Victory205

No, I flew the aircraft for eight years, but I also trust Heatblur to do everything possible to get things right. Basically, you've made an infantile internet accusation and attempted to argue it without merit.

I ask again, where? Post the links.

That is nothing more than your opinion and baseless conjecture mate. You don't like the sound, so it must be wrong. Show me a video. I'm sitting here knowing exactly what the truth is, waiting for you to prove everyone wrong.

I already explained this. The tone you hear when the missile was launched has nothing to do with the AIM9 seeker- it's a sound injected anytime the pilot pulls the trigger. You see a coincident mark on the upper left side of the HUD video for the same reason. Why don't the experts around here know this? ;) That missile was shot without employing SEAM. Interesting that the Skipper was flying around with his SW Volume turned down, isn't it?

Exactly, burden of proof. Show me.

Double post.

Anywhere means in a computer video game or in videos. I assume it is safe to say that he hasn't used or shot one? Well show me an actual SEAM tone recorded inline on a video from an AIM9L/M off of an F14A/B and we'll discuss it. Otherwise, it is simply and objectively uninformed opinion and hyperbole. I don't find the tone in the sim video posted here, even when turned up as loud as my computer will go, "painful". Annoying, absolutely. As it should be.

What does "anywhere" mean?

The information that folks here don't know, or is based on obsolescent, uncorroborated, or anecdotal information, including that written in publications to include "aviation books", could fill entire libraries.

My faith in humanity is restored. Well said.

I see, it should be "what you expect it to sound like", not what is was... The video is an example, not the burning bush. It's exemplary of what happens when people find a snippet and run off into the toolies based on a single sentence from an obsolete source. I wish I had a Euro for every time someone told me that sweeping the wings or using assymetric thrust was the proper way to recover from a flat spin.

Hmmmm, I've been told that the screeching tone was a lovely sound to a fighter pilot who was about to log a kill...

Hydraulic Spindles? See, right there you show why this update should be delayed indefinitely until these "hydraulic spindles" can be properly researched and replicated. This could take years.

The tone in the first video is a cue that sounds on the tape when the pilot's trigger is pulled. Notice that it coincides with the mark on the upper left of the HUD video. That missile was launched without SEAM. Damned near launched without a SW tone at all since the CO was in the habit of turning down the annoying background SW tone during routine ops. See the picture here? Turn it down, not off. I don't find the time in the second video objectionable at all. Perhaps it is a difference in our hearing abilities. How old are you guys? ;)

Depends upon who is watching...

Let's make the missile go BEEP BEEP BEEP when it locks on like in Topgun The Movie too!

You can always put in to fly P3's! ;)

A clue....

I think it should be delayed for at least six months for proper testing...

Possum, being a cheapskate, doesn't have the sim yet. He needs to get it ASAP. Until he does, he's referencing real world vice DCS. Yes, fuel is always a balance depending upon whether you have a bingo field in range, what the Airwing policy happens to be, and the mission. Ashore, once you had the gear down for the first pass, then you'd likely do touch and goes until you had a low fuel light. The point being that you didn't need to save fuel to troubleshoot a possible gear issue once you were fully configured. As stated before, we left the gear and flaps down between landings (unless diverting, etc). We flew a lot more than USAF (and way, way more than our adversaries) did when I was on active duty. I don't know what's going on now, but some of the USAF numbers I hear from recently separated Zoomies are appallingly low. I see why they are unhappy. Possum is about two decades younger than I, so he can bring you up to speed on what came later, but it is probably true that USN spent a lot of OPTAR doing landings. In my day, we still probably flew more tactics than USAF. The French Navy pilots by the way, all flew exactly the same number of hours, with only LCDR (equivalents) allowed to land on the ship at night. They got more hours than the daytime only Junior Officers. We in contrast, were always fighting for more time. Some of the married guys wanted to go home at night, while we bachelors snarfed their flying. ;)

Really? What sort of turns?

So in a visual dogfight, does a scan pattern make sense to you, even if it is depicted by some sort of symbol?

You need to understand aerodynamic range for missile employment against maneuvering targets at different altitudes.

I'll add that to the landing tips paper. Sort of took it for granted, but setting up fuel reserves to make a time is a foreign concept to the average land lubber pilot... Make your own. I never trusted the performance charts anyway until the data was verified personally. Carefully set up your profile in the sim, note the fuel state on the totalizer, hack the clock and see the fuel burn over say, fifteen minutes to a half hour. Use the totalizer burn to calculate fuel burn per hour for your power setting, configuration, altitude and Mach/Airspeed. Record the TAS as well.

Why does it seem more logical?