Fishbreath

The manual, at least, states that BOMB mode is for bombs only, and MISSILE mode is for everything else.

Is there even a separate attitude hold mode? I know there's a keybinding for it, but as far as I can tell, Stabilize mode and Recovery mode are the only ones mentioned in the manual besides the landing modes.

And you need to be going slow enough that aerodynamic pressure isn't pushing the flaps up (< 375kmh or so), if I read right.

EGT changes as you advance the throttle from the beginning of first afterburner to just before second, so I'd imagine that means more power, too.

As I posted earlier in the thread, the document in this thread remarks that the MiG has rudder authority at 20-30 knots. Turning on the ground with the rudder is definitely possible, it's just possible too slow right now, apparently.

There's a switch tooltipped nozzle settings on the left vertical panel near the APU and fire extinguisher switch which turns the afterburner off. (If you have your physical throttle full forward, you see the in-cockpit throttle move backward to the military power setting when you throw it.) I find it handy when I want to be sure of military power without hitting AB.

Yeah, I've seen a couple of different failure types—sometimes the localizer needle is correct and the glideslope needle is wrong, and sometimes the localizer needle commands a bank that would take me off of centerline. I recall the manual says that the PRMG system determines which direction you're landing from automatically. Maybe sometimes it gets confused for localizer or glideslope which direction you're coming from?

Yup, 1.2.10u2, I'm pretty sure. (Need to double-check, though.) Were there release notes for the patch that was in open beta yesterday? I didn't see any when I had the open beta client update.

I have a track from the open beta client as of last night which shows the pitch needle working and the bank needle wrong. I'll upload it and a video tonight or tomorrow.

Select the 'all keybindings' option from the top left dropdown, highlight a box in the column for a given device, and hit 'clear category'. :)

The R-27ER has effectively countermeasures resistance, and the R-77 runs into the same problems the AMRAAM does. It's not hamstrung on purpose; everything air to air needs some TLC. (Although I suppose the MiG-21 is modeled about right. :P)

The Kh-66 missiles don't fire in pairs. The left will fire first, then the right the next time you hit the release weapon button.

This is fixed in today's patch.

Without SAU directional mode, you don't have the middle needles on the KPP at all—just the needles on the edges, and the ones on the NPP. SAU directional mode gives you the same sort of ILS direction as the Su-25, as I read the manual, while having it off gives you no direction at all, just error information. Edit: to be clear: chasing the error needles isn't too far from chasing the director needles, but if you're using a director system, you fly onto the director needles, which then move to fly you onto the right course and slope.

To make it more complicated, my multiplayer range mission was working with Blue and EWR (even with an American MiG-21), although not always.

I think it's actually just static. Request ground power and turn on the ARK and radio, and you'll hear it with engines off. Additionally, it responds to the ARK volume knob and doesn't change at all with throttle settings.

The clickable button in the cockpit sometimes stops working, apparently, but the key binding should be okay. As for switches with covers, in general, you have to open the cover before hitting the switch, whether or not you hit the switch with a mouse click or a keyboard bind. It's the same for jettisoning the drag chute and deploying countermeasures/dropping the RATO pods.

There's a lock to prevent accidental gear retraction on the ground. You have to undo the lock to retract the gear. The click zone is to the left of the gear handle, and the key binding is probably in the sticky about retracting the gear in the main MiG-21bis forum above Bugs and Problems.

The following thread goes into detail on my testing, and includes a track, a sample mission file, and a Youtube video illustrating the problem: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=130931 The data in the previous thread doesn't show it, but I found that the bank director needle in the KPP would often command flight out of the localizer beam if I was off center. For approaching the glideslope beam from below, the pitch director needle would often start by commanding a slight climb, then progressively command steeper climbs which would have taken me above the glideslope, then impossible climbs. Both the pitch and bank director issues remained through cycling SAU landing modes off and back on. Sometimes, when the plane is in the PRMG signal (as indicated by black windows in the NPP center), turning on SAU directed landing mode will display the director needles dead center for several, regardless of maneuvering, then turn off. May be related to Philipp2's report about automatic landing mode and Dejjvid's issue with the same.

More precisely, it's on the front of the stick, the pinky button on your average American-style flight stick.

Track and mission files demonstrating the issue. (Mission starts you ~30-35 km from Kobuleti, 600kmh, 600m. Kobuleti is RSBN/PRMG channel 15.) The KPP bank director is correct in this track. As you move closer to the airfield (and closer to glideslope), the pitch director moves up the KPP until it vanishes. I cycle SAU directed landing mode off and on several times. It doesn't come back until final approach, and still indicates incorrectly. I'm uploading a Youtube video too. Will edit post when it's done. Edit: prmg-landing.trk MiG-21 Landing Test.miz

The MiG-21 fighter maneuverability in today's terms document (or whatever it's called) in another thread claims that the MiG had extremely good low-speed rudder authority, down to as little as 30 kts (~50kmh). It could just be aerodynamics at fast taxis. (And presumably that's why the manual/procedures say to taxi at 50-60kmh, so you don't have to spend your compressed air on keeping centered on the taxiway.)

Yup, it's a hot start issue.

It doesn't, as of yesterday when I tried a full shutdown after finishing my flying, anyway.

Pretty sure the SPS-141 and ASO-2 are an incompatible loadout, aren't they? I think the manual says so, although I haven't tried equipping both. Edit: do you have any information on how the SPS-141's jamming features work? I'm curious, and I haven't had a chance to test it out with someone else yet.