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The F-18 radar is so much a WIP, you're not going to see many tutorial videos on it, because that video could become obsolete as updates are occuring pretty rapidly. And those videos take a lot of time and effort to make. Best you can do now is just watch the f-15 radar videos and make it up as you go. Hop on a multiplayer server and chat with some folks. Make a friend, and figure it out with us!

On the f-18, Max speed is not related to pylon drag. It's related to air flow to the engine. Max speed at sea level may be affected by pylons, but absolute max speed is limited by the lack of inlet control surfaces. Air supersonic relative to the compressor face cannot be compressed by the engine, which is why aircraft like the f-15 and f-14 and sr-71 have moveable surfaces that control the shockwaves to make sure supersonic air decelerates (which adds a ton of "pre-compression" by the way, making less work for the engine). As speed increases, those shockwaves move inside the inlet and approach the compressor face... without moveable surfaces to control them, the f-18 engines, although powerful enough to accelerate it beyond mach 1.8, cannot be fed with air beyond that speed. No air compression = no thrust = limited speed. BAsically, supersonic air causes compressor stall, so you have to slow it down before it hits the front of the engine inside the inlet. This explains with images and video (worth 1000 words):

Fair enough :) I forget about WW2 planes...

ah... see... i learned something today. I thought the forestal was nuclear :)

I've heard that TACAN can "break" after the carrier passes through a waypoint...

Same. What have you noticed?

Well said! If you play with labels, you're missing out on an experience. People may not care, and everyone should play the way they like, but flying without labels forces you to really learn to use the sensors at your disposal, and to make better, strategic decisions... instead of just using your sensors to get a lock so you can fire a missile... sensors drive your situational awareness, and labels inhibit that feeling.

Not sure where this idea came from, but you can land with bombs or any other ordinance, so long as you're below the recovery weight, but you can't land with bombs that failed to jettison. For those, you'd need to drop the launcher.

Great video! I'd love to see / hear his reaction to flying the F-18 and F-14 in DCS!

Why do you need boilers when you have a nuke plant producing tons of steam?

holy crap! thank you!

+1

LOL @ the ground radar votes... The pod will be used along with GBU's, JDAM's and HARMs 10,000x more often. Maybe they have a hardon for killing boats? <shrug> I love the A/A stuff, but ground pounding is more it's forte, and I'm a bit baffled why they developed the A/A stuff first.

Nope... and spotting ground targets is super hard! That's why we have JTAC's

I set the altimeter to QNH, and it reads the same as hud... i've never seen that discrepancy before. My first thought is that your hud set to radar altimeter and 50 - 60 ft difference means you're probably on the deck of the carrier...

You do you! I'm gonna talk about what I see... you know, because it's a discussion forum... WIP is understood. :joystick: The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Also, I will gladly pay for the A&B variants, and if they decided to do the D (heh heh... "the D"), I'd pay for an upgrade later, if it meant they could justify the investment cost... similar to how they did the GPS addon thing... not that I bought that, but i'd much rather pay an extra $15 or $20 for "the D" than a gps module addon.

lex vapes should happen at lower g's than wing vapes, and should occur more often than they do currently, but the effect looks outstanding!

Edit: self moderated...

3 min fix: revert to the previous version of DCS Assuming that ED or anyone else knows what's going to happen to mods after an open beta update is assuming a lot. The fact that mods work at all in open beta is a miracle, and a testament to someone's very hard work.

TrackIR is by far, the best $100 i've ever spent. Eat rice and beans for 2 weeks to save for it if you have to. It'll change your life.

there's a volume knob on the left console. just turn it down all the way... bad news is, you can't hear the lock tone... I guess you could just turn it back up when you get into a fight... or just wait until tomorrow's update... it should be fixed then.

This is what should be on the wishlist... great idea, btw.

Planning on a deck fire?

edit: meh, ignore this <3