Sergeant_Hamlet

I'm open to correction here, but I'm pretty sure it's to prevent fuel sloshing around in a half-full tank from creating a dangerous imbalance during taxi or takeoff. You probably just switch it back on once you're in the air.

My load times shortened dramatically after the hotfix. Anyone else?

Sorry :P I'd agree with not wanting to get slow and turn against any of the fourth-gen fighters. I think really almost any fight if I can't get a bead after about three or four turns, it's time to start thinking about bugging out and trying to re-engage. That's what I've been doing against the f5's in the practice missions at least. (Usually gets him to waste a missile or two into the bargain)

I set mine to slider with a 15% deadzone at the top, which put the afterburner gate right up against the throttle detent. The tomcat's airbreak automatically retracts at full mil power, so i played with the deadzone until hitting the detent retracted the airbrake. Hope that helps! :) (I am using the TM warthog)

One resource I've found very helpful is Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering by Robert Shaw. you can find a pdf through a google search. Its a bit difficult to digest (certainly not light reading), but it is a very detailed and helpful guide to explaining the best way to employ a fighter as a weapon.

Fortunately the modding community has you covered :thumbup: doesn't work for the tomcat yet though...

This increased my heart rate. (sadly i don't have enough free time to volunteer to be a tester)

If it's the caucasus cold start instant action scene, make sure you taxi to the right runway; there are two of them. If you are on the wrong one, jester assumes you're still taxiing, and he'll yell at you to slow down. What do you mean by the ASI not deflecting?

Light master switch is on the outboard throttle: Oxygen indicator should be on the right knee panel: The oxygen indicator is mentioned in both NATOPS and in the ea manual, but i think it’s missing from the actual cockpit.

I’m sorry but that’s wrong. “Unkneeling the nosegear while the launch bar is in the catapult track or shuttle will damage the launch bar linkage and bungees. The pilot should unkneel the aircraft only when sure that the launch bar is free to rise and upon signal from the catapult officer or taxi director. (8-5)” The launch bar is positioned by the pilot, but it is secured to the shuttle by the deck crew.

It doesn’t fade correctly with distance. We don’t mean 100 feet, we’re talking several miles.

Right click on dcs in steam library, then click properties. The rightmost tab on the properties window is the betas menu. Click the dropdown and select open beta.

Is the launch bar light illuminated on the left windshield advisory panel?

As I understand it, the airbags behind the wings have to deflate before the wings will oversweep. It isn't animated, but the wait is modeled.

Okay, fair enough. The AWG-9 is pretty old, after all. So what’s the specific question you want answered? Not that i’ll definitely know the answer, but just ask it plainly so more people can see. Someone will know.

The drawback of High PRF in all doppler systems is that it is more effective for determining relative velocity, but not good for determining exact range at long distance. This is probably why the radar display in PD mode on the AWG-9 only shows closure rate rather than ranging information. Is that the performance issue you're talking about? Also: where did you read that it only has a high PRF mode? It's true that if the PRF is higher than the rate at which the returns are detected then the range info will be unintelligible which is bad for missile tracking, but since the radar was designed to guide missiles, it would make sense that is has a low PRF mode for target tracking. Edit: This is from the EA manual: The six round buttons, which are labelled 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200, are used to set desired radar range in pulse modes and IFF range, they also set the scale on the pilot target range displays. The buttons are mutually exclusive as only one range can be selected at a time. In pulse search this setting affects the PRF of the radar and the scale on the DDD and if set to 20nm or greater range it also enables pulse compression. (http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/general.html#an-awg-9-weapon-control-system-wcs) I assume HB wouldn't have modeled this if their source material disagreed, so yeah it's totally capable of changing its pulse frequency.

It is important to remember that these ranges depend on the way the radar is programmed. The graph doesn't show any specific values, only variables. This is because the variables may change depending on what the radar's computer is told to filter out. It is a general illustration, and not specific to the AWG-9. The filter designed to remove altitude and MLC clutter respectively may cover ranges of frequency that differ from radar to radar.

If anyone is interested, this is a scan from an old textbook on radar systems: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a130537.pdf The information relevant to this discussion is in section 2.12.1 through 2.13.6. It does a great job of explaining the limitations of a pulse-doppler system.

From the EA manual: "The AZ CTR (azimuth control) and EL CTR (elevation control) knobs sets the elevation and azimuth centerpoint of the antenna scan pattern. The azimuth control moves the azimuth scan center within 65° degrees of the aircraft centerline, this is disabled if azimuth scan width is set to ±65° as it already scans the whole available azimuth range. Do not move the scan pattern so that it scans outside of 65° from aircraft centerline as this might damage the antenna as it might hit the antenna azimuth stops." http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/general.html#sensor-control-panel Basically, the answer is yes as long as you don't break it.

The azimuth switch on the sensor control panel goes up to 65 degrees, which I assume is the gimbal limit of the radar antenna. As long as your target is inside that limit, the radar should be able to track it. Since a crank is a 45 degree turn, you should be okay.

Are you talking about this?

Nice! Thanks guys.

If you watch jabbers' latest stream, he goes through them at about 8:30

This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_35_Draken

Dunno about keyboard bindings, but I asked a question about the HOTAS a couple of weeks ago and strikeeagle posted this: Credit goes to Jabbers; he made it for reddit. Hope it helps!