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CAT III only limits AoA, not G.

Yeah, should make Tiger a real treat.

The way LANTIRN was just implemented opens up a while new realm of possibilities for Jester, if they have the time, money, desire to recode him.

https://youtu.be/jHY0MZMeiDY I love the Viper, but I suck with it.

To be fair, HB has been stating for quite some time that the Forrestal will be Stennis level implementation and NOT a new SC.

simply amazing implementation! Those head modes are a brilliant way to simulated audible callouts, "Smoke by the road, 1 o'clock" or "bridge support by wpt"

Remember, only about ~1% of all legacy hornets ere EPE Lot 20s. so ANY testimony or video is 99% not our Hornet in DCS. The ONLY official documentation that is google-able on a Lot20 turn rate does indeed state the following... "Navy Aviation: F/A-18E/F will provide marginal operational improvement at high cost" is the GAO document. https://books.google.com/books?id=XCcLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=F/A-18E+sustained+turn&source=bl&ots=VDPtcyELXn&sig=UJf5CawaEWf0_qeoPm5grVY5xT4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBWoVChMI5OyCgpmLyQIVTzqICh1-KQ9S#v=onepage&q=F%2FA-18E sustained turn&f=false page 29 engine F/A-18C/D F404-GE-402 EPE page 30 "At sea level the F/A-18C's sustained turn rate is 19.2 degrees per second... (Super Hornet comparison follows) The instantaneous bleed rate of the F/A-18C is 54 knots per second... (Super Hornet comparison follows) * Weapons load is 2 AIM-9 and 2 AIM-120 carried externally, no external fuel tanks and 60 percent fuel remaining" The Lot 20 is not overperforming. Get over it. Assume that every account you have ever seen or read was not a Lot 20 (which would be a 99% certainty) and move on. This thread is about the Viper, not the Hornet. You want to say the Viper isn't rating right? Wait until they are done tuning the FM. ED knows it isn't right yet, that's why they are working on it. That said, unless they reduce the G impact on the pilot (the entire reason for the reclined seat) then it won't matter, you'll black out before you can out rate anything.

To the guy on the ground facing an enemy vehicular attack, YES!

Interactive ground (errr, deck) crew on the SC module kind of broke everything else from an immersion pov. Now that we have tasted it we want all of it. We want ground guides to move us to parking spaces and plane pushbacks and ordies and everything.

Moustache Intensifies! Yeah, the Tomcat is visceral.

OMG! I'm so sorry about the "414" typo, 404 EPE is what I was referring to. I'm glad @Noctrach caught it and corrected me. Sorry everyone!

Lot 20 is not overperforming. Not every video or pilot story was in/against a Lot 20. Of the 1,480 Legacy Hornets made only 18 were Lot 20s from what I am seeing, 10 Cs and 8 Ds. So, you can basically bank on any video you see or story you hear NOT being a Lot 20. Why does this matter? Lot 20 got the F414 EPE.

That would turn a 4xAIM-7 loadout into one fast interceptor

WRT AIM-7 vs AIM-120, maybe it's about the nature of the target? Sometimes the Sparrows massive warhead might be preferred?

But not for for the TF30 rework, and IIRC @captain_dalan prefers the A model. As I understand it the TF30 will have the same tune as the F110 after this patch, so it will be a weaker B throughout the envelope. I look forward to the TF30 rework and doing some interception tests. Tried a test last week and even with 2 tunnel Sparrows and 2 winders I barely reached 1.6M at 40,000 and it dropped to 1.5M by 45,000.

LMAO! Good thing I'm not a young DCS player then!

Except chat with while enroute. Don't get me wrong, I am NOT saying that they should do that. That would be insane. But often I find myself talking to him and wishing he could talk back.

perhaps if you explained your concern further? "FM heaviness" is rather vague.

A quick session in the Harrier. https://youtu.be/dX8iSnXjk1M

Watch the videos, think about them, then come back and ask your question again. This is not like the examples you listed. The Hornet is a world class nose pointer. The Flanker is much heavier, and has a limitation that it cannot pull max G or AoA with the forward fuel tank full. It behaves like a heavy Hornet because it IS heavy.

Given the way a Hornet with two gas tanks under the wing fared in BFM training against a Flanker? No.

Spending time in the RIO seat ones-self is a HUGE benefit to utilizing Jester. If you know what you are doing back there, then you know what you need to ask.

I am too bald to have an 80's hairstyle, and due to having kids of my own I don't smoke cigars often, but I do have a moustache. Shake, rattle, and roll. I fly exclusively in VR (an old CV1, again... kids) and I don't even notice level flight rattles anymore. I love reading the shakes and shimmies in dogfights. Is it realistic? I am sure the team of former Pilots and Rios they consult with would let them know if it was excessive, so I will go with yes. Moving mud by yourself. I also fly a lot of SP and love SEAD. You are not wrong. Jester can help you set up dumb bombs and Zuni rockets, but anything that needs a TGP he cannot.... yet (last notice was that the Oct 14 patch will add Jester LANTIRN!). I was gifted the Tomcat by a friend who wanted a living RIO, and it turns out he doesn't like flying the old rattle-wagon. He is a Hornet guy. I love the backseat, but Iceman is less useful than Jester outside of a training environment. Give it another week and lets see how it goes. (disclosure, my first time SEAD/DEAD victory against an SA-10 was in the Tomcat with Zuni and Mk84s. Super low level ingress until inside min range) Third, Yes a moustache is mandatory, start growing! lol. The Tomcat is my most viscerally favorite module by far, and it's only getting better.

As to question 2, I never try to engage NWS until I have stopped so I don't know if it can be activated when in motion. I use differential braking until then.

First time riding backseat in the Cat my pilot and I looked at each other and were amazed that we could do so. It was a real "wow" moment for the notion of Multicrew.