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hmm.... that is interesting. I've had no such luck... i'll snag some tracks tonight if i can (unless the wife has a list :) )... but i don't know what good that will do, as tracks are kind of messed up right now... but i'll try. I'll record it in OBS and post a video, at the very least. Xeno, is that in SP or MP? (i play exclusively in MP)

yep! And i feel totally blind below 5000 ft most of the time...

Is it possible to stop the jester input from being recorded into the track file? <shrug>

I consistently cannot pick up bandits below 2000 ft over land... it's like there's nothing there, unless I'm below them. TAW has a test mission where there are like 20 helicopters flying around at 1500 ft, and i can't see them at all until I get below them at any range. Not in TWS, RWS, or pulse scan... they don't show on the DDD until i'm below 1500 ft. The f-15s and F-18's see them fine in high prf... I can post a track later tonight so you can see, or you can just go on the PG shooting range TAW server and find them yourself. TL;DR the HB F-14B radar feels like total crap for anything below 3000 ft over land.

I have a hunch that most of the AF guys were talking about the lack of medium PRF in the AWG-9 system, which can really improve performance over land and against retreating bandits. (as stated by Kev above)

The phoenix behavior is such a big part of the simulation, i'm super stoked to have a much more realistic model. HB has created probably the best flight model of any dcs module to date... I'm thinking they can handle guidance logic for the 54. :) I wish they'd do the AIM-7... it's a mess right now.

I have tried server recorded tracks and they did not work, either. Sorry.

never gonna get the D, so long as Iran has it in the A

no one cares about the walleye (maybe a couple people do), when the targeting pod can't slew to waypoints, nor can you see it on the hud... sorry... but the walleye is like you trying to take credit for work in progress toward the SLAM ER... but after 2 years, there's no more credit for works in progress. We want some finished systems in the hornet and we want some more attention to the under-performing flight model... and i speak for a huge majority of hornet owners that have more civility than i. Only then will these kinds of threads stop appearing.

to my knowledge, they havent said a time table for the atflir...

Thanks! very interesting Also, well done using the search!! You posted that on a thread nearly 4 years old. (aka necro-posting)

yep. Is there a way to manually unlock the TCS?

While they're at it, I sure would like to be able to "unlock" the TCS. Very often I'm in a dog fight and lock a buddy, then unlock him, but the TCS stays on him, even after i've re-STT locked another target.

They could remove it and never add it back and it wouldn't hurt MY feelings.

IMO, title is click bait given your data... variations in the AI behavior could easily account for the 2 missiles being different. It's very close.

Unacceptable. We paid for the F-18 so we could have F-18 functionality and help with it's development, not so they could develop another module. If the F-16 gets tws before the hornet, I will be very pissed off.

data link set to the boat? oh, nm, I'm thinking acls :)

wouldnt you want to match channels? i'm so confused...

I guess what i was saying is that the type of lock and the radar mode do not currently affect the guidance of the AIM-7 in the F-14, but it should. The radar is functioning properly, but the missile guidance is not, and when the guidance logic can be adjusted via the new missile SDK, i think we'll see great performance of the AIM-7 again.

If you're below your target inside 10 miles and you fire an AIM-7, it should be all but impossible to notch the missile and lose lock if you are in P-STT (from the PAL LOCK). Right now the AIM-7 is acting like an SA-3 missile, which is easily notched inside 3 miles... i bet this gets addressed when the new missile SDK updates happen. It's unfortunate too, because the AIM-7M was a really good missile IRL, especially when fired in the right conditions... i can't wait for the updates on missile guidance updates

This is why Mover said that killing an F-14 in an F-18 is like "clubbing baby seals"... because the pilots had to limit themselves in BFM training... but make no mistake, if his life was really on the line... the F-14 pilots' flaps would come out, shit would be over-stressed, and he'd win that turn rate fight 100% of the time... Also, if you look at the thrust-to-wing-loading ratio of the F-14 compared to the f-15 and f-16, the f-14 wins in spades... but the F-16 is significantly easier to fly at the edge of its performance envelope, than the f-14, without hugely risking the airframe. Personally, I typically can sustain between 20 and 22 degrees per second at less than 5000 ft MSL with around 8000 lbs of fuel in the f-14... but that's with quite poor rendering from tacview tracks, so who knows what it really is... but it's very close to what i've seen of almost all of the E-M graphs, as mattag08 notes above. If anyone is complaining, they should be complaining about the completely abysmal performance of the F-18... mainly the insane drag that the flaps introduce... it's just crazy.

depends on the missile. you don't get a launch warning when a 120 is fired at you in STT, but you will get a launch warning when an AIM-54 is fired at you in STT...

That's very interesting. Thank you for doing those tests! I'd love to see the same test done at 5,000 ft. What is clear to me is the hornet RNE calculation is pretty borked. I have hopes that when ED releases the new missile SDK that we'll see improvements in guidance logic realism and turn performance. I have to agree that the AIM-7 flies the best out of all the missiles, but the drag is still a little high, just like with the 120s, but the targeting logic is still messed up. It is much more vulnerable to notching aircraft than it was before ED updated it. You can notch the AIM-7 inside 3 miles and it just goes stupid... not even worth carrying most of the time, as an AIM-9 will track better and have a much higher chance of impact, even with a flaring bandit.

guys, HB basically said it's not going to happen. They don't have the documentation for the systems to make it. It's all classified, since Iran still flies the 14A, and they're not exactly friends with the US.

"Polychop has shifted it’s priorities and limited assets towards developing a new module." Not witch hunting, but that's really all I needed to read to understand this entire thread.