Wizard_03

The old one felt more realistic. Although I don’t know if it’s the cockpit that’s the problem or DCS lighting as a whole.

That's something I'm hyped for too, So happy the new Missile APIs are out from ED now, and we can finally start to see some improvements on that front.

It would be cool to have a whole section on the wheel for TCS, for FOV selection and auto/scan/manual selection. Also unrelated I want the ability to remove the nacelle pylons for the Eternal tanks when I’m not using them.

As I understand it we are supposed to get a steering cue for the scan centroid, to place the nose in correct position in the front seat and The WCS automatically centers the scan on the tracks. Right now it’s easy to lose a track if you’re not on top of where jester is pointing the scan volume. It’s just a quality of life thing, for when your cranking or changing aspect/attitude and have a bunch of tracks to manage and want to keep the radar pointed at them without having to tell jester or your RIO to manually slew the scan around.

Whats are the things you want most from Heatblur for the F-14 in 2020? For me its: 1. Jester LANTIRN 2. Complete working OBC/Emergency Generator checks. 3. Red HSD night Filter and visual frames for it and the VDI flilter 4. Oxygen Panel for the front seat 5. TWS Auto 6. Fixed Afterburner visuals 7. Correct Digital Engine Tapes 8. Forrestal Class 9. F-14A 10. A-6 In more or less that order, I would rather they Finnish the core F-14B Experience before moving on to goodies like the carrier, A-6, and other immersion Assets but that's me. What do you think? :)

So I try to practice tanking with success almost every flight (connected on the first attempt and for the whole duration of the unrep, 5 minutes or so if its post mission). I don't use any curves, the F-14 is a stick and rudder jet so you need to stay ahead of it at all times, controls will take a moment to actually move the jet, like you said, and this is very normal for the F-14s ancient AFCS, so if you are not anticipating what its going to do, you'll be all over the place. I prefer to have the most crisp, immediate, and linear, responses to my inputs in game so no curves for me. (TMWH and Track IR) But It sounds like your reacting too it rather then flying it. Axis settings aside Don't ever assume that you can relax your control hands, it won't stay where you put it, you have to actively keep the jet in formation, and its exhausting after a while. Every throttle change must be accounted for in pitch, and your throttles should be moving the whole time. Therefore the stick is moving the whole time, one step ahead of what your eyes see. If I might ask, are you setting wing-sweep to bomb? Also, Trim, trim, trim, cannot be emphasized enough in this jet. Every single throttle change will result in a pitch change and if you not trimmed for the right speed it'll feel like riding a bull, and you won't be able to effect small enough changes, for formation flying, you will spaceship like you said. When you join up with the tanker and go to pre-contact that's your time to get the trim PRECISELY where it needs to be before you even get near the basket. Even then you'll need to adjust it going in, once you've made contact, and when the tanker enters a turn ect. But once your close the correct trim your inputs will be tiny and it'll do exactly what you ask, no more, no less.

It seems some people here got into DCS to save money :D

Don't care how much it costs, Day one purchase for me as well.

My guess is, before it’s ready

They did so with the Aim-7 before it got updated, I think the 120s about to get the same treatment. Also Heatblur has been working with them to update Missile APIs in general for their Aim-54 So I think its just been ongoing. They probably were waiting for TWS mode to update the 120 so we have a complete experience.

I bet Its gonna be a rough update, feels like their cramming things in at the last moment, call the exterminator, were about to have a bug infestation.

Gonna go ahead and Necro this thread, when should we expect OBC functionality and or the remainder of the ibits like emergency generator in the sim ballpark? I know its probably low priority but I'd love to see that, I only ever cold start.

I would disagree with that statement, it depends on the context, but in any high threat or wartime situation almost EVERY flight is going to have an LPOD in it. Each aircraft in the flight might not have one but someone in the flight definitely will. The counter-air missions require it for ROE purposes, and the strike missions need it for much of the same reason. Even if a target is ground designated its common practice for the pilot use LSS or slave the LPOD to the TGT point so he/she can see what's going on and verify he/shes shooting right. In fact the only time I can see them not carrying it is for SEAD missions where its unnecessary and the station is better served with another MRM. Peacetime however its only carried when needed. So in that sense you'd be more or less correct in saying that.

I don’t think the question is: if usmc hornets can or do carry LITENING on 4? It’s did lot 20 C circa mid 2000s carry it? I’m highly doubtful they did at that time, the references I’ve seen of that practice are much more recent and involve A+ rebuilt jets, which have many capabilities our hornet does not. ED initially was against allowing us to have LITENING at all since they specifically choose a USN equipped version of the aircraft. However they consented, not for gameplay purposes, but rather because of the possible scenario of a USN lot 20 C circa mid 2000s operated from shore, which they were from time to time, in conjunction with USMC squadrons, in that case they would use what’s available. Ergo LITENING, ergo we have it. It’s realistic based on the way the jet was used at that time by that operator. But besides all that, why would you want too? ATFLIR is way better then the version of LITENING we have in game. I don’t understand why someone would want a less capable pod. The second ATFLIRs available I’m done using it. We (and USMC IRL) only use it because it’s all there is right now.

Anyways back to the good news from Wags...I think I’m actually more interested in Spot mode at this point. TWS is novel, but the ability to concentrate scans without moving the nose is going to be to huge for me. As BVR goes the hornets at a disadvantage against rocket ships like the fulcrum, eagle, tomcat, and viper.

I'm Watching you ED...Always watching...

Yay!

I'm in the same boat, I like the attention the viper has brought to DCS as a whole, but personally I'd like to see some real headway on the hornet made. Still a few large missing features and quite a bit of bug squashing that needs to be done, before I would start focusing on the Viper IMHO. It seems like some features on the hornet are REALLY flushed out, like PGMs but At the same time we're still working with a really basic AA suite. No TWS, no AZ/EL, no A2A Lpod mode, no PFM for the 120s, no ground programmable Countermeasures (or Data Card), No Jammer, no Gen X. Walleyes are interesting and novel and SLAMERs will be very nice, but I wish the focus was on counter air, We have PLENTY of mud movers right now. I feel like we have a A-18C and I like an F/A-18C

Subscription?! after I've already bought hundreds of dollars worth of product. Count me out, This has got to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard. So we're mad at ED for not getting modules/core features to complete states fast enough, so lets give them MORE money before they deliver on things, only this time take away the ability to vote with your wallet and any incentive for them to continue support? Yeah sounds terrible, how about we just stop buying products before they're finished. They don't deliver they don't get paid, simple and effective.

Why? You’ll have ATFLIR soon enough and we can ditch the LITENING for good.

Hold on...are you saying someone on these forums is exaggerating?? Impossible. :director:

TWS, AZ/EL and Target Data pages and AA mode for the Lpod, are all on my list!

Nice to see progress on A2A systems, Got plenty of mud moving items already. It’s not just an A-18 :)

It’s true, the problem is that they need a system that can handle CATOBAR. It’s niche market.

Did someone say wizard??