Ironhand

Since you had a difficult time installing the sim for some reason, it may be that something didn’t install correctly. Have you tried running a slow repair?

Sorry. That’s totally out of my league.

Hardly every fly the Su-33 these days. IIRC, the tail hook and fuel probe commands are a toggle. The command sets it to its opposite state. If it’s retracted, it’s deployed. If deployed, retracted. Not sure where the special afterburner button/switch is or if there even is one. It could just be a set of pins on the throttle that you push past in the real world. No idea and no manual to help figure it out easily.

The drogue chute release button is hard to spot because it’s low in the front left corner. It’s the red button to the left inside the red circle: There isn’t a single switch. I haven’t spent much time in this part of the manual because, this being an FC3 aircraft, knowing where this stuff is didn’t make much difference. However, in the following image (rear right panel), the battery, converter, and generator blue tipped switches run left to right respectively inside the red enclosure. Some blue tipped system power switches are located toward the rear of the left panel:

In case you hadn’t noticed, I was agreeing with you.

If both images are where the red marker is, they are:

I’m not at home and, so, can’t look specifically. But I think it’s on the left panel. There should be a button marked “ВЫПУСК ТП” which is the release button. There should be another button there as well marked “СБРОС ТП” which is the reset button.

The N001s that can fire the R-77 have a bypass channel that allows incoming radar data to be switched to a new all-digital processing system. When one of the new modes (several A2G modes along with 1 additional A2A mode providing R-77 compatibility) is selected, radar data is sent to the new subsystems, but if an old mode is selected the data is processed as before by the existing radar hardware. Quite honestly I’m not even certain the R-77 can be launched STT with the new mode.

Same place, same coordinates. Between and just beyond the ends of two lakes, Argentino and Viedma.

The 50% is 50% of the basic fuel load which is defined in the manual as filling tanks #2 and #3 with fuel having a specific gravity of 0.785. So 4160+1060/2=2610 kg or thereabouts. I suppose the other possibility is 50% of a partial fuel load which is tank #2 filled to at least 3400 kg with a top limit of around 4160. Which fuel load, though, doesn’t matter too much because the difference would equate to fractions of a second rather than many multiple seconds. And especially not the 40+ sec difference in the 1100-1300 acceleration range.

Thanks. I’m not sure what to make of that in terms of proof. While it’s specified there, it isn’t throughout. It could, I suppose, be an indication that, unless indicated otherwise, velocities are TAS. If everything is IAS, though, then our Su-27 is extremely out of line with publicly available specifications. There’s a world of difference between 13 sec (expected) and 49 sec (delivered).

If you have the time, do sift through. But, since ED has already said that how it behaves is more accurate than the charts, it may be a moot issue. The reason I’m so curious is that, while it doesn’t make too much difference in the 600-1100 speed range, it makes a tremendous difference in the 1100-1300 sped range. In the latter, it’s the difference between 14 sec and ~50 sec at 2000 m. I believe in the “Сопротивлeниe” (Drag) video you posted above, he came in at 49 sec. No matter how you look at it, the speeds don’t line up with the charts. But in TAS, they end up a hell of a lot closer in the higher speed range.

Yes. Ran across that while reading last night. Still haven’t found any indication of whether the V is Vпр (IAS) or Vист (TAS). Have yet to see it in any of the materials I’ve looked at. Our Flanker is much closer, especially for the 1100-1300 bracket, if it’s TAS. Edit: K-27 is the GRAU identifier for the R-27 (perhaps while in prototype?), something I didn’t know until today.

Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out. I’m seeing about 3 seconds difference myself at the 2,000 m altitude for both the 600-1100 and 1100-1300 km/h marks but the latter mark especially depends on whether you’re measuring IAS or TAS. My runs have been with 4 AAMs and 2622 kg fuel.

Thank you.

Nothing in there references afterburner that I see. What sensor is “seeing” in front aspect is the heat caused by air friction.

Yup. And below that it lists “approaching” (F-15) 16-18 km, “in pursuit of” 60-70 km

Anyone know which instrument/system or whatever ТТТ and СГИ refer to? I’m not familiar with either one and the numbers are different depending on the column you’re in. Also I don’t see the weight, armament etc listed in the image. Also, are the airspeeds IAS or TAS?

According to the manual R-Max1 is for targets certain not to maneuver. Even then, somewhere in there, it states to wait until the target is slightly inside that range before launching but that may be due to imprecise range measurement. EDIT:

That video's acceleration starts at 3390 m and he drops from there. If I'm at a significantly higher altitude, my IAS would be less, not more, than his all things being equal. As for known facts, what season is it? I'm assuming winter given the look of the sky. That may or may not be snow on the ground. Our Su-27 does not match the charts. ED's response is that the charts are wrong. They have different information. I can overlay the two flights in a video but I probably won't have an opportunity until sometime next week. You really don't need that, though, other than for a visual comparison. Just pick any speed range you want in the video and the TRK and compare the times.

Not flying the reference material. I am flying the Su-30 crash video that keeps being posted to prove that the DCS Su-27 transonic flight profile is wrong. How many missiles does that Su-30 have? How may kg fuel onboard? And how many seconds difference do you think the slight difference in flight profile add or subtract? BTW, I’m not saying that our Su-27 is correct. I don’t know if it is or isn’t. I do know that ED claims the charts are missing the transonic drop.

Here's the track but it matches the RL video time pretty closely. Video 500-1300 km/hr in 46 sec. TRK 500-1300 km/hr 44 sec. Su-27 Trans-sonic.trk

That’s probably true some of the time. But the “box” rises and falls with the superstructure. Plus you would think that the deck would be included especially when a waterline hit against the hull is included. But who knows? [Edit: Actually I do know that on the one occasion I checked, the bomb which didn’t score as a hit simply disappeared when it’s companion exploded. It was no longer selectable with F6.] My purpose in posting was simply to say that, when I tried to replicate MBot’s experience, I could. But it was just as likely (actually more than likely in my admittedly small sample) that both bombs would be “scored”.

Out of curiosity, I took a look at this last night and found it interesting. Whether or not this problem exists, seems to depend on where the bombs hit. Intervening superstructure or whatever makes a difference. In MBot's TRK, this is where the bombs hit. Notice the bomb circled in red. That's the one that doesn't explode. The one higher up in the frame explodes a split second after this screen was taken and it's the only hit that is recorded. Using MBot's TRK, I swapped out the aircraft to something I could fly and tried to put something substantial between the bombs. The result: The circled bomb also exploded once it hit. Just wanted to toss that out there. It's not a given that only 1 of 2 will be scored a hit.

My images show the extend that my head can move to the outside as well. SO no. I never felt that my head went through the canopy.