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It really is that simple. Extended speed brakes on final keep the jet engines at a higher, more responsive, RPM range. Agreed. I don't have 6000 hours... but we always flew aboard with our speed brakes deployed. Kept our engines spooled up and more responsive to the type of small corrections we needed to make in the groove. It was a checklist item spelled out in NATOPS. I've never flown the F-5 or seen its NATOPS manual, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Navy put that item in the checklist (even for land-based aircraft). Violate NATOPS at your own peril.

I'm having an issue that may be obvious to one of you (but not to me, so far). Can't get Varjo to run properly when I use the executable in bin-mt. Whenever I select a mission (any mission, any type, any aircraft), my display (both on the headset and repeated in the monitor) is limited to a small portion in the upper left corner (picture below). Error appears to be dependent on whether or not I enable OpenXR in Varjo Base. Oddly, whenever I deselect OpenXR in Varjo Base the game runs in 2D mode regardless of in-game settings or command line. DCS runs fine when I select the executable in the bin folder. For full disclosure, I've submitted a report to the MT Error forum (no answers, yet), but you guys are the user-experts so I hoped to get your input. Thanks. Intel 10990K at 5.3MHz, ASUS FTW3090, 64MB, Varjo HMD (ver 3.7.2.13 -- should I update to 3.9.0.10?)

Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread. The succinctness of this post, though, made this one the most helpful of all the responses -- thank you, dburne.