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Behaves fine to me, tested it yesterday. On roll into the turn ball shows little adverse yaw (maybe ball/half a ball off center, depends) and once in turn (30° to 60° level turns) ball leans into the turn as to slightly touch the lower line (into the turn) which can be corrected by lightly stepping on ball (but is not necessary). When slow and configured for landing the effect is little bit more pronounced. Tested only with SAS ON. Imho F-5s FM is solid, its problems lies elsewhere.

The ouboard spoilers are deactivated with flap handle in up position and WOW, regardless of ANTI-SKID/SPOILER BK switch position, or maneuver flaps position. Reference paragraph 2.16.3, 11.9.4 is for dual hydraulic failure in flight.

Yes, manual states there is a retaining slot for canopy seal lever IRL, makes sense you dont want to unseal canopy by some accident. But for in game purposes? Probably unnecessary. Flying without canopy seal? I dont know, but even tho down low you would not have troubles with pressure, I would not want wind shear passing inside cockpit between cockpit frame and canopy frame at +800kph. Anyway manual says all flights irrespective of altitude has to be performed with sealed canopy and cockpit pressurization working.

Dont you automatically unseal the canopy by actuating the canopy unlock lever? Because the sealing lever is right in front of it.

With the WOW increasing the engine temperature to 700°C (actually 685°C+-15°C) will only cause fuel regulator to limit fuel supply to limit engine over temperature. But if temperature rises to 730°C (actually 715°C+-15°C) with WOW fuel shut off valve will close causing engine to shut down. If in air only warning light will illuminate without engine shut down, that will only happen after landing with WOW automatically. Now I am not sure if the test switches actually energize whole limiting system or just the C/W lights. If they energize whole system then only test pos. II would close the fuel valve and shut the engine down.

All I hear in that song is Thunderchief, soo F-105?

Actually from what I know its somewhat realistic. When we visited our helicopter base once as a school trip (Mi-17s, 24s) when I was still at school, we had oportunitty to talk to ATC operator at the tower, and he told us that when paratroopers were jumping out of Mi-17 few clicks away he could see radar returns of the metal parts in the parachute harness just like draconus said (he could not recognize individual paratroopers, but them from Mi-17, if im remembering correctly, it was some time ago). It was an ATC radar and they were pretty close, so how stable the lock would be for targeting is a question.

I agree, having dedicated LSO slot would also allow everyone to see who is controlling the station, if one is doing some weird **** with it. If caught or recorded, such offense should immediately result in permanent IP ban by server admins imho.

Dont worry we will get amazing ready room instead, so you will be able to complain about what matters most behind the boat (ball and correct LSO calls) in there.

Yes this is most annoying "feature" of HBs F-14 for me right now, other bugs/wip things Im OK to live with for now, but I highly doubt NAVY would approve AWG-9/AIM-54 system for fleet defense if that system behaved like this. Or if they did, just wow, Im kind of glad they never had to really use it.

I got same result in B as well, at 1000ft they started to gradually open just bellow M0.58 and at 15000ft again around M0.75 +- some deviation with my flying and reading the dials, but they seem to operate around what you would expect for me.

Im testing them right now in A and Im positive they work fine. At about 2000ft they start gradually opening for me at M0.58 above 10 AOA, they are visually fully open at about 0.55 as far as I can tell. At 15000 ft they do same at about M0.75. Obviously im not doing anything scientific about it, just trying to set correct M and AOA and looking out the window, but they seem to behave correctly.

Ill check again today, but I distinctly remember I had slats out at M0.6 at some (not totally sure) 10+ AOA when cloud surfing yesterday. I was in A at about 10-15k and I was watching them deploy when pulling the stick at M0.6.

Hmm too bad for us that likes to fly F-14A with AIM-7Fs and not the latest and greatest I guess.

Might be computational delay. If you take measured data needed you have to process them and then draw solution on HUD. it might take some time (microseconds?), but by that time target will move little bit, so you are shooting short. Unless that delay is taken in account already or is insignificant.

This is one of the DCS-isms. You should see nothing on RWR if MiG-31 launches R33 on you at long range. It uses inertial/command guidance with mid course correction(s) via datalink post launch. Only in terminal guidance you should see warning on your RWR, either M from active missile (what Im inclined to belive R33 actually is) or if you are conservative and treat R33 as SARH in terminal guidance its even better for R33, because at this point you would only see indication of missile guidance from MiG-31 and not M from active missile. That way one could wrongly assume that MiG-31 only just launched where in fact you are just seconds from .

For select jettison only one release or pair release will occur for reach actuation of select jettison button. The released station(s) must be deselected before another store can be jettisoned. That is a correct operation and -1 does mention it in JETTISON SYSTEM, so does the DCS F-5 Manual.

This is BS for one reason and that is if you shoot PDSTT and loose lock (can happen just second after launch), missile would go active and track whatever it would be in its FOV. It might be your intendet target or it could be some other target you did not want to engage, it can even be friendly aircraft that got in the missile way. That is unacceptable, If you loose lock the missile should be dud, its logicaly safer option. Same in TWS, if it does not receive activation command at exact pre-calculated point/time it should just go dud. In my opinion same should apply to AMRAAM too. Cant have missiles that go willy-nilly after anything they see.

Well yes if you unload, or set 0g, you get no lift so your nose is going down, but only for moment to set descending attitude for acceleration. Well that is what I do, also you accelerate best at 0g, but only for a moment.

No just set pitch like 5° nose down into descend, your goal at this point is to accelerate not hold altitude. Convert altitude into speed M1,4-1,5 and then climb around 10° up. You will still accelerate and you will climb like hell.

You are doing something wrong if you cant get past M1.2. I tried max speed dash today and few days before, I got slightly above M2.2 with 1*AIM-7F (st.5). Mil climb to 25k unload then burners accelerate past M1.4 then climb to 43k then shallow descent to around 35k. It took me 10.9k lbs of fuel from unloading at 25k. Note: F-14A

It can be accessed by CAP if i am right. Its output is in octal, but its pretty easy to convert. Word to enter in CAP should be 71-00031. But I cant get it to work, its either not implemented or Im doing something wrong.

Logically its a form of a side slip roll just reversed. If you are in a slip the opposite wing of the rudder will be high lift wing and if you pull (increase AOA, therefore increase lift even more) it will try to roll you in the direction of the rudder deflection. So it makes sense that that if you do pushover (decrease AOA, maybe even go -AOA) it would reverse the roll, because it would become higher lifting wing, just in negative lift. I would not say its odd. It happens in F/A-18 and F-5 as well its just more subtle and smooth. F-14 snap rolls into it, if that is correct I dont know, but from the way F-14 is build with its variable wing sweep I would say it make sense.

Jester will call JOKER at fuel state 2000lbs above BINGO. If you set BINGO 6000 (by the knob on fuel panel) Jester will call JOKER at 8000lbs, and then BINGO at 6000lbs.

If that missiles radar can send radar energy lets say 10nm, detect reflected energy of target and track it, it also means that that emitted radar energy can travel and be detected by RWR probably several times that distance. So whats so strange about that? Its only logical.