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I suggest you have a look over there: The Tomcat isn't as difficult as it seems. When at low AoA like in your video, you don't need a lot of rudder input, if any. You need a bit at really high bank angles, of course. One or two seconds ball slippings are not a problem, as soon as it centers itself immediately afterward. It's just the ball's inertia. At high AoA (let's say 15 units and above), you have to use the rudder in order to give bank angle, and then you step on the ball. Does it answer to your question?

Did you start the mission cold & dark?

I does. Left Alt+Y by default.

Yep. Hope to see that come back soon. Meanwhile, you still can use the SA page to manually slew the TGP to a DSG waypoint.

OP, you already had an answer there: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=264961

Target needs a large enough thermal signature to be acquired in point track. Which means not being too far away from the target (on both horizontal and vertical plans).

Probably the weight was among the problems. And for a naval fighter, a ground-aided cooling system means a couple more things on the deck, which is already a crowded area. A couple more things to do for ground crews as well.

Engines running and bleed air flow were necessary for the system's cooling to be effective. I'm not sure that at the time it would have been possible to design and build it otherwise.

I have it too. Have a look over there: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=263381 Looks like it happens on other modules. It's OK for me with the Hornet but someone had the same issue with the C-101. Looks like ED fixed something with their legendary hydraulic hammer. Business as usual.

Totally agree. In addition, the behavior of the laser in DCS is very simplified. IRL, the angle at which the laser illuminates a surface, above all with a rounded or curved profile, or impacts the edges of a flat surface, can lead the seeker to lose sight of the laser spot. It is therefore important, while maintaining a sufficiently low speed to illuminate until impact, to put the target on the right or on the left if the pod is mounted centerline. And on the side of the pod if it is mounted eccentrically (which will be possible with the Hornet when they enable the pod on the cheek station), to prevent the target from being masked by the airplane cell or by something it is carrying.

Nope. Nope. They were designed as multirole platforms and evolved as multirole platform. They were designed, among other things, to be great dogfighters and evolved, among other things, as even better dogfighters. Many countries bought them as their main air defense planes, and their abilities in close air combat have been increased during their whole life span, and still are being taken care of.

Thanks for the news. Happy new year to the team who IMO brings each day higher the standards of military flight simulation.

Both sides can do that. I think the OP doesn't want to be gunned down himself :D I agree with this. In 1V1, an F-16 a bit too much near your 6 can also be beaten by a good F-14 jockey doing rolling scissors. You indeed can turn all day with him at high speed but your day will end before his, when your fuel tanks get empty and not his.

OP: have a look over there :) https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=237459

They do, at the same place as the Hornet in your signature pic.

I agree. That's what I clumsily called 'DCS wise'. They mistakenly just read the bearing on the map and report it in the briefing.

Just tried in MP. No problem. Sometimes, when you click on the throttles, they go too far forward. Did you make sure you kept them to idle position?

Strange. I've just tried and here are the screenshots. Works fine as far as I can say.

NAVAIR 01-F14AAP-1 : Anyway, it also works for me if I start the right engine first.

If I have a look at the Kobuleti airport, Georgia, on the DCS editor (or F10 view), its runway 07 reads a nice 70° bearing. If I read the HSD, VDI, BDHI and HUD of an F-14 aligned on that runway, I get 64°. Imagine KBL is the aircraft carrier USS Kobuleti. DCS wise, you'll have a 70° BRC. In your plane (F-14 or anything else, that said), your reference will be a 64° BRC. If that runway was an aircraft carrier with an 9° angled flight deck, the FB would be 55°.

The only way I know to STT-lock a target from TWS is : - HCU mode: RDR - Operate a lock via the DDD using trigger half and trigger full action And you get a PD-STT lock. Works fine for me.

Try with a PLM lock.

RIO : HCU trigger half action.

If you use a TrackIR or VR, you can easily lower your point of view so you see the tanker well and as many reference points as you need.

Here's the patch: