RustBelt

Also to everything everyone else said, the Flanker was built as a counter to the F-14 and F-15 fighters. Everything about it is designed to out fight the pre AIM-120 twin engined fighters. You really can’t use AWG-9 TWS on them well, and with their IRST they’ll see you and your giant VW Beetle of a Fox 3 coming from a good deal away. OTOH, you can get them running cold which puts them at a strong disadvantage until you get in Fox-2 range. Then you better hope they have the cheap heat seekers on.

Oh yea. It’s robust.

It’s not supposed to work like this. It’s just that it does work like this because it’s relying on the plane’s “shadow” preventing the sunlight from reflecting. Light works backward and weird in 3D graphics. The shadow tells the surface it’s NOT lit.

Seriously, we’d all love a copy of -1A if you manage to get the leg work done to get it!

The problem is most of the important Hydraulic bits live along the inside of both nacelles. So a hit in the rear center tends to do a lot of system damage. They’re backup systems for common maintenance style failures. They aren’t really meant to backup getting a MANPAD or hand full of HEI round up the tunnel. The pumps may still be intact, but the reservoirs don’t work so good full of holes.

Try it on an exported viewport, betcha it looks good there.

It’s been asked many times. How they had to package it means it is basically tied to a volume group that doesn’t correspond with “things you would hear from the plane’s headset.” I think it’s on switches or in cockpit ambient sound or something. Cuts through the hear like in helmet too. It’s a limitation fudge of the jester system. Realistically that and stuff like the radar alt alert should be on the ICS volume knob in cockpit.

No the denser air means you can pack it even MORE! Meaning more fuel, meaning more THRUST! The Tomcat isn’t RamJetting. It’s not at all fast enough for that. As well as there being an engine in the way. The spill is there to prevent that. Otherwise you end up like the MiG25s that can basically send so much dense air down its gullet it overheats due to how much gas it can burn and how fast hot and hard it’s blasting the turbine. Goes wicked fast, but the engine becomes a consumable. For hybrid ramjets you need a bypass system that routs air around the engine core and then throws it through the afterburner. Which because the core isn’t doing the work, means you need a different fuel control system to match afterburner fuel flow to throughput density.

You must slow air to subsonic speed for any jet. For passenger aircraft this is done by the simple converging/diverging intake duct, because even though they only go about M0.8 the intake air can become transonic in the fan and compressors. Shockwaves in the Compressor is bad BAD news. Even the SR-71 had to slow its intake air to subsonic speed before it got to the compressor. The nose cones sticking out the front of the engine moved in and out to adjust the shockwave, as well as dump doors along the intake allowed for over pressure to be released. The TF-30 was more picky about intake flow direction due to Angle of Attack. It was never meant to be in such a big wide honker of an intake, and instead preferred the kind of duct you see on the F-111. So high AoA coming into the intake made the TF-30 extra angry.

He doesn’t have a lot to do until the engines are up and stable. I believe him never flipping his seat safety is a legacy bug, or he does it after gear up or something.

Also the air force, in their primary defense mission had SAM missiles like Nike and such unlike a navy ship at sea.

A better compromise would be ED actually defining a carrier deck as something with the same characteristics as ground so no weird fudge was needed at all.

Oh, I'm Sorry, You must have thought this was the super exclusive platinum diamond plus one on one direct support line for extra fancy good boys, not a web forum. Common mistake.

And that makes even less sense. The SU-27 must have sped up or something for those numbers to work, or their Phoenix was only averaging what? M1.2 at a 35,000 foot launch? The Tomcat was only going M0.9 and it practically BEAT the Phoenix to the Flanker by flying out the difference in launch distance when shooting the AIM-7. Edit: Mathed it. Re mathing. Order of magnitude fail Ok so the times seem weird. Using DCS Standard Atmosphere/temp The F-14 was going 519 KTAS and the SU-27 was going 471 KTAS. For the Phoenix shot the F-14 fired at T+ 2m25s. and the Flanker was hit at T+ 5m43s the Phoenix was in the air for 3m18s and going form 35,000' to 30,000'. So it only averaged M1.4 for a 45NM flight? For the AIM-7 Tomcat T+ 5m32s to shot, and Flanker T+ 7m30s hit. meaning the Sparrow flew for 1m58s? over 11NM, so 335KTAS or M0.57? Were you shooting a Sparrow or a CirrusJet? the heck?

The pilot would lean down and forward to sight through the HUD for a shot. Don't get too hung up on the VR body. It's not tied to your head position, so don't force your head position to it. Be great if it was fully animated and tied to your headset, but would also probably look really weird unless a huge amount of resources were used just to animate the doll body to match your Headset.

I think they're measuring the distance of the "Attacker" to the USS Creech Land Based Carrier Strike Group they started at. meaning the Attacker was only stopped 7 NM farther away with the Phoenix than the Sparrow. Which Ignores the fact that you can shoot at 6 targets at once with the Phoenix, and it will go to fully active for terminal phase. Because there would never be ONE SU-27 attacking a CSG because that's crazy.

I wish they would just make a section in the manual of DCS-isms that covers all the stuff that just can’t work like real life due to game limitations.

Which are ED side issues.

Great finds! That last company also has the mushroom head lift lock switches. Good prices compared to new from mouser!

Pro-active blue skittles them.

Easy. You add an extension to your stick that matches the shape of the stick in the plane. Done and done. The location of the base is correct.

It’s also really uncomfortable AND ergonomically difficult to input and sustain while being pulled out and away from all the controls even strapped in. Sims have a way of showing an accurate flight model when the human pilot’s limitations isn’t part of the system. op, you outside snap rolled an unbalanced plane. Try to keep your speed up and don’t cross control at high AoA. High wingloading can be suddenly unforgiving.

No light? Like the probe isn’t red? Or no light like it stinks at throwing light as bad as the position lights do? Also is the blackout switch on the throttle switched? Don’t remember if that does or doesn’t do the probe light.

Can’t complain it doesn’t look wrong when it doesn’t work at all.

That’s an ED super carrier issue.