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The J79 has a very distinctive groan/drone at idle, being a single-spool turbojet and not a twin-spool low-bypass turbofan. Heatblur's TF30 very clearly doesn't have this and sounds just like the TF30 videos you linked, adjusting for the different audio quality. Yes, they both sound "old," i.e. screechy and multi-layered. But that's a quality shared by all old jet engines — an example you can still experience in person are the Speys on old Gulfstream IIs and IIIs. You can instantly tell when one is landing and taxiing from the sound alone (and of course, taking off from how loud it is). And as others mentioned, idle sounds as heard on a video will vary considerably depending on what's recording it, camera distance, etc. Jet engines are so darn loud that they sound completely different up close than far away, because when close you're either wearing hearing protection (which changes the sound) or the noise is loud enough that it's just painful white noise. The same applies to microphones, which is why you were able to find videos that seemingly sound different than what you find ingame.

Looks like an F6F-3 in the 2024 and Beyond video, going off the bulge on the cowling over the exhaust tubes

Hi there! I tried installing this mod, but it looks like the .zip file is empty.

Oleo struts have a tapered metering pin (or similar) that increases damping as the strut compresses. The pin is thicker at the bottom than the top and is attached to the lower piston. As the strut compresses, it passes through an orifice that restricts how much fluid can pass between the upper and lower cylinders, decreasing its area and increasing the strut's damping. Ideally, the strut's damping maxes out before the strut can bottom out, so heavy impacts will get very close but not quite to bottoming out.

I'm not sure on the F-14 specifically but you'd be surprised how silent hydraulics are. Check out this video of a B-25's flaps moving from stored hydraulic accumulator pressure: They make a hissing sound but it's just barely audible — it ends at 20 seconds or so. This is only partially related, but you obviously can't hear any of this in flight, or even on the ground idling, or with an electric external hydraulic pump motoring away. In fact, the only time you can hear hydraulics are when on the ground idling: using the brakes or the unloading valve cycling creates audible hissing. The only hydraulic-related noise that's audible in flight is lowering the landing gear at approach power, and even then it's a thump as the downlocks let go and the mass of the landing gear moves, turbulence as the gear lower, and then a sharp click when the nose gear locks as it's in the cockpit area. The DCS P-51's flaps make a quiet hissing noise when moving them with stored accumulator pressure. Since IIRC the F-14's wing sweep actuator uses a hydraulic motor and jackscrew, it's probably louder with a different sound. Still, it's probably going to be very quiet, and only audible with engines off and with the camera in external view near the wing sweep actuators.

"Shear nut" is simply in the context of the difference between an AN310 and AN320 castle nut. The AN310 is designed for both shear and tension loads. The AN320, with its lower profile design, has about half the tensile rating and is intended for shear applications only (eg. a clevis).

Cool stuff. The Bearcat is awesome and will be extremely fun to fly and use in combat (even if it saw little combat IRL, that's one thing DCS is about anyway). I wonder what version they're doing.

Is hitting the keybind a toggle? And if so, is there a way to know whether it's pulled aside from keeping track of how many times you've pressed it mentally?

The true behavior of flashing lights was bug reported a while ago as well, though it's much lower priority than many other things it would be great to see the proper behavior and nav light blinking represented correctly eventually.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=4430383#post4430383 Hopefully seems to be on Heatblur's radar.

I bug reported this a few weeks ago, if it may be of any help. Thanks for looking into it though!

Looks like you have a opening bracket instead of a comma in the bolded line here: {"HB_F14_EXT_RIO_HELMET", ROUGHNESS_METALLIC {"HB_F14_EXT_PILOT_HELMET_RoughMet",false}; Try changing that and see if it works

Bug: The Master Caution, Threat Advisory, Caution Advisory, and Digital Data annunciator lights for the RIO seat are very dim and are almost unreadable in daytime, and are noticeably dimmer than similar lights in the pilot seat in identical environmental conditions. Can I reproduce it 100%: Yes How to reproduce/ description: Step1: Enter Caucasus F-14 free flight mission Step2: Switch to pilot seat Step3: Ensure the plane is flying towards the sun to eliminate sun glare as a factor Step4: Move MASTER TEST selector to LTS and depress Step5: Observe intensity of indicator lights Step6: Switch to RIO seat Result: Observe the intensity of the Master Caution, Threat Advisory, Caution Advisory, and Digital Data annunciator lights. Switch to the front seat again, and observe how the pilot's Master Caution, Caution - Advisory, and other lights are much brighter in comparison. DCS Version: OpenBeta 2.5.6.50979 System Specs: CPU AMD Ryzen 5 2600 GPU NVIDIA GTX 1070 8GB RAM 32GB RAM SSD Intel 660p 1TBOS: Win10 Log & Track: Attached Screenshots: Pilot seat Master Caution and misc. light brightness Pilot seat Caution - Advisory annunciator light brightness Master Caution, Threat Advisory, and Caution Advisory annunciator light brightness. Almost unreadable :( Digital Data light brightness, similarly dim Mods: None dcs.log F-14B RIO ANNUN BUG REPORT.trk

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=278469 looks like it's been reported