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Longiron

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  1. Can also reference nozzle position for full military power, it will be fully closed. Also good to use if you want to throttle the AB, just watch nozzle position but AB is pretty sensitive.
  2. Wait until you try the auto carrier landing, it’s pretty violent when it engages.
  3. As far as under the hood stuff? Not a clue. I just know, like you said, it’s required to get ILS steering bars on ADI and HUD. As for the HSD it seems to just mirror the tacan.
  4. Well I know it prevents you from changing the course on the HSD, this is probably a bug however, or you are meant to have course set while in tacan before switching to AWL.
  5. TGP must be SPI ( I believe) for auto laser and in point track.
  6. Flying instruments doesn’t require you to heads up and look out the canopy. I’m not going to lie, I took the cat for a swim a few times because of panic when I can’t see the horizon at night over the water. Learning to trust the instruments, ie not having to bring you’re head up in a panic looking for the ship, takes practice. Everything you need is right in front of you, the ADI is excellent and all gauges are right next to it, making it easy to keep it all in sight and monitor them all together.
  7. I’ve found I don’t even need to reference speed, after some practice I just watch the AoA and feel for how much stick I’m giving her, that and the buffet que, I can manage my energy just fine. If I pull more than 15 units of AoA she bleeds speed. When in bomb mode the AoA comes on faster but seems to be more forgiving and conserves energy better if I go over 15 units for a few seconds. The magic number seems to be 15 units of AoA for sustained turns. Anything more and she drops like a rock, you can guess speed just by how much stick you pull and how much AoA is on the bird, but like I said AoA comes on with less stick the more sweep you have.
  8. That’s the article, seems legitimate to me but what do I know.
  9. Are you kidding me? Do we get rifle scopes in the F-14A?
  10. +1 Feel stupid having red lights in daytime.
  11. There is some woo woo in manual about using mode C of data link between aircraft. Have you tried that?
  12. I thought it was the AIM9 seeker I could swear I switched to aim9 once and sure enough it was following the sparrow, even seam locked it. Does the same if it’s looking at the sun if I recall.
  13. I bind anything I use often to hotas Elevation, azimuth, bars, IFF, all radar modes, even CAP buttons 6 and 8 for quick friend or foe assignments. Don’t forget countermeasures release. I find the laser fingers in VR just too clumsy while under battle stress and forget trying to find F and J on keyboard quickly while blind.
  14. Forces hud to AA mode
  15. Pulse cannot be notched But easy to spoof with chaff AFAIK Reduce the chance of the sparrow going for chaff, set aspect switch to nose.
  16. A home fuel call and bingo fuel calls Or just call every 4000 pounds used
  17. When asked he flips switch but will reset to manual mode right after.
  18. On startup this is set to 50% however if I recall manual says at 100% which is labeled “ normal “ the AWG9 controls pulse gain automatically. Maybe this could be changed so I can take one item off my preflight list.
  19. Once you start building a track file you can hook the contact and see absolute closure on the TID as a numeric. I believe PDS and RWS are just that, search modes only to vector you towards contacts for further processing.
  20. Would be awesome to be able to save aircraft state between flights. Ie. airframe hours, engine run time, switch positions, system failures and potential future failures. Vs getting a new bird every flight, as this makes pre flight test useless, Proper landings, even rearming pointless to some degree. Of course a option to use saved aircraft would be required as well.
  21. Played around with STT modes and found yes closure is on the right while in both STT modes but also range is shown in the centre. Shown as a contact in PSTT and a flat line in PDSTT. Range scale is changed by range buttons above DDD. As for what the closure scale is I have found if you check the TID it gives closure as a numeric prefixed by + or - If you reference this while switching the Vc you can deduce what the scale is. Probably unrelated but I’ve tested in both SP and MP and in MP the azimuth and elevation jump around when switching between radar modes. Elevation being more problematic as azimuth is obvious on the DDD. Same occurs when entering super search. Also pulse modes as far as I can tell in MP are broken with some contacts showing at 120+ miles and others undetectable at 10-20 miles only to have said contacts vanish in super search. In SP elevation holds between modes and pulse was showing returns out to 80-90 miles even distinguishing between surface ships and airborne contacts with ease.
  22. Steer point select knob on the right side of TID? You have entered valid lat and long into the CAP? Pilot has DESTINATION selected as steering point? Side note you can drop waypoints on the TID with TID cursor, tricky to do because there is no map. Can also drag waypoints around in the same way, hook WP, hold half action, then full action at new location.
  23. Need to have a good track file for the contact then just hold the IFF Sometimes it takes a few sweeps to get a return And be sure you are not hooking the bottom half of the contact that is the datalink part
  24. In TWS use TID cursor to hook the bogie Hold IFF Contact will move into the + on the DDD Then while still hooked assign bandit or friendly Rinse and repeat If not already known Friendlies will show as a = sign Hostile will be a -
  25. From what I comprehend in PD modes the DDD shows only closure, the aspect switch changes closure scale. I haven’t found much use of this as most interceptions are within 1000 knots of closure and are within the normal “ aspect “ range, with exception of say trying to intercept a cruise missile going Mach 10 then the aspect switch would be used to adjust closure scale. This applies to all the Doppler modes PD search RWS TWS and PDSTT. As far as Pulse modes goes I have found it to be unreliable at best, failing to show contacts despite the IFF getting returns and displaying the returns on the DDD. Also note the aspect switch in pulse mode directs the AWG9 to focus on the leading edge of the target ie. nose. Etc. And the DDD now displays range only which is scaled with the range select buttons above the DDD
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