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Check your IFR probe switch in "EXTD-ALL"

This, sort of. When maneuvering, to turn tighter you pull aft on the stick. Similarly, you pull aft on thumbwheel to extend flaps and tighten the turn. Same way the flap handle moves. Landing config you push forward to descend and also push forward on thumbwheel to do the same. It's quite natural to a pilot.

State of the art when the aircraft hit the fleet. Instruments easy to read and logically laid out. I had over 1000 hours in the A4, T2C a d T34C, followed by 50-60 hours in the F14 sims and 300 hours of manual and publications study before first flight. You guys have jumped into an unfamiliar module after flying aircraft from the future and are being critical. Why is a Lotus 49 so archaic compared to this year's Ferrari SF90?

The F14 has a mechanical gyro that drifts and precesses, backed up by an AHRS, with the data displayed on a HUD that updates slowly. This is modeled in the sim, and frankly, works a little better than in the aircraft and probably needs to be de-tuned. There is a reason I keep recommending that you not use the HUD for landing.

Ha! Touch screens in 1970? There were two snap on red filters for the VDI and HSD. I used to tape them on because they had a tendency to fly into your chest on a night cat shot. Nifty, eh?

Not really.

It doesn't show Target Aspect for you on the TID display?

You can damage the flaps/slats in the sim. I haven't explored that much though. Will have a closer look later. I may try reversing them, to see if anything shears. That's one of the ways to break a torque tube. The kids are going to push the envelope in the sim. Some of the carrier landings are hilarious and would be technique wave offs at the 90. I'd like to see the DCS ship model shear the CDP and let jets dribble off into the water due to high landing speeds. Hook skip boaters should be more prevalent with a full fast AOA indication too. I've seen a few landings at 160 KIAS! DCS really needs a mean, nasty LSO manning the platform to wave these maniacs off...

The wings would slow down and ratchet under G. The Captain's bars are moving so they are indeed, being commanded to move. It's being looked at it as we speak.

Be patient. I've had it up to 2.3 at 40,000 feet and 1.3 at SL. It's constantly being tweaked for a number of reasons.

Extension of MAIN flaps when maneuvering flaps are extended will cause the latter to retract before MAIN flaps extend. It's described in my nifty paper in the sticky section and is modeled in the sim. So is partial flap extension using the flap handle. I went through Topgun with inoperative maneuving flaps (they broke on the first 1v1). Now I am not saying that this is something that was actually done, but let's look at it from a theoretical viewpoint in the interest of systems knowledge. A crew could pull the AUX flap CB, which would allow an enterprising pilot to use the flap handle to proportionally extend the MAIN flaps and slats when maneuving at moderate speeds while respecting the wing interlock speeds (which were still in effect). This is exactly how pilots used the flaps in the A4 during ACM. It shows that the MAIN flaps can be extended proportionately, but the AUX flaps are all or nothing, based on a flap handle position of 5 degrees as the trigger.

Full flaps were used (unauthorized, you didn't do it with the Skipper in the flight, unless it was my last CO, then he had his down too!) in flat scissors, but within the placard limits. Flat scissors got down to around a 100 knots in full blower IIRC. That said, full flaps resulting in severe wing rock at high alpha, and a flat scissors is generally a bad place to be... It's OK to cheat, Lex.

That seems very slow. Units or degrees on the info bar? Units do not equal degrees of AOA. The marks are described in NATOPS, 15 is approach reference.

Auto until you accelerate above 300 for the break. You need to conserve fuel while in holding, so wings auto and ~10 units AOA.

That's the way the carrier pattern is flown. Whether there is natural wind or not, the effect is the same. It's a wash, other than if the ship is making it's "own wind", then the wind over the deck will be axial, making your lineup problems more difficult.

That's an early test configured F14A aircraft. The altimeter in the sim looks fine.

It's there, but isn't accurate, lags and is going to get worse hopefully to mimic the real aircraft! ;)

Not the E Bracket. Use the AOA indicator and indexer! This isn't a Hornet.

There you go. Thanks for explaining so I don't have to! The positions on the eight way hat switch are unforgiving, so I'm cheating.

Just heard from Dave Parsons that Joe Satrapa passed away today. The Navy Fighter Community is a lesser place... Fair winds and following seas, Hoser.

The proper flap behavior is modeled if you move the handle with your cursor. Move it a quarter or half way and look at an outside view. Otherwise, worrying about having a vernier flap handle has no practical purpose.

You should get the range and closure displays when locked in guns mode. Do you have declutter selected?

Yeah, but the Tristar didn't have a tail hook... ;) It isn't just FBW stuff that is a problem, it's automation as well. I have nothing against FBW, but it depends upon how it is implement. I favor throttles and controls that provide feedback. Airbus doesn't, Boeing does for example. That said, we do have issues with guys coming from FBW backgrounds trying to fly natural stability aircraft, but the opposite is rarely and issue. We had a long time F16 pilot fail to upgrade to a DC9 series airliner, despite having had several extra sims and 32 landings in the actual aircraft. He just couldn't get the hang of flap management, trim and feel of what were heavy control pressures after coming from the nimble little Viper. Had to be a handful to be sure, but he got fired nonetheless.

Correct, that's the way it was in the real aircraft. The HUD is used for weapons delivery and coarse flying. The pitch lines are correct relative to the aircraft symbol, not the world. Fly instruments using the VDI. https://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=206212&d=1552518217

Now we're talking Old School! I came up through Training Command during the chalk board and Overhead Projector era, which was quickly supplanted by the White Board and Slide Tray Era, and then digital to include Power Point (the latter was a huge step in the wrong direction)!. The hilarious aspect was that guys were mesmerized by the White Board, and thought of any reason to stand up, hold forth about anything, and scribble on it. Of course the USN still uses grease boards and backwards writing for many things...