Gunslinger22

Exactly, it's bizarre how some people on these forums see any semblance of critique or questioning of their beloved favorite developer (HB) seems as a personal attack on them and they must profess their appreciation and love for any and all actions of their developer in response.

Mate this looks phenomenal! Crazy what you blokes can make with 3D printers, while I have no regrets with the pit I made, it sure would have been nice to be able to 3D print a gauge here and there!

Mate that's a long writeup to be wrong. First shown in 2015 with an ALR-45 equipped cockpit. So as advertised is it not? Stated above 1 year prior to launch that there will be an ALR-45 (Pre 90's A) so as advertised unlike what you suggest.

As initially stated I'm partially disappointed, I absolutely respect and admire the work the team is putting in. But it doesn't address my initial concern as a paying customer (I say this somewhat sarcastically but use it to show that this is still business and not to muddy the hobby/fan side of this game) to possible mission creep on how these products are stretching out so long. 7 years is an incredible amount of time. Secondly to your point, I neither wish nor want HB to simply shut the doors on what they're working on to the public. But with a growing list of things shown that HB are currently working on, versus the actual list of things to be delivered is becoming a point to note. Nonetheless nothing from what can be written within these forums will realistically change or effect how HB operates as they're a business who needs to pay employees and make money, putting large efforts in to a 7 year old product that they've already made their money off doesn't seem something they're going to do unless their is true financial benefit to it.

I think a massive issue currently within the DCS community is that people continually forgot that this is not just hobby filled with enthusiasts whom get/request things purely based on what they want. HB develop and sell a product, I am a consumer of their product. When I purchased the F-14 it was under the understanding of the advertised their product (F-14 with ALR-45). Now it's been 7 years since I paid for a product I have technically not received yet, how is it absolutely ridiculous for me to complain when the B(U) was never advertised and we still haven't not received what was initially advertised to us? I seriously don't get this immature response that any criticism of the company that develops yours and our toys is sacrilege or some deeply childish thing to do.

I'm well and truly tracking that, but what's a shame to me is that the ALR-45 was first shown in 2016 and then again in 2020. 5 years since the last update but now we're being shown the sparrowhawk and PTID?

Am I the only one who is partially disappointed to see HB showing new toys but we’re still awaiting the release of the F-14A early, which is what I literally purchased the module for and was shown since the beginning of development. Seems they’ve got a lot of their plate development wise, it’d be nice to know that this feature creep isn’t massively the reason why we haven’t got the ALR-45 in our cockpits already.

The link for the autoexec is sadly dead, does anyone have a backup?

Imagine having realistic wingflex like this though!

I’d personally really like to see more visual things be fixed/added. Such as wing flex, tails waggling and improving the external pilot mode to be of the same quality that ED products have. While I think the Tomcat still looks stunning, it’s already partially showing its age compared to what the bar has risen to.

Also to note is that it actually has two slight seems that cause the shape of the glare shield to bend up, this is not from it just sagging.

I made mine out of Zincalume, folded and riveted everything together.

Looks like she's coming along nicely mate! You should try make your own stick extension, I know that it took my pit to the next level when I was able to do it. How are you thinking of doing the hood and glare shield over the ACM panel? I know for me far too much time when into getting it right.

Love the 2SQN reference mate, long live the bushrangers!

Well since I've never used Fusion 360 before it may take me quite some time before I'm able to edit the top cover to have the correct detents. Question for anyone else whom has printed the throttle, are your throttles very far apart compared to @Yogi8? Mine are a good 35mm apart.

Ah I see, though I think @RustBelt may be correct in that it mustn’t be how the actual detents works as the above picture shows it to be. As that shows Mil being less the 1/4 after idle and the other 3/4 being for Max. I’m going to attempt to make the cover like the diagram shows and just slightly larger than the throttle stem width so that there is less play along the tracks. I’ve also reinforced my friction handle, flaps handle and both throttle stems with metal. I’ll post soon on how I did it.

@Yogi8 just a question regarding the cover panel for the throttles, is this part currently correct: The throttles don’t seem to run very well down it logically and the detents don’t seem to match up with this diagram: With your permission I’d like to attempt to edit the original file to better match that diagram and for both to be symmetrical, cheers mate.

Thank-you so much for this, purchased the same switch so this is very welcomed. Also @Yogi8 mate your efforts have been huge and this is a must for any Tomcat pit builder so thank-you once again.

This is great, could you share the modified stl? Thinking I’ll do the same.

That'd be grouse if you could mate, I'm about 80% done on my build. I'll upload pictures soon so you can cross reference how others have looked. Edit - @Yogi8 just noticed that the two gears for the left and right potentiometers are missing from Thingiverse also.

Bloody grouse mate! I've begun printing mine now and the quality is amazing, though I'm having the same issue as others with some missing STLs, is there a chance you could look at updating this? Cheers once again for your amazing work here mate.