Spurts

Common misunderstanding that this is always true. The F/A-18C modeled in DCS with the -402 motors will match the sustained turn rate of a Block 50 Viper also modeled in DCS when both are clean and at lower altitudes. Now, the current Viper bleeds speed too quickly when turning above the sustained turn rate and the sustained turn rate is too low at low speeds.

Just going to bump this. When the FM is updated and the Viper loses speed more slowly it will be much more noticeable that the reclined seat is not increasing the G-tolerance of the F-16 pilot relative to other 9G jets with more upright seats.

Every munition has a G-limit associated with it. If you don't want to memorize the manual, just figure that anything other than AAMs and a centerline is a 5.5G jet. The FCS will not stop you, however, so it is up to the pilot to not pull too hard. The Hornet has a FCS that will stop you.

pretty sure Radar range is an axis on the throttle, so is elevation.

The problem is the mechanical energy is likely not specific, so you need to divide by the mass to get specific energy as used in the charts. AFAIK, tacview does not give mass.

Are you in a B or an A? IIRC the A has superior thrust above 1.6M at altitude and all high speed (M2+) runs in the real plane were in As. trying to find info I heard about Bs now to verify

And when told of charts showing real world G excursions out to 9 the response of "well I haven't seen this chart" instead of "can you please help me find it?" shows a lot, also the "just doing the math" and doing it wrong. This person came to be right, not to find facts.

That was not a structural limit, that was a Navy imposed operational limit. The design limit was closer to 9G at 50,000lb and Grumman tested to 12G. This is fairly common knowledge among those who have studied the Tomcat but would not be obvious to those who only know about published charts. The F-14 has no G-Limiter at all.

It's a great 1v1 gunfight training opponent. Well done.

That is what I did once I beat it using a Tomcat with unguided munitions. The radar and each launcher now have their own SA-19 and ZEUS.

First time I dropped an SA-10 was like this. Coastal site, I came in at <100ft in an F-14 and rocketed the radar on the first pass then dropped dumb bombs on all the launchers.

Not sure how the pictures will come through, but here it goes. When I did an energy fight I entered at 1.05M to his 0.58, roughly 12,000ft altitude. I did a zoom climbing turn up to 33,000ft still at 0.74M while he petered out at 0.18M at 19,000ft. Once I saw his nose fall I dove on him and gunned him. Easy. Felt like cheating. When I did an Angles fight I entered at 0.88M to his 0.64M, roughly 14,000ft altitude. After some level turns and reverses he was largely on my tail so I did a climbing turn which he nearly matched because my energy was beaten down from trying to get my nose on him. When he got close and slow enough I ruder turned into a descending spiral. By the time we bottomed out at 2,000ft he was behind me and faster than me. A couple of Immelmans later I bled his speed. This turned into another descending spiral that I won, but by the time I was in his control zone he was level (ready to climb) and at 0.53M while I was still 50-60 degrees nose down at 0.43M and 40+AoA. I was not able to effectively capitalize of getting behind him and after some looping and barrel rolling he had neutralized my advantage and was behind me again at 4,000ft. A hard 45-50AoA rudder roll forced an overshoot and he went defensive vertically. I unloaded and dropped the nose to get speed up, I bottomed out at 800ft and 0.46M (300kt). He was at 5,500ft and 0.31M by this point. I gently pulled up (10-15AoA to keep my energy) and when I came over the top at 6,300ft, still at 0.43M, he was trying to turn back into me. I opened fire from 1,000ft and hit him enough that he bailed out. It was a high aspect face shot. So basically if they get you slow you have to fight hard and use power to get out of it because they will turn inside you and climb fairly well at low speed. I often lose right here if they are too close to me when I start to climb. That 37mm is no joke. They have no answer to high AoA reversals other than to take advantage of your lost energy and go vertical.

I notice you are up between 20,000 and 30,000. So you think that helps give you an edge on them? I'm fighting them at 10,000 and lower.

That was you flying in the vid? Well done!

Neat vid with the Cat, but I noticed it was more like 1v1 because the first three he shot down never engaged and he got into position as they were flying away from him for seemingly no reason. Definitely used energy tactics for 90% of the video, keeping speed high whenever possible to ruin the shot, use vertical to build speed. Even the defensive level turn he did was turning just hard enough to stay out of lead and build energy to extend. Overall well done. Very different set of tactics than when I am fighting multiple 4th gens. *EDIT* Just did another bout trying to turn with him instead of just zooming. Got him. The cat is handling great today.

(in the middle of a dogfight as I dive on my prey) "We've gone to plaid!" "Weeeee my hair's on fire!"

Okay, turning fight against a MiG-15, not happening, sheesh. Play an energy fight and I burn him right quick.

My son has gotten this one a few times.

There is not at this time. you have to use a mouse or VR controller.

Watching the gauges swing as I go through the mach is always a treat.

When the A first came out I hit 3.0 at 70,000ft, then they fixed the runaway thrust.

I second that. I'm patient.

I guess they weren't ready with their SW build, either testing wasn't finished or they were just not happy with the performance.

Right, I thought I had heard that. So make a custom MP server, fly my yourself, use MP trackfile as that uses a vastly different logic than the SP track file

This is a persistent issue and I have experienced in occasionally in other aircraft as well.