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There is no way to IFF in the LockOn F-15 under any of the auto lock modes (Boresight, Verticle, etc...). You also cannot IFF when your target is locked. So if you lock someone, and you are unsure if he is friend or foe, you have to unlock, scan him in RWS or TWS, see the little rectangle.. and relock. PITA! The only way to IFF while flying the F-15 is in RWS or TWS mode and scan him to see a rectangle. The Russian birds are able to IFF when target is locked.. and/or boresight.. etc From what i understand, the real F-15 puts a a big X on the lock box if he is friendly. Hopefully ED fixes this in Blackshark. Hey GG.. LTNS :) Do you know if they fixed this? Can you say? lol :pilotfly: Edit: Let me also add.. there is an indirect way to IFF a target afte its locked, if you are clever. By process of elimination, you can check what your enemy team is flying. Once you lock a target, you will get target type on bottom center of VDS. So if you see a MiG-29 there, and you have no MiGs on your team.. fire away and blast that sucker to mars! Unfortunately.. there is alot of mix and match with planes among red and blue, so you gotta be careul with that one. I always try to know where my teammate migs/su's are. This way if i need to use boresight.. im good to go. Its all SA... hope this helps..

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Its a game A Flight simulator you can log time in... A Flight training device (FTD) you can also log time in... (although im not 100% sure.. havent picked up the FAR's in a while) A Cockpit procedural trainer (CPT) you can use towards training requirements (which is basically a piece of cardboard replica of a cockpit) Thats what the difference is between the different products... you cannot log time when playing LockOn (although im sure some do...lol) hi everyone... miss me? :beer:

It did. I edited it. We have a fractional operator here in the states called Flight Ops, force of habit.... :D

He never called me ignorant, he called Swing Kid ignorant, when Swing Kid included "With all due respect" in his post. Im over it, but like i said before, i wont be recommending it ;) So, who gets hurt here?

Its perfectly reasonable to get frustrated in a good debate and fact finding process. However its another thing to call a paying customer ignorant, no matter how ignorant they are, if you want to make money in your business. Maybe im the one who is ignorant, but it just doesnt make good business sense to me. And no matter how accurate he is, Fighter Ops is looking more and more attractive every day. Unless of course Yo-Yo has a hand in their development. As far as im concerned, the customer can call me names, tell me im a liar, or tell me my product sucks as much as he wants, and i'll smile back and say thank you every time if he is buying my product. I understand other possibilities which do make sense for the 25T behavior, such as the idle thrust settings we have discussed. I have no doubt that Yo-yo knows alot more about the 25T than i...However. for something that needs to be pretty precise as a weapons platform/bomber, it sure is a handful to get the thing to slow down.

Yo-Yo, do you work for ED? I see that ED Team is on your avatar, but not sure if that means you work for ED. I was a bit conused about the "ED Tester Team" signatures as well till Alfa clear it up for me that they are just regular customers like everyone else, chosen to do beta testing. If you do work for ED, and Swing Kid is a customer, did you just call your buying customer ignorant? Sorry, it just took me by surprise....:doh:

lol.. there is a very real possibility i have heard the expression, but always interpreted it as "half as much". Thank goodness im not a bartendar or i'd be shorting customers who asked for "half as much again" alcohol in their drink.... ;)

Yeah, he didnt fly the Frog though. I had him doing some practice in the F-15. He's too used to transport category aircraft now that i guess it was pointless to sit him down in front of LOFC.

lol... good one... never heard that before either. Parasitic is the propery terminology. I guess i picked up a few bad habits since my CFI days... ;)

Hmmmm, and just as it was starting to make sense.... oh well...lol "Half as much again" means 1.5x? Ok.. must be a british thing. Never heard that expression...:) I figured the "again" was a typo he forgot to backspace.... see what i get for thinking? ;)

And that makes sense. If the drag acting on the F-15 is half as much as the 25T at that speed, why does the F-15 slow down more rapidly than the 25T having double the drag, plus gear, flaps and speed brakes. I suppose the F-15 speed brake creates all that drag by itself... ? Edit: The residual thrust advantage on the 25T does lend to a better understand of why it seems slippery with all that drag hangin out though.... if in fact its 30% more than the 15 at idle.

Drag is decreasing when you are in a dive, induced drag (Induced drag decreases as speed increases). Parasite drag increases. Over-all drag increases as you accelerate. It doesnt remain the same... Are you familiar with the difference between induced and parasite drag? Just curious, not trying to be sarcastic.

I never said this. Where are you getting this from? Induced drag is decreasing because you are accelerating, not the other way around. Parasite drag is increasing, also because you are accelerating. The over-all combination of drag is less than the thrust vector because you are accelerating. But drag does not remain the same acellerating in a dive as you suggested earlier. Over-all drag increases as you accelerate any moving body. Drag will increase (as you accelerate) where it eventually catches up with the constant thrust force and equals out. In a dive, this is known as Terminal Velocity. Lift and AoA, depending on airfoil design, also does not remain the same while accelerating in a dive. As you also suggested earlier. . agreed, until drag catches up with thrust and you hit terminal velocity, or impact the ground, or rip your plane apart. ;) No, i believe i stated earlier that the F-15C had an 8000lb thrust advantage over the 25T (speaking in simple terms), in an established dive at idle power, because the F-15C is 8000lbs heavier in my test. However, it didnt seem to have an effect since they both peformed rather equally in the clean configuration.

So, let me see if i can understand this. There is a possibility the Cd of wing area is taken into account for the LOFC 25T design... but not all the other stuff like the 10 pylons side by side, the engine cowls sticking out, the square fuse? Plus it nets 30% thrust at idle? Oh man..... lol