Paradox

It didn't look as though the secondary reheat was used on this takeoff although the manual does allow it. You should be able to see when the second reheat is turned on my the 3 metre blowtorch hot flame violently shooting out of the rear end. Using the first stage afterburner is standard procedure for a MiG-21 takeoff with a moderate load.

I recall that Iris made a custom afterburner effect for their F-14A but I wouldn't expect to see much more of that.

Given Belsimteks previous products this seems very likely to me. As a result I probably won't buy the Sabre on day 1 just because I'll be too busy with the MiG-21 to worry about unimplemented features and bugs like in the Mi-8 and early Huey.

Well it's well past midnight now. I hope I'll wake up to something.

LABS can be used for an "idiot's loop" weapon delivery profile, yes, The screenshots that were posted of the F-86 cockpit had LABS controls. So I suppose that means the answer's yes.

While we haven't been explicitly told that, it's almost definite that it will be full AFM (now called PFM)

You know there's a beer festival on in Cambridge at the same time? I'm going to make a 3 day weekend of it.

I'll be interested to know if DK2 is a sufficient resolution to read panel text and to search for targets outside the pit. If so then I'm on board.

You ought to Czech your facts mate :D

It's still in beta, these are things that I expect to change for the final release. Good work pointing them out though, I hadn't noticed half of these. I'll never be able to unsee the overflowing reticule now...

Yasssss, that's what we like, proper campaign. Thanks Cobra!

Having never used the auto-rudder I didn't know that it did anything after takeoff...

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I don't have much knowledge to contribute to the topic but I will say: Discussions like this make me VERY excited for the F-18C given that it will be built from the ground up to simulate these systems in exacting detail and I'm hugely optimistic about learning them and interacting with them myself rather than letting an FC3 style interface simplify it for me.

I think most of the Iraqi MiG-21s had English text. Not sure about the MiG-29s

Mmm, I thought so too. Never mind, I'm sure we'll have enough to do in it from player made missions and campaigns.

I assumed that they don't move on the ground because the hydraulic pressure isn't sufficient to move them when not powered up. But I don't think I ever checked if they then function when the aircraft is powered up. If not then yeah probably we need that.

Oh man I'd love to but I won't have the car. I've tried to deal with a trip to Cambridge and public transport around Duxford before and it's so awkward. HOWEVER!: I think the guys that run the Battle of Britain/ cold war hangar ought to get that MiG-21 in there running. Imagine seeing that in the air!

http://www.leatherneck-sim.com/team/ A handsome collection of human beings you have there. I hope the pilot model is based on Novak, I want to simulate his distinguished facial hair almost as much as I want to simulate a supersonic intercept mission.

I've seen it claimed a few times that a fluke of the design meant that it's weirdly manoeuverable at high AoA, I don't know how much truth there is to that. It's certainly a very fast aicraft with a high power to weight ratio, especially for its time and its low drag airframe *should* make it decently quick to accelerate at least compared with its contemporaries. Visibility and stability will be a problem, longitudinal stability with a heavy load is said to be quite dismal and unequally distributed loads are almost not worth flying with. There were problems with drop tanks not being ditched properly generating an asymmetric load which has been responsible for problems. I don't know if that caused any crashes but it would probably persuade you to RTB. Visibility will certainly be an interesting problem, I've seen the way they've implemented it in DCS and it's quite a painless process, using the provided periscope. All the best fighters have periscopes right?

Yeah, it's definitely a bug and I'd love to see it fixed but my expectations are quite low/realistic.

I imagine that this will end up fixed when carriers are overhauled and not before. Of course nobody knows when that will happen only that it makes sense for a F-18C in the future.

I cannot wait to smash myself into the deck attempting this manoeuvre.

I think the decision has already been made mate. I am excited to learn what the future holds for Leatherneck.

Ah I see. I didn't know that DCSW could already do that, that's cool.