Dezmond

You should, incidentally, *totally* integrate the Greywolf voiced takeoff/fence in/landing etc checklists from Zone 5 in to the base module

Bearing in mind that I suck... I find it substantially easier to maintain the correct height while pulling the recommended amount of G. You don’t want to be tentative. The bird seems to track far better when pulling fairly hard.

Mostly it means I only loaded up a helicopter in a flight sim for the first time a week ago, so this is all new and exciting to me

The Mi-8 manual implies that pushing the trim button on the stick in the actual aircraft removes all cantering forces from the... collective, cyclic and pedals. And that they specifically tilted the rotor so the cyclic would be centred in cruising. That all seems like a more primitive way of doing it.

I liked the fictional squadrons so much I edited a bunch of the missions to let me fly as Bozo and Jester spent an entertaining amount of time in Gimp making another VF-28 skin so I could have someone to fly with. Gave me a bit of freedom to not worry too much about whether I was doing things right or not. I like to imagine the continuing adventures of VF-28 and the USS San Clemente.

(and, again, don't operate the flap lever repeatedly in quick succession So. What can break your flaps on a DCS Heatblur F-14 are 1:- going too fast (more than about 225 knots) 2:- making any sort of manoeuvre 3:- reversing the direction of flap travel while they are moving Don't do any of those and you should be golden!)

I doubt there is anything inherent in taking off with the flaps down that will break them. You catapult off the boat with them down constantly, and some of the missions say the bolter procedure is to keep flaps and gear down then entire circuit. But I do get the impression Heatblur's Subject Matter Experts (ie, former Tomcat pilots etc.) very much frown on the idea of using the flaps for anything other than taking off and landing, so they made them... *realistically* fragile. They are more fragile than the landing gear, so you need to raise them *before* the undercarriage, and you *need* to make sure you are only pressing the flap retract button once.

It might also be worth nothing that changing direction when the flaps are moving breaks them very easily. So, say, if you press the button to retract the flaps and then, like, press it a couple more times to check it is working the flaps will start to raise, then reverse direction and start to lower again and lock in place. If you press the button/flip the lever *once* as soon as you take off and then forget about them until it is time to land you shouldn't have any problems.

I want a Sea Harrier! (pouts)

I've got some CH pedals and... I find it much easier to forget about them when refueling. Possibly if you have a really nice set its easier to use yaw instead of roll, but it is perfectly possibly to do it without.

FWIW I genuinely don't think you need to change it. The air to air Tacan... becons can clearly share frequencies with ground stations without a problem, and 101 and 102 *still* won't get you to the tankers if you haven't set the Tacan... receiver? to air to air mode. I would have said a small note about air to air vs. ground tacans would be sufficient here, if anything.

Shame! I thought it was a mildly interesting subtlety of... Tacans! Can see how one would want to remove as many sources of friction as possible, mind.

(FWIW I think Texaco 110X ILC and Arco 12X LSV are air to air tacans and don't seem to conflict with Wilson Creek 110X ILC and Nellis 12X LSV ground tacans but you do need to set the tacan to A/A mode instead of T/R. Or get Jester to do it. I was trying to set up voice commands so I could say, Jester! Tune Texaco Tacan! and... I can't remember if I got if to work but if you just tune to 12X without setting the mode to A/A it points you back to Nellis.)

I think its a 'Turbine Warning Stripe' - it marks the plane of rotation of the rearmost turbine disk, and by extension where you least want to be standing if it fails. Possibly not actually the rearmost. Looking at these it looks like it lines up more with the front one, which is going to be where the gas is hottest and so the one most likely to fail. Or maybe it just generally marks the whole turbine. Anyway, I'm pretty sure its a 'don't stand here incase jet engine blades fly out' line. Also as noted the turbines are in different places on a and b model Tomcats, so the line is gonna be in a different place.

Sure this is long out of date, but what I think you do is tune your tacan to the nellis one (LSV/12x) and use the knob on the top right side of the lower display in the front cockpit to set a course of 28 degrees. And make sure you have the navigation selector set to tacan - the furthest left of the horizontal row of buttons underneath the vertical row of buttons you use to set the HUD mode. You take off and... this basically points you straight ahead. Once you are stable on the heading and climbing to 7000', set the tacan to boulder city BLD/114x and use the knob to set a course of 344 degrees. On the lower display/hsd, you get a course line pointing off to the left a bit, and another arrow off to the side of that that shows how far off a straight line drawn from the tacan pointing on a 344 bearing you are. You will be to the left of the course because you haven't reached - intercepted - the bearing yet. What you want to do is keep flying straight on 28 until the offset line shows when you turn left on to 344 you will be heading straight away from the boulder city tacan transmitter on a 344 heading. So basically the offset line will be right in the middle and the course line will point straight up. Even more basically you need to take off, fly straight then turn left over a truck stop on a highway just outside of vegas and fly directly north. At that point you need to set the navigation system back to pointing you towards waypoints, using the button second to the left in the horizonal row of buttons, and head towards waypoint 1/JUNNO climbing to 17000'. I think. (I also think the Truck Stop is Love's Travel Stop here, at the intersection of I-15 and US-93). Google Maps I think Love's Travel Stops are a chain? I have no idea what it was in 1987. Am British so have no idea what I-XXs and US-XXes are )