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    C.O. of the 51st Virtual Fighter Wing. I fly the F-14B both driver and RIO, and my secondary is the F/A-18C.
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  1. F-15E WSO recruitment is closed at this time. As of the date of this post, we are only recruiting for AH-64, other BluFor helos, and LotATC controllers. We are also still interested in standing up a Harrier squadron, and are on the lookout for an experienced Harrier driver to take lead on it, or to merge/collaborate with an established Harrier squadron. And we are still collecting RedFor freelancers to participate in our PVP events.
  2. Can anyone from ED comment? Oversight? Or you guys just like it this way for some reason?
  3. I think that is working on my end. If I box L+S and TDC depress through the AZ/EL/FLIR page on something within radar range, the TGP slews and slaves to the L+S contact. My only problems are when something is out of range or if my radar is snoozed, I can't put the TGP in any area of the sky where a L16 contact exists, which is pretty dumb. Has this feature ever worked properly, or it's been this way since AZ/EL was released? I've been a Tomcat guy for the last few years, and just starting to deep-dive into the Hornet.
  4. Ok great, that makes a lot more sense than the current implementation.
  5. Hey guys, I've been playing around with the AZ/EL's FLIR sub page, and I noticed a behavior that I suspect is not accurately modelled. I can use the TDC to move the FLIR octagon to any empty spot on the AZ/EL page, but I am unable to move the FLIR onto any Link-16 contacts. I'm not a Hornet aficionado, but this is illogical and I don't see how this could be accurate to real life, since it defeats the entire purpose of the AZ/EL FLIR sub page. What good is this sub page if we are only able to slew the FLIR pod to empty areas of the sky, but not onto anything useful? Video demonstration:
  6. F-15E driver recruitment is closed at this time, still recruiting WSOs. Thanks everyone for their interest!
  7. I'm sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find the existing topic. I'm curious why ED models the size of the HMD/HMCS based on FOV but they model the NVGs as a fixed size on our displays.
  8. A-10C recruitment has been closed at this time. Thanks to everyone for the applications.
  9. Enjoy this twitch VOD of a recent A2G/CAS weekly practice session: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1954595580?filter=highlights&sort=time In other news our F-16 recruitment is closed at this time, likely to re-open in the winter. We are still recruiting for F-15E driver and WSO, A-10C II, AH-64D, other BluFor helos, LotATC, and RedFor pilots. We are also still looking for an experienced AV-8B pilot to stand up a Harrier squadron in the 51st VFW, OR an already established Harrier squadron operating in the North American timezone evening hours who are interested in joining our virtual wing.
  10. The exact quote is "We would go down to probably like 200 knots.....it took you only maybe like five seconds from those 200 knots to where you would like go super sonic". That's a lot of "probably like" and "maybe like". My read on Enzo is that he never actually timed it. It probably just felt like around 5 seconds to him. I believe he was just trying to make the point that the Typhoon could accelerate really fast and pulled a number out of a hat that somewhat matched his memory/perception.
  11. The 51st VFW is proud to present out 2023 annual airshow! Enjoy.
  12. I don't think he's exaggerating, I think he's sincerely misremembering...by a lot. Spurts is right though, that kind of acceleration is impossible. You can punch it into an inertia calculator and see for yourself. It's like 2.5 Gs of acceleration. That would require about a 2.5:1 thrust to weight ratio. Even the Raptor is no where close to that.
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