RobertFriday

Override is used on the ground to transfer fuel into the main tanks. With weight on wheels the external tanks are unpressurized and do not automatically transfer like in air. Very useful for ground crew to reconfigure the aircraft without de fueling equipment or during extended engine operation for testing systems.

I’ve turned many a Jet for sticky flight idle detents :) no fun for any party

I don’t have the exact schematics in front of me so I don’t remember if anti skid works with E-Brake, but what I do know is that the 2nd hydraulic system of the hornet maintains two 3000 Psi accumulators. One is for starting the APU and the other is for emergency brakes. When emergency is selected the mechanical energy used for braking is drawn from the accumulator not the 2nd hydraulic pump, and you still need to use the pedals to apply the brakes. It does not operate like the parking position which is only off or on.

Selecting the emergency brakes still requires use of the pedals, the difference being the pressure used to apply the brakes is drawn from a reserve hydraulic system.

I believe this is the cause of the problem for most people. ED has correctly modeled the mechanical detents of the hornet throttle system. When weight is off wheels two metal tabs extend to prevent the throttle being pulled to true idle or “ground” idle. Ground idle is around 64 percent rpms and flight idle is around 72 rpms and the fan at that power setting is a significant amount of thrust the brakes are working against. One downside of this being a simulator is that our rpms will stay at the incensed power setting until weight on wheels is achieved and you increase throttle shortly and then fully retract them. Hope this helps.

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IRL yes but would serve no purpose in the sim and is only performed by maintenance crews. Using a handle in the AMAD bay the AMAD and engine can be decoupled and perform a Ground Maintenance Mode (GMM) Turn. The APU drives the AMAD that has been decoupled and the generator and hydraulic systems will be semi operational.

Legacy F-18 mech here. Tanks one and four are bladder cells and the only foam that surrounds them is small strips to protect the urethane bag from friction of the cavity walls. Feed tanks (two and three) are also bladder cells in and are partially self sealing. As with the transfer tanks the only foam surrounding them is small strips for cushion. About the lower third of each cell has self sealing material. The wing tanks are surrounded by explosion resistant foam but are not self sealing. External tanks are made of fiberglass and also do not seal themselves, if damaged they crack open. As stated earlier, if the tanks are pierced by any kind of attack fire you have much bigger issues at hand. Major avionic components would likely be damaged.

If you are using a warthog throttle and have your apu switch mapped to it, make sure it’s not left on... I might know from experience

Love all the support and more and more skins. Since we have VFC-12 I’d love to see VFA-204 since they also operate the F/A-18C and they rock a sweet scheme.