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If you want real, you gotta go get the NATOPS publications and run the charts like a real live boy. NAVAIR 01-F14AAA-1.1 NAVAIR 01-F14AAP-1.1 Gotta search em, we can’t post em here. Rule of thumb speeds are not “official”

No let’s be real. The Manual, that was put up as HTML because the intent was to revise it regularly, has been basically forgotten on the “After we’re out of Early Access” pile with a LOT of stuff.

Huh CPU bound and goes away with pause. Sounds like a flight model issue. Which would track with it affecting Both Legacy and Remaster.

Is the backlight marking engraved or is the “base” color screened on with the lettering masked? I know there’s a couple ways to do it but neither is particularly tall/deep.

Seriously, extra sprinkles is nice, but I already love the Tomcat and would rather see more modules come online than wait around for Heatblur to hand build every individual BuNo.

Doesn’t it do that? I swear it does that?

They’ll do it when they do it.

For a given value of “real” it appears to be a 3D model of the B(U) hud unit. So it’s real in that sense. Although it could be an AI generated image that looks to be that. You’ll note that it is not powered up or showing any signs of functionality, so it’s at most a real dummy 3D mock up running either in DCS or in design software made to resemble being in DCS. That could also be the “Operating System Companies” 2024 product being depicted not DCS at all.

Yeup. Both wheels locked means the anti-skid thinks you’ve stopped. It can only tell difference between wheel speeds. IRL you’d feel it so it’s not a big deal. You may have experienced this in a car. You know you should be slowing down but you just aren’t. That’s super noticeable. In sim not so much so you end up deep in reverted rubber hydroplaning and get sideways. I can get deeper in the weeds why this happens both in a car and the plane due to designed in rolling stability like toe and caster and such. Which does nothing when locked and sliding.

The problem is it doesn’t seem like the needle changes. Having flown primitive Flux Gate HSI rigs I’m accustomed to checking the drift needle and it never seems to be out of whack like it should be. Once you’re clear of the boat shouldn’t that thing be cranked way over on one side?

I mean, to be clear, I wouldn’t be angry if this happened Heatblur.

So Iran gave up on the cool paint jobs? That’s too bad. They have what, 12 left?

Remember, the carrier steams at around 20-25kts into the wind during launch and recovery. Growler Jams video: shows significantly better visibility even in a thunderstorm, with distinct tight beading of rain on the canopy while on deck. I can believe a sun damaged boat window or old Museum plane’s canopy may look like that after a time. But these fighters are serviced DAILY the canopy being clean and fresh is vital for flight. Between polishing, replacing, and rain repellent coatings, it should never look as bad as DCS shows. Hell most of the 172’s I’ve flown had pretty tight beading that didn’t destroy view ability like that.

Water shouldn’t look like that on lexan. Really pitted dirty glass maybe, but it should bead up and run off a lot more on clear plastic.

Are you absolutely certain those slots are completely free? A Hornet even a little close will close off the Tomcat slot. You can’t spawn two 14’s on an elevator because one of them would be facing outboard with no way to back up. While also blocking the inboard facing one from taxing.

Sounds like they have to now actually define the wetting contact angle of surfaces which is kind of odd since it’s only ever Lexan, Acrylic, glass, and rubber since it’s only a transparent “surface” effect. perhaps the surface just needs a LUA call out for what flavor of “wettable” it is.

Don’t say Eisenhower didn’t warn us. Happ and Chennault were running a whole racket leading up to the secession of the Air Corps from the Army. Someone could do a whole big real crime podcast series on it.

That’s because they are adversaries. The Air Force using “Aggressor” is newspeak BS that frames the AF as always the defending “good guy” not an equally culpable combatant. Happ’s stupid cult.

Well here’s the thing, i’m only willing to care about DCS as much as ED is willing to care about DCS. I’ll only ever meet them where they’re at. And that’s pretty low when it comes to deep crunchy functionality. Heatblur shipped it seemingly this way, or were not informed by ED of changes that would affect their work, so, it’s a much easier road to accept what is, not what “should be”.

All I gotta say, is I hope they make it a switchable thing, because I don’t want some crappy control input delay forced on me like the crappy OS makers sim does.

If you have a truly set up center stick cockpit, sit in it and thing about what your arm is doing. You have a lever action with your forearm using your lap as a fulcrum. While fine detail movement is made by fingertip, your over all control is using that fulcrum pivot, which engages both your elbow and shoulder in coordination. On a desk mounted stick you only have your wrist for gross movements. With a very short throw. Other than an F-16, that’s not realistic, and even an F-16 is weird because it’s so deeply FBW. The F-5 in DCS is modeling the full control mechanism. So translating a 15 degree displacement on a desk joystick to a full control displacement in the simulation. Ypu say you can’t fly hard and fast in the F-5, but i’ve never had a problem with that. Pulling harder isn’t how you fly “fast” smooth is fast in an old plane like the F-5. I suspect as people transition to FFB like I have, this “problem” will go away with zero intervention by ED. It’s closer to accurate yes. Especially with an FFB stick and an extension. I think too many people start in Hornets and Vipers then don’t understand why in a non FBW 3rd gen fighter their regular hamfisting doesn’t work. It’s the Fidelity vs Functionality compromise. Coupled with the fact that non FFB leaves you with no feel for what the plane is doing. And so the argument now is ED needs to basically fake FBW control damping to correct for FBW flyers.

So what you’re saying is, you want DCS to airbus you because it’s easier than learning what not to do. And yes, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess some of that 15,000hrs was in an airbus. Because only FBW drivers can’t understand how you have to fly a sim different to a real plane.

Before I ever flew I worked ground service and we had warning charts about how even at idle you could have your truck flipped if you were close enough to even a high bypass turbofan. Old turbojets were even more dangerous. An idling jet engine is moving a hell of a lot of air mass.

Yes especially with regard to the carrier deck, which has some voodoo going in to be “moving ground”. it’s a flight simulator not a Taxi simulator. So the compromise will always be on the taxi side.

Unless you’re flying with a floor mounted stick with an extension, and progressive springs or FFB, it’s inherently unrealistic whatever you do. Desktop joysticks are a compromise of convenience. They, not the sim, is the problem. As someone with a seat mounted FFB stick, faked in “damping” would be extremely obnoxious. Because I did learn the feel to fly the plane as it’s built. With my elbow and shoulder, not my wrist. if you’re using the wrong tool for the job, don’t expect great results.