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okay great! I'll still try and grab a log if it happens, more data points and all.

going to try and recreate it now and grab a log *Edit* - just did a custom single player mission (same one I was doing last night) and crashed into the sea three times with no issue. Fired it up in multiplayer and crashed four times with no issue. So this is real, but not consistent. I will try to remember to grab a log next time it happens.

I had the same thing happen last night

and merged

you can use IR missiles against aircraft on the ground however.

only if we get the shaft and get the -220 powered F-15E. I believe it was stated above that Razbam was not going to have removable CFTs. Don't pin your purchase of the module on that.

4 countries still using an aircraft that saw initial entry to service 60 years ago. Phabulous

you mean the vid where it was a re-skinned P-51?

Enlighten me. I thought the nose OML was the same on all production F-15s, A-EX.

while i haven't spent the most time looking into this, I have looked through the F-15E FM in the past and it mentions how the CFTs increase pitch response (not sure how, didn't spend a lot of brainpower on that) but it would definitely increase the roll moment of inertia. The characteristics of CFT on vs CFT off are not the same. It would take two Flight Models. CFT will change airflow over the tails, CFT will change airflow and the wing root leading edge, CFT will have it's OWN buffet. This is why even at the same weight CFTs change the flight model.

I don't fly the Eagle, I fly the Harrier and the Tomcat, both of which have nasty departure modes. I am simply pointing out that A) MANY modules don't punish you for exceeding the Design Load Limit and B) 13G is under the Eagles Ultimate Load Limit. *Edit* I was reminded that the F-15 was not built as a 9G design load airframe but as a 7.33G one, with an 11G ultimate load at critical conditions (airspeed altitude combo). It was later fitted with the OWS to allow it to fly at 9G at conditions farther away from that critical condition. Under these conditions the Ultimate Load Limit might be 13.5 or they might be 11 and it all depends on how the plane was designed. It would literally take a structures engineer who worked on the early Eagles to tell us this. So, I capitulate that anything between 11 and 13G is suspect. I was also informed that some people are hitting 17G in the break. That is more than I have ever seen, but that does not make it untrue.

I see F-5s doing 12G in a break. I took a Harrier to 9.1G once. The F-16 can pull 9G with full A-G stores/tanks with no issue (F/A-18 is the only FBW jet that accounts for weight in setting the G-limit). This is not a "only F-15 is like this!" issue. AFAIK only the F-14 and the Su-xx break for over G. I have had other planes break for overspeed (A-10 and warbirds) And you are failing to grasp that at design weight 13.5G is the Ultimate Load Limit under which nothing SHOULD break.

Even just these 4 is a ton of work.

That is an issue of time, one we do not have to worry about in a sim. Being a 9G certified plane means the Eagle was static tested to a 13.5G load under the determined critical condition and it did not fail. In reality, Eagles have hit 14G due to turbulence and survived. A 747SP, a notional 2.5G airliner, once pulled 5G and landed and went on the have a full life after repairs. As as long as the F-15 has sufficient dynamic pressure (altitude and speed related) it can absolutely reach greater than 9G, and if this was real life the plane would be downed for maintenance inspections and possibly repair afterwards, but these are aspects not simulated in DCS. I would expect that a low hours Eagle, with a superhuman pilot, could indeed pull several seconds of 12-13G flight without damage.

fuel and munitions should be spent on the mission, not brought back to the ship.

I have found it much easier to hover now. Engine was much too "twitchy" before it was fixed. I just get it down to ~18k GWT and I don't even have to worry about water. My skills are still not the sharpest so I use 700-900lb fuel for ship vertical landing.

fly with your fingers, then use your wrist when your fingers are fully flexed/extended, then use your elbow last.

@Silverphinex https://basicsaboutaerodynamicsandavionics.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/electronic-countermeasure-ecm/ this is an excellent resource for the different types of ECM and ECCM. Great diagrams and figures, complete bibliography, and great detail.

I recall being told never to use AP over .85M or something. could be related.

HAHAHA!

That is "noise jamming", of which there is Barrage, Sweep, Spot, etc, and operate by raising the Noise floor so that the return Signal does not meet the Signal to Noise ration required to be considered a target. There is also Deceptive Jamming, which breaks active locks.

That is what I suspected. Thanks for the quick reply!

yeah, that will impact me too, but if it is more accurate then who am I to complain. I tend to "bang-Bang" that one anyway so this will only help me, personally.

Haven't flown yet, but my guess is that the Flaps handle is meant to be binary, so axis binding that allows intermediate settings outside of Maneuvering flaps is not realistic.

by requesting an altitude and a distance IIRC