Corrigan

Yeah, I included that in my sketch calculation, or are you talking about something else? Thanks Novak. Are you referring to the scheduled patch/hotfix this week (tomorrow?), or a later bugfix?

OK, I can't test in the sim until tonight, so maybe someone else could. I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation: if it takes us 2 min to get to 870 km/h TAS (from a standing start), at ground level, assuming an avg of 400 km/h TAS during those 2 minutes, and then start climbing as normal, the total distance taken is 44 km. So, it seems we can massage the numbers to fit into 40 km, if the 2 mins to take off and get to 870 km/h TAS is reasonable. I suspect it might not be. But, I dunno if the sim can climb as steeply as this requires. Can someone test?

Ok, but that's a small effect. I'll check when I sit down, walking with my phone atm. EDIT: turns out that is important, thanks.

Yes, by geometrical necessity. Me on page 4: I have to go now, but maybe you could check the numbers in the glide chart too, see if they're as muddled as this one. If we can't make sense of those data either I don't think we can draw any conclusions about the glide performance, meaning we still don't know if it's a drag problem or a thrust problem (or both).

I've tried raising this discussion several times. I don't understand how they've arrived at their values. If you climb at 870 km/h TAS for 4 mins, you will have moved about 60 km through the airmass. According to the chart, you end up at 7 km above the ground, 40 km from where you started. This is not a triangle. The chart, as I understand it, is geometrically impossible. Even as you explain it, if ground speed at sea level is 870 km/h, after 4 mins 10 s you are NOT 40 km out: 870 * (4+1/6)/60 km = 60 km

Except the climb distances in that manual don't make sense.

I think some kind of damage just makes the model disappear. I've seen a 21 perform a hard landing and then taxi floating on invisible landing gear.

Yep, it's actually surprising. Such an elementary thing, and something that no other aircraft shows.

I love the MiG. It's such a scruffy-looking and weirdly designed plane, you know like "oh look, someone's spilled red paint on the stick." "If I want to turn off my radar filters I have to unlock my target?" "You stick the canopy anti-ice switch in my face but I have to go heads down to engage radar fixed beam mode?" But then, surprisingly, it's just a really good little aircraft! I love it.

Congrats to the winners and thanks again cichlidfan, awesome thing of you to do.

Yep, you do good work with those PTFE rings, buddy. I wanted to ask a related question: Does anyone imagine there being any danger in removing the four post springs completely? I found it to tighten the stick up around the centre. Conversely, it's softer at the extremes, but I can live with that. Ideas? EDIT: just wanted to confess that the real reason I want them gone is the annoying clicky springy sound they tend to make.

Press RCtrl+L for Soviet nightvision.

Sidewinders would be awesome, I believe the Egyptians had those on their 21s?

Throttle idle? Generally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blown_flap

Properly? No. You can poke some grease in, and it might be better than nothing, but I dunno if I'd recommend applying the good grease when the bad, stock grease is still there. Not cleaning it properly before might be asking for trouble.

EDGE multicore support is far from confirmed. See for example from this month.

Clearly I'm the annoying person.

I can only assume that they're using that model as a placeholder (it doesn't exactly look burned-out) until they make a proper wreckage model. I hadn't noticed it had a pilot, though :D

No, the aircraft livery. I've noticed that when a MiG blows up it leaves a white (or light at least) plane with bort number 0000 or something, in red. Is that what you mean?

Hey now. I irritate many more people than that.

Think you saw the wreckage placeholder. It was white, right?

Called it! What did I win?

I image there'll be a patch through ED's updater (obviously), but containing only MiG stuff. I also imagine it coming this week.

970 is very, very good for the price, compared to what you could get for the same money a week ago.

wat (by which I mean "I emphatically disagree")