Spurts

So, F-14A question. What speed are people getting in a 4x4 (Sparrows and Sidewinders) up at say 50,000ft. I once got up there at ~1.8M and leveled off and slowed down to 1.4M when the charts imply I should have sped up.

between 90-100KIAS, trending towards 90 before touchdown

I experience the opposite problem, if anything. I try and deploy full flaps for landing but they blow up to 30-40.

climb speed starts at 130-135? man, to think I was leaving some climb on the table by climbing at 150-155

Both really fun. The Jug has had more time to be refined, but IMO you can't beat carrier landings. I also like the cockpit layout of the Corsair, which is odd because it looks like a mess. Had no problem getting the F4U up to 40,000ft in my second flight.

The IR Sensor is still going to be ITAR controlled

352KTAS is 405mph.

Yeah, that's why I was shocked to see 620mph with no damage. I'm fine with it still being a WIP issue.

Last night I did an altitude test and took the plane to 40,000ft. From there I wanted to see the behavior in a high speed dive. Leaving prop set for max RPM and throttling engine to max MP, I put the plane in a 50-70 degree dive. I rapidly reached 540KTAS (per tacview) and the prop never oversped, the MP never redlined, and it held ~540KTAS from 24,000ft to 7,000ft when I pulled out of the dive. Every other warbird I've flown would have killed the engine and lost the prop to try a full power and max rpm dive like that. Is there some feature of the engine that lets it safely be put into dives like that or is the overspeed mechanic not implemented yet?

Thank you for all your hard work on this. Nailed my first carrier landing today, and survived re-launching as well. Got her up to 39,000+ft (oil temp was redlining even with open cooler at 300 knots true 155 indicated).

I got her up to 1.93 with 8 AAMs and 3 empty pylons

there are a LOT of fully decommed Tomcats out there

Iranian F-14s destroyed

it used to be higher. You would get a series of systems failures before the wings came off. 20G ripping the engines from the mounts and shattering the INS but the wings remained.

Yeah, I used to 1v4 a pair of Flankers and Fulcrums in the Tomcat in gun fights.