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A friend of mine was in the back seat, groundie going for a joy ride. Got himself a tie from Martin Baker instead of a landing.

You are correct, someone screwed up not connecting that cable. The LAU-117 had two connectors. One on top of the launcher was the interface to the aircraft. The second was on the rear of the launcher and connected the firing circuits to the missile. When you loaded a Maverick, you would lock it into the launcher, then fit the sacrificial connector that went between the launcher and the umbilical connector located above the rocket motor nozzle. Once that was connected, you could power the missile, blow the dome cover, everything but launch. Only if you connected the second cable, which went from the missile to the small cannon plug connector on the very rear of the LAU was the missile live. This was fitted at the end of the strip, when everything else was armed. There is no safety pin on a LAU-117. You can see on this rear view of the launcher the cannon plug socket used for live shots https://images.app.goo.gl/kS43ELpyz9Gi8ZU49 I spent way too many years maintaining and loading these missiles and launchers, B, D and G models and TGM

Secure comms. Encrypted radio.

You can’t hear the ships engines from the flight deck. Even if they are running full speed. Engines are way down deep in the hull to keep nasty missiles away from them. I spent way too much time on the flight deck of a frigate, operating helos and never heard the engines. Heard the sea and wind, but no engine noise.

If you take a look at NAVAIR 01-F14AAA-1 section V it gives the seat envelope curve. From what I’ve seen, the seat operation seems pretty realistic. They are not infallible and a high sink rate at low altitudes will reduce the chances of a successful ejection

In the cockpit of the Mig 19, like many Russian aircraft of that era (see also Mig15 and Yak 52] there is a big white line painted on it. Pilots were taught that if they lost control, put the stick on the line. If that failed, abandon the aircraft.

I’d doubt it. IRL, the A4 used a bridle, not a nose gear launch bar. That’s why the older carriers have a extension off the front of the catapult to catch the bridle. You could trap, but no way to hook up and launch. F4 also used a bridle.

Same problem, need to hit the same launch button as used to launch on the Stennis

1. The wings sweep back in bomb mode increases the drag and therefore enhances the braking effect when in the break. It also looks much cooler when viewed from the flight deck. 2. Gear and flaps operate in opposite senses. Gear at 220, flaps at 200 will almost cancel each other out. The Tomcat is fly by cable, so you have to trim, trim, trim 3. The HUD trim and VDI trim let you set the pitch line of the HUD or VDI. Same as adjusting the pitch indicator on the Artificial horizon. Normally, you won't need to touch them - only if they get upset do I move them pitch line. You may want to set it to your current attitude when in a sustained cruise - confirmed by zero climb/descent rate on the VSI. But normally, I leave it alone and use VSI and altitude to figure out if I am straight and level, the pitch line is most useful when flying in IMC.

You beat me by seconds!

You’re below bingo, either carry more fuel or refuel immediately after launch. Engines will burn around 7,000lbs/hr each. Even if you climb at an efficient speed, you’re not going to have much of a combat radius.

About .55M at FL200, .6M at FL300, .72M at FL400 Hope you have a good seat, the F14 can spend a lot of time in the air when throttled back at high altitudes

I get the same issue as you do. Don't know if this is a co-incidence, but I am also running an I7-3770 and 32MB RAM, with a Gigabyte 2070S GPU. Contacted Oculus and they think it is an issue with DCS, not the Rift S.

Pretty close. I’m an ex armourer on jets. GBU-16 has 3 arming wires on Paveway 2. Two rear wires go to tail fuze and tail fins. Tail fuze can be mech or electric, generally electric. We used the FMU-139 in the tail. Nose fuze goes to the Guidance Control Group and initiates the thermal battery and gas grain generator to provide power to the fins. If you don’t have nose, it is dumb. If you chose nose only, it goes thud, not bang. It also won’t glide so far. Never used CBU, my country banned the use of them. Snake and slick bombs were similar. Tail electric fuse, but we used to route that to the nose arming solenoid. Tail went to the fins for snake. Gave the pilot the option of dropping slick or retarded. If we ran with a target detecting device on the nose (for air burst) that ran off the nose as well. Tail solenoid for fusing. For mechanical fused M904, nose for the fuze. SMS would take care of most of the switchology but rule of thumb, if you want a bang, N/T. However, if you want to give the EOD guys something to do...

With software development you have three levers to pull. Time - you can fix a date Cost - you can fix how much you want to spend on this Scope - you can fix what it is you want to deliver You can only have two of those three. The crunch comes when people want to have all three of them, which, btw is an undeliverable dream/fantasy and doomed to fail. Proven to fail, time and time again.

NASA went metric in the 1990’s.

Same problem for me. Standard mapping on Hotas Warthog, mic fwd comes up as Interphone

The initiation mechanism on the old MB seats is a wedge shaped block connected to face screen and seat pan handles. The spring on the striker is quite strong, you need a special tool to cock it and install the firing mech. The travel is about an inch. Pull the face screen, it comes out with minimal force, then a 25lb pull to start the cycle. If putting it into a simulation, don’t use 25lbs force. We could on live seats, because, adrenaline.

Same thing for me.