104th_Maverick

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TOP GUN Top Cat BFM 1vs 1 Guns Only PvP Competition Sponsored by Heatblur Simulations 104th Phoenix in association with Heatblur Simulations proudly present this 1 vs 1 Guns Only PvP event. Date: 18th and 19th of May Time: 19:00z Format: Best of 3 Aircraft: F-14 Tomcat Map: Caucasus What is it? Top Gun - Top Cat is a 1 vs 1 Guns only event for the F-14 Tomcat featuring prizes supplied by Heatblur Simulations. The event will take place over two days with the qualifying rounds on the 18th of May and the finals on the 19th of May. Rules: Aircraft air-start clean with 90% internal fuel. Starting altitude will be 5000ft at 450kts. Separation will be 20nm. Fuel Dumping is allowed. No firing before the merge. Pre merge manoeuvring is allowed. Both aircraft must fly towards each other for the merge, no running away pre merge for fuel tactics. Both aircraft must stay inside a 20nm 'bubble'. Jester is allowed. Human RIOs are allowed. Last aircraft alive wins, there is no landing requirement. All participants must be on the 104th Teamspeak Server prior to their match start. *Disclaimer - Rules are subject to change, players will get a full rules brief before each match. Prizes: Heatblur Simulations are donating the prizes to the top 3 winners consisting of Heatblur T-shirts and a free module for 1st and 2nd place! 1st Place: 4 T-shirts plus a copy of the Tomcat or Viggen to keep or give to a friend. 2nd Place: 3 T-shirts plus a copy of the Tomcat or Viggen to keep or give to a friend. 3rd Place: 3 T-shirts. Sign Up To register simply post in this thread with your details as follows Name: 104th_Maverick Squadron (if any): 104th_Phoenix Country: Scotland Stream The event will be streamed live on both days by myself at the link below! 104th_Maverick Twitch

Takeoff then get your RIO to join seems to work pretty well.

You don't extend your strut to connect to the cat... you lower it. I think your steering problems come from your controls, I've never had or seen anyone else have any issues steering.

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I stand corrected, everyday is a school day!

Thanks Mike! Keep the Tomcat and Tornado content coming please :D Keep up the great work mate!

Not in GW1, as Joey mentioned the Buccaneer was brought out to laze for the GR1s. GR4s did both on their own.

Lol this looks INCREDIBLE!!! I can’t wait to see it! :D Pay no attention to the haters mate and just keep doing what you’re doing, I and loads of others really enjoy watching your content. Sadly our hobby is full of ‘experts’ that hide behind a keyboard and talk a big game but have no online presence or videos to show their skills to back up their big mouths. :smilewink:

How dare you! :shocking: ;)

When you taxi an F-14 with a client pilot and client RIO on to the runway at Anapa or Dubai International (may be more airfields), as soon as the RIOs head passes over the runway marker line his game freezes then crashes (suspect ATC script causing crash). This is reproducible with a 100% success rate at both airfields listed above. Steps: Host server with Client in Pilot seat and Client in RIO seat, start from ramp at Anapa. Taxi to the runway. Observe client RIO game freeze and crash upon entering runway. Track: Attached Server Host and client track and crash log. Mission: Attached server-20190427-231956.trk tomcat_runway_rio_crash_rio_pov.trk tomcat_runway_rio_crash_rio_pov.zip Anapa_Test.miz

This was the game changer for me, somehow in the Tomcat it doesn't feel like you are turning very fast even when you are and its hard to fight the temptation to pull harder to try and speed things up. If you don't do this and instead fly your AoA properly and be patient, she will come to you ;)

Depends on what the speed is when Im going down hill, if you listen out for the 'clicks' that is me coming in and out of AB. Generally speaking if I start to go UP with 350kts I stay in AB on the way back down, if I go up with 400-450kts I come out of AB at the top of the loop and come down in MIL.

Anything over 15 units of AoA and you're hemorrhaging airspeed and energy. You have to have a lot of patience and be very strict with AoA, she doesn't fly like all the other aircraft in the game with FBW, you have to be very precise and hyper aware of your energy state at all times as she is not an easy aircraft to dogfight well with. With that being said however it is still very much a mean machine when you get in the groove and you really can throw her around pretty aggressively providing you are precise with your inputs. Heavy buffet is bad and you should stay out of it as BlackLion mentioned, trying to force the aircraft to perform under heavy buffet is going to get you killed, just keep in the forefront of your mind that anything above 15 units of AoA is costing you energy big time. You only want to go above 15 units of AoA when you have excessive energy and you're confident you can get a kill shot. I started a video series on my channel dogfighting against 2 AI set on excellent and managed to shoot 2 F-16s, 2 Su27s, 2 Mig28s, 2 Mig29s, 2 F-15s and 2 F-18s down without too much trouble. If you watch any of them be sure to look out for how often I bring my eyes out of the fight and into the cockpit to reference my AoA, as you'll see she can be pretty nimble if you look after your AoA properly. The main thing to nail is the understanding that you cannot fly her like other aircraft, you mentioned having to 'baby' her and this is actually very accurate. If you are bullish with the controls you'll die pretty quickly, however if you put more finesse in to your inputs you'll see improvements very quickly. Remember to be patient and bide your time behind the bandit and conserve your energy until you need it. Constantly trying to get nose on the bandit won't work out for you in the Tomcat.

I couldn’t agree more! I wouldn’t swap my set up for any of the higher end stuff, I’ve been using 3D pros for over 15 years and swear by them.

Yes I use the HAT switch for trim, it works really well for me

Just having the aircraft trimmed properly sir. I fly level and make adjustments with the stick to stay level then I trim the aircraft so I no longer have to make stick adjustments to stay level. I use a Logitech 3D pro stick with a Saitek X52 throttle. My pitch curve is 10 with a dead zone of 1.

Cage/SEAM is correct sir

Still got a lot of work to do on it but it's coming along!

Correct AFAIK there is no visual reference to show you the gimbal limit, you have to manually track your offset.

Its confirmed sir, not alleged. RAZBAM are doing the Strike Eagle.

Fantastic mini doc

I've seen a lot of people struggling with this so I thought I'd knock together a quick video with some tips for hooking up with the S-3. I hope it helps! DCS F-14 | S-3 Viking Air to Air Refueling [Quick Tutorial]

^ Totes. Tonka is life

Im easily impressed tho. Next vid is up... Tomcat Dogfighting 2 vs 1, Mig-28s and Mig-29s