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The only times I've lost control or nearly lost it was when I was taking off, and had forgot to turn on the pitch and roll dampers. Just sayin'....

I'm not seeing the pitch up with a throttle decrease...the airspeed goes down and the nose drops slowly. The reverse if the throttle is increased. You are correct, the horizontal stab moves immediately (both the AOA gauge and stab move at about 3.5^/5 seconds) I think my mistake was trying to trim when I'm in a significant climb/dive, instead of using the actual control stick. "Trim in level flight", make minor adjustments as needed to maintain climb/dive rate.

I was going by the behavior of the plane while trimming it. Pressing and holding the trim switch causes the trim gauge to go up, but there is very little perceptible movement of the nose, and suddenly the plane pitches up and past the horizon. Same with trimming down from level flight, press and hold and after smallish changes you find yourself nosing down steeply. That's all by "feel" and "perception" though, I'll check closer when I'm in there again. RPM changes vs speed changes are normal in jets, there is a delay while the turbine spools up.

I've found the pitch trim = 5 "clicks" on the trim switch = 1 degree pitch (up or down). The tricky part with pitch trim (and roll) is that the horizontal stabs have a much slower response time than the trim input. If you press and hold the trim button, before you know it the plane will be pitching up/down dramatically. Each "click" can yield 200-400+ feet per minute climb/dive...but it might take 3-5 seconds to actually get there. Kinda freaky if you don't know why. Just be patient when trying to trim, give the plane time to adjust.

I watch the fuel flow gauge spike really high.

LOL...Remember, if someone has to say, "It's just as good..." No, no. Is not good.

Mirrors work great, but when I pass by smoke pots I can see the columns of smoke through the mirrors. Also can see the white-colored objects defining the target area. Trk file was 26Mb, too big to upload.

Thank you, I will try that.

Checked several aircraft (F-5, MiG-29, I-16....searched for "active pause" and manually checked the expanded lists. Ok fixed, a single press of "Pause" will pause your plane's movement, if you want to drop something be sure to release the object and then immediately hit pause. (Edit: Not sure if this is a proper solution, as I expected the dropped object to continue falling upon separation from the plane. This did happen in "Instant Action/free flight (F-5)" but did not occur like this in other missions...I'd drop bombs, pause, and F2 my view to outside. I'd see the bombs several feet from the plane, but neither bombs nor plane were moving. If I hit pause again everything would start moving.) Cannot find pause in controls, either.

Found this during a Google "f-5 climb profile".

Oh ok, never thought about airflow. Yeah that would starve the engines of power! Thanks!

"Get to a mach number"...like 1.0+? Less than 1.0 isn't enough? Btw, what are the key words I could use for search engines (here and google)?

Made it to 50,300'! I zoom climbed to about 35,000, then maintained ~400 until 47k, then found I could go up 1000' for a 50 kias trade, but could barely speed up again. By the time I made it to 50k, I was doing about 200kias....but I made it! Hit burners, dove straight down, and maxed out about mach 1.45. Pulled out at 12000-->10000, had slowed to 800.

Ok, I will try that!

According to Wikipedia, the ceiling for the F-5 is about 51,000'.....I can generally climb to about 30-35k', but then the speed is so low (~250-300KIAS) that it has almost no oomph to climb over 15^....I generally lose patience at or just below 40,000'. Is there a trick or technique to achieve 50K+? FWIW, even the F-15 handles like a cast iron bathtub at the 50k'+.....Thx!

Not really an aiming aid, it just helps locate the reticle for the pilot.

I don't know about the F-5, but on the F-111 it helps the pilot find out where the reticle went to...the 111 reticle had a pretty large range of motion and it was possible to lose sight of it when keeping your Mk 1 eyeball on the target aircraft.

I just take cool screenshots (I watch a LOT of YouTube videos) and use those for my desktop! My fav is the I-19 gunning an A-10 during a dog fight!

No worky. There are 33 pylon combinations listed, seemingly every combination of bombs, fuel tanks, etc. There isn't any listing of "just" pylons.

I've already bought the A-10C (original), but if I wanted to upgrade it, I'd have to buy the entire A-10C II module for $80. I don't remember how much the original cost, but an upgrade shouldn't be as high as the original module. Between $10-$30 would be ok. IMHO, of course I'm not going to be upgrading my A-10C anytime soon based on this.

Where is the link to get the BS3 upgrade by itself? Or where is the price listed?

Manual position on the switch on the hud only allows the manual depression of the pipper, doesn't arm any weapons. Only thing I can think of is the F-5 has a two-stage trigger (first position opens the vent doors, second fires the guns). Does your trigger do both functions?

That is one of two images to keep track of the target. The cross in the middle tracks the target up/down and left/right, while the horizontal bar (range gate) slides up and down to show range. In the pic you referenced, the radar is set to 10 miles; the target range gate is shown just between the 4 mile and 2 mile range lines, and is about 3 1/2 miles away.

Oh, and you even said that in your first post! What are you looking at when you say "target range gate inside the radar scope"?

It begins at max range, where the range gate first appears at 6 O'clock. As the range gets closer, the range gate gets longer, from 6 o'clock to straight up 12. That's what confused me for a bit....the range gate gets longer while the range gets shorter. Just pay attention to the edge of the gate, not the length of it. null