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That is wrong. It has a cruise mode as well.

This is perfectly fine, so long as you understand that you and the Air quakers are doing something not even considered in the real world. In DCS, do whatever you want because you have that freedom and nobody would chew your ass out as you said. Just make sure that if you do care about realism (I don’t know if you do or not), that you understand hitting that switch in a fight is not a thing. At all. With that said, I think I’ll leave this thread alone. Not much else to say.

I would use it to save my life if I was pointed at the ground and the only way to pull out of it before hitting the ground was to hit the switch. No I would not use it to get the kill in a 1v1 turning fight. That’s not what it’s for.

You wouldn’t use the paddle switch to squeeze out an extra .2-.5 Gs in real life. It is not used as a BFM tool. It’s only used for “BFM purposes” in DCS, which is not true to the real world. Apologies in advance if I misunderstood, but I thought you were trying to say that getting a little extra G was a real world application of the paddle switch.

No matter the gross weight, you can over G with a fully functioning G limiter. If you snatch on the G very quickly, you can command an excessive G faster than the computer can stop you from doing it.

You’re correct. Real pilots do not use it.

Good explanation they had in this video as well:

It is real. And it does pick up above 400 knots. It is by far most pronounced from inside the cockpit.

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I believe he is talking about places without surveillance radar because he mentioned it in the context of needing to do full Approach procedures and procedure turns, as opposed to getting vectors (which you can only do in a surveillance radar environment).

Can you tell me where those are in the US? I know overseas there are some places, but where in the US? Because there are definitely NOT “lots” of those.

The Super Hornet uses the ATFLIR.

Who does procedure turns these days outside of training? Vectors every time!

The approach of choice is definitely ILS, not GCA. If the ICLS was a bit off, it was because of the ship, and not the Hornet. If the Hornet were able to receive civilian airfield ILS, it would be fine. Not to mention that the GCA introduces another human in the loop and the success of the approach now depends on the performance of two humans.

When the Hornet came out, GCAs were only more prevalent at military fields. Civilians rarely used them just as they are rarely used by them today. Other jet’s that debuted at the same time as the Hornet had ILS. I agree with you, there’s no excuse the Hornet shouldn’t have an ILS.

It’ll send commands to the autopilot for a Mode 1 or Mode 1A. For a Mode 2 the commands are sent to the aircraft but the autopilot is out of the loop.

In that case I misunderstood your point. Apologies. No intention of coming across as contrarian if that’s what happened. Agree it’s a sim and there’s natural differences. Many will try to use the technique of the real aircraft and apply it to the sim though for “realism” reasons.

The real Hornet Pilots use the NATOPS procedure described above. It was written after numerous test flights and analysis to be the best technique for the Hornet.

I would not try to correlate anything between primary and fleet aircraft. Expect there to be way more differences than similarities, both regarding systems and flying technique. Do not be surprised.

https://youtu.be/9aNyukzu9OU 40 second mark. That’s not me but that’s what my hands looked like.

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Yes. Very much so. I have never once used it Case 1.

That’s a common misconception. 3/4 of a mile only applies to case 3. During case 1/2, you want to arrive with 15-18 seconds of groove time. That will equate to a distance less than 3/4 of a mile. The distance doesn’t matter, the time does. Furthermore the start would be less than 450 feet. You should be crossing the 45 at 370 feet. Join us on Discord for more answers: https://discord.gg/FjpV8R

Thank you for your service. Excellent write up.

Dive recovery is one major example.