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It’s to do with the shockwave building up in-front of the aircraft at transonic speeds. The air is “pilling up” in front of you becoming denser and air density going up means drag goes up. Once you break through to supersonic speeds the shockwave front is sort of “behind” you. You’re still plowing through the air hard. But the build up is managed by the specific design of the airframe for supersonic flight. So your drag is max at transonic speeds. And it’s past M1.0 because the airspeed on the gauge isn’t Equivalent airspeed it hasn’t been corrected for Density or Compressibility. And transonic that can matter especially with static port position as you overrun your bow shockwave.

Carrier Datalink?

Think of the poor Viggen fans. It’s STILL in “early” access. And this is all pre whatever nightmare the Vulkan switch over is going to be. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate them having the respect to not Retcon their “early access” features unlike a certain now ghost dev. But man, I’ve seen and Been the instigator of some serious mission creep in my time. The saving grace being I had hard deadlines for most of it, so there was a no flex wrap up date that HAD to be hit forcing the projects to cut over ambitious plans. And there’s a lot of polish at the end of early access that’s becoming quite a long list, and I don’t feel like waiting another 2 years for them to write the Sparrowhawk and PTID, build the full playable A-6 just to get the AI asset, or re-build the model again so the ugly glove vanes can be on there just to wait for Input binds, or a revised Manual.

Gotta use the search engines. They can’t be posted or linked here. Just search for NAVAIR 01-F14AAA-1.1 pdf. Also don’t forget the Tomcat’s original job, fleet defense intercept. Then the goal is to get to the bombers faster than they get to you.

The course line doesn’t represent magnetic (at least it shouldn’t) but you have to fly to center the needle on a set radial, not use it as an HSI. Whatever weird looking heading gives you an outbound course on the BRC radial you just hold even if it looks way out of whack.

Oh this again.

My concern is unstoppable mission creep meaning it never gets finished and more and more resources get spread thinner. AI Draken AI Intruder AI Intruder tanker Then early A, Persian cat, glove vanes, Jester update…..etc etc… Mission Creep for sprinkles.

No you’re right, this is enterprise critical serious business here playing make pretend airplane. /s

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.