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As you can see from the track, I didn't come out of my turn at 3/4 of a mile... quite a bit further back. I frequently have trouble trimming out at 600 feet at correct AOA on speed indication and end up turning a little late and/or turning a little too slow. Since I am lined up well past the range limits of the evaluation track, I am pretty sure I started the turn late on this attempt and also went a little wide.

If these things had worked the way I wanted them to, I would have bought them in a heartbeat. But all the problems I see on in this post tell me all I need to know: unsupported dead end.

I have been to both the Naval Aviation museum at Pensacola and the USAF Museum at Dayton. I was able to operate the throttle levers and get a feel for how they worked. But it is difficult to take very good measurements while sitting in the cockpit with the ejection seat installed, especially with other people waiting for their turn in the cockpit. I took a tape measure and a clipboard with me on both trips. I also bought a 1/32 scale high detail cockpit model and a micrometer to get ballpark measurements. But nothing beats having real parts or better yet a complete nose section with seats, panels, and stick :)

I really hope I can bolt my grips in place of the F-101 grips. From the F-101 manual, the main difference I can see is that instead of lifting detents to go to idle, the throttle grips have to be thrown outboard they same as afterburner. If my grips fit, I can live with going outboard for idle, but if I will try to modify the quadrant to use finger lift detents if I can do so without damaging any of the original hardware. Unlike the F-4 manual, there is no diagram showing the range of motion of the throttle levers identifying the angles for stop, idle, mil, and afterburner. I can't tell if there is room to move the levers forward after going outboard to advance the afterburner stages either. This may not work at all, or even if it does work, it might not work as well as I want it to, but I can't wait to get it and find out.

The replay track system just isn't accurate enough to allow me to make a video of my best landing yet. While trying to recreate the mission, the timing is a bit off, resulting in the aircraft and carrier not being in the same places they should have been. So, the F-14 tries to touchdown on the water, and fails to catch a wire. Every time a play it again, it plays out a little bit differently, but never the way it looked when I actually flew the mission. At least I took a screenshot at the time.

Awesome! Thank you very much. I may have just made a major breakthrough. I just found an F-101 Voodoo throttle quadrant minus the grips on eBay for a very reasonable price. It looks awful similar to the F-4 throttle quadrant. I have grips. So this might work. For the price, I am going to take a chance as it could save me a lot of engineering effort if the quadrant works well enough and the grips fit.

I am enjoying watching your progress. Having real instruments and being able to use them with the game is a real privilege and challenge between the cost, availability, and technical knowhow to make it work.

Right now you have one option, this complete F/A-18 HOTAS: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=258157 There was a short-lived throttle project that was sold to a handful of people, but the price was very high and there were some design issues, so it is no longer available.

I don't have either. I flew for many years with the original Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals. But I decided to get the Thrustmaster TPR because they were the most affordable pendular pedals I could find. I wanted pendular pedals because they are a close approximation of F-4 rudder pedals, which fits in well with my F-4 based simpit. But over the years, I followed all of the available options and numerous people's reviews of them. If you are limited to those two options, I think there are only two things to consider: 1) The material. The VPC pedals are all metal and the Crosswinds are not. 2) The price. Other than that, I think you will find most people have great things to say about both of those options. But if you can afford the price and the wait time for delivery, the best pedals available appear to be Slaw's pedals. If Thrustmaster had not released the TPR pedals, I probably would have gotten Slaw's pedals.

The simple answer is the F-15E has a different canopy to accommodate the WSO.

Thank you very much!

1. Because I love the F-4. 2. Because I started building it before I even owned any DCS World modules. 3. Because the F-4 is going to be in DCS World, which I assumed would be the case from the day the MiG-21bis was announced. Belsimtek made my day when they announced they had started the F-4E. Belsimtek typically released an aircraft fairly quickly after making any kind of announcement, so I thought it would be fairly soon. Then ED formally absorbed Belsimtek and put the F-4E on indefinite hold. Not happy, but enjoying the other aircraft until I can have it. The F-14 is almost F-4 era tech and is a two-seater, so it is providing a reasonable substitute. The MiG-23 is pretty much a single seat, single engine F-4, so I am looking forward to that aircraft, too.

F-4 is the only aircraft I have been eagerly awaiting since the MiG-21bis was announced. Discounting all other announced projects, I have no idea what everyone else was eagerly awaiting beyond the F/A-18, F-14, and F-16 that have already been released. Could it be the Me262?

No, I do not have technical data and could really use it. I have some photos and the pilot manuals that gave me some good data and I operated real throttles at museums... but detailed documentation would always be appreciated!

Awesome cockpit! Wish I had the opportunity to do the same. I still have all the images you sent me. I have throttle handles and started making my own quadrant to mount them on, but I could really use the original throttle quadrant.

F-4J/S should be on that list. I don't think they are going to do an F-4, especially with ED planning to eventually do the F-4E, but it is a complex, twin engine aircraft. Given the planned Forrestal CV release, an F-4J/S would be as good an investment as the A-6 for Heatblur. The existing F-14 Jester AI would also be well-suited to the F-4J/S.

This question can be answered very easily: open the mission in the editor and see what kind of triggers/victory conditions exist. The answer is: none. There are no goals or triggers of any kind. So driving off the F-4 is simply a matter of running it out of fuel or damaging it so bad that it tries to head home. But there is no score or victory message for chasing the F-4 away without shooting it down.

Think of the MiG-23MLA as a single-seat, single engine equivalent to an unslatted F-4E Phantom with less drag and a higher thrust-to-weight ratio. The MLD is like a slatted F-4E with less drag and a highter thrust-to-weight ratio. MiG-23 vs F-4 is a fairly well-matched fight, though the MiG-23 has some clear advantages in acceleration and climb.

I have been flying the F-15C exclusively for the past couple of days, and it just makes me wish it was fully modeled that much more. I love the flight model. It just kills me not to be able to operate it properly. It is ironic that a much more complex aircraft like the AJS-37 is fully modeled while the much simpler F-15C is stuck in Flaming Cliffs simple avionics mode. I am a pure air-to-air fan, but I fly the AJS-37 to enjoy its systems/flight modeling. If the JA-37 was available, I would almost never fly the AJS-37 again :P Until the F-4 is released, the F-15C would get a lot more of my time if it was fully modeled.

I am not an air-to-ground person, but the F-117 belongs in this game and I would pre-order/early access buy it. It is both a unique and legendary aircraft. I would spend some hours learning to fly it right. But is there enough information available to make it a proper DCS module? I have no interest in "best guesses". I am only interested in flying the best possible DCS World approximation of the F-117 with systems, propulsion, and flight model accuracy comparable to the best DCS flyables. Otherwise it is a waste of my time and money. I can already fly the F-117 to a "reasonable" approximation in other sims.

Installed and calibrated. Instructions were clear and correct. Calibration accomplished without any issues. Thrustmaster is stupid for not making the original slew stick as good or better than this one. Well worth the cost. My order included two of these slew upgrades because I have a second throttle. It may also need firmware version 23, so there will be one extra step before installing the mod. But I am in no hurry since the one I use every day is already upgraded and working perfectly.

Order 2819 arrived today! It is late and I am tired, but I may try to install it tonight.

Despite the outward similarity, the C and E are very different aircraft. The extra weight and the CFT's drag limits the F-15E's performance even with the -229 engines. The F-15C already exists, it would be better, especially for multiplayer, if its radar and other systems were modeled more realistically. Bonus wish: pilot body showing in cockpit whether or not the F-15C is ever upgraded to a high fidelity module.

We have the F-14B, F-16C, and F/A-18C. The MiG-29 and Su-27 opposition are not an option. So, the F-15C should be the next modern fighter, which would complete the US "teen" series. The existing Flaming Cliffs 3 F-15C is a joy to fly, but I don't fly it often because I much prefer aircraft with fully modeled systems/clickable cockpits. The aircraft I really want is the F-4 Phantom, and it is planned but indefinitely suspended pending other priorities. I would like the F-4 before anything else. But the F-15C might be fairly easy to bring up to full blown DCS module standards since the flight model and engine dynamics are already done and the cockpit appears to have been designed to allow full animation and be fully clickable. I know Eagle Dynamics already has a full schedule, but the title of this subforum is "DCS Wishlist", after all!

ORDER #2819 has been shipped. I can't wait until it gets here to try this out.