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They still regularly find duds in Austria as well. Few years ago they found a rather big one on a construction site near the railroad station in Graz. IIRC they couldn't defuse it successfully so it had to be detonated on site. The resulting shock wave even blew the digits off the station clock.

Aren't we in phase 2?

This has been reported previously. The current FLCS has some areas of dynamic instability at high speeds. You are overspeeding the plane by quite a margin before the oscillations start, so i'm not sure if it is that much of an issue.

That's a bit long for a commit message, no? :)

You have to press and hold DMS (>0.5seconds). Could it be that you are doing just short presses?

Not even rough. It would be like saying that your own house will be as great as your neighbour's, because you both built them using concrete. There's lots of other stuff to consider.

Either that or use the search function. The forum contains all the information you need.

Yes.

Flaps are handled by the FLCS.

I think there's too much stuff WIP in the Viper right now to make a definitive statement.

Probably has to do with the AN/APG-68 radar beam being an elliptic cone due to the antenna also being of elliptical shape (horizontal width is greater than vertical, leading to the main lobe being more focused in the horizontal).

I think you're all talking about the same thing, there's just different sensor technologies that are sensitive to different parts of the infrared spectrum.

Maybe this early access will be different but judging from past experience, it doesn't look like it will land this week.

Yes, i do not think that you have to adjust the throttle up and down to get to ground idle. How it works exactly, i do not know, the FADEC probably uses lots of sensor to know what is going on with the engine.

I think this Viper version has FADEC without a throttle gate for flight idle. Meaning that you can retard the throttle to idle at any time but the FADEC will only give you the lowest RPM permitted for the current speed regime.

*shudder* It's "primae noctis". ;)

Not that it matters much now, but for the record, there's more than that to the Viper. For one, it is the only platform able to carry the HARM targeting system (HTS) pod. It's far more committed to HOTAS than the Hornet, comparable to the A-10C. You shouldn't have to take your hands off of the controls for most of the flight. It has better visibility, it has longer legs, the favourable T/W ratio, acceleration and turn rate make it a more forgiving AA platform. The smaller, older RADAR, lack of moving map and maybe the lack of internal jammer are the only big downsides vs. the Hornet i can think of.

On the other hand, if you load Mavs on the inboard stations of the LAU-88 on a Viper, at launch the plug that sits on the back of the Mav will hit and heavily damage the elevons.

The version of the 73 on the DCS Hornet is much more recent though than the 68(V)5. For example, it will have SAR. Much more importantly, it will most likely have much higher detection ranges. That's not that important if you work with AWACS support, but still...

Not to mention GPU driver performance...

That doesn't make much of a difference. ED would have to rewrite any code that uses Microsofts C++ SDK because it isn't available under Linux.

We are getting the 68(V)5 though. Even so, the 68 has a smaller aperture size than the 73.

Maybe because of steam.

There's still the dependency on the Microsoft SDK libs.

Yes, i was talking about the video. :)