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It's not tracking the bullets. It's showing the bullet location at one bullet time of flight at the target's range. Good training feedback.

The round dials...

What is the speed read out showing on the track? ASI, TAS, knots or KPH?

Nah, it was nothing new. “Leo the RIO” bufoonarized the whole thing. The wingman crew was calm and had zero problems. Pretty obvious what happened.

When you land, report to my office...IMMEDIATELY!

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Should take about a 2-3 crab to track the Loc. If the ship turns, the Loc will slam against the side of the VDI so hard that you can hear it. It's written "ShIT" on the LSO book. "Ship In Turn". The compass should settle down after launch. You can also fast sync it on the compass panel.

I'm not wasting any more time here...

No point in wasting time with this...

No, no! Heatblur should include dynamic cockpit smells too. The cockpit should smell worse with use, including sweat, paint touch up, canopy polish, denuded ham sandwiches dropped under G under the RIO's seat, lots of vomit and even a little blood here and there...

Wasting my time...

Well, your arse comes with a built in G meter that is calibrated very quickly.

Yes. The tails would waggle due to the buffet from the intake vortices. It buffets at one G in the landing config, all of which is detailed in my Handling Paper. I get the sense that the other modules under represent buffet cues. Every tactical jet that I flew buffeted to different degrees, but the Tomcat gave nuance feedback as the buffet changed with AOA perceptibly. I haven't flown the DCS F18 in awhile, but if you watch some of the Blue Angels videos during rendezvous, you'll see what I mean. Another technique in the sim for establishing .5 G for an unload is to get a sense of how fast the nose moves at that G for your typical bug out airspeed range. You can't feel light in your seat, but you can notice the slow pitch rate associated with it. It will vary obviously with bank angle and velocity.

With full fuel the aircraft will be structurally limited to less than 5.5 G at a typical empty weight. 6.5 G is available at a gross of 50,000, resulting in a total lift of 325000 pounds. Divide your gross into that to obtain your max G assuming that you plan to observe the structural limits. It also shows the variation in performance based on weight. It's interesting that the Ps charts don't show the G limits for the actual gross weight listed on the charts. They show the max G limit of 6.5 instead. Buffet is a fantastic cue for fighting the aircraft, but it takes finesse to both learn and apply while under pressure. Edit- for max acceleration, unload to .5 G. Don't go to zero, you'll run the engine feed tanks out of fuel. If you aren't accelerating, then you have too much G on the aircraft. Frankly, your numbers sound like you are in mil power or less. You are getting full AB in your Peterbuilt, yes?

Maintain altitude by referencing the Altimeter and VSI, making pitch attitude adjustments on the VDI. Pilots have been flying jets this way since before you and I were born... Stop trying to fly off the HUD. It wasn't designed for that.

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They were talking about it, but until then, I encourage members here to link to those papers. They were written to mitigate the challenges of flying the F14A and B. The A will be more challenging, and updates to the FM will likely make shortcuts unworkable. Guys landing at 180 knots on the boat will be in for a rude awakening.

Read the first paragraph, then read the rest... https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=235829

Like I said, Joe Satrapa was never in an established flat spin. Read again.

Joe was never in a flat spin in his life. Where do you get this stuff? AFAIK, everyone who ended up in an established flat spin either ejected or died.

DFCS is not modeled in this F14B simulation. It came later. The NATOPS that is floating around doesn't reference the correct AFCS system. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=232264 https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=235829 See the PDF's at those links.

No. Came much later.

The windscreen has a coating with which to reflect the HUD projection. The reflection of the HUD collimator lens would often show on the center windscreen.

Yep. Turning the lights on on a carrier deck signaled Brake Failure to the crew, and they would attempt to throw chocks, chains and small Ordnancemen under the wheels. Pilots would look for something inexpensive to run into. Like an F18...

The F14 HUD wasn't crisp or particularly bright. It looked fuzzy compared to today's offerings. First time I sat in an F18 for a cockpit FAM is said, "Holy Shit, the HUD is magnificent..."