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I don't know why you're saying that's more common.

Great pictures, thank you very much! What is your opinion of the tracking and comfort, then? I've heard the image quality is better, but does the Rift make up for what it lacks in image with comfort and tracking?

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This is massively oversimplified, is all. You'd be correct about small civil airplanes but the transfer of knowledge doesn't really hold for jets like the Hornet, mostly because it's fly by wire. The transient pitch effects when you switch to HALF/FULL are because the computer is driving the TEFs and aileron droop to fixed values, and no longer automatically positioning them for optimal cruise/maneuvering flight. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, the computer switches from trimming for 1G to trimming for a fixed angle of attack. I'm not sure DCS handles that transition perfectly, but the point is that the transition itself is real and does occur in the actual jet. So the condensed answer to your problems is that you have to take over the trimming duties when you switch to flaps HALF/FULL. You can anticipate that the DCS Hornet will make that transition with too high of an AOA trim setting to begin with, so be prepared to trim forward immediately. As you decelerate, you'll need aft trim to settle in to on-speed AOA. Also, the roll behavior is normal. The F/A-18 is a fly-by-wire fighter and the FCS is designed to give it neutral static roll stability, making it both predictable and more maneuverable. The idea being that if the pilot commanded a bank angle, he probably wanted it to stay that way. Most fighters exhibit relaxed roll stability (and stability in general,) but with fly-by-wire it is possible to maximize the benefits of that instability, and give an almost uncanny artificial stability in its place.

QuiGon - those look similar but they're not quite right. Yes, the symbols in Wags' screenshot are hostile air but the match is coincidence. Note that the circles are not friendly ships, but friendly aircraft that are sharing sensor data on channel "C." There are probably something like 100 different possible symbol combinations. It's not likely that DCS will feature them all, because the underlying infrastructure that contributes a lot of that information to Link-16 will not exist in DCS.

Man, I hate to see that. Can you describe a little the order in which you disassemble the throttle axis block? I see some grease in there, but I'd love to replace it with Nyogel.

Same here, please.

It really looks beautiful, especially the internals. Bravo. Is it the same plastic material as my MCG?

Warthog cam in pitch, 10 in roll. #50+#30 in pitch, #20+#30 in roll. (Not 100% sure on the roll there.) Very little damper, it’s there but not very noticeable. I put some high viscosity gel on the nylon clutch arms, which makes it much less prone to stiction. Nyogel767a.

Duke, nice work! Looking good. If you don’t mind me saying, it looks like you’re dealing with reversed yaw-roll coupling, where of course a straight-winged jet will normally exhibit roll in the direction of yaw rate. In your videos it appears to want to do the opposite, especially apparent in spins. I’m trying to imagine why this would happen, but without looking at your code I can’t come up with anything. Have you noticed that and are you still working on it?

This is really bugging me also, pun intended. Seeing as there are probably only a handful of people in the world who have an accurately modeled Hornet throttle hooked up to DCS, and almost all commercial flight sim throttles have a standard slider axis instead, wouldn't it make sense for ED to optionally adapt the control scheme to make it usable for the masses?

Nice music choice but... the ball! Where's the ball?

Unfortunately no, I followed all the steps provided and it still doesn't seem to be recoverable with the original sensor installed. All the wiring and connections were fine, carefully handled.

I sure hope not, I’m not the biggest fan of the MCG plastic. It feels very thin and brittle, instead of dense and solid. They need plastic with a higher amount of fiber reinforcement.

I appreciate the suggestions, but I covered my ass before posting: checked the physical connections, etc. I was extremely careful with the install, never tend to have any trouble with these things anyway. Firmware was updated when I first had trouble on individual USB ports. Of course, I can't check for firmware issues if the device is never recognized by Windows.

I'm just a little concerned that this mod has killed my throttle. When I installed the mod, the throttle stopped working on some of my USB ports, but not all. Now, when I plug it in, the 5 standalone programmable indicator LEDs light up for a brief moment and then nothing happens. It's not detected at all. It does not work on any USB port.

This is accurate. To put the hook on the target point, the dimension of the space the pilot needs to put his head through is 11.4 feet at 3/4 miles, and 1.1 feet at touchdown. On the way to the deck, power movements have to decrease in magnitude and increase in quickness, as their effect on the ball increases. Only if the pilot attempts to re-center the ball too aggressively (too soon.) In general, higher on the ball is considered safer than lower on the ball. Not really, they're just going to earn a bolter. The key is to gradually bring the ball down rather than attempt to center it aggressively. There's a point on the glideslope at which 4 balls high (top of the lens) is just too high to recenter, and a stable ball at 2 balls high is the safe option. The fear is a "fly through down" or settle in close.

Grease/fuel + desert dust.

Again, as civilly as I know how this time, you have no idea the amount of training, study, and effort that goes into knowing what that guy knows, and you don't have the grace to act like you don't. (Or at least make jokes that don't show off your lack of respect.) Have you considered that you're talking about a video/book made for video game nerds in the 90s, and that he was speaking at the lowest level to amateur hobbyists? Sorry, no backtracking on how you've presented yourself.

What, you mean that guy with the advice that the best move in a dogfight is to point your vector at the bandit and pull??? :doh::smilewink: Nah, he's an OK guy....for a Viper jock.... ;) You ridiculous man-child. You realize that from your computer game armchair, you are insulting someone who actually flew fighters? (And was an expert, as well?) You act like you're some kind of exceptional expert. You really don't know a damn thing, and you're the reason flight sim enthusiasts are looked down upon. What a shame.

Not to be a jerk, but this came up as the first result in a Google search for "f/a-18 ir cooling switch." If it only takes that long to post, it probably wasn't worth pressing submit yet. Also, those guys don't browse this forum looking to answer questions. Search "ir cool." Not implemented in DCS in any aircraft yet to my knowledge. http://navybmr.com/study%20material/14313a/14313A_ch15.pdf

Am I correctly understanding that these would be on the back of the throttle and pushed down to activate, as opposed to Western-style finger-lifts on the front?

I would assume that's because sounds above 3000 and below 500 Hz are difficult to discern through whatever other noise is present. The general usefulness of such a feature is to cue the pilot to the relative PRF of an emitter, since high and low PRFs indicate different things.

No, it's because that is a closed convention for Tailhook association members (read: Naval Aviators,) so when they say "First kill of an enemy aircraft since 1991" they mean "our first kill of an enemy aircraft since 1991." They are talking amongst their peers. It's not amusing to anyone in that business, it's deadly serious. USAF/USN aviators are more professional than you assume from your armchair.

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