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That interesting thing that I think a Bosnian SAM commander did where he fired a SAM in the general direction of a target, without radar, before turning it on midway through the flight, locked up a target? Is that possible to replicate without any "cheating"? Like the SAM battery actually does this?

Then would it be possible to add on to the radio menu regarding AIC and have them prioritize datalinks based on IFF, range, direction, whatever. That way, the F14 crews have some stability regarding datalink contacts?

Air Intercept Controller

Is it the AIC that controls which DL contact shows up on our TID?

Would be nice if they could put it in the Jester Menu to prioritize by distance, type, IFF, or something. Right now, its really inconvenient to try to build a picture and communicate with other human flights when the datalink group you're trying to communicate constantly blinks out of existence.

So when datalink is up, datalink targets pop in and out erratically, and sometimes it feels like datalink targets are selected, seemingly at random, despite not hooking the datalink contact. What is happening?

Just the curve portion? I'm not sure I follow how to fix, just mess around with the curve until the AP engages level hold with no issues?

With the brunner, where the stick physically moves with the trim using the brunner program, prevents the altitude hold from engaging because the stick is too far forward or too far back, making it think I am physically putting back or forward stick pressure, even though it is simply trimmed.

Marianas map?

Can there be a comparison with the South Atlantic map added for visual aid?

Seems to have happened a lot with the F-100, but can't the F-86F also experience this? If not, why?

I don't think it's center of gravity, if center of gravity was shifting backward with wingsweep, it would go tail heavy and go nose up, wouldn't it?

It's happened a few times for me too, but not all the time, so there is an odd condition that causes it.

When the nose pitches down when the wings are swept back, due to approaching supersonic flight, is that mainly due to the center of lift being pushed back by the swept wings, or mach tuck, or both?

So just read about the phenomenon of the pitch up that plagued the F-100, leading to the name the "Saber Dance" where with swept wing aircraft, when at low airspeed and high AOA, the tips of the wings stall first, causing the center of lift to move forward towards the root of the wing, which pushes the nose up, causing more of the entire wing to stall until it hits a critical point where not enough lift is provided to the whole aircraft and the entire aircraft finally stalls. Is it possible to experience this in the F-14 by manually or emergency sweeping the wings back 45 degrees or so?

Then the next hurdle would be convincing HB or ED to implement it. They'd be even less inclined to do so if it would be a tonne of work to implement, only for it to become an option they thought 1% of their community would use.

I agree, would be interesting and unique, but we both know this would never happen. A lot of people would disagree with us. Most people would pick up pitchfork if they lost a dogfight and blamed the 0.2% difference in performance between 2 similar airframes, or crashed because they had a engine issue and either ignored it or didn't know what to do.

It cuz hee dum

I'm talking about the people who said they got the DCS f14 up to that speed.

So neither A or B that we get in DCS is able to reach the stated 2.34 Mach? Wonder what all the other people saying they got to Mach 2.5-2.6 are talking about then.

I just tried with the B, couldn't get past 2.1 at 40k feet. Completely clean.

I tried it everything but DCS refuses to start. Not sure what it is, but I do have a seperate DCS drive specifically for DCS and its modules. I also get some weird problems, like objects like other aircraft disappearing from either or both lens. As well as double mouse cursors.

No, that answers my question. Kinda weird, though. how it doesn't affect you but does to me and others. Wonder what the difference is.

Well, has anyone gotten the DCS 14 to M2.34, clean, level, at any altitude without first running out of fuel?