Corrigan

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!

But that shouldn't have an effect if you zero the altimeter when on the ground (i.e. have the correct QFE like the OP suggests he has.)

Oh god, people actually think this still? It's complete nonsense from every perspective. https://www.testufo.com/#test=framerates

Objectively: yes, so much.

There's also a thumb lock thing that you have to depress to operate the lever, right? Is that something completely different?

An even better bet might be to temporarily unmap the pitch axis and see if it still happens.

Has there been any digging into this yet?

What about stick calibration? Do ctrl+enter to see if you're commanding a dive.

Altitude hold should trim the plane itself.

Course hold does not know/care about waypoints though. It cares about the course upon activation.

There is a course hold mode (ATT engaged when bank angle is less than 7 degrees IIRC) but there should be nothing like that with only SPAK. Could this mode be engaging via a bug?

Alright, fair enough, sounds like a bug then!

Then again Viggen is probably the earliest aircraft in DCS that has one.

Sounds like a bad axis assignment to me.