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Just to make sure, you guys are uncaging it before firing it?

I'm sorry if I directed this too much at you personally, it's just that some people go around talking about this as if we're ignoring it or have said that we don't care about it. Which we ofc don't. Please view my reply as a general comment not directed directly at you!

And we've stated multiple times that we're working on this and that we're going to try and model it in a way that makes sense for the AWG-9. Asking about it over and over again will unfortunately not make this functionality appear faster.

As said above, the pulse mode doesn't have any filters like the doppler modes. That's both an advantage and a disadvantage. It's much harder to find stuff in pulse due to less sensitivity and the range is also much less. Don't expect to find the targets at pulse-doppler ranges. That said, pulse is hard to use so keep at it!

This is exactly what I was talking about. We are working on this like Cobra said but trust me when I say we can't just "Use them and you are done.". It's not as simple as that. Everytime we change stuff in the missile settings we have to do extensive testing to verify what actually changes. Changing those few values will affect other stuff as well, that is why we are instead focussing on the new modelling. And that is under way. For the rest, see Cobras post above.

You make it sounds like we did this on purpose. This was a deliberate design to make the missile behave like it should in DCS, and when we implemented it it did match the CFD calculations in the whitepaper. The issue is that the way the missiles work in DCS has then changed and the same missiles are now behaving differently due to later changes we were not aware of. The problem is that reworking this is not just a simple lua fix because all these values need to be tweaked and tuned to arrive at a correct behaviour, it's not as simple as just changing one value. And currently it has been our decision that it's better to focus on trying to transfer the missiles to the new missile system than putting the time and effort into once again fixing them in the old system.

http://heatblur.se/F-14Manual/general.html#threat-symbology That's the most updated list. Missing FL for Forrestal currently though.

"Capable" is a wide concept. What they talked about was more the mindset of the different pilots piloting the different aircraft with the A and B Tomcat pilots being used to not having a fully functioning INS whereas for the Hornet pilot it might be a no-fly kinda malfunction. That said afaik the AIM-54 needs the aircraft INS to function, without it it can't align the missile INS system before launch. The episode was really nice, as always with the Tomcast. It doesn't really change anything in regards to what information is available though.

VC is WCS calculated magnetic variation using the INS and compass. VM is the manually entered value that a RIO or Jester can enter, that's what the kneeboard value is for. These two do not always correspond as external factors can affect the calculated magvar, like a carriers magnetic signature as an example.

Yes, 4 GBUs is the max amount as it's only the fuselage stations that were cleared for those. It's also likely that when carrying GBU-24s that were the only bombs allowed, so no bombs on the other two stations at the same time. But I haven't found explicit evidence for that. IRL they didn't mix them up that much.

No worries.

And I was just joking. If that was seen as anything but, I apologize. That's all it was. Sometimes it would be good if people gave the other side the benefit of the doubt, they're not always out to get you.

I have to correct myself after having re-read the parts about this in the documentation, you actually should not use differential braking but you can use single engine thrust on the opposite engine to increase turn radius. Sorry about that. Some of those issues you describe aren't as easy as that, the nosewheel centering system is not always in effect and is actually turned off when the pilot depresses the button. As for the ground friction issues it's a long standing problem with DCS having strange ground movement behavior that we have yet to find a good solution to. But for this and the other issues I'm afraid I'd have to refer you to @IronMike as he's head of testing. I'm not and that's why I haven't replied to those threads. My main responsibility is research in this case and I mostly try to chime in when there's misunderstandments in regards to how things should work.

To get the minimum turn radius you need differential braking as well. Hold the brake on the side you want to turn towards as well as full rudder to that side.

I'm not entirely read into the exakt differences between them so I can't really tell you. But if it is an FLOLS system it should be the same.

It’s correct that that was the limit IRL.

Incorrect. The Forrestal as modelled had an FLOLS system not an IFLOLS as the newer carriers. The IFLOLS switched to a newer sharper fiber optic light source so you can’t use those as examples of how the Forrestals FLOLS should look.

The information I have is a bit ambiguous about this. The ACM diagrams I have does not mention ACM at all for PD-STT but that's likely due to PD-STT not being a good idea in ACM at all. If you flip the ACM cover up with PD-STT you should've already been in P-STT. That said I do think it should work the same as P-STT so I'll add a tracker in our system to have a look at that.

Because the weapon/payload manuals clearly state the GBU-10s only being cleared for 3 & 6 and the GBU-24s only for 3 and 5. Also there's way more to a specific loadout being more "airworthy" just than it being symmetrical. As for this being the heaviest bombload I beg to differ. When I want to really wreck something I go 18xMk-82 or 10xMk-83... http://heatblur.se/F-14Manual/weapons.html#f-14-loadout-diagram

Toggle as in turning it off then on again after cycling the hook. There’s no issue with using nosewheel steering when kneeled, the issue was the automatic disable as it also triggered the nosewheel centering used during carrier traps.

IRL the standard procedure was to make sure to toggle the NWS before kneeling to disable the automation as it also enabled nose-wheel centering which was really dangerous during a launch as it could lead to early launch bar separation. It's one of those things that were there but never used IRL.

Hi! The display on the DDD is correct, it should show actual antenna azimuth, not the stabilized azimuth to target. The BR readout however should be stablized so that's wrong, I'll add an internal tracker for that to be looked at.

Aux flaps were always binary. Main flaps incremental. The aux flaps are the innermost portion that only deploys with wings fully forward. They deploy fully when the flaps handle is past a certain point.

They can but they'd have to fit the previous track parameters quite perfectly. Currently there's not really any situations in which tracks like that are lost in the first place in DCS. Tracks that are lost due to maneuvering or while maneuvering are quite unlikely to fit the previous track parameters again.