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FDM won’t make a transparent part. Resin ‘might’ but it may be brittle. One transferrable DIY way to do it would be to 3D print a buck. Then get out the hair dryer (probably more a full power heat gun) and heat mold the clear piece to the buck with some parchment paper in between. Super easy with both Polycarbonate and Acrylic. Heat, drape, cool. Don’t heat on the buck because it will also go soft. Probably only get one shot at the buck, but you just re-print if you botch it up.

You are keeping the roll below 30 degrees yes? That’s a slow turn and that means shallow bank only. It’s the slowest turn you’ll make all flight.

Thats a big first step right there.

Electromagnets are an interesting solution. I’d just do motors and belts. Motorized linear pots are pricey and constrain your form factor.

So I had done some looking at this mechanism. The “Spider Detent” is basically a spring loaded clutch like in a drill/driver. It’s coupled under spring tension. Pulling hard on the lever causes it to break away. Re aligning causes it to pop back in. It’s coaxial to the hinge of the lever. The Lever controls the wing position, the CADC drives the lever when the clutch is engaged. The pilot drives it when they pull it out of engagement with the CADC coupler. This causes a feedback mismatch in the CADC causing it to trip out of the loop until you line the lever back up to engage the clutch coupling, and hit the master reset. The super slick way to mock it would be a Servo motor that will disengage with any load. But still send position data. Otherwise you run a basic motor drive, build the clutch coupling, and have the motor position looped on the lever input. Getting the CADC position out of DCSBios may give you full independent action. And when not using the lever, it has to be ignored otherwise the input and DCS will fight. So a switch on the cover or on lift up is needed to switch it to axis reporting. Or you would need to perfectly match the position movement to keep the sim happy. what’s really needed is a museum to be nice enough to film an actual full actuation of the mechanism. It’s in there just sitting doing nothing in gate guards and hanger displays all over the world.

Also, I don’t believe most of the team is full time, so day jobs and life are involved.

It’s good practice to “sweep the clock” when you spawn in. Gets the whole cockpit loaded into VRAM. Because DCS doesn’t do it automatically in VR mode.

I mean, I can name a few that have come OUT of Early Access that still need time in the oven.

I'll give you two guesses why that is.

This is literally how all government procurement works. Except change the USN- to USN- and you have it perfect.

Problem is EVERYONE has already done it themselves. At this point all HB has to do is cut and paste. But still they insist it will be a massive undertaking for a later date.

Seriously, they put those controls in the pilots cockpit for a reason.

Nice try Iran.

I’m beginning to see the core misunderstanding here @Delta59R is under the misapprehension that the charts represent an absolute and impossible in the real world level of accurate empirical measurements from a flight test. Ps curve is a mathematically derived curve VERIFIED by an average of multiple test events TO AN ACCEPTABLE tolerance of variation. It’s fundamentally impossible to measure that accurately in the real world. EVER.

More than that, it’s an unloaded number. You can bugout and trade altitude for airspeed and hit 2.x M to outrun a missile that wants to be your friend. Straight and level making that speed is a trick shot not normal operations. The Ps curve is about being able to turn hydrocarbons into Altitude, then trading that altitude back off to faster than straight and level speed. The Tomcat is a hell of a glider. Forget to refuel when you re-arm once and you’ll find that out real quick. It likes about 150 KTS with the wings out.

Iran needs to sell Tom Cruse the rest of their Tomcats so we can stop treating a 50 year old airframe like a super weapon.

I would think a low profile Hall sensor would give you more room for the wing sweep handle.

Correct, the tapered back is the secret to its speed. Same too a rifle round, which is what they started with to design the bell X-1. There’s a math to where along the length you want the widest part that I forget. The Phoenix is just a big honking sewer pipe with a nose cone.

If I jump out of a plane at 20,000 feet. Going straight down, I’m never going to go faster than about 200KPH. Because without excess thrust, you eventually hit terminal velocity. And both the compressibility and drag that causes that terminal velocity goes up as air density goes up (aka Altitude goes down). I don’t think the big boy Phoenix has a supersonic terminal velocity.

? Flash or go brighter and dimmer? It’s funny, you do things for a while and you stop actually looking at it. Some day I’ll work up the nerve to clean up the ungodly mess around my sim system.

You misunderstand. The TID is clueless. One return splits and the TID track is dead because it can’t make a call on which return to assign to the old track. If you STT on what turns out to be 2 targets, it will select the more reflective one to stay locked, but it has to drop its tracks and start over in TWS mode because it’s running on Pacman level hardware.

If datalink is available be sure to have Jester dial in the Datalink channel. Also you can ask Jester to change the TID range. As well as switch it to various perspectives other than the basic you at the bottom B-scope style. Other than that, nope. Late 60’s tech. Reports over the radio, what shows up on the RWR, and what the AWG-9 can directly see.

The radar itself is a separate export. I believe MFD1?

It’s a known FFB issue. When ever heatblur gets around to buying @fat creason (or was it @Naquaii a new stick (rhino would be best) it will get fixed, as I understand it they are between FFB sticks right now thanks to the decades of FFB patent squatters killing the market. But that’s over now.

They don’t flash. Flash is only for when the countdown for the missile going pitbull. You will see it going brighter as jester hooks and IFF’s them. But full blinking is to notify you of terminal phase where you can bug out because your radar isn’t needed any more. On your TID repeater in the front cockpit you will see a number next to the target, and a vector pointer with distance cues coming out of it. Check the manual for details on the range marks for firing. When you fire the target number will turn into a countdown so you know that target has a phoenix on it.