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I would also like to express my sincere condolences to the family and friends of Igor.

Tag Raku, da hast du ja in den letzten Monaten genau das gleiche erlebt, wie wir... im Dezember neuer Hartz-Nachbar, seitdem Dauerbeschallung mit "Musik", Wohnungssuche, Umzug, alte Wohnung schick machen, neue Wohnung schick machen..... hab auch noch Winterreifen drauf... also tröste dich, du bist nicht allein :) Ein Lob (keine Werbung) an Vodafone, deren Internet-Umzugs-Service hat 1A geklappt.

Vielen Dank :thumbup: Ich bin im Juli wieder im Flugplatzmuseum Cottbus, die haben alte Dienstvorschriften rumfliegen, da frag ich mal nach. :book:

Hey Freddo, mal was anderes - hast du die im Original und wenn ja, kannst du die irgendwie öffentlich zugänglich machen? :);):music_whistling:

Please stop spreading the fairy tale that it was unreliable. Not very useful in daily training, yes, unnecessary, yes, but certainly not unreliable.

Hmmm, different countries, different stories I guess :)

The system stayed inside the aircraft for balance reasons. This information comes from a former GDR air force pilot and flight instructor who was based in FAG-25 Bautzen where all GDR pilots were trained on L-29 / L-39. He also lectured at the Military Academy. His name is Dr. Rainer Goepfert. The reasons for being disconnected were not "frequent faults", but other reasons as I already wrote here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3327513&postcount=78 I'm not stating this is 100% correct, but I guess a man like him should know what he's talking about.

The GDR ones had the systems installed and used. Later on, it turned out that they were pretty useless for their intended use (firing IR missiles), so they were disconnected, but left inside the aircraft for weight reasons.

Has anybody found an answer to this? Why hasn't the SRD been implemented?

Well, that would literally mean I spend even more money for a product I've already paid for - just to get it finished. Because I don't GAF about the CE II.

Probieren kann ich es ja, aber ich denke, die 2 GB VRAM der Karte schieben dem Ganzen einen Riegel vor. Hab bis jetzt nur 1.5.x.

Und bis es soweit ist, kommt DCS 2.5 bei mir vermutlich in die Warteschleife. Mit meiner GTX 670-Gurke komm ich ab dem 31.01. nicht mehr weit :cry:

Weapons panel: http://home.snafu.de/veith/MiGs/L-39ZO_Panel.jpg I don't know, the L-39 pilots over at Flugzeugforum may answer that question, but that's not the point here. I'd like to fly the plane that's closest to the ZO, which is the ZA and not the C.

Exactly. Plus, the cockpit of the ZO is more ZA-like. The whole structure of the ZO is more ZA-like (weight, fuselage reinforcements, etc). The ZO is practically a ZA with the guns removed.

Yeah but there's no NVA skin for the ZA (correct me if I'm wrong) which is much more similar to the ZO then the C. And there's also no V skin for the C.

May be OT, but the NVA didn't fly the L-39C anyway :music_whistling::smilewink:

Actually, only the training missile R-3U was being used for training. This missile recorded all data like target distance, g-forces, speed etc. and could be analyzed after the flight. The conditions for shooting the real R-3S could never be achieved: The minimum speed for shooting this missile was Mach 0.8. This speed could only be obtained in a dive. At this speed though, the speed brakes would extend. At the same time, the pilot would have to keep the target for 3 seconds within the missile head's 3° detection angle in a range between 1200 and 4000 meters without exceeding 2 g. That conditions were practically impossible to achieve, so in 1983 the missile training was completely removed from the training plan and the radio rangefinders were decomissioned. The conversion to the R-60 missile was being discussed, but not realized. -> Taken from the book "Strahltrainer L-39 Albatros" by PPV which was written by a former GDR flight instructor :book: Edit: I don't know where this "Minimum R-3S speed - Mach 0.8" comes from, but I will keep researching :)

Cool, thank you. :thumbup: Do you know if the KVANT was replaced by a different rangefinder? Or is there simply no rangefinder installed on "our" L-39?

Hi guys, a few questions that came to my mind lately: 1. At this picture (and many others) you can see the range scale for the radio range finder, on the right hand side of the gunsight. Where is that range scale on "our" L-39's? -> https://www.flugzeugforum.de/data/attachments/751/751747-de2f624d4106b33821a68fbf8dfd775c.jpg Edit: Has the radio range finder been implemented at all? 2. East German pilots keep telling that there was only a small time frame for shooting the R-3S missile, because the minimum speed for shooting the R-3S was just a little bit below the maximum aircraft speed (where the airbrake is being engaged automatically). Doesn't seem to be the case in "our" L-39's. Any thoughts about this?

Thanks for that valuable information, Martin! :thumbup:

That did the trick, thank you so much! :clap: How do you know? I didn't find that explanation about the AOA lamp in the manual. I've only found the bits about the AOA and speed limitations. Thanks again!

Also ich hör mir vom ATC an, auf welches Bahnende ich aufrollen soll, dann guck ich auf meinen Kompass und stelle mir vor, von wo nach wo die Bahn verläuft. Dann weiß ich auch, wo "mein" Bahnende sein müsste, und dann fang ich an, grob in diese Richtung zu rollen. Irgendwann seh ich dann schon die Bahn ;)

Von einem Entwickler, der seit (gefühlt) Jahren nichts mehr an seinem bereits releasten Modul macht, weil er anscheinend "das Heu rein hat", erwarte ich schon lange nix mehr. Dann hau ich das Geld für eine unbewaffnete Maschine doch lieber für die Jak-52 raus - da weiß ich, dass die Qualität stimmt.

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