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Retracting refueling probe can take up to 2 minutes according to the manual.

Good landing. Yeah, sometimes I'm a bit confused when OLS indicates a slightly above glide slope, but ILS told me I'm below glide slope. Here's mine with full load:

Possibilities: 1. Approaching AOA and pitch attitude is too low and the hook cannot reach any cables. 2. The aircraft touched down too early and nose dropped down before catching any wires. Hence same as #1. 3. Wheel/hook bounced over the wire. Those behavior can also be observed in Seven-G IIRC.

Hi, I didn't give the permission. Maybe you mistaken me for someone else? The author was Capt. Smiley, and Kazereal, SkateZilla helped improve it. I currently don't have spare time to work on this though, there's something you can try out first: You can implement a flight control system according to a NASA document about F-18 thrust vectoring vehicle model. Simply search by "NASA Technical Memorandum 107601", and you will get a full control schema (only without G-limiter function) that is 100% able to translate into C++ codes.

Chinese J-11A also carry R-77. Would be pretty nice to have it in DCS as an AI or another flyable variant of FC3 Su-27 module.

1. The first picture is a Mig29K HUD image and I drew the su33 symbol with white line on top of it. Just to show how the HUD would look like with carrier insight. Now I think I found a video on YouTube which did the approach quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s_S-wA3ygw 2. '~' is the key right below 'ESC' and to the left of '1' key in most UK/US keyboard.

For the video: You can press '1' multiple times to switch to landing mode and press 'LCTRL + ~' to select the carrier. Use the big circle to navigate toward the carrier till you find a small circle popped-up, indicating your ILS deviation. You can use it as 'ball' reference since the ball on kutz is barely perceivable. Position yourself so that the small circle is in the center of the HUD, meaning you're on glidepath and lined up. If you did it right the big circle and the small circle will both in the center. Do not chase them however. Try to keep in the glideslope and on-speed AOA at least 1.4km (3/4nm) from the carrier. IRL that's the range to call the ball. In the video you flew too low and there's barely any time for you to adjust to landing glideslope. Sight picture should be like this: A guide that seems quite well written to me and sticks to NATOPs standard: http://www.users.on.net/~jase_ash/http:/www.users.on.net/~jase_ash/styled-9/styled-6/index.html Fly the ball and AOA as always.

Yes it's 3. Wire number is counted sequentially from the Ramp towards the Bow. Not the other way around.

Seems to me that you are on glideslope from 2:10 to 2:13 but AOA is low (overspeed). You pulled the throttle to reduce speed but not enough stick to compensate a dropping velocity vector so the aircraft slipped below the glideslope. We have all the four wires in sight when touching down so probably 1-wire. Great video anyways.

From a RL F-18 pilot's perspective about the auto throttle just in our forum: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3200726&postcount=89 And also this to keep me reminded of how to properly control the stick and throttle to adjust glideslope and AOA: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3199718&postcount=18

The FCS page is already there: [ATTACH]165583[/ATTACH]

Yeah, preset mission data for all weapons and others are inserted by some kind of external planning software I think, and are loaded into the aircraft MU (memory unit) automatically during aircraft power up.

Maybe there will be a similar interface in ME to set all the mission data just as how you set anti-ship missile waypoints for the Viggen? You can also go to TAC menu -> JDAM DSPLY page -> MSN page to change mission data for each pre-planned mission. (e.g. pressing "TGT UFC" to type in new target position from UFC)

At least it has a mode called TOO (Target Of Opportunity) to employ onboard sensors to automatically designate the target location for the weapon. IRL I once read in the TAC manual that TOO missions are not authorized in the F/A-18C/D aircraft?:joystick:

If you want a F14 vs F15 vs F16 E-M diagram comparison in similar altitude, drag and fuel, here you go:

I think you mean Kш(Ks) ratio on the left panel? It is automatically adjusted when FCS is in "Flight" and "Take-off/landing" mode. You can also turn on manual ratio adjust switch (Kш руц) and adjust the ratio using the red knob.

Yes. It has a system to compute the limiter value according to air data, store config and gross weight. If the system is malfunction, the limiter value is fixed to 18 deg AOA, and 6G below 0.85M / 4G after 0.85M. I also see in Operation Limitation chapter, that maximum allowed load factor is 8G below 0.85M at 21400kg gross weight, and 9G below 0.85M when internal fuel is less than 2700kg. Not sure whether the FBW take those figures into the system. This chart draws the G limit at 8.5G with a gross weight of 18920Kg. This is with 21400Kg:

Just for inference. I read in Chinese Su-27SK manual which uses the same FBW system as Su-27S, the AOA-G Limiter is scheduled with air data, store configs and gross weight.

IRL below 5000m and above 1.1 mach, more than 80% forward stick is required to achieve a level flight, which can use up all your trim authority. As altitude increases, less forward stick is required to keep the plane straight and level.

Something eastern, 4th-gen, and M2000 similar: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=185206

Just try if you can use the rudder to induce a dutch roll, or it has any flight control system features. (e.g. Roll-Yaw Crossfeed System)

I fly Falcon BMS too. Here's one thing to note: The F-15 doesn't have an AOA limiter, you can pull straight up to 45 Units (or 35 deg) AOA, bleeding a lot of speed. It's very sensitive to stick inputs. For me I always keep my AOA below 35 units. I also recommend a comprehensive study of P-1210 and P-1289 AIR COMBAT MANEUVERING by the Naval Air Training Command and practice the technique often.

Hi, you can simply search for TM-1-1520-251-10.

That's just a western style display, with the HUD/HMD being regarded as a full-time primary flight instrument.;) IRL you'll see the following display in an Apache in Cruise Mode, with all the navigation and sensor/weapon information gathered together, which indeed can be a little loaded felt by some people during intense operations.

Well, you may want to think twice on DCS F-15C and DCS Su-27. I don't know if the F-15C IRL can pull 12G at supersonic speeds as in DCS F-15C with all 3-channel CAS on, but I know Su-27 pretty well and I'm in touch with a bunch of guys who fly SU-27SK, J-11A and J-11B, and also have access to their manuals in the air force. I've inspected DCS Su-27 for a long time and there's several flight characteristics that is either not implemented or implemented wrong. If you're interested, you can join the discussion here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=176448&page=8. Spin is not possible in DCS Su-27.