mikoyan

that must be an early model

who cares if it is old news; like i SAID BEFORE this airplane is worthy of a repost

As far as I know the f-15 does not have fly by wire but is an hidraulic computer aided system. There is an article about an american pilot flying on the flanker and he says that the airplane has a lot of power like most russian jets but a lot of inertia specially on the roll, we see that in lock-on; to stop the roll we have to pretty much move the stick almost all the way to the opposite side. He also says that the pitch has the same peculiarity but at a lesser extend. He notes that that lack of computer correction was due to the fact that the russians didn't feel the need to correct that ,because the weapons used on the flanker (could also be that the flanker is bigger and it is an early fly by wire system). (the russian knights also say that the flanker is harder to fly in formation because of how good the flight by wire is on the flanker) He also notes that this ramp-out effect could make a bit difficult to gun down another airplane because the pilot has to compensate for all the inertias (in lock on it is easier to use the f-15 gun); so in other words airplanes like an f-16; the flight control reduces the pilot work load by correcting this "issues." I put "issues" this way because when he summarizes the aircraft handling he says that once the pilot is familiarized with the plane it feels more connected to what the airplane is doing , this feeling is what he believes some fly by wire "american" aircraft are missing. There are several videos of american pilots comparing the mig-29 and f-15 and they say that the eagle feels like a cadillac and the mig is a bit crude. That is exactly the idea I get when I fly the eagle and the flanker in lomac. The russian are less refined but turn better, but the eagle is a more balanced jet. Yes there are things that could be improved but I'm not a real pilot to say the last word and I believe most of us are on the same situation; so the best we can hope is to ED to fix some of the issues and do an approximation to the real deal. What I would like to know what is the real su-27 initial climb performance some sites say 18000 mts/m and for the eagle (f-15c) 15.000 mts/m so the who is right? and the mig is even better so... I could not make a harrier pilot tell me if he could outturn a mig-29 then I don't see where this magazines and internet sites get their numbers when we don't even know what is the sr-71 top speed! about the su-30 on red flag, we should not be very surprised that the mki loses lot of speed when doing those fancy post stall moves, it pretty much uses almost the same engines of the flanker to carry a heavier airplane, the mki has 2 seats, has canards that help to improve the handling but produce more drag, the landing gear must be heavier also; and I don't know how much weight it gained with all the new avionics; the russian themselves admitted that their airplanes are getting heavier and heavier with little progress on engine power, that problem did not affect the american side that much because they had the resources to develop new engines for their jets.

it is not bigger than the flanker and I don't see a lot of metal on the skin so I don't think it is heavier.

acording to RL charts my granny... show me those chart until then you are talking bologna, the f-22 owns everything even Zeus would be afraid of messing with the raptor plz:harhar:

the one in the last movie

Keep the math going, thanks for posting your studies, looks like the that the pack-fa has more wing area than both raptor and yf-23, that means less wing loading right?

just a friendly reminder: the f-16 owns everything except for the enterprise... to deal with the enterprise and the ufos you need an f-22 which let me remind you AGAIN since it looks like you guys have short term memory and forget this lesson every time a tread like this appear: THE F-22 OWNS EVERYTHING EVEN THE UFOS AND THE ENTERPRISE FROM STAR-TREK; IT IS SOOOOO GOOD THAT EVEN OWNS the ship that destroyed the planet Bulcano! uh... forgot that the Russians just came up with their own stealth fighter, but don't worry the f-22 is also going to pown the t-50 since the f-22 it is even better than the Enterprise

I know modern jet fighters can do the job of lets say hundreds of WWII bombers, but if there were a major world conflict with fairly balanced powers; I don't see how the US and Europeans hope to cope with loses. I just feel that jet fighters had gotten too expensive... yes they are capable but each one you loose is a huge set back. I like the grippen approach but even they had gotten expensive. maybe Lokheed Martin should develop a base model with less advanced features and a small number of super advanced jets? I know that there are studies on how reliable single engines are, but in my country we have lost several mirages not to mechanical failures but with encounters with vultures. Now imaging the same scenario , but instead you are not talking about a 5 mil mirage V but your 200 million fighter. How many f-16 had been lost on accidents, how many f-15 ? can the US and NATO afford lets say a similar number of f-35 incidents?

So... What is the answer for the su-33

Is it true that the su-33 has a emergency power feature that gives you more thrust for a few seconds?

lock-on was like 25 dollars when I got it and that was in 2004 and I still play it every weekend so I think that 15 dollars for a patch is a heck of a deal, for something I will play for 4 years or more... or until Ed comes out with something better. God of war for the psp was almos 50 dollars when I got it, it was great but I was able to finish it after a few days since then, it sits on my desk gathering dust so... Lock on is been my best game inversion.:joystick::pilotfly::thumbup: that is the difference with lock-on you can still come back and try new things, that is not the case with other games.

The airplanes in lock-on are underpowered, that is going to be fix with the next patch; but the mig is the best climber, what is your initial speed before starting your climb, you need more speed the higher you go.

:smilewink: It is you duty to tell us more about this device or the community is not going to forgive you

this thing is worthy of a re-post :thumbup:

the front and the side view are its best attributes :thumbup:

note the hud, it is big!

another one almost the same view

here is your high res picture

If you go to the sukhoi website there are 3 high res pictures and a video of the fist taxi test

Forgot to mention, there are some high res pictures and a video of the first taxi test on the sukhoi website. go see it!

actually the f-22 looks better than the yf-22, I wonder what kind of paint job are they going to put on the pack-fa ,black or some kind of dark gray would be cool

show us

is it force feed back?

What I was talking about is that the design of the fuselage on aircraft like the su-27 let the aircraft keep a simetrical air flow trough the airplane body that is why you can do tail slides and cobras without to much danger. This is nothing I came up with. It comes from a British test pilot, and the book of a mig-29 pilot. The lerx combined with the tail and ruder placement, the pasage between the engines is what creates that simetry I'm talkig about. Also if you build models of the mig-29 and su it is notisable that the airplane does't wing rock like other airplanes ;it just drops it's nose.