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Essah

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  1. Well They can certainly tangle with F-4's, and defeat them. I'm almost certain that in a turning fight the F-14 is outperformed by MiG-29, Su-27 and F-15 but it will for certain have an energy advantage over MiG-21, MiG-23 and F-5, however as mentioned it's quite a big and heavy fighter, so just like the F-15, the name of the game will be BVR and vertical energy fighting. In the case of a human backseater, you'll also have the advantage of an extra pair of eyes to look around.
  2. if I enable the fire extinguisher test system and the squib test switch on the same panel and turn the rotary to the 3rd position (from the left) there's a loud bang, a puff of smoke comes from the exhaust and the co-pilot and engineer dies. can anyone tell me what exactly happens? what is squib test?
  3. äircräft Søul møunted under piløt seät tø ensure mäximal enjøyment øf flight :pilotfly:
  4. Also the radar belonging to tracking R-77, Aim-120 and Aim-54 missiles.
  5. I will feel so dirty for doing that because if buildings actually appeared on radar like they should, there would be no way to distinguish ground vehicles from buildings, short of a massive column perhaps.
  6. Yes, We can figure out the right QFE for any given ground altitude with a little trick. You have 2 altimeters with independent QFE settings, the Main altimeter (left of the radar scope) and the reserve altimeter (smaller and to the right of the radar scope), of which the main one is the one the computer derives information from. This will come in handy. Before take off we want to set the reserve altimeter to reflect sea level. simply check the field elevation for your starting base, and set the reserve altimeter to that. for example if homeplate is at 100 meters and we set the altimeter to 100 meters. 0 would be sealevel right? great. now we have a permanent reference to sea level in our pit. now when you receive target elevation from JTAC. lets say 250 meters ASL, what we have to do is level out, check our reserve altimeter reading and set our main altimeter to indicate an altitude 250 meters LOWER than the reserve altimeter. If the target was located below sea level like it can be in Nevada we would have to set the main altimeter HIGHER than the reserve altimeter and voila we have the target QFE setting. An example Take off at 100 meters ASL: Secondary altimeter set to indicate 100 meters In the air levelled off circling IP at 1000 meters ASL as indicated by secondary altimeter. Target altitude 250 meters. We set our main altimeter to indicate 750 meters (1000-750=750)
  7. Countermeasure section has copy paste from the Mirage that doesn't apply "The countermeasures programs are not currently implemented yet, so manual deployment of flares and chaff will be used. Keep in mind that you have very few flares: use them sparingly. Once the ÉCLAIR pod is implemented by RAZBAM, more flares will be available."
  8. Still nobody has addressed whether or not this is realistic behavior or if it's something that could be improved on
  9. vehicles show up as small black dots. I would imagine buildings would reflect similarly being made of hard materials as opposed to dirt or water, but they don't.
  10. I started working on just that yesterday. Still a work in progress. I'll add the missing information soon I think. You can see it here. Feedback appreciated (also please ask if there's anything that isn't clear. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rrt51HqaWJ6SbnNOPujvbkpb-xKsvGYqMsSyOgqC0mY/edit?usp=sharing I'm just compiling what I can find in the manual, but I think there's a lot of information missing still, so we'll have to wait for the final manual to have a complete compilation.
  11. The Viggen radar appears to distinguish trees, sea, rivers and even vehicles but Buildings do not show up at all. How come?
  12. I'm having some problems fully wrapping my head around how the radio channel select works. The manual's chapter on it isn't very clear to me. Specifically the 2 display windows and the many channel buttons. There's 2 black rotary knobs of which only the left can be manipulated, and 2 analogue display "windows". Most positions of the left knob leave the left display window blank or displaying either 3, 8, 14 or 19. the other window displays either 20 or halfway between 2 symbols. The only thing I do get is that I can select the button labelled - and manually input frequency, but I want to fully understand the radio. The manual notes that game limitions prevent the full range of frequencies and I imagine that's why some of the positions are blank but I don't get how the 2 display windows, and the buttons are supposed to interact. Hoping that someone has some insight.
  13. Honestly isn't that a bit of a waste of time for ED when there's so much other things that needs fixing and adding?
  14. F35 not the F-35JSF... the confusion for a minute
  15. WinterH Razbam announced a MiG-19 and MiG-23 Project: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=178596 I agree I'd rather that LN did it but still cool.
  16. Thank you. So basically more akin to the Block upgrades on US aircraft. Ie F-16C Block 30 vs block 40. In that case it will not be unreasonable to pretend that it's an AJ-37 we fly, in order to fit into a 70's scenario mission just by not allowing BK-90 and RBS-15 to be used.
  17. I was looking up some dates for the various DCS aircraft to enter service (in real life) to better compare which ones belong in the same era with the specific versions we have and specifically in relation to the Viggen and something strikes me as odd. The first AJS upgrade aircraft entered service in 1996 according to wikipedia. In comparison installation of the MLU (Mid-life upgrade) for the F-16A/B started in 1997, just one year later, however the difference between the avionics of the AJS-37 and the F-16MLU is quite large. If anyone has flown BMS you'll know how modern the MLU's are with things like Datalink, colour MFD, GPS, Multimode radar with filtered A/A and ground mapping radar, and true multi-role capability with everything from dumb bombs to mavericks to Aim-120 AMRAAM. The Viggen seems quite outdated in comparison and this strikes me as odd considering how technologically ground breaking an aircraft SAAB produced when the AJ-37 was first produced in the 70's. If these technologies were available why weren't they included in the upgrade? Did they simply not see it as necessary to include all these innovations for the strike aircraft. I know the JA-37 was theoretically capable of carrying AMRAAMS and had an MFD but I don't know if it included Datalink, GPS, or HSD (sort of like the TAD on the A-10C) the computer Interface in the viggen is also night and day from the DED (Data entry display) in the F-16
  18. On the first page it says that the RM8A is a High-bypass engine but the wiki page for the engine says it's a low-bypass (which makes more sense to me for a high performance engine) possible mistake? anyone know? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_RM8
  19. Same reason that people fly the F-5 instead of the Mirage-2000. Because they might like that particular aircraft,
  20. any progress with the Israeli Mirage skin? :D
  21. I don't know about SnakeEyes but the later ballot chute retarded Mk82 used by the A-10 worked this way. wouldn't surprise me if ED failed to capture this detail.
  22. Tried usin that, but they seem to be completely off. At least some of them. For example one level delivery profile listed the depression at 17 mills while the results were closer to 90 mills!!! I don't know what causes such a large difference.
  23. How do you know when to roll in to get desired dive angle? Even the Stuka had lines drawn on the cockpit to indicate various dive angles? Makes me realize home much I've come to rely on having a HUD with a pitch ladder and an FPM. Surely the F-105 with it's (for the time) advanced computer and was more accurate, no? Either way I'll note down your profile suggestions.
  24. why? When you are moving faster than sound, wouldn't it make sense that all sound with source located behind you would be silent as the sound of it never reaches you?
  25. I'm finding accurate bomb delivery really challenging. The lack of any kind of bombing aid limits you to world war 2 era fighter bomber techniques, and I'm finding that flying specific speed, altitude and dive angle parameters is close to impossible for me. The F-5E Dash 34 weapons delivery manual is available but the numbers don't seem to apply for one reason or the other. For example it states that for one particular level high speed delivery the pipper depression is 17 mills, when it's definitely closer to 90 mills. I've tried to work out some profiles for myself through trial and error but my troubles with maintaining params means that I can never be completely sure about the validity of the mills i've set. Does anyone have some alternative sources on bombing parameters for Mk-82s? speed, altitude, dive angle and piper depression. Mostly interested in level delivery since I'm finding hitting specific dive angles to be guesswork without a HUD with a pitch ladder. I'm surprised that it was noted as an accurate ground attacker during operation Skoshi Tiger in Vietnam. :huh: Maybe I'm expecting too much. I was attempting to hit a T-90 but only managed to pull it off once, which I think was more luck than technique, but maybe the CEP I should be expecting is closer to 100 meters than the 10 meters ish I've been attempting to hit.
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