Nerd1000

All jets have a Mach limit. Air entering the intake at high speed gets compressed and heated. Compressing air in the compressor heats it up further- at speeds above the limit for the engine the temperature of the air can become high enough to soften the metal in the compressor blades. Prolonged operation under such conditions will make the engine explode. Another limitation is the velocity of the air at the compressor face. Most Jet engines don't like ingesting air that has a velocity of more than 0.8M or so- higher speeds might cause a compressor stall due to exceeding the critical mach of the compressor blades. Surging can flame out the engine. The intake is designed to decelerate the incoming air to an appropriate speed, but if you exceed its design limits it might not be able to do so. The MiG's flameout behavior might be one of the two above or it might be something else I don't know about. The surging is the one that seems more plausible to me, seeing as it is a flameout not an engine explosion. That said, you don't hear the compressor stall 'bang' noise when you flame the engine out from high mach (you want to hear it? try setting the nose cone to manual and putting the needle on 100% while stationary on the ground :D).

Someone should make those tables into a kneeboard page. Might give it a go when I get home.

Its possible to land at speeds as low as 270km/h with BLC and full flaps. Only problem is that you can't see the runway due to high AoA before touchdown.

Sliding in a direction that is not the one they should be moving along. From pop singer Michael Jackson's dance move.

Since updating to 1.5 I'm finding the radar to be extremely unreliable. Planes will appear on the scope once then disappear, even when I've got the contact in visual range and am pointing the radar right at them.

Both the GAR-8 and the R-3S used proportional navigation (therefore they should lead the target). The reason for the 'tail pursuit only' requirement is the limitations of their seekers, which are blind to anything cooler than a tailpipe and thus should only lock on from almost directly astern. As it is the R-3S only locks on from behind but can maintain lock if the target turns beam-on to the missile after launch. In that situation the missile should go dumb.

The huey is less stable.

The Fairey Gannet AEW.3 begs to differ.

To me the tracers look consistent with the position of the gun. could this just be caused by the nose-high attitude of the MiG under most flight conditions?

I'm also getting this in SP.

L-39 doesn't have an afterburner. The R-3S uses an uncooled Lead Sulfide seeker. Because such seekers are only sensitive to fairly high frequency IR radiation, it requires direct line-of-sight to the hot parts of the engine like the inside of the nozzle and the final turbine stage in order to get a lock. The AI, however, are able to cheat. You'll notice that many R-60M equipped AI aircraft are able to launch head-on, and it seems that the L-39 continues that trend.

A2G guns mode works for me. make sure the ASP and selector switches are set up like in the attached screenshot (except the weapon knob and the IR/SAR mode switch- they're irrelevant to guns mode, so you can put them where you like).

ET shots will not give a launch warning, however locking the target with radar will give him a lock warning. You can employ the ET using the nose mounted IR sensor if you want to be sneaky.

I tested it. It definitely works, but only when you have a radar lock.

Not a big surprise. The sun in most games is just a light in the skybox.

BL-755 has always been an option AFAIK.

It actually kind of satisfies their hints too (still think its a Viggen though): New force distribution (swing wing, internal bomb bay). The new propulsion might well be on the other plane, or the TF30 turbofan could count (if it came out before the F-14 it would be the first turbofan LNS has made). Complex missiles: Popeye missile- the launching aircraft locks the missile on to the target after launch via a TV feed. Also the Harpoon anti-ship missile. A2G radar in both the ground mapping targeting radar and the terrain following radar system. Complex avionics- goes without saying. Though I doubt that the F-111 is one of the modules in development, it would be a sensible choice for LNS in the future. The plane is out of service (so less classifed, I hope) and shares some commonality with the F-14 in the form of its engines and swing wing design. It's also an iconic plane (especially in Australia) and fills a gap the roles available among flyable aircraft, which I suspect would provide good sales.

So the SFC of the engines in afterburner has been improved?

This used to happen at random even with the non-realistic pipper. Workaround is to switch off your battery and generator and then switch them back on again- the tone will return to normal function.

I noticed this too. It seems to be associated with the LoDs, as for me the cone jumps down when the camera moves a certain distance from the plane and returns to its correct position when you zoom in again.

I've found that the plane will enter a slow spin if you stall it with slip on. Standard spin recovery technique works great- just apply opposite rudder and down elevator to recover. It did lead to an embarrassing moment for me- I was dog fighting an AI A-10 to test out the new ASP features and stalled the plane. Recovered, leveled out, started to regain airspeed... BRRRRT. My poor MiG disintegrated into tiny bits.

I checked. the nuke effect hasn't changed.

The cone doesn't move around much at subsonic speeds. Once you go supersonic it will start to move forward as you accelerate, IIRC maxing out at somewhere near 40% at a speed of mach 2.1. This keeps the supersonic shockwave touching the inlet lip, which maximizes the compression of the air before it enters the engine and thus increases thrust. At subsonic speeds there is no shockwave and thus no reason for the cone to go forward (it might move around a bit to optimize airflow into the engine). The remainder of the movement range isn't used under flight conditions- I think it may only be used when removing the cone for maintenance.

A SAAB 21R, to be exact.

If we ever get a Storch, we'll also need an L-4 Grasshopper to dogfight with it.