Stubbies2003

I didn't see any evidence showing attitude hold working. Altitude hold does work. Neither heading select or steering select work atm.

Seems they copied the F/A-18s garbage wheel brakes right over to the 16. At least with the 18 you can land at much lower airspeeds than the 16 does. The 16 at current is not fun trying to land on short runways. Must be right at stall speed and land as close to the end as possible to not overrun thanks to garbage brakes.

I can get locks from ACM mode but Wicked is spot on that the aircraft drops lock any time you change from NAV to MRM. Seriously annoying.

By controlling what is sent to the engine itself. It doesn't maintain CG by transferring between A/L and F/R but by changing how much is taken from each system to feed the engine. Documentation I'm reading specifically states that in engine feed off the FFP is feeding the motor.

Yes and that has nothing to do with completely stopping fuel flow to the engine when on the ground under normal G. The FFP will keep it going at that point and that isn't electrically driven but hydraulically driven.

Remember the engine feed switch only controls the electrical fuel pumps in the feed tanks. The gravity/siphon feed via the FFP is always working hence why you didn't see a problem in the first place. Yup that is a bug. Real aircraft won't do that for fuel feed.

Aft = Down

Well yes and no. On the ground gravity feed will still feed the FFP to feed the engine so off or norm doesn't matter. In the air if you have the switch in off so the electric fuel pumps are off and push negative G or are inverted you will starve the engine of gas since the gravity pumps are on the bottom and the fuel would now be on the top of the feed tanks.

Well that right there is a bug as running a full flight in FWD or AFT *will* cause a fuel imbalance. However leaving it in off should only be a problem in flight when you push over for negative G. In that situation you should start to lose the engine from fuel starvation if it is in off. On the ground you'd never notice the difference between off and norm.

The proper lock button for RWS/SAM to STT is TMS button forward. On the converse TMS aft is return to search/unlock.

Yes but if you are going to use brevity terms it might behoove you to use them correctly. Otherwise you sound goofy or uneducated trying to sound good. The way you said it is about the same as someone asking you if they should go left or right and you say both left and right.

Correct in you won't get FLCS faults but if the Stores Config switch isn't in the correct position for the current aircraft config you WILL get the Stores Config caution light.

Saw em all the time at Luke AFB. SUU on one side and a TER on the other. Never once saw rockets loaded into a SUU.

LOL that picture is too much.

Okay I get what you are saying then. So yes the methodology would be different as apparently it expects to get the initial coordinates from the GPS to start the alignment and the HAS procedure is the work around/old school procedure. The INS is aligning exactly the same it is just the road traveled to get there is different. That was my frame of reference as that is exactly what we had to do. Not sure Stored Heading would change at all between old and new school as it only took 90 seconds and you didn't have to enter coordinates thus GPS or no GPS wouldn't be a factor. Perhaps EGI could do it a bit faster than 90 seconds. Very true. This is just real world talk.

Then why didn't you re-reference the list to see that it isn't in phase 1 and ask the question when it clearly now states phase 2?

You know that is true. :)

More than just "you can" enter current position that is required as part of the normal gyrocompass alignment. Only stored heading alignments don't require entering of current lat/long.

Not for a basic gyrocompass alignment no. GPS data isn't required for the INU to sense the Earth's movement while setting up the platform.

Uh being in a HAS doesn't affect the INS. If the pilot doesn't finish the alignment then correct.

So a few things. Lets just assume we are talking the original RLG with the 8 minute timer. The RLG has the capability to perform interrupted alignments so long as you don't take more than 10 minutes to go back to align and you didn't exceed like 80 knots of speed. So you could do two minutes worth of alignment, go to NAV mode, taxi to EoR, go back to align and finish out at EoR. There is also an enhanced interrupted alignment procedure to tighten the INS that much more than a normal.

No the only missing here was DonBrot failing to read the F-16 systems list which clearly shows TWS in Phase 2.

Just one if it is a good hit. Two if it was more of a glancing blow or too spread out due to attack angle/speed.

Flashing RDY on the INS page prior to selecting NAV.

Not so much. I've destroyed several MBTs (Leopards and Abrams) with the Rockeye.