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In Canada, a tower controller cannot clear an aircraft to land until the runway is vacated... you get clearance within 4 miles normally. As Cobra mentioned above, in the US, I have been given landing clearance when there are still 4 other planes ahead of me on final mixed with aircraft taking off ahead of them.

Hi Blaze, I can't answer any of your questions... sorry... and I would also love to see an advanced naval combat sim from Eagle. Cheers

What do you mean by V/D/AVT? Encounter/Pursuit/Auto? The bank angle does not affect lock on in v1.1 when entered in a BVR mode. You can adjust the size of the gun funnel but not the target box.

In v1.1 the IR seeker lock on logic has been changed so the IR seeker of an R-27ET now has much shorter range and is dependant on aspect and heat signature of the target.

Hi guys, The carrier is not being worked on in v1.1. 1.1 is not about naval operations... just as v1.0 was not about naval operations.

Re: Riple fire R27 I have seen the R-27ET chase down and kill an R-27ER in Lock On v1.0x.

Updated... see first post

I also mentioned the overcast mods for v1.02 that are out there and getting the mods incorporated into v1.1 but we haven't seen this happen. The mods for v1.02 do work in v1.1 so that option will still be available after v1.1 is released.

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Cool pics... Why do you think that an old tank on a weapon range would have fuel in external tanks? This for better imagination, how T-62 looked inside Looked like a T-62 because the thick collar on the barrel was near the center and not the end like it is on the T-55.

Yes... possibley only 2 or 3 different tanks with scenes from different angles of the one pass. If you see a fireball and black smoke, doesn't matter how long the smoke lasts, then the damage is internal because that is where the fuel and fluids are. External damage would not produce a fireball and black smoke.

Range tanks would not be combat loaded and would have minimal fuel and probably no ammunition... maybe Dice can confirm this. If it is true then these tanks would be much easier to blow up if they were loaded with fuel and ammunition. I just watched the video again... Tanks number 1,2,4,6,7,9,10, and 11 were all killed by witness of the fireball and billowing black smoke. That means, if all the shots in the video were of a separate tank, that the A-10 killed 8 of 11 tanks with one burst of the GAU-8A. Now.. it is possible that in the video the camera shots showed different angles of the same tank and if it did it still showed easy single burst kills BTW... hydraulic fluid burns very hot and would burn out quite fast.

Great video!! Is it just me or did it look like the Su-27 was shooting an S-25 rocket varient at the airborne targets? It looked like there were 4 different projectiles in the air near the first target when it got hit.

Hi everyone, Our favourite lady aviator has provided us with another excellent mission report but this time she flys the Su-25T, for the first time!! Great stuff Cat!!! :D Article is here: http://www.simhq.com/_air3/air_047a.html Maybe we can convince her to come by and answer some of your questions concerning her experience.

Interesting debate and please keep it civil. :) The way I see it... The tanks are on a target range and would most likely not be fully fueled and would most likely not have filled external tanks on them. When you see the instant explosion/combustion/fireball and the thick black smoke you can pretty much guarantee that the tank has been rendered useless and had a crew been inside it, they would most likely have been cooked.

Hi Brit! Put it this way... One word from a real Su-25 pilot... "cow". Have fun flying the Sukhoi "cow" in standard and -T breeds. :) You guys will see just how much drag a lot of these large stores like the gunpods and KH-58 will actually create and how it will affect the handling and performance of the jet. Overspeed buffeting is dynamic and the speed at which the buffeting occurs depends on what is slung under the wings. Cheers

Hi guys, Good job so far on keeping this civil... please don't take this thread downhill! My 2 cents... What having a no-padlock server does is to virtually eliminate the effectiveness of the Russian Schelm system. Trying to get the targeting reticle on a bandit while in a visual engagement is VERY difficult when panning the view with a hat. Players with TrackIR flying the Flanker or Mig have a huge advantage in a visual fight. I have TrackIR and have been in no-padlock servers with it on and with it off... the difference is night and day with regards to using the Schlem system. BTW...the padlock will only lock onto targets within about 20 degrees of the center of the view so it is not as magical as some people think. But, ultimately... if you don't think it's fair then don't join servers that have features enabled or disabled that you don't like. Cheers

A couple of new feature updates in the first post.

Ok I see what you mean. :)

I second that motion!! :)

Hmm.. We should keep the word "color" somewhere, so that the meaning is not difficult for Russian readers. Or, did you mean to add the self-test BIT pages? The PACS and the MPCD are 2 different animals AFAIK. The PACS is on older model Eagles. Multi Purpose Color Display is maybe how we should phrase it?

Hi Octav, Thanks for the comments... I only tested this in longer range situations and it may already be as you say regarding puruit mode... will check it out. Edit... head on target detection is possible in pursuit mode at a very reduced detection range. Tail on target detection is possible in encounter mode at a very reduced range.

Andrew... I would change #16 to read... Replace the current PACS with a MPCD.

In the Mig-29A the HHD is a HUD repeater only AFAIK, the Mig-29S I don't know for sure, and the Su-27 HDD has multiple modes. These include a HUD repeater, Nav display, and a top down tactical scope with data-link capability that we see very loosely modeled in Lock on. Eagle Dynamics has the documentation for the HDD and I hope we see it worked on in the future.

Great thread Andrew! I think what Eagle needs to do is chose a radar version and model it's features rather then features from different models as we now have. I think the features that would be found in typical F-15C of the late 1980's and 90's is the MSIP II version with the Hughes AN/APG-63(v1). The AN/APG-70 was first used in the MSIP II upgrade but was subsequently replaced with the APG-63(v1) which is what the majority of F-15C's now have. The improved features of the APG-63(v1) over the APG-63 are: *better capability to track multiple targets and to find targets at low altitude(better ground clutter filtering). *Raid Assesment mode(RAM) - for breaking out of closely grouped targets. *AACQ mode radar lock on range of 15nm. *Full color MPCD. *JTIDS and data-link capability. *Improved TEWS suite. The above would be the main new features but there also needs to be more functionality added to what we have in Lock On now like: *adjustable bar scan. *slewable TWS azimuth zone. *Super Search AACQ mode - 30x20 radar scan pattern, I think, but it basically scans within the dimensions of the HUD. *radar stand by mode. Cheers