Wingmate

Have you tried toggling your exterior lights master switch to make sure it is on? I think it may default to off during the day, and to on when starting at night. I am not at my computer right now so I can't check myself.

As far as I know Heatblur hasn't put out a .lua file that allows the F-4 to use the AGM-88 (I could be wrong but I have not seen any official .lua mod in a quick search), and modded weapons don't always work the best.

Predecessor of the TPS scheme as we know it today, both 143 and 142 had a few jets painted up like that on their '81 cruise I have pictures (to varying degrees of clarity)of most of the jets involved in the tests saved somewhere

If I am recalling correctly from previous discussions on this topic they are friction fit and pulled out similar to keycaps and lose their retention from being pulled out and put back in over time. Bonus image of VF-33 jet with the wire during Desert Storm

I think you got your nose lengths backwards. But otherwise I agree. Great work on the skins so far.

Indeed you are correct I thought one of the photos I had posted was showing a zero but upon zooming in a lot it appears to be a nine as well. I am almost certain I had a picture of an F-14 with the first digit showing zero saved somewhere in several gigabytes worth of photos, though it is entirely possible it turned out to be a DCS screenshot on closer examination and I ended up deleting it. I will continue to search for it and post it here if I find it. See above, and just posting more examples of the zebra stripes would not invalidate my claim that it is not always the case, that said see my reply to Rustbelt I may be misremembering.

That does not seem to always be the case, and while I do personally prefer the zebra instead of the zero there are several photos of F-14 cockpits without the zebra. The first link is of the cockpit used to model the one we have in game. I did try changing the texture to be the zebra for my own personal use but it and the number left of it share the same texture mapping. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fm8dj1fbqnhh61.jpg%3Fwidth%3D2448%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D8cc994622e42a8ac0b13f79a638b86e1fd96cac8

You can go into the special options and unselect animated jester menu and it will be more similar to how the F-4 Jester menu is.

We still see the rear cockpit if I am not mistaken, why waste time putting a static image there as an interim solution when it will get replaced and everything still works? (apart from seeing jester)

Look in this thread for the solution and reason

You need to ad ./ in front of the powershell command so ./DCS_Updater.exe cleanup

The NATOPS does want right throttle shut off for hot refueling. Overstressing the airframe certainly has consequences in game, great way to break your INS, overweight landings probably do as well though keep in mind that there is a margin of error built in to the max landing weight you are not going break the aircraft if you are a little over it. Demotions and losing points could be a thing maybe but the ED logbook is buggy enough as it is (or last I checked it was) and I think most people ignore it for that reason. The devs have stated that rail weights are modelled but due to the way they are implemented don't show up in the mission editor or loadout screen. I'm not sure if it was here or on discord (probably both) that they stated that and searching on mobile is a pain so you will have to trust me or do your own search for that. And I am not trying to rain on anyone's parade here, but I'm not sure why you use this thread rather than making a bug report if you believe something is wrong. Based on Heatblurs comments in this thread that would be a much more effective way of getting their attention? Lastly trying to be sure of facts is not standing in the way of progress...

I can't find it on mobile, but I am fairly certain Heatblur has said this will be possible in the future. Not sure if it will be a mission editor thing or lua arguments in the skin description lua.

Here is a VF-33 jet with the same wire during desert storm.

From the product page: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/terrains/kola_terrain/