Robert31178

No it isn't. Modern jets are only our standard because we live in these times. If you were alive and of military age 40 years ago the F-5 would represent an inexpensive knife fighter capable of handling planes like the "modern" F-4 and MiG-21 when flown expertly.

Angel on approach as seen from the downed pilot I rescued......

Nice!!

Oh brother......:mad:

Well that would be good news!!

Hellcat wins lol....that tumbleweed sealed it for me.

ED has a lot on their plates currently, promises of soooo many new aircraft. I imagine the Jug going the way of the F-4 :-( I hope I'm wrong, but they've made it clear what planes are their priority recently, and Jug isn't on the list.

I know this is the long way to do it, but wouldn't the safest way be to just install DCS on your new rig by downloading it, then moving/copying the folders you want to keep, like control profiles and skins, etc? this is a serious question, I am planning a build for next spring and will need to move/load DCS onto my new rig when it happens!

*Sorry, I dove right in and didn't see that Frostie had posted it as well. Sorry Frost! ~Rob

God's G is not anything to do with acceleration as I understand it. As explained by Ed Rasimus in the book "Palace Cobra" he describes it more like when you are pulling a loop in the F-4 that near the top as you slow you can pull a little more on the stick. Being slow but with the momentum carried towards the top of the maneuver you can pull a little tighter, making the top of the loop smaller, like an egg. That's God's G, that extra little something at the top there.

Welcome back!!!

I am not a real helicopter pilot, like many of you I have a love for Huey and have been flying this one for a few years. In Chickenhawk Bob Mason describes why the D model Huey was underpowered, the H has 300 or so more shp than the D. Air density and heat are enemies of helicopters from what I have gathered....on Caucusus map I have plenty of power, and nowhere near enough on the desert maps. Seems normal to me? The EGT modeling does seem a bit exaggerated, but the helicopter is useable and more on the realistic side than it used to be. Not saying blowing up and shedding the main is realistic, but having limitations and consequences is. Before all of this you could wind it up to 50% torque, set you attitude hold, and blast out making 125kts without any issues. That's fairly unrealistic. Now we have a hard limit, you have to trade gunners for gas, etc, and I like it. I hated being on ops and flying disciplined while some novice is zipping around running the red line, usually a squad mate who didn't fly Huey often and couldn't be bothered with how to actually fly one by the numbers. I get a huge sense of satisfaction solving the problem, and am proud to say that I have only suffered 02 incidences, which is more than I'd be allowed in real life, one was my first, the other I predicted and kept flying it how I was anyways to prove a point to another member. Point is that you can fly this helicopter just fine without it being the "death simulator". Keep a "weather eye" on your EGT like you do your torque gauge. I generally have about 5% less power available on PG than I do on Caucusus. Seems realistic to me? ~Rob

Try Crash's vid series, he has good tutorials on the F-5, maybe he has a video one? I'll look when I get home later for you, I'm away at the moment.

Ditto

Lucky!!! "Wrong! Rodent, I was built with this ship, I am a weapons system and there was a cost overrun. Diiiiismiiiiised!!!!!" - CDR Camparelli

" ......1v1 with a Phantom, the Crusader ate them alive." Well actually...Once the instructors at Top Gun starting sharing ideas with each other and learning the Phantom inside and out the Crusader RAGU instructors had a tough go at it. You should read "The Scream Of Eagles" by Robert Wilcox, it'll explain a lot of things about the F-4 vs the F-8 for you. I would like to see sources reflecting the 19:1 kill ratio, because as far as I can find is the Crusaders shot down either 18 or 19 MiGs, depending on the source, and also suffered three losses to MiG. I went with 18 and did the grade school fraction reduction to arrive at a 6:1 ratio. One main reason why the F-8 earned so few guns kills is because the cannons had a nasty habit of jamming in conditions where the airplane was loaded with more that one positive G. The two confirmed gun kills were both rear shots in a chase type setting, one MiG was probably trying to disengage, the other never knew the Crusader was there. Razor, for you my man: https://theaviationist.com/2015/01/14/the-most-unusual-mig-killer-the-skyraider-air-to-air-victories-on-north-vietnamese-mig-17s/

the F-8 is a sexy beast, and I love it, however as always it's a matter of right plane and right time, and as such the F-4 and F-105 were in better positions to engage MiG's. I'm going to speculate that if the Navy hadn't retained it's smaller deck carriers, which were unable to host F-4's then the F-8 might not have made it to the fight up North at all. The F-8 had a respectable 6:1 kill record vs the "Peasant Air Force". USN Phantoms corrected a 2:1 ratio, turning in a 12:1 at the conflict's end; this is directly attributed to the graduate level fighter pilot course work at the brand new Top Gun, which was only available to F-4 drivers. "The Real MiG Killer" only shot down 18 of the MiGs during Vietnam, all but two of them were Aim-9 kills, and one of those was an aim-9 kill that was finished up with a "nail in the coffin" guns attack. The Spad had just as many gun kills than The Last Gunfighter.

I saw somewhere that there was a working UH-60/SH-60 mod and it had a rudimentary cockpit. Is that still a thing and is it available to us?

Sweet!!!!!

In the words of Axel Rose "Sometimes I feel like I am beating a dead horse....."

Took her for a toot 2 nights ago on PG, had a slick with 40% fuel, slick as in no racks but retained the toilet bowl and flare launchers. At hover torque it was still right up near the yellow line of my EGT gauge. I'm thinking it hasn't changed.

ah, ok thanks!

I don't think the arming would matter, if it hit your plane armed or not it would likely take you down I imagine.

I'm a noob on this stuff, but isn't the described behavior in the first post akin to entering a deep or accelerated stall?

Every time I see this thread title my brain immediately starts playing AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock" lol......