Tord Hoppe
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About Tord Hoppe
- Birthday 07/28/1969
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Flight Simulators
FS X, BS
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Stockholm, Sweden
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Aviation
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Telecom
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For me it has helped a lot to practise in this order after getting hover/slow taxi down. First level flight, constant airspeed at altitude. Next step was to maintain constant speed at altitude while controlling rate of ascent/descent. After that, keeping constant rate of ascent/descent while changing airspeed. All of this taught me control of the ship before introducing ground effect. After that, fly along the runway out of groundeffect with constant altitude and changing speed from 0 to 60 knots. Next, same thing in ground effect. And finally, putting the pieces together with constant => slowing rate of descent while slowing down aiming for initially steady hover out of ground effect, followed by steady hover in ground effect. Hover out of ground effect should be frowned upon, it puts you near/in a dangerous regime of the flight envelope, on the other hand only pixels are at risk. :) Requires some patience, but to me it was better to learn step by step as opposed to "jumping in at the deep end". :) Or follow a syllabus such as this example
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Swedish WW3 mockumentary with Viggens and stuff, translated by me
Tord Hoppe replied to Farks's topic in DCS: AJS37 Viggen
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DCS: F/A-18C Screenshots and Videos (NO DISCUSSION)
Tord Hoppe replied to Vitormouraa's topic in DCS: F/A-18C
Flight demo of the Finnish Airforce F/A-18 during the Swedish Armed Forces Aviation day august 2018. Several other nice videos shot during the event by the same photographer, check out the channel! -
Have you assigned "pilot trim"? I initially bound "Force trim" to my stick which is wrong.
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Great piece of work! One small(?) request. Would it be possible to add the proper trim settings for carrier takeoffs depending on AC weight? I´ve no idea if this is best placed in the Startup section or Carrier takeoff, but I think it´ll help people getting those nice hands-off carrier launches. :)
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A multitude of questions for operating the Hornet
Tord Hoppe replied to Magic Zach's topic in DCS: F/A-18C
"9)What is the difference between a waypoint and a target waypoint?" Just guessing here, but I´d assume a target waypoint would be used for CCRP. -
"Pathway in the sky" for carrier landing trainng mission?
Tord Hoppe replied to Tord Hoppe's topic in DCS: F/A-18C
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"Pathway in the sky" for carrier landing trainng mission?
Tord Hoppe replied to Tord Hoppe's topic in DCS: F/A-18C
Awesome, the foundation is in place. Let´s hope the idea is picked up by some of the very skilled people in the community. :) Thanks mate! -
"Pathway in the sky" for carrier landing trainng mission?
Tord Hoppe replied to Tord Hoppe's topic in DCS: F/A-18C
Woud it be possible to place some other static objects in that fashion and make them non-crashable? -
"Pathway in the sky" for carrier landing trainng mission?
Tord Hoppe replied to Tord Hoppe's topic in DCS: F/A-18C
Ah, I´ve not noticed that sub-forum! Sorry, if any mod want to move this thread over there I´d appreciate it. -
Other post showing trim values
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Hey, I´m guessing that this is not do-able, but I was wondering if those squares in the sky that for instance the nav training missions have are possible to anchor to a moving object, i.e. a carrier? If so, it would be neat to have those displaying at least the groove, or final section before landing. Maybe also the other "fixes" along the circuit, the 180, 90, 45 etc. Just a thought to help out with getting up the learning curve a bit faster. :)
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How to disable ther altitude alert?
Tord Hoppe replied to Ala12Rv-watermanpc's topic in DCS: F/A-18C
The altitude in which you intercept a glideslope is found on the approach plate (chart) for a given runway, called Final Approach Altitude. That altitude varies depending on airport elevation, surrounding terrain etc, but usually is around airport elevation + 2500 ft. The point where you will intercept the glideslope is called Final Approach Point (FAP). Sidenote, on non-precision approaches you´d talk about a Final Approach Fix, but that´s another subject. :) Not being an expert here, but I´d guess that the altitude warning would be set to different altitudes, for instance MSA (Minimum Safe Altitude) for an airport, or a minimum altitude as defined for a training (real?) mission. -
Hmm, shouldn´t the hands be off at least the stick during cat launch? :)