SpaceMonkey037

The stores configuration switch reduces the roll and AOA limit to increase the aicrafts departure recistance. It is not connected to G as said by eagle. You probably don't want to go above 6 g with full external tanks, once they are empty they can handle 9 g.

From what I know in 2007 (our F-16 module is ca.2007) most people used paper, at least in the air force. < This is a pretty weak argument, but IRL you would definetly prefer to have paper over a tablet because of GPS jamming. For peace time this of course isn't a problem, but most of the time in dcs we're not doing much of peace. So I think it would be somewhat unrealistic to have tablets be the main navigation aid in dcs.

Pretty sure they were either still using paper or transitioning to tablets in the 2007 time. You should really have no problems flying without a tablet or NS430

XMT does not control how the HSD uses datalink, XMT simply decides if you're sending data messages over link 16 or IDM. Data messages are things like sharing steerpoints that you have to give command to send via COMM inboard, do not confuse this with things like air targets, this system is commanded sepratly from that.

IRL your trim is always messed up for every axis because of the trim checks you do on startup. For that reason you need to trim the aircraft once in flight. As long as you don't have any major asymmetry (TGP does not contribute much) you will not required future trimming of the aircraft. You trim for yaw using the slip indicator (the ball located on the ADI). With asymmetric loadouts you might require re-trimming when changing airspeed.

No information was given in that picture other than where the information is from, but I agree, not a good idea to take pictures from those manual. Kinda hard to quote someone who only posted a picture of the manual while avoiding quoting the picture from the manual. O well.

No no. I have never used the manual for this. I was looking at an F-16 doing a max AB sustained turn overhead and I used video analysis to figure out its speed. Nothing to see here go on with your day.

Alright, then how is my original information incorrect? he was way low on speed. And why are you looking at 15k charts either way? He was at 1-5 k feet in the pictures, and so you should base your data on that. Best turn rate speed at 5k is 475. You've mentioned that nowhere. Simply put, there is no flat spots for the GE-129 engine, the best turn rate is a fixed speed, and that speed is mostly based on the speed you're able to sustain without blacking out. For that reason the "thumb rule" for turn rate should be: Sustained as fast as possible under 500 knots without blacking out. Keyword: blacking out. Most of the time if you're on the limit you will black out, and so you will have to reduce your speed.

What engine is the chart you're looking at for? The data you're supplying is still incorrect for the F110-GE-129 engine at MAX AB.

Are you sure you're looking at the correct engine and MAX AB instead of MIL? Because I am quite positive I'm not blind and at 15k feet the turn rate curve for Ps0 is far from flat. And the sea level Ps0 peak is at mach 0.7, not 0.59 like you say. And if that isn't enough it convince you that you have the wrong data, the quickest possible turn rate at sea level is 24.9 deg/s, not 24.1 as you say. Don't get me wrong, it's impossible to make a perfect flight model. If you're testing with incorrect data it should be no surprise that you're finding mistakes in our F-16 FM. So please use the correct FM data when making your conclusion about the DCS F-16's FM.

You're way low on speed. The F-16's optimum turn rate speed in MAX AB is as fast as possible sustained level flight without blacking out. Takes a bit of getting used to but I think a speed of 460-480 should be a good place to start before you really find the limit. I really don't understand why you're going vertical, it's better to limit the hornet's vertical airspace by getting down low where his escape routes are limited to going up instead of down. Will increase chance of a kill.

definitely not the DCS F-18, that is tech just being testing IRL now, and the legacy hornet isn't even in service. The dcs F-16 if from ca.2007, so we won't see that added to our F-16 either.

It is worth while to add/clarify that you cannot move from the coordinates entered for the original alignment. You have to stand still from the very moment you go INS knob - NORM to when you do the scramble start and do INS knob - STOR HDG. For this reason you cannot do an EIA (enhanced interrupted alignment), and for that reason you can only ever achieve status 10 in stored heading. It is also important to mention that even though our INS is constantly getting corrected for drift by the GPS (GPS does not calibrate the INS mid-flight, it only removes drift), we will still notice a bad INS alignment because our INS never knows its groundspeed perfectly and so our radar will have reduces efficiency the worse the alignment quality is because the accelerometers aren't calibrated precisely. The radar will have reduces efficiency because with false ground speed it will have a harder time figuring out what is ground. The radar does not have any fancy functions to remove ground clutter and requires INS to do be able to get rid of ground clutter. For that reason if you have time you will always do an EIA where you will increase INS alignment quality and as a result will get better radar performance. The INS temporarily stores data (like drift) after each flight, and remembers it for follow up flights, don't know the exact number of flights, but I'd guess that it's no more than 100. This means that if you've done multiple good alignments you can do one really bad alignment and you won't really notice much different, but if you keep doing bad alignments over and over again you will notice a degrade in FCR efficiency. Because of this though you will in most cases never have any big INS issues when doing STOR HDG. In summary, what Frederf said is mostly correct with the little exception that bad INS alignments will be noticeable even with GPS.

This is a pretty smart trick must say, although it is mostly a sim gimmick. IRL you trim every once in a while to keep the aircraft straight. You never take off and land again without touching trim, that's not how real aircraft work. Maybe one day ED will have the flight model so dialled we will actually notice these things.

I don't.

The only secure voice system that the F-16C has is the KY 58 which will encrypt your radio signals.

Hence the "we won't see an A model before its documents are released"

My bad, yes we have a -1, but good luck making a module when you only have 1/3 or less of the required information to actually make the thing happen.

Have you checked that the switches are set to their correct positions on the avionics power panel located on the right console?

The block 52 is identical to the block 50 with the engine being different. I am not quite sure if the block 60 aircraft has the triple MFD setup, but I know the block 70 has. These are way advanced versions of the F-16 that I can promise you we won't see in this decade. If you want three MFD's go fly the hornet IMHO.

Guys, there are no available documents for anything other than the block 50/52, we won't see an A model before its documents are released, which might be in a looooong time. No reason to even discuss this at the moment. Safe flights.

wow! You've put way too much effort into this haha. Great work!

Sorry for the confusion, yeah I used power and thrust to indicate the same thing. Might be wrong of me to assume both mean the same thing, will try to stick to thrust from now on. I don't see why it wouldn't be linear, either way if it's linear or not isn't really mandatory as long as it works it works.

I already quite clearly stated how fuel flow increases/decreases with airspeed in my original explanation. Don't take it personal, but you're not adding anything to the conversation except confusion by not including all the assumptions made in your statement to come your original conclusion. Just keep it in mind Thanks.

totally depends on PLA.