of other (non carrier based) fighter aircraft, and the procedure is a bit different with the speed being higher (~170-180 knots?) than it is in the A-10 (~130-~160 knots?) and the descent rate being more similar to that of a carrier landing.

Having the AJS sim converted to DCS would be amazing! :D

That's what he's saying. On the Viggen radar screen green=no returns (blank) so if it's in passive mode since it doesn't emit any signals itself only signals from other emitters will be shown so obviously you will be unable to discern any ground details. :-)

So uhm, where would one find hardware like this? :P

Sounds like a bugg to me, for me that same change only takes a second or two. I read that the trim speed increases the longer you hold the button, so if you just tap it it would take forever, but it will reach "max trim speed" after being pressed for about a second i think.

Yea i noticed 5 minutes after making my own thread... :doh:

Today is the 50th birthday of the AJ 37 Viggen, the maiden flight was on February 8th 1967. :D

The first series of AJ-37 were bare metall silver during a few years in the 70s, but as you say, the AJS-37 never was. I guess the reason that SwAFHF has kept theirs bare metal is just to save cost and maintenance work keeping the paint in good airshow condition. :P

This is a short in the dark but are you doing this in multiplayer or singleplayer? The Bk-90 doesn't work in multiplayer unless you are the host at the moment. :-)

To be honest the ability to select single or group for the ARAK was not possible either and they did implement that (only when using training rocket pods) so it's not impossible they add other tuff like this.

There is no stable 1.5.6, stable is still 1.5.5 and doesn't have the Viggen. :-)

Airliner altitude would be between 10 and 11km. :P

Overall the input options has been very good, i really like how yo solved the 3 way switch/trigger problem. :-)

That's funny, because to most swedes danish sounds like a really drunk guy to begin with. xD

Exactly, suppression doesn't necessarily imply weapons employment. :-)

If you are looking at the stick itself it has a trigger just like the control stick, T0 is when it is not pressed, T1 is the first trigger detent and TV is fully pressed. They are found in the radar section of the control settings just like all the other buttons on the radar stick. :-)

Maybe you're just to high? Wikipedia cites the Viggens ceiling as 18km. 19km is almost the service ceiling of the U2 and those pilots used freaking pressurised space suits when flying. :P

You could, but keep in mind that the only reason that the Viggen has multiple sticks is that at the time of development of the aircraft the HOTAS concept was very new. I believe the concept was pioneered in the mid 60s on the lightning. The controls would probably have been solved very differently had the aircraft been developed about 5-10 years later. More or less all of the controls found on the multiple sticks can be mapped to a decent HOTAS setup. :-)

**AJS-37 Viggen Released in Open Beta!** The Rb 15F MkI and MkII that the Viggen carries can't fly over land at all since the fusing AFAIK is not adapted for that and it doesn't have GPS to keep track of its position. Just like the Rb 04E it has a downwards facing proximity fuse that detonates when over flying the ship it locks onto. This means the missile (Probably) would detonate as soon as it started flying over terrain. That being said, the 4th waypoints of the Rb 15F is the self destruct waypoint, if no ship has been detected by its radar it will fly to this waypoint and self destruct. This MIGHT be what we see here. :-) Edit: so I guess the fuse isn't armed until it detects a target or when reaching the self destruct point.

Huh, TIL. :P

Wait a minute! That's one hell of a Maverick shot! [emoji23]

That's known issue. :-)