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If you're a Hornet driver... get ready for some pain. The Hornet was designed to take as much workload as possible off of the pilot. Here is a list of five things I know I will miss from the hornet. 1) Auto triming in up auto and powered approach mode (Flaps up vs down). Around the boat, once 8.1 AOA is set, it is not your problem anymore. In every other carrier aircraft, your trim thumb moves a lot, and nose influence while useful at times is highly discouraged. From the 180 thru the 90 to the wings level transition you will be trimming in the Tomcat. 2) HUD. Yes, the Tomcat has a hud but it is not the same. The amount of information on the Hornet hud is money for all phases of flight. You're going to spend more time heads down and less time looking at the HUD. You're a HUD cripple and you probably don't even know it. 3) Rudders and stability.. Get into a One circle or flats fight and your feet will need to do alot of work now. You will constantly be modulating stick pressure to manage alpha to manage rate/radius and controllability. Get ready to listen to rumble and buffet as that will be more telling than anything else. Even normal turns will occasionally use some help with the rudders. The Hornet is amazing at slow flight, however in the Tomcat get ready to learn what term strick and rudder means. 4) Navigation and SA. That soon to be released SA page with mids is going to completely replace the HSI page in the Hornet. You will have your sequence, plan line, tacan and wpt pointers and mids tracks all on one screen. Your SA is going to be huge. If there is an E2/E3 and/or F2F pushing tracks you can go silent on your radar and still have a huge amount of SA. Get ready to manage all of that separately in the Tomcat. 5) Cockpit ergonomics. Between the simple layout and automation of the systems, the generous screen real-estate, the Hornet cockpit is an easy place to work in. Yes, the menus in the DDIs (which are actually quite simple for now) can get complex but the data is somewhat centralized and Hotas makes time critical things even easier. The Tomcat is old school which means cockpit management and scan are required skills. The Tomcat is a two-seater for a reason and if Jester works and offers some AI help it will be manageable. Back in when the navy selected Tomcats out of advanced, the slot went to the top guy (NSS) or more importantly the student with the best boat grades. Anyways.... I CAN'T FREAKING WAIT!!! BRING IT!!!

The hornet Hotas would be great for the hornet but what I want to know is what will fit better for the Tomcat?

As a RL Navy Pilot I have to say we really need an IFLOLS and a carrier box on land. I know that none of the DCS terrains IRL have this but it is needed. I had hundreds of FCLPS before my first carrier landing and hundreds more if not at this point a thousand plus FCLPS in my career. Is it possible to make an object that is an IFLOLS with a carrier box to the right that could be overlay on a runway? If this is possible a mission maker could simply place it on any airfield on any map. With the popularity of the Hornet and the soon to be Tomcat this would be a boon and really plus up the realism.

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