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Q1. UFC can be used to enter offset data. Designation of an OAP (A wypt with associated offset data) is performed by button pressing "boxing" on the HI (center MFD) or by HUD designation or radar designation.) Ofsett data similarly or by performing an Overfly update on an OAP .... point then becomes TGT. Q2.On either left or right MFD Q2.2 The centre MFD known as the HI ib the F18 can display various scales of topographic maps and other data .... yes just as "colourful" as the A10C

One of these :)

Still lucky .... still Fly French things :)

CptSmiley said: "In conclusion, I've reverted the FBW G-load command logic to be more like it originally was and got the thumbs up from testers. The only "negative" thing (that is also experienced with every of the FBW based sim aircraft I could find in public domain) is a very slow and gradual pitch up tendency when climbing or descending in stick neutral and no trim. This is obviously because G-load is not the same as 0 vertical body acceleration on the aircraft. " In fact this exact behavior occurs in the FA18A in real life. Its not a big deal but it was noticeable.

I can confirm Catseye's observation. The Localiser Arrows on the ILS Flight Director HUD box are reversed. Should be as in the inset , See below: Steering cues to Glideslope are correct.

HAES904 your original quote was: "It's not about the numbers, but about the combat record. If the Israelis hadn't put the Mirage name on the world map, there wouldn't have been interest by other countries to even buy a Mirage" Yet South Africa took delivery of its first Mirage III's in 1962. Australia the largest foreign operator of the Mirage III* ordered its aircraft in 1960 with the first production aircraft handed over on 5 April 1963 !, The Swiss took delivery of their first development aircraft in 1961, The Pakistanis took delivery of the first aircraft in 1967. *In fact Australia was the largest foreign operator of any of the Mirage III/5/50 series

Interesting but a little research relating to Mirage III orders shows that most of the major orders were made pre 1967 and introductions into service occurred prior to 67 :)

True but the O was based on the E and that was the most produced of all the Mir III series :) ... but I will be happy to fly any Mirage III in DCS.

Err need to be careful here, ... but Indonesia (certainly in my time) was not considered a credible Air threat and imo still isnt .... but I think I better leave it at that :) As to their Mig21's .... well they were all being gobbled up by the the US for constant Peg !.... and most of them wernt air worthy. I recall a very bizare encounter with a couple of US Aggressor pilots who came to "visit" us at Butterworth. All seemed quite weird at the time but now we know the reason for their "visit". As to Badgers ... I might be an old fart but they preceded me :)

A couple of old VHS RAAF Mirage video. in Part 2 at 2:30 you can see an R530 launch and see what a lumbering missile it was Part1 Part2:

Yes :)

Well the Mirage was not a great turner .... short of the Sea Harrier pretty much every aeroplane we fought against was a better sustained turn fighter than us. What we did have was really great Straight line speed. The limit was 750KIAS ... but many Mirages went a lot faster than that. A clean Mirage would accelerate to 710KIAS at Sea level in 1G flight. It was also rock steady at high speeds and was comfortable to fly there unlike many contemporaries. It was a really small aeroplane and this was a major asset. Head on it was exceptionally difficult to see and this was an attribute we exploited as much as possible. Nose on Pure Pursuit entry "Needle nosing" with very high energy states was the key. Fighting against A4's Hunters and F5E's was pretty straight forward though you had to avoid the slow speed fight. We could turn with these guys for perhaps 270degrees but needed to keep the smash up and be able to exit at Vmax if required. Mind you if you got really embarrassed and Cough "slightly" exceeded the AOA limits and pressed into the region we called "Deep Purple" you could really surprise the F5E drivers. A "deep purple" rolling scissors with an F5E surprised a few of them. Against the later threats such as F15/F16 then Tactics pre merge were the key. Screwing up their sort at critical ranges and pulling surprises to get a couple of guys in close and unobserved was the plan. If you could survive the BVR AIM7 shots on the way in then using Head on needle nose entries we did remarkably well. WVR dog fighting the R550 performance was eye watering.... but you had to survive the BVR entry and get in unobserved. However if you screwed the entry you were in a World of hurt. Defeating the AIM9L in the face was dooable but required "careful" engine management, it was something we became very proficient at.... but was only really possible in the initial merge. When we ran out of a fight we were NEVER run down by an F15 or little mouth F16's. As to the Sea Harrier ... not much of a contest. We could turn better than him, we had at least a 200K advantage on the deck. Its VIFF was impressive but a one time manoeuver that turned himself into a flare very quickly. Few Sea Harrier pilots relied or used it. They did have another mini VIFF they called "nozzling". this was very small repetitive nozzle movements to get a little more turn out of the jet but it couldn't be used a lot because it cost energy as well. I do recall getting tone on a turning Harrier could be difficult. I hasten to add that in the Sea Harrier combats I got involved in (post Falklands) both sides were operating at reasonable fuel states and both sides with good GCI and both sides with very similar abilities and exceptional training. We could hold our own with relative ease in these circumstances. The comparison with the Falklands (Mirage/Dagger v Sea Harrier) is unavoidable but not really relevant comparing each types raw capabilities. The Argentines really were operating at extreme range with dodgy GCI and in the case of the Daggers really crap missiles ...(Shafrir) which they couldn't carry on most strike sorties as the drag penalty was just too much. Some of the Argentine Mirages carried the R550 (last 7 delivered) and the R530. R530 in this arena was imo just a drag penalty.... though I guess it might have been of use against Victors/Vulcans or the Nimrod. Against the Sea harrier it was a complete waste of time. All credit to the UK they had good missiles (9L) superlative training. the Argentine's on the other hand had fearsome courage and determination but lacked current world experience that UK forces brought to the fight and the Argentine's were always operating at extreme range.

R530 no comparison to the AIM9B totally different concept. The R550 replaced our AIM9B's and was an awesome close in missile. With 30x30 autoscan/autolock and an Rmin < guns range it transformed the Mirage III. At the time of its introduction in the RAAF the R550 was the by far the best dogfight missile in the region. Hopefully Razbam will get the 30 x 30 autoscan/lock implemented on the Mir2K Magic II. Being able to get an R550 lock by simply getting the bandit inside the canopy bow (no radar slewing or button pushing required) is an incredibly good feature.

Agreed quoted spec spread should be 8 mills

The R530 (we are talking about the bog standard R530 as fitted to the mirage III .... not the Super R530 fitted on the Mir2K) was not of much use in the modern world.We had nothing but fusing issues with the thing. Biggest cause for concern was the influence fuse. Originally it armed at 2.2sec after mechanical launch. We had a spate of R530 detonating as soon as the influence fuse armed ... being a slow missile this occurred right in front of your face and was pretty scary! ... the cause of this self detonation was never fully cured but influence fuse arming was extended to 4.5 seconds to give a slight increase in personal protection. Max range around 8nm on the front. From Lock to ready to launch took up to 4 seconds as the radar and missile talked to each other. The Gunsight provided steering cues that consisted of a winged reticle that displace from the centre you flew the fixed cross to centre the reticle. Once you entered the Fire zone a green light appeared next to the gunsight and firing tone was heard.. there was an Autofire option as well. This just required the pilot to cancel sight orders the missile then launched automatically at a point called "Topt" .... much like Rmax2 or rttr nowadays. You had to ensure the seeker head could see the target. If like in an extreme Snap up attack the seeker was shielded by the aircraft structure you got a chooped tone called "masking tine" in most case a small change in pitch or roll would unmask the missile and good continuous launch tone was heard. It was strictly a look up or level missile. Certainly firing through the radar ground line was sure to result in premature detonation. In its day 1963-1980 against non jamming Badgers/Bears it might have been ok, reasonable sized warhead. It did have a HOJ function but only really any good against a simple noise jammer. So all in all not really that impressive but it was better than nothing and did provide an IMC capability against non manoeuvering targets. There was an IR version of it as well which we didnt have (RAAF). I guess the IR version was probably in the same league as Firestreak ... though slower and with a much bigger warhead. The warhead was of the really good things in the R530.

Well it does have "Autocommand" in the pitch axis which is effectively FBW providing constant stick force per G, Autotrim and attitude hold :)

Its Pulse only

Indeed u can :)

In a couple of posts up I mentioned the erratic behavior of the ILS HUD localiser line and anchor point. This video is of an A319 ILS approach. It clearly shows the logic of how the Localiser HUD line and its anchor point should behave in the MIIR2K HUD. The A319 HUD has both the Synthetic runway ILS localiser line and the ILS Anchor point. It differs in that the Pitch ladder is caged to the centre of the HUD rather than the velocity vector To get to the main ILS HUD video start at 9:54. This is a turn to intercept the localiser. [ame] [/ame]

Here is a Snippet that I can access whilst away with my G line on the bottom. As Neil says this -Ve G cutout is however irrelevant for the Merlin's in DCS !

I have specific Flight test data on this from the UK National Archives. This was used to tune the sad state it was in IL2 CLOD. Away from home but will post it here once back home.

Was playing around today and noticed that if pursuing a bandit and the Selected S530D is masked by your own airframe but the other missile is not the Fire control system steps across to the other missile .... pretty neat

That would be clear an unambiguous. Its not yet implemented. What you currently see is no change to indicate that the Uncage/slave selection has been made. When the IR threshold is sufficient the Seeker circle snaps to the target inside the TD box and tone is heard.

Same for me For me the only way I can avoid this is to do the keybinding from the settings option on the first game load screen. If in game and try to do do it .... Black screen