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Indeed. This is very true... particularly with JHMCS.

Indeed. And that guy or gal that is good at it may have days where they are not... or they'll be good at it for 15 minutes of intense BFM, then they start to tire... that's the point. DCS already actually does a fairly cool job with G tolerance. Put the wheels up and immediately crank into a 7+ g turn in the Hornet... the pilot will immediately start to black out in DCS. Do a few G warm up turns... the pilot will handle 7+ no problem. It would be super easy for ED to simulate accumulative G-exhaustion on a flight (e.g. first 9G turn after warmup: golden. second 9G sustained turn: getting tired and seeing a bit of the tunnel. third turn: starting to black out).

Indeed... here's an actual Viper pilot G-loc'ing for less than 2 seconds of 7G... life saved by GCAS. A person sitting still, staring straight forward in a centrifuge or in the back seat is WAY different than a pilot trying to actually fly, think, process, keep SA, check six, etc... As for the reclined seat... all indications are that General Dynamics made that design decision for really one reason only: to make the seat and pilot fit into the tiny cockpit of the Viper. The little bit of extra G-comfort was merely serendipitous... Hence why all the new modern fighters that are 9-G capable (Rafale, Typhoon, F-35, F-22, etc.) did not implement the 30 degree sit incline. People that think a pilot can tool around at 9 G's at will are just wrong. One of the main reasons for the G-warmups done before every BFM flight isn't merely to check the bleed air to the suit, but also for the pilot to see where he's at that particular day. His sleep, hydration, diet, mood, etc. could all dictate that, on one day, he might be able to pull and sustain 9g for a few goes... on another day, 6 or 7G might be too much. Anyone who's ever done any weight-lifting knows that some days feel like you've lost a ton of ground compared to what you lifted last week.

And here's an actual Viper pilot G-loc'ing after less than 2 seconds of 7G... life saved by GCAS. A person sitting still, staring straight forward in a centrifuge or in the back seat is WAY different than a pilot trying to actually fly, think, process, keep SA, check six, etc... As for the reclined seat... all indications are that General Dynamics made that design decision for really one reason only: to make the seat and pilot fit into the tiny cockpit of the Viper. The little bit of extra G-comfort was merely serendipitous... Hence why all the new modern fighters that are 9-G capable (Rafale, Typhoon, F-35, F-22, etc.) did not implement the 30 degree sit incline. People that think a pilot can tool around at 9 G's at will are just wrong. One of the main reasons for the G-warmups done before every BFM flight isn't merely to check the bleed air to the suit, but also for the pilot to see where he's at that particular day. His sleep, hydration, diet, mood, etc. could all dictate that, on one day, he might be able to pull and sustain 9g for a few goes... on another day, 6 or 7G might be too much. Anyone who's ever done any weight-lifting knows that some days feel like you've lost a ton of ground compared to what you lifted last week.

Blasphemy! The Fat-Hornet and the Family-Model-Mudhen have nothing on the Legacy in terms of looks.

Indeed. I think that it'd be cool/helpful if the mods would create a sticky Hornet Radar bug tracker thread. I think the radar in any modern fighter is, aside from the flight model itself, THE heart of the aircraft and it is probably the most complex and sensitive set of systems to simulate in DCS.

It most definitely is. Higher speed and higher altitude gives that missile a definite advantage. A Mach 1.7 platform launch at 45K feet is giving it's missile better performance than the Mach 1.3 jet at 35K feet who launches at the same time.

I don't use the taxi light as it is brighter than the sun. I just look at the glowing tape on the deck crew.

Indeed.

Bump...

Fair enough... but higher AoA manueverability, more weapons, an extra MFD, and carrier ops are not bad to have.

... and if/when ordinance-overspeed limitations are implemented, the top speed advantage over the Hornet isn't necessarily a huge advantage. When the Hornet's radar bugs are ironed out (and there are quite a few the deeper you dig down into multi-bogey TWS engagements), it will edge closer to the Viper in BVR capability with the APG-73 being a slightly better radar than the -68. But the higher top speed of the Viper does give it's -120C's a good bit of kinetic energy advantage. And then of course, there's the boat...

My friend... I've done way worse when I wasn't wired up.

Man, that's a lot of exclaiming.

I honestly DO NOT understand this complaining about the glow sticks. I have had the Supercarrier since day one and use it constantly. I have ZERO issues with navigating the deck at night. I'll take the FPS hit on the night lighting fixed, new briefing room, etc... 1,000,000,000 times over the glow sticks.

Indeed. No problems here.

Yep, I go from the mid 40's by day to 18-20 FPS at night.

You're right!

Still a good ways to go on our fully functioning APG-73

I think MS Flight 20 looks gorgeous, quite a bit better than DCS in MANY ways, but I wouldn't consider it high fidelity... I've no interest in making DCS look better (when it already looks beautiful) at the cost of performance in this pre-Vulkan, $3000 GPU market. DCS is so complex, it is one giant compromise.

Nonsense. No other high fidelity modern military aviation sim comes close to the look of DCS.

Taxiing.

Navy jets don't ever look as clean as Air Force jets on the outside... That salt water does a REAL number on the airframes.

During high AoA maneuvering, the pedals produce tight, rolling turns that enable the Hornet to take advantage of misaligned circles in a fight. It can be used to sort of under cut another fighter's flat turn circle... but often at the cost of altitude. To easily test this capability: Just get the Hornet at or (better) below 300 kts and pull back on the stick, then step on the rudder in either direction and see what happens. Because the Hornet's twin vertical tails are canted outward, they are not blocked by the fuselage of the jet at high AoA like other fighters... so, when the wing surfaces are no longer effective because of that high AoA, the rudders on the tails are still out there in some airstream to do some good.

In BFM? Constantly...