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So I’m practicing IR missile defense per Grim Reapers’.youtube video. I get the concept and the maneuvers, but the Tomcat doesn’t exactly turn on a dime unless the wings are swept back and you have a lot of energy. With wings forward, she rolls slow the. Runs out of energy so that if you are say split s’ing to finish the defense against a rear quarter show, she has no energy to complete the maneuver. Especially since you are in idle. So how do you get her to roll faster and still have energy to finish the maneuver? Pure bacjstock and all rudder? Seems like if I roll her too fast, she doesn’t want to respond anymore, or she roll reverses. Thanks! v6, boNes

Thanks I'll check it out. v6, boNes

Is there a way to tell Jester to slew the radar left or right? If I'm turning to intercept and the bogey falls outside of the scan cone as shown in the TID, he doesn't slew the radar over and I lose him (whether in ground or a/c stab). Sucks for my intercept. Thanks! v6, boNes

In the Grim Reapers video they specifically address the landing flaps as opposed to maneuvering flaps and use it to great success for instance against the (3) F-16s (although really it wasn't 1V3 is you think about it since one of the F-16s went into the ground early in the engagement). v6, boNes

You won't be able to save a trackfile since the popup window blocks the option to hit the button then kicks you back to the main menu. so look for the "last track" file and send that instead, if it even exists. v6, boNes

Yes I was talking specifically about US Navy and USAF flights. Not sure what you refer to about tail numbers for the Navy though. The tail number in the USN is normally the last two digits of the nose MODEX number. ie, a Hornet whose number on the nose is 201 will have 01 on the tail normally whereas in the USAF the tail number is the airframe manufacture year ("AF96") and an alpha code for their base ("HO" Holloman) and I think a numeric for their wing/squadron. At least the USN isn't using their BuNo which is pretty much the equivalent of the USAF tail number but is a 6 digit number normally such as 163894 and is usually located on the engine nacelle by the nozzle. But in any case, on the radio they wouldn't say Lion 01 they would say Lion 201. Maybe they only do the Navy style callsigns when, like what oyu were saying, if it is an all-Navy comm. Such was the case in the Gulf of Sidra incidents, so there was no need for Dodge 11 but rather Fast Eagle 107 and Gypsy 202 or whatever. Hmmm. v6, boNes

So a flight gets a callsign from the ATO or frag, say, Springfield 11. But in the Navy there is also the squadron callsign, say for VF-103 with a 103 MODEX it is Victory 103, or if you are flight lead Victory 1. So, when are these callsigns used? When would a flight call on the radio Springfield 11 and when would they say Victory 103? Listening to cockpit audio of the Gulf of Sidra II incident of 1989, VF-32 makes calls as Gypsy 107 while in 1981 VF-41 makes them as Fast Eagle. But nothing like Hammer 11, Colt 32, etc etc. Anyone know how it's done? v6, boNes

I used to covet this book in the 80s, but my jr high/high school budget couldn't afford it which was like $40 for the hardcover and Kroch and Brentano's at the time. But then a few years later they had a soft cover version of it for $20 so I finally got to buy it and the problem with it was being paperback, my drool on it could wrinkle the pages. As it went out of print, the hardcover version became affordable too, so I bought that also. Loved it ever since and Heater was my real life hero back then. I was so excited when Desert Shield started and there was a picture of a VF-21 Tomcat on the deck of the TR that had Heater's name on the canopy rail. I was like, woohoo! a Top Gun instructor is in theatre! Still love to look at those photos. Another great book from that time is "Top Gun: The US Navy's Fighter Weapons School" by George Hall. Another great journalist and photographer (RIP, George). More recent books of this type that you must check out for the F-14 are "Tomcat! The Grumman F-14 Story" by Admiral Gilcrist, "Bye-Bye, Baby...!" by Dave Parsons, George Hall, Bob Lawson and "Anytime, Baby..." by Erik Hildebrant. All have great photos and anecdotes. v6, boNes

This was brought up before (can't find it with a search though) but when you have a target locked both as L&S and in STT, the target aspect "stick" on the target icon in the radar screen disappears. The only way to get target aspect is to look at it in your HUD on the NIRD circle. Which is a good workaround for now, but what if you lose your HUD? Or what if you don't want to STT track them and alert them to your presence? When this was posted the last time, it was requested to have track files and people posted with track files, but nothing came of it that I can see...even in 2.5.6 there still is no TA stick on the target icon. What's the latest on this? Thanks! v6, boNes

+1 v6, boNes

To that, if you are in TWS and you have a target soft locked, and you fire the Sparrrow, it automatically goes to STT and drops all the other contacts. v6, boNes

I believe currently it is only active off the rail if you as the pilot have the ACM panel open and as the RIO if you have it set in the MSL OPTIONS panel switched to PH ACTIVE v6, boNes

With the new patch to fix 2.5.6 I still get the "CAn not open debriefing file" error, then it kicks me back to the main menu. v6, boNes

Same happens for me in any F-14 instant action mission. Dogfight in Caucuses, guns only and fox 2s only in Nevada, BFM Lion and the Sun in Persian Gulf.... v6, boNes

Was working, but now when I login, DCS crashes Crashlog sent. v6, boNes

Thansk! I can login now but I still get "Can not open debriefing file" after a mission then it kicks me out to the main menu. Video is also choppy. v6, boNes

Also in SP, there is no debriefing in Instant Action Caucasus mission "Dogfight"("Can not open debriefing file") and when setting voice chat settings, it CTD. v6, boNes

Same here, as reported here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=264022 v6, boNes

Can't login after 2.5.6 Updated to 2.5.6. When I try to log in to DCS it won't take my login and password. Attempting to reset my password, it won't take it even though it follows the password requirements. v6, boNes

It usually takes him about a minute before he changes things. He changes them by switching to AC stab and then when it goes back to ground stab, it's to whatever default heading is on. So I have to tell him again to reset the heading. Sometimes the sectors and degrees coverage change too. I'll have to run it again to get more accurate reports for you. v6, boNes

Is there any way to stop Jester from messing around with my NavGrid settings? Whether I hop in the back seat and set it up, or I tell him to set it up from the front seat he either changes the settings or he goes to AC stab instead of ground stab when I need it in ground stab. When the heat is on and I'm trying to help out a buddy in MP, it takes too long to re-command Jester to set the NavGrid to what I wanted over and over again. Thanks! v6, boNes

OK, just checking because in my options, lshift-U is listed as catapult launch. In any case, I launch pretty much 99.9% of the time, all the time. v6, boNes

Can't believe that Duke was wearing a prison uniform between 2005 and 2013. v6, boNes

I had this problem but very rarely. I tried it again last night just to see. I trapped, unhooked from the wires, taxiied over to the cat, hooked up, saluted, and launched, flaps up. Came back, trapped, unhooked from the wires, taxied over to the cat, hooked up, saluted, and launched this time with flaps. Worked every time. One thing I wondered is if there was a keybind for salute as I read that someone hit salute to launch. I myself do not recall a salute keybind, and I looked through the controls list for one and did not find any. But my thought being maybe there is a salute command which does nothing more than that, salute. Like in Arma 3, you can salute, but it's more for show than anything else. Anyway, to hook up to the cat, I lower the launch bar then hit "u". The JBD comes up, I get adjusted onto the shuttle, and then after I go to launch power, I hit LEFT shift and U, my avatar salutes, then I'm launched a second later. When I did have the problem, I would just idle everything, wait a moment, then power up again and hit right SHIFT U again and it would be fine. Come to think of it I think I only have this problem on Cat 1. The test I did last night was on Cat 2. Maybe that has something to do with it. <shrug> v6, boNes

Check out Alerax's LSO program. IT is pretty realistic and not hard to add to a mission. It gives carrier grades and uses the same notation, and you can even do the Marshall stack. It will also handle you as a flight (multiple flyers). Covers F-14B and F/A-18C, maybe more. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3674407#post3674407 v6, boNes