Vekkinho

I'm not an Eagle expert, I believe I have like 5 hours of Eagle time in last 9 years (since I bought LOMAC) but some things are same for all fighters. So the best way to preserve your fuel is to: Take off with Full Mil instead engaging AB. For ferry flying between distant waypoints try maintining Mach 0.8 @ 11.000m. This gives you pretty good fuel consumption / kilometers ratio. Avoid using AB during filght and try staying above 7.000m. Not sure if it's modellled with FC but I believe there should be fuel flow gauge with F-15C that tells you how many lbs of fuel you're burning at given throttle setting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7awMJwjhc4c

Whimps!

^^^^ Cool camos!

Cool teaser...

I like A-7 / F-8 caus it a pure Super Sabre succesor!

Which one?

The main problem here it that we're getting old, I was the " I wanna blow things up" type of player whre I first started MPing. Tactics and teamwork kicked in later on but even today when I go MP I'm flying lonewolf and usually head straigh for enemy without caring whom to work with...

Sad news!

I guess we need DCS: F/A-18D Wild Weasel

Flanker 2.0 in 1999. We're still waiting for it to happen IRL but if Chinese got their hands on it (as stated above) there's probably more R-77 out there than we can imagine.

Presence of Pilot is the main problem. No pilot no need for O2.

Vought F-7, last of the gunfighters: Amazing plane BTW... If you're modelling early AIM-7 Sparrows you better move your Missile effectivness slider to 0% for some realism...Sidewinders were deadly only if you fill your HUD with bandit and use it as a unguided rocket.

I rememeber a friend of mine few years ago that was totally hooked on ArmA and he was MPing for like 10 hours a day. He'd used to hide in the bushes or some virtual vegetation and each time he'd raise his head he'd got one between horns... He moved 10 feet after few months of action. Same's with Eagle pilots...

Thanks 4 sharing!

^^^^ He's got a bit of the point, first operational use and kill with AIM-120 was what...September '91 southern watch?!

I told you, this slowly turns into Streetfighter session...

I guess there's more 9.13S airframes produced than R-77 missiles :music_whistling:

Keeping my fingers crossed!

Croatian Canadairs:

Well, I've never seen photos of 9.13S loaded with live R-77...Yet every Fulcrum C in MP has 2 of them hanging and it might sound sad but it's the only reason players choose MiG-29S instead of Su-27 or 33. Noone arms it with S-8 rockets for some ground pounding. I'm a strong believer that Flaming Cliffs (both 1 n' 2) are balanced but not very realistic "Survey" simulations. There's a few reasons. Let's see...every flyable fighter or attack aircraft is armed to teeth which isn't very life-like scenario. I've seen about everything, 12 Mavs on a Hog, 8 AMRAAMs on an Eagle, R-77 on Fulcrum C, 4*R-27ER + 2*R-27ET + 4*R-73 on Su-27 etc and every player has a perfect mix of available / allowed payload. On the other hand 9.12A never had PTB-1150 option with LOMAC, FC and FC2. Here's one proof from 1989: So let's forget about realism with FC...It's a balance sim. Playing FC online feels like playing Steetfighter...Every available character has it's own special abilities...

No news in a long time here?!! So what's up?

Imaginaion, assumption...no thanks! MiG-29 is yesterdays snow, it works and is modeled pretty decent with FC2. Only thing that can be done with it are cosmetic tweaks of HUD and MFD to display given symbology more accurately. HUD fonts are OK but with certain combat modes HUD displays more info than IRL. (with Vertical Scan target speed and alt should not be displayed on HUD). MFD - option of HUD repeater (comes handy when backlight of the sun makes HUD useless.) No airbasea displayed on MFD, no flightroute etc.) Can't really say what is realistic with MiG-29S-13 (9-13S) cause i've never seen it or talked to someone who did, however Phazotron indeed states two target track capability. Yugoslav MiG-29 delivered in 1987 are MiG-29B-12 (Product 9.12A), versions made for non-Warsaw pact countries and were downgraded in terms of nulclear weapon delivery system and equipped with N019EB radar that proved no better than Sapfir-23ML radar used since 1980 with MiG-23. Iraqi MiG-23MS overhauled in ZMAJ-Zagreb in 1989 were flown by JRV pilots in mock up BVR combat and their radars outperformed N019EB installed in Yugoslav Fulcrums especially in look-down range. At taht time (late '89) VZ Moma Stanojlovic was designing a radar to be used with "Novi Avion" a study that was supposed to replace Yugoslav obsolete MiG-21MF and J-21 and during 1990 one of these radars was allegedly installed on MiG-29 #106 for airborne testing. Yugoslav MiG-29 pilots say that two target tracking wasn't an option with Fulcrums they had but two target engagement was. Usual combat mix of BVR payload was R-27R+R-27T on inner stations supplemented with 4 x R-60 or R-73 for close combat. Idea behind having both SARH and IR missile is engagement of two targets independently, first one engaged with usage of S-31E2 KOLS to launch IR missile the other would be engaged with radar guided R-27R. Today most of the MiG-29 fleet in Russian VVS and PVO is grounded followed by repetitive crashes in 2008. These aircraft received no upgrade since collapse of USSR as focus was moved onto MiG-31 and Su-27 as Russian primary combat aircraft. In 2009 most of airworthy Fulcrums failed inspection due to corrosion and decision was made to upgrade early MiG-29s to SMT standard. If you ask me, i'd stop kicking the dead horse in FC3, I'd rather focus onto DCS: .

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