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Once inside of 15nm, pilot has the radar and is going PAL/PLM

No filter is the huge one. If PD didn’t have this significant weakness, particularly in close, there wouldn’t be other modes. And the range loss of Pulse is negated most times by DCS mission scenarios. Rarely are you trying to take out Backfires at maximum range from the carrier. The maps just aren’t that big and we don’t typically want to play over those ranges. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My observations confirm as well.

Thank you for confirming. Wife and I chased this for days thinking we had a setting wrong. Then I saw this post, and as soon as I flipped who hosted the mission and who sat RIO, the fault followed, confirming the DCS issue. Thank you so much for starting the thread.

Yes, thank you for making! Don’t recommend getting sucked down the cold start rabbit hole. Yes I love starting the bird up but the meat of the mission is far more important

There is a third axis.....

Bigger than if information is classified, it’s more just the case, is the information available? For the Lot 20 F18D, you want to think/hope it is, like with the C. Next, how many hours would it take, the cost of those hours, and can ED therefore make the kind of profit on it to justify not putting the dev hours elsewhere. Clearly the 16 is next and will take some time to get it to release, but maybe if afterwards the f4 information remains unavailable, there might be a window to fit in an 18D project. It could potentially be a dev multi crew risk reducer prior to the f4 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Absolutely. No need for a Jester AI. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

With so much capability and information fusion in the platform plus the joy of multi crew with a friend, any hope of a 18D down the road (such as what the USMC uses), maybe as a DLC for some additional cost? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No, as a Gen 2 aircraft that didn’t fly during the Korean War, don’t expect it to be in the mission.

Welcome! Recommend joining the Korea! discord, where you can connect with other mig drivers Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Carrier as "AWACS"? As a former tactical operator and maintainer of both, unfortunately nothing for this venue. Phased array is fantastic at executing its designed mission, but radar physics, atmospherics (particularly in a maritime environment), geography and computation limitations always force trade-offs Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The carrier most certainly has long range air search and track radars. The 48E/49 combo has longer range and can see better over land than AEGIS. Also, E2 assets are limited, and not always up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The beauty of the Sabre, and M15, is that they don't have these things. ADF/Visual Nav was a reality of the war, and it forces us to up our piloting-game.

There's not a lot more to say on the subject, honestly. Continue to play with it, and with experience, you'll get better. When you're making a tight turn, you do need to catch the nose, and start countering before you reach the direction you want to go.

It's the perfect jet trainer to learn flight combat maneuvers and ground attack. Simpler cockpit and systems, by today's standards, allows you to focus on flying acumen, not systems management.

Roger, thank you for the feedback. Maybe it was rushed with the Dunkirk movie coming out last summer? I guess I won’t know if I have performance issues until I try it. I’m enjoying learning NTTR at the moment, and to keep it simple, I’m sticking with 2.1 until 2.5 comes out. The concept of F-86s out of England versus MiG-15, flak and ground targets in France intrigues me.

Thanks for those screen shots. Using the longest, 1,800m = 5,900 ft, then consulting the F-86 Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions-Take-off Distance Table, 17,900 lbs (worst case), zero wind (worst case), 95F day (worst case), you're looking at 4,300 ft ground run. So it should work. Operating at sea level is a big bonus! Thanks again!

I'm learning to fly the F-86/MiG-15, and am considering buying the Normandy map. Question: how long are the runways? Google searches come up with negative results. I've seen Wags' F-86 take-off video, but it wasn't carrying stores. With the runway length, I can use as reference in the pilot's handbook to determine what plane configurations I can fly. Thanks!

Reading the accompanying book, I read that text to mean the aircraft is designed for level flight with neutral trim at 0.6 mach, and there are no other charts for different speeds. Feel free to ignore as desired.

Here's a jpg of the chart. Original source unknown, but reprinted in the Haynes F-86 Owner's Workshop Manual.

I'm just getting starting and learning curve is steep. Throttle linear no dead zone, roll curve of 25 with 7 dead zone, pitch 30 with dead zone 10. Will no doubt refine more later, but it's a starting place.

Not sure if this is simulated, but in the real-world, the aircraft was "trimmed" only at 0.6 mach. There's a graph of mach vs stick force (push/pull), that if I was smarter, I would know how to post. Below 0.6 mach, you are suppose to have to pull on the stick to maintain level flight. Push, for speeds above 0.6 mach. When you approach 0.9, strange things happen. You'll go from needed 5lbs of push to 5lbs of pull at 0.9 mach. Then it change exponentially to an ever increasing push as you approach the speed of sound. My source is the Haynes F-86 book, and they've copied the graph from what probably is a the pilot's flight manual.