PhantomHans

Plus one for this. Would help with cold war scenarios too.

What did you do here?

Should it revert back to that? Also I should start tracking how many Gs I'm actually pulling. I probably rarely get close to 20 if ever.

I think I saw video of an older guy talking about this but dont recall his name, but iirc he was a Grumman test pilot. It makes me think that our HB F-14 may actually have too LOW of a symmetrical G limit before breaking!

Whats the source for those diagrams? Very interesting post BTW

Reminds me of the joy of model building...No matter what color you paint it someone will be certain that you're wrong!

I think that yes, you are basically correct, if you had a responsive engine you don't need the brakes...But the question is, HOW responsive is responsive enough? IIRC even with the F-14B brakes out was the standard.

Several years later I still have this problem with spikes.

Oh sweet, that works great. Save my ignore button from some heavy lifting.

Anyone else find that the A model can frequently takeoff without burners? I know it was SOP for the As to use burner for every launch but when lightly loaded (4x AIM-9, 4x AIM-7, full fuel, and tanks) they seem, in DCS, quite capable of doing without it and I'm a little surprised by that.

The DLC really is "lift on demand". The drag isn't a problem at all. In fact I think you're even supposed to have the speed brake extended during landing to get more drag! It really helps keep the throttles much more responsive. Speaking of DLC, I have a question. Was that a feature from the start or added later?

Please stop quoting me. I'm tired of getting notifications pointing to this thread. I really don't want to hear anything you have to say.

Never coming from Razbam.

May as well lock the thread. Nobody in here is willing to listen and ED isn't willing to talk, so why bother.

I can believe that. If they're actually the victim, I don't understand how telling their side makes their situation worse, however.