xnomad

Thanks, yeah I'm thinking of actually getting a buttkicker/jetpad or similar for this mod and to improve immersion overall in the others. I would normally fly planes like this with my FFB stick but my new Virpil is so mind-blowingly amazing and precise that I can't go back to the old FFB stick.

What has always bothered me about the flight model is the rubber band effect in pitch. Not sure if it is realistic or not but it doesn't feel realistic to me. As we know you have to be careful with your AOA in a delta wing, however if you accidentally exceed and try to recover by pushing down to get some airflow over the wings, the nose will bounce back and forth from low to high exceeding AOA and dumping all the airspeed you tried to gain. It's like the plane is purposely trying to stall the wings when you are trying to stop it from happening. I remember US test pilots saying it was an honest plane (ok not the Bis in particular), but this one feels like it's trying to get you killed. :) Maybe that's the way it was but doesn't seem right as if weight or momentum is off. I can't think what would cause pitch to oscillate like that so elastically in a real plane. What do others think or do you know why it's modeled like that?

Same here I got confused with WP 5. I believe we are supposed to hang around WP4 and WP5 is actually the bullseye and we are supposed to designate that as a A/A Waypoint. Once you've done that you can find the bogey referencing the AWACS bullseye calls. Yeah never done a night time refuel either, was pretty cool but pretty dark, Smoke appeared to have a light on his probe but mine didn't (I had nav lights on at that point too), maybe use the NVG's ?

So I accidentally forgot a few items in my pre-flight checklist ( I was thrown off by the new INS procedures which mixed up my routine) and ended up taking off 40 seconds after my wingman. After establishing my course and altitude at waypoint 1 I realised he was missing I remember seeing an LSO message pop up, grading a landing. Surely not? Yep Smoke RTB'ed :lol: Pretty sure it's my fault for taking off after him although he landed 4 minutes after I took off so should have known I'm in the air.

You are supposed to use the bow Cats (1 or 2) I believe, and Saint will use a waist Cat.

So true! I give Jester a hard time (BVR) but forget that he is a God send in WVR furball. Sorry Jester I need to be more positive.

The AI can do endlessly sustained high alpha loops that you can't possibly match. Fly the Mig 21 and try to do the same that the AI Mig 21 does when you are fighting it in an F-14; You'd pancake into the ground. Like all Sims the AI flight model is very basic and cheats. It would be awesome if we could load AI bots with full flight model on a dedicated computer or on cloud server for a proper fight.

Yes but Jester needs to be pro-active instead of being told what to do. If a bandit is spiking me and Jester announces nails I'd expect him to reciprocate and get him on the scope. At the moment jester is just an abstraction layer to the radar controls in the rear cockpit and not a RIO. I find he's more of an over sensitive, audible RWR at best, but fails to deliver the 'R' in RIO.

Sweet thanks Glyn! Another reason I couldn't strafe the house was I happened to be hitting this bug: :megalol: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=4444228#post4444228 My reticle was lower than the impact point, Murphy's law I'd hit that when I'm out of bombs.

Had the same in the Serpents Head 2, third mission. Had just done some Mav IR stuff and then some CCIP MK83 which landed short. The gun was consistently high and missing. Is it something to do with altitude above ground? Could also be why the MK83 was off as it might be reading the height above ground wrong? I thought I'd need to go back to weapons school, did a quick strafing mission and it was fine then.

Oof Misson 3 is hard.

I discovered in the campaign that it is useless at dawn or dusk too. There's a dawn mission over Iran where you are equipped with them. I could never get it to stay locked and it would drift just before impact. Some searching on here revealed it's because of the low sun angle. Stupid mission to default equip with Wally considering the name of the mission is "Dawn Raiders" or similar IIRC. So I just equipped myself with the pod and some GBUs

Again, I can't get a passing grade out of the LSO. Track attached. EGIW 3 wire. EGIW.trk

I got a no grade with EGIW on a nice 3 wire last night. I didn't touch the throttle just before touch down and then went military when I landed. I didn't back off the throttle. The LSO reminds me of my high school math teacher. She hated me and said "I can give you any grade I want".... :cry:

Same here I get cut on 3 wire with 3PTSIW. The damn LSO always cuts me for landings I'm pretty happy with. I did not touch down on 3 points and flew the ball and AOA the whole way down.

+1 Had this last night in the 3rd mission of the hornet campaign with the Stennis. Couldn't get it to stop even when switching to approach or whatever it is called.

+1 Zoom in and it disappears happening only since last update and during daytime too. On rift S

I find my situational awareness completely lacking in missions with lots going on. He calls out missile launches and contacts where we aren't the target and he won't lock up aircraft with inferior radar that are locking us. Eventually I ignore his calls for me to jink and I get taken out. With the Super Carrier almost out I'm almost tempted to just buy the half price F/A 18. A RIO is supposed to reduce the workload but micro-managing him is getting me killed and ruining the carrier ops experience.

I came here to say this but noticed it has already been mentioned. I discovered this with the F-16 setting the axis as slider gave me much better fine grained control to balance out the attitude. I mean with the joystick not the throttle. I still have trouble with the F-16 the boom operator pushes me out of the way but I decided I'd jump back into the F-14 and give slider a go there! OMG I can hit the basket within seconds now and for the first time managed to completely top up with ony 1 disconnect.

for those of us with a bit of access to hardware or cloud compute I'd love to be able to run AI code with a realistic FM on a separate machine or an ec2 to instance to dogfight against.

Same here F14 open beta

+1 MiG 19 hitting the canopy jettison lever often and I think I've cut the engine generator twice. Very frustrating how inconsistent the hands are. Xplane does it well

Hi, I played LOMAC a long time ago when it came out and now I'm back. How do you finish a campaign mission? I'm stuck on the first F15 (FAM flight) mission I land, taxi to parking, turn off the engine and quit but I never seem to progress to the next mission. I don't want to have to fly the whole bloody thing again for the 3rd time :-(