Wingmate

ICBM's don't fly close to the ground like cruise missiles, they come down from space on a ballistic trajectory. An AIM-54 is not going to be able to intercept it.

The poststart checklist in the NATOPS also has 61 points and Reflected worked with former F-14 RIO Dave Baranek on the campaign so I would say it is realistic.

I think the actual overspeed number is around 225 for flaps though I always make sure I am atound 200 as well for flaps just to have a margin of error

If we could see the mission as well that would be helpful

You should have ammo in the gun it just sounds as though you have not reset the Gun Rounds Counter, if you are cold starting it will show you having 0 rounds in the gun despite it being loaded. The counter is immediately to the right of the arresting hook lever.

A bit off topic, but if you are trying to hide someone's name you need to crop out more than the top (or bottom) half of the letters you can still read it in the last screenshot.

I am going off of what was said in this thread

It would take a lot of time to do several different levels of weathering.

Thank you very much, that arrow has proved quite elusive in my books and google searches.

At the risk of increasing my file sizes, does anyone know what is stenciled in the arrow kust below and left of the national insignia on this jet? https://www.airliners.net/photo/USA-Navy/Grumman-F-14B-Tomcat/1252169/L?qsp=eJwtjLEKwmAMhN8ls0JVcOjWLo46%2BAIhOWyh2p8kg6X03U1/3I7vu7uVZP4EvvFcCqglB5sMdKDCxm%2Bnds2C7qa7Hc9Nk8Zni35JohzoRFAC%2Bud3U9iu4FJPXjk9ZYA9aqbLNbmOXiauHwgeJ9q2HwWvLAU%3D the same arrow appears on all 142 birds on their last cruise. Or as near as I can tell as it is only on the one side of the jet and I don't have photos of all their jets from both sides during that period.

I suggest you don't download any skins that I create then as I am doing this and custom weathering for each jet in a squadron and the file size is going to be large.

Don't forget the mosquito that is a bug too, albeit a good one.

Sounds like a missing lod3in1 file for that livery. What liveries are you seeing that happen with, default or downloaded?

Using the air force refueling system would necessitate a redesign not a different probe. Both the air force phantom and eagle use the boom system which uses a receptacle on the receiver aircraft rather rhan a fixed or retractable probe.

You need to load the skin through the arming panel after loading into the mission, not through the mission editor.

Reload the skin through the arming panel.

Good catch, I should really not post late at night. Anyways I am hopeful it is controlled via the description.lua so jets that had the probe door removed can be set up easily when making a skin rather than everytime I make a new mission.

I wonder if the refueling probe removal will be a mission editor option, or controlled via description.lua similar to the helmet in the hornet.

Missed VF-74 getting them first, I am somewhat biased to 142 being my favorite squadron. Thanks for the correction.

VF-142 and VF-143 were the first fleet squadrons to deploy with the then A+ model, 142 got their first A+ in late March 1989 and did the first deployment of the A+ with 143 in March 1990.

Turn them on only when ready for the cat shot, at night that is the signal instead of a salute.

If you are launching at night, turn your external lights master switch on.

Your missile is well outside the fifty feet required for the proximity fuse.

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