Diegeist

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Dudikoff, He was speaking about the ALR-45. ~Dieg

Stratos, My understanding is that the Tomcat had an RWR that was capable of detecting SAM radar signals, it just wasn't very good and they didn't rely on it. I think if the F-14 was going to be flying over hostile territory that was SAM capable it probably would have been accompanied by an A-6 Prowler flight. The Tomcats job after all, was first and formost fleet defense. I think I have some pictures laying around that he took of his flight escorting a TU-95 away from the carrier group. And I think you can even see the Russian in the window of the Bear. If I find it and its digitized I will post it up. Ill ask him more about it tomorrow when I see him. Cheers, ~Dieg

BlackLion, Thanks for the welcome! I must admit to being a lurker on these forums for a very long time. Its no problem, my dad loves reliving his old Navy days. To answer your question, he was deployed with VF-11 (Rippers) and later moved to VF-101 (Grim Reapers). At first he was deployed to the Kennedy and did I think 3 cruses, got his neptune certificate (Thats a good story for people that have never been in the Navy) and then went off to the Navy Fighter Weapons School. My memories really begin after he was deployed to the Ike in the mid 80's. ~Dieg

Jester, SCP and BlackLion are quite correct, there were no flight controls in the back seat of a Tomcat. I don't even have to ask him this since I spent many hours as a kid on base in the giant F-14 simulators. The only thing the RIO has is a small stick in front of the main radar screen. As for the flight training, my father was a pilot before he entered the service. So I believe he could have flown the aircraft if he had the controls to do so, but again BlackLion is spot on. The RIOs only received NFO (Naval Flight Officer) training. I have so many great stories from him, one of these days I will pull out the recorder and get them on tape. I feel that someday these amazing experiences could be lost to time unless we share them. If you guys want me to ask him anything let me know, we usually talk shop over football on Sunday : ) ~Dieg

Just adding a bit of info to this thread... My father is a retired Tomcat RIO (F-14A) and we are both very excited for the release of the LNS Tomcat in the coming months(years). The topic of the RWR came up in a casual conversation I was having with him the other day (I was telling him one of my many A-10C vs SAM sob stories), and I asked how the F-14 handled RWR. His response was that it was a terrible system that "never would have worked if they were fired at by a SAM" and said that it "was all but useless". Instead they relied upon the massive amount of radiation they (E-2 and multiple F-14 flights) would sweep the CAP track with. Because of the data-link between the Tomcats, E-2, and the carrier, there was very little that the strike group was unaware of. An interesting side note, he also told me about how in the early 80's the tomcats were coming with rifle scope rails mounted next to the HUD so that the pilots could line up a locked contact with the center line of the aircraft and use the scope to see what it was. I found that funny since they were doing that back in WWII. I cant wait for this module to be released. I will finally be able to experience flight in an F-14 with my old man. I already have an experienced RIO ready to go. Now I just need to buy an Oculs rift... ~Dieg

Hello, I would like to report a crash that I am experiencing after 20-25 minutes of game play. No matter the mission or aircraft piloted, it happens every time. I am not using any mods and the only customization I have done is keybinds. At the time of this specific crash I was zoomed into the TAD looking at the waypoints. Please let me know if I can provide any other bits of information. Faulting application name: DCS.exe, version: 1.5.0.45208, time stamp: 0x560e60b2 Faulting module name: DCS.exe, version: 1.5.0.45208, time stamp: 0x560e60b2 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x00000000000454b1 Faulting process id: 0x1b54 Faulting application start time: 0x01d0fe3d79d37aa9 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS.exe Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS.exe Report Id: 133813c0-6a39-11e5-9528-54899fbf470c ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you, Diegeist dcs.rar

Apologizes if this has been explained elsewhere. I was just wondering what the exact differences were? Does flyable only mean in the beta? Thanks!

Sorry I forgot to mention, I have mirrors disabled on on all sims. Glad to know I am not the only one having this issue. I tested it extensively tonight and found that after a reboot and launching nothing else but TrackIR, TargetGUI, and DCS I can get the difference down to 10 FPS. I cannot get it closer though. I figured that with the extra MFDs on the A-10 it would be a bigger FPS HOG then the Mustang. Go figure. Cheers, DieGeist

I am currently running an Intel i7@3.7 with 16 GB DDR3 RAM, x2 10k Raptor Drives in a RAID0, and an Nvidia GTX 550TI on Windows 7 64bit. I run the sims graphics on the medium setting. Please let me know if I missed anything. Cheers, Diegeist

Hey guys, Not really sure if this should be in the P-51 Forum or not since it is an engine question. I have experienced huge FPS drops flying the P-51. Normally when flying the Hog or any FC aircraft, I average 45 FPS while flying over empty terrain. However since about 1.2.6 (not sure as I don't fly the P-51 often) while flying the Mustang I am only averaging 20 FPS with the same scenario. It may not sound like much, but I can tell you every FPS matters while trying to take off and land with that torque. Has anyone else experienced a big FPS loss? I just want to make sure I am not the minority and have something wrong with my system. If needed I can attach a track with the FPS counter on so you can see the difference. Thank you for the help. Cheers, DieGeist

Ralfi, You just crushed my dreams of being the first virtual A-10C fighter ace :pilotfly:. Well I guess its back to hugging the hills and rolling in the dirt. Thanks for the insight guys. Cheers, Dieg

So I did some searching on the forums here and did not really find what I was looking for (probably my fault). I am trying to find out if ECM is actually working yet in 1.26. I know in the past it has been a running joke that all it does is allow other radar to find you faster, and I havent seen anything recently on the subject. Specifically I am wondering if the ECM pod for the A-10C is still a paperweight. If it is useless I would rather not haul it around on missions. I have done some basic testing with the SA-10 sites and it doesn't seem matter if I am using ECM or not. They always lock me up around the same range. Anyone else have the same results? Cheers, Die

Was reading through this site and came across a fan favorite. http://badasshistory.com/warthog.html Thought it would be a funny read for you guys. Cheers,

I am not sure, but I have seen plenty of videos with people running all sorts of mods with the latest version. So I don't think it is specific to that one pit mod.