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Putting the ldg/taxi light switch in the off position does not retract the lights, just turn them off.

The explanation in question. This is the official Northrop Technical Digest from August 1977 that was distributed to all F-5 operators worldwide.

Good morning. I found an unclassified material that you can send to your team about the landing lights. Pages 10 and 11 F5-Aug_77_cd3.pdf

Two position mens that it has a Flight (no WoW) and ground (WoW) position. Fully retracted is only achieved by putting the Nav Knob at the Off position and the Switch at the off position.

No it's not. Otherwise the lights would not retract befeore engines shutdown. I'm a F-5 pilot and can assure you that it's not correct as it is.

I noticed that the landing lights do not retract in accordance with the real plane. When the Taxi/LDG light switch is turned off and the NAV Knob is also turned to the Off position the lights should retract, but it's not on DCS.

From what I've seen, the lights are not retracting when turning off NAV Knob and the lights switch on ground.

I know, but I’ve seen them deployed a few times, that’s why I wanted to know the parameters and criteria for using them.

I understand that, but The F-5 doesn’t have as much power as the F-18 for example. I know that using SB on final in the T-38 is forbidden, because of the power restriction, I wanted to know if there is some kind of criteria for using SB or not, something like config, temperature, weight. Also if there is some kind of correction on the final approach speed calculation considering when they are deployed. I know that will keep the RPM higher, but the F-5 approaches deep inside the reverse command area, don’t know about other jets. Thanks for the help so far.

I don’t think that is that simple. First of all, you don’t go idle on final approach with jet engines. Second, the SB will change flight characteristics and will have impact on AOA and scheduled speed. I wanted to know the real procedures, not just plain out guessing.

I haven’t found anything on the F-5 flight manual about approach and landing with speed brakes open, but have seen a few photos of real Navy F-5 approaching with them down. Anyone knows if it’s a normal procedure, and when do they do this? Thanks!

What is the logic that the missile uses on pitbull to choose a contact? If you shoot and don’t maintain Rdr lock until pitbull and don’t have the target on DL, what will tell the missile which contact it should lock on to? How will it choose it’s target?

Any news on this?

Maybe a stupid question, but, is this a consistent bug? Could it be the bandit using Chaff? The first two videos look like the radar is locking chaffs. Don't know if DCS correctly simulates this.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11tiMTmTTid1aJ_o9RHSK8qabvhnSbmE-/view?usp=sharing This is the video of the Bug. You can see it at 00:40 at the Chaff page. The cursor was in SQ but editing BI.