wilbur81

Wow... Seriously? Good to know... I hope the ED Team is on top of that. It boggles my mind that Hughes/Boeing didn't give the pilot a simple way to narrow the Azimuth and then move it around manually without the 'press-hold-for-1 second- nonsense...

Nice. Once you've entered SPOT can you release the TDC depress and just slew?

Is it slew-able in SPOT, though? And our old (albeit unrealistic, apparently) setup didn't require a press & hold for 1 second either...

It is a bummer that, apparently, the real radar does not have a slew-able azimuth feature. I've loved being able to slew a narrow azimuth around in TWS MAN with a throttle hat without have to TDC press and wait.

For a split second, yes.

Hornet's max FCS G limit is 7.5 and players that are shooting for realism in their sim-ming experience (like myself) never use the paddle-switch G-overide during BFM. And yes, the Hornet's great strength is no practical AoA limit in the FCS.

Indeed... that's not my point. The point is that the current Hornet FM does simulate empty pylon drag. Our current Viper is still more W.I.P. than the Hornet. The Hornet came out first... therefore it is going to get more attention until it is complete. They will get both just right...just takes a lot of time.

Our current Hornet FM does simulate pylon drag... even when empty.

I'm doing your Picard Avatar to you right now.

It's not his opinion. The angle of the throttle doesn't match the real thing. Not everyone will mind this deviation, but it is a fact that the WW throttle doesn't match the angle of the real Hornet throttle.

Wow! Good catch/post. I'd be very interested to see how others will feel about this... on the Orion or Taurus?

Same here.

Good grief!! Do Swiss F/A-18C's have a modified FCS like the Finnish ones? This demo is incredible... the Hornet's performance here looks VICIOUS!

Hey, guys. I received my WinWing T/O panel last week (shipping wait wasn't too bad, really). I'm honestly a little disappointed with it. Firstly, it came missing one of the silver button head screws right on the front, leaving a little hole right by the "Flap" light. After a little gentle wrangling I convinced them to send me a screw free of charge (no confirmation yet that it was sent but I trust they'll get it to me). Secondly, I'm a little concerned about the wiring setup on the gear handle. You can clearly see it exposed when you look in and it gives me flashbacks to my Saitek X-55 (Rhino-owners will know what I mean ). The wires appear to be hot-glued into the lever stem and they move with the lever. Nothing about this is necessarily a problem, but the wiring looks pretty thin so I'm wondering how much the motion is going to break things down in a hurry? Lastly, and this is actually my biggest disappointment: The panel backlighting is pretty uneven. My pictures here aren't great quality, but if you are looking at my panel in person, the "Turn Right" parking brake light looks like something is blocking the light coming through and the "Hook Bypass," "Wing Fold," and "BRK" next to "Park" lights are quite a bit brighter than the other lights which looks kind of cheap. None of these things are necessarily a huge deal, but if this had been an Amazon.com purchase with free returns, I wouldn't hesitate to return this panel in order to get one without the issues mentioned above. Does anyone else have any of the uneven lighting on their panels or the visible wiring in the gear handle? I should note that I have the lighting set at "6" in the SimappPro settings... if you max out the lighting, it becomes a bit more uniform, but is then WAY too bright... particularly for a night flight. Thanks, in advance, for any feedback you may have. Overall, Winwing has done us DCS Hornet simmers a HUGE favor with their really cool products! I love their work...just kind of disappointed in the particular unit I received. First-world-'problems'

That's the problem: With blanking 'on', there are still double images. Note in Dorian's picture above, the data that he's seeing double of is minimal...pretty sure blanking is 'on' for him, but you still get the double TDC. In his picture, the HMD altitude/airspeed, etc. have blanked out because he's looking at the HUD, but he still sees the TDC.

Maddening indeed. I can't use the HMD in a dogfight once the bandit is off my nose/within the HUD field of view for a guns kill.

Already been said, but I just have TrackIR's "Pause" feature mapped to one of my HOTAS buttons... works perfectly.

Well done! I had this DCS Hornet-appreciation-thought today (when watching this 'old' Legacy Blues' video on the YT): I'm SO glad we got the Legacy Hornet and not the Super in DCS... The Super Hornet just looks fat and disproportioned to me when compared to the legacy. I was listening to Mike's (Aircrew Interview) interview with Brian Sinclair who flew both the Legacy and the Super in his career and he said he preferred the snappy maneuverability of the Legacy over the Super. But, even from a merely aesthetic perspective, the Legacy Hornet just looks right. Another reason I'm thankful for this amazing module! PS - I won't complain if ED ever offers the Super Hornet in the next 20 years.

Yeah, I noticed that, too. It looked like the gamma was set really high. I keep mine about 1.7-1.8. Any higher during daytime conditions, things look overexposed/yellow.

Well done, Maestro!

A few things to remember: 1.) Datalink objects will drop off if they're lost by your donors (i.e. AWACS loses their contact; friendlies lose contact; etc.) and in MP, aircraft are climbing, turning, accelerating, decelerating, and generally maneuvering WAY more dynamically and intelligently than AI. 2.) Our radar in the Hornet is powerful, but it isn't magical or even AESA: So, the operator has to actually operate it in a fairly 'hands-on' fashion: so, narrow the azimuth on the piece of sky you're looking at (using TWS so you can move the beam around the scope). 3. Be VERY cognizant of your radar elevation at any given time. So many times I've had a datalink a/c on my radar screen, placed my TDC over it, only to realize that the enemy had climbed 1K feet higher than the height of my current elevation scan...bump the elevation up a bit and voila'... the contact appears. 4. A fairly helpful tactic for me in the air to air regime is to go 4 or 6 bar elev. scan and 40 to 20 deg azimuth and move the beam with the TDC around the scope diligently. This provides the rapid refresh rate you need to pick guys up (this of course doesn't apply to ACM modes which work as intended). 5. Again, the pulse rep. freq. (PRF) really does make a difference as well so make sure you're in High or High/Interleaved when bandits are Hot/high aspect and medium if beam or going away from you. I don't use Med PRF very often. 6. Take all the above with a grain of salt as I'm clearly no expert. One final thought - Our DCS APG-73 is actually working really well and is an AMAZING and complex piece of work (art)! It isn't entirely bug-free, but it is working way more soundly than most of us think because, frankly, most of us (I do include myself here) aren't operating it correctly when we assume "bug."

Ditto. NTTR is by far my smoothest running map... even better than Caucasus.

I always dive from high in the Hornet in order to get my Mach to 1.4+ ish in order to get some inertia on my second shot... but my offset, chaff-ing, and diving isn't consistently enough against a Viper-supported 120C.... I do get kills on Viper's sometimes, but they seem to absolutely dominate the big public servers at the moment.

You're correct if the opposing Viper is lower and co-speed or slower than me. But going higher in a Hornet against a high and fast Viper is suicide. This is where most Viper's that get me are operating: b/w 35k - 40k, doing M. 1.5-1.6. Going up there in the Hornet is a big mistake against a high and fast Viper. Trust me, I've tried.

I typically end up taking that initial shot b/w 20K-30K ft and around M. 1.2, from 24-25 miles out (This is really just a warning shot to trip their RWR as there's VERY little chance I'm going to hit a maneuvering Viper from 24 miles out when I'm only doing 1.1-1.2 mach. This is all moot, though, because they're shooting at me from 25-35 (ish) miles and they're doing 1.5 - 1.6 Mach... and they keep shooting as I'm evading. More than anything, I need to be a part of a 4-ship of Hornets...