Corrigan

Good thought, but yeah, actual climb according to the variometer as well. Besides, TVV above horizon does mean I'm climbing, not that the nose is pointing there. Am I the only one seeing this? If so I'll make a quick video.

Excuse me?

Well first of all I agree that there seems to be a problem here. If the manual recommends a rotation speed that's not achievable in-game that's obviously a problem. I was just saying that in that specific scenario there probably IS a limit on how heavy you can be for an MS takeoff being safe. Maybe this needs a bug thread? "Manual says I should be able to rotate at v = V with w = W, but I can't." Seems like a pretty obvious bug to me.

I could easily imagine so, yes. On a hot day with a heavy plane you want EBK. The aerodynamics compendium talks a lot about the dangers of circumstances like that. If you over-rotate you might end up not being able to sustain level flight.

It was pretty tough to read that.

The CK cannot handle mixed attack loadouts, just like for real. The real aircraft would never have been loaded in this way. AKAN and Rb-24 are exceptions.

There's something fishy going on with the trim. There's another thread. Some are having the same problem as you, and for others (like me) it works perfectly fine.

I can't test it right now, but the TVV was placed a good 2-3 degress above the horizon for the <~5 s turns I tried earlier. It's possible, I suppose, that it drifts down again in longer turns, but I saw no such tendency.

T0 is nothing pressed at all; T1 is first trigger step. So, it goes T0->T1->TV->T1->T0. It works, so it's kinda hard to diagnose what you're doing wrong. Probably just bad mapping?

Sure, that works too.

It's not right, but it may be how the aircraft behaves too. I don't remember reading about that in the SFI, maybe someone else does.

Here it means to drop, as in what you do with bombs. Literally "mode of dropping".

When I command a standard turn in altitude hold mode (using trim left or right), the aircraft enters a few degrees climb. Is this correct behaviour?

Actually no, that's not what we mean. You need to turn BRÄNSLEREGL ("manual fuel regulation" according to tooltip) from AUT to MAN. Right hand console. Would be great if you could rerun the test with this setting!

MAX TÄND EBK means full wet, yes. What do you mean that "only 10000 kg is shown"?

This kinda thing is why you're the best. IRL, there was a large number of reference points stored in the CK; tips of islands, lighthouses, that kinda thing, spread out over Sweden.

They don't. The ground crew can set them to -4 deg or -7 deg depending on loadout but they are fixed to that position except when deploying the gear.

I agree with almost everything you write, don't get me wrong. :) Yep, that's what we're all trying to help with here. Just to be clear, that graph: I made a mistake above. I agree with being able to sustain 3 g at MS at sea level on a clean, 13 000 kg aircraft. That's a good benchmark for us. I don't see how you extract 2 g from it though. You don't know where the 2 g drag curve intersects the thrust curve. It could be anywhere from 400-700 km/h as far as I know, just going from that plot.

Isn't it quite far off, though? Cf. Sustaining 1.5 g at 570 km/h seems very different from "~2 g at 450 km/h". Although now that I look, and if I understand that graph correctly, isn't it more like 550 km/h for 2 g at max släckt? I still think, as per this thread, that dry thrust is lower than it should be; definitely, indisputably at altitude but probably also a bit at sea level.

What's the reason for it being (deemed, at least) so useful IRL and so rarely used in DCS? EDIT: I've never used it myself, impression is just that everyone turns it off.

Look at the shadow on the wings cast by the vertical stabilizers, dead giveaway!

Those two are indeed JA.

Maybe you should check that whatever config/settings file that gets saved in isn't write-protected?

That would be cool! These posts are awesome, by the way.

Do you base this statement on the bug thread about climbing performance? (https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=181927) Or do you have further evidence? Interesting, if so!