Vekkinho

Yes it does, however max landing weight is generally greater than max TO weight. Hornet is a sturdy bird, designed for carrier landing and can land heavy, fast and steep. 10.000lbs of onboard fuel is a joke, it's combat payload is greater than that and Hornets often return with full payload back to mothership. Dumping the fuel was probably done in order to prevent major expolosion upon impact. More fuel = more blast = greater fire= more damage. I guess pilots knew the crash was inevitable, however by the intensity of thich black smoke I can say they haven't managed to dump any significant qty of fuel, there was lot of it left during crash.

Yeah, I guess we're just playing a broken telephone, 'cause some of the witnesses state the aircraft was circling the skies before it crashed. No one mentioned how many aircraft were active in that part of the sky and was the MA really the only one around. If it circled while dumping fuel it couldn't be on a takeoff line from runway, rather on final. Some state smoke from it's engines, was it smoke or dumped fuel vapors?

Yeah, and bartender looks like that guy!

Nice shots Peyo, when first one opened I thought it was a photo. However, I wonder why Hog pilot has some weird looking helmet...It reminds me of older Soviet stuff, I thought HGU-55 was standard for hog pilots?!

You see, Croatia (the country I'm from) is looking for a modernization of it's airforce fighter fleet. Among many options there's SAAB JAS-39C/D tender and I was in possesion of some Volvo Aero GE F404 RM12 flyers. It's a same engine as the one on F/A-18 but there's only one with Gripen. So the thing they write in capital letters, and quite often is greater resistance to bird strikes.

Or starboard engine got stuck in AB? This is VERY strange, no hooks no turns initiated by any of the two to crash into unpopulated area. That's why green lines sound very plausible.

Sorry for straying OT but I didn't know you're into scales as well, I must admit I got rusty lately (lack of free time) but there's VFA-31 F/A-18E CAG bird and VFC 12 Fighting Omars F/A-18C in 1:72 on my shelf waiting assembly.

I was very sad to hear it was a VFA 106 Gladiators F/A-18D. I've got VFA 106 1:72 scale model by Italeri in Wild Weasel config and of all kits I've assembled this one turned so damn good and became my favorite.

I'm sorry Frostiken but these enthusiasts are right about nozzles. Pictured here is RAAF F/A-18C and cold GE F404-400 engines look like this: Nozzles are closed not open!

However there's the IECMS with GEF404 monitoring and recording engine malfunctions that can say more on this matter. But making any conclusions on the engine state by looking at the nozzle photo of an aircraft that crashed and burned makes no sense. Nozzle position might have changed after impact... what did it look like before plane hit the ground is another story.

These videos are all showing nozzles of aircraft before they hit the ground and desintegrate. Throttle lever position is the only thing that can tell investigators real engine settings.

I this still on?!: http://rt.com/usa/news/air-force-f-22-fleet-549/

Pilots were probably on final as plane crashed down the glideslope. They probably experienced some sort of failure just a few moments before ejection with no chance of hooking the plane in a nearby ocean direction. Pilot strapped in his seat is an indication that he problably ejected just few feet from the ground so I wonder if they had enought time to retard both throttles before ejection. So looking at the engine nozzles of a plane in this state tells you nothing. I'm glad there are only minor injuries mentioned so far.

Nice vid! I'm always happy to see MiG-29 in action no matter games, sims or real!

The skycolor in FC and DCS is fixed unlike real world with lots of factors contributing to the sky color, humidity and sunlight being main. Take few photos of the same part of the sky in intervals of 10 secs and compare. They'll all appear different if you compare their RGB levels. From that screenshot I can see the casted shadow of A-10C and I can say it was taken between 11AM and 1PM and yeah the sky is a bit too dark for that time of the day.

Yeah great read! I had lots' of trouble with different SFM planes in LOCKON and FC, I used to fly MiG-29A (mostly) and final approach is very different than doing the same with Su-27 or trapping with Su-33. Even these SFM planes behave differently in LOMAC and FC... MiG-29A automatically retracts her "swallow tail" airbrake when you lower your gear. This makes you fly slightly below glideslope with high AoA in order to avoid acceleration during final. IMHO, lowered gear in FC doesn't produce enough drag as it probably does IRL. MIG-29A is very prone to bouncing as you don't really pin it into runway but rather scrape it in the vicinity vertical speed of -0,5 m/s. If you're too fast (240km/h+) you'll bounce for sure! Su-27 is a great plane to land with as you can control your approach speed and angles by using AoA, throttle and airbrake. Su-33 asks for crashing into carrier deck with aibrake closed. During AB landings it behaves same as Su-27 (airbrake out) except it requires +10km/h of airspeed than Su-27 due to it's greater weight.

OK, I'm glad you got fixed it now!

F-18 is a carrier bird and is designed to "crash" into deck...optimal vertical speed during touchdown is -20ft/s. There's the difference Jetstream got it right!

Right click onto what?

The doctor!

Try this: deactivate FC2 - uninstall FC2 - install FC2 - activate by using the same key as the first time...

Hmmm, reinstall / restore Windows...

And they usually blame the guy who didn't make it....

Tkanks but I already did that already before raisng alarm...it's not just my computer dependable, it happens on many machines, laptop, job desktop PC, neighbour's PC, net caffe PC etc.

I wonder why there's no both Sochi Adler, Krasnodar etc. runways active with FC2, it should be weather / conditions / traffic dependable same way as we get directed to takeoff / landing runway, headwind dependable.