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    Forrestal and F-14A?

    in DCS: F-14A & B

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    By two gauges. The engine instruments and placement of the RWR are all that's different. Most likely the only thing that will change about the exterior are the engine exhaust nozzles and shrouds. Maybe we'll see a change in the gun gas vents and deletion of some ECM blisters but little else.

     

    Beaver tail, maybe chinpod, no GPS dome on the back.

    A must see video of dogfighting in the Tomcat

    in DCS: F-14A & B

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    Generally speaking, the CADC program will always give you the best wingsweep for your current speed. There's very little reason to ever mess with manual sweep as the gains are either negligible (manual back for acceleration) or potentially harmful for the aircraft (manual forward at high speed to increase instant turnrate).

     

    I have read in a couple places, pilots would manually change their sweep to deceive their opponents in ACM. I really doubt they were damaging their planes, though it's certainly possible some did at first and that NAVAIR responded to stop that with standing orders at procedures that went to the squadrons. IOW, oversweeping was probably the general rule rather than undersweeping.

     

    At the end of the day this is a sim, what works for you works for you, just saying there's ways about this that don't wreck the jet.

     

    :thumbup:

     

    Simulation does give certain luxuries that Fleet pilots would have never had... not only in wasting missiles and fuels, but in overG... and damaging the plane in general. Hard to see how to address that outside of the squadron environment or a grading system after that would mitigate the otherwise simple logic of kills vs deaths.

    Grumman F6F Hellcat

    in Wish List

    Posted · Edited by Uxi

    I'm willing to bet that if LNS would be asked "Why not the F4U-1 or -1A instead of the -1D?" your answers would be similar or the same as the reasons I stated. Hopefully Marianas will not be the only PTO map in DCS.

     

    Midway would be nice and doesn't seem like it should be too hard, relatively speaking.

     

    But then we'd need Wildcats.if not Dauntless and Devastators... to say nothing of the appropriate A6M Zero, and Kates and Vals.

    F-14 Cockpit and instrument dimensions

    in DCS: F-14A & B

    Posted · Edited by Uxi

    In my mind I was thinking you'd need something like how a cassette tape deck works, only allowing you to have one button pressed at a time (yes I know they also allow more than one but you get the idea). The rotation you just do like those A6 ones you have there, cylindrical button body, a slot that wraps around like a "screw" that would probably interface with a pin or some kind of guide, and then copy how cassette tape players push other buttons up when you press another.

     

    Something like that should be printable right? Cassette players should be cheap enough to find at goodwill or other old electronics stores.

     

    Anyone have a design like this in STL format?

     

    These buttons are deep in my mind and I want them for the at least the air flow (especially if I do an F-14D or hypothetical F-14E build) moreso than the display switches (in which they disappeared from the F-14D).

    Steam Users

    in DCS: Supercarrier

    Posted

    Get the F/A-18 if you plan on enjoying the most DCS has to offer. F-14 if you are fan of iconic jet which is way outdated now but has superb simulation and feel in comparison. One is a jack of all trades, master of none while other is dedicated fighter designed for only one purpose.

     

    That was true originally though we already have the Bombcat with essentially the same dumb bomb ordinance (mk 82, 83, 84) with laser guided weapons GBU-10, 12, 16, 24, etc with LANTIRN while the Hornet excels with more advanced weaponry (JDAM and JSOW especially) and general technology.

     

     

     

     

    Additionally you will be more engaged with the systems in the hornet while in tomcat a baby can fly since the jester AI does all the system management for you.

     

    Jester certainly helps with target detection and identification more than anything though since selecting through the radial menu vs the MFD, etc I'd call a wash. Jester definitely don't help actually fly the plane the FBW is much more forgiving in the Bug vs the older tech of the Cat.

    F-14A of 70's Vs F-14A of 90's Vs F-14A Iranian

    in DCS: F-14A & B

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    I most want a mature F-14D and 2004 era F-14B (perhaps that as a sequel module with hypothetical Super Tomcat 21 F-14E). Though can see the appeal of Cold War scenarios with late 1970s, early 1980s high viz F-14A as well, it's probably last on my personal list.

     

    Iranian Cats would be great for adversaries, no doubt. Doubt we'd see Fakour 90 or anything like that, though so limited to early AIM-54A...

    WMR DEBUG TOOL - cross eye alignment

    in Virtual Reality

    Posted

    I have always been hitting the x on this and have been fine for a few months. Just now though I noticed one eye was different than the other (apparently on elevation) and now the WMR window isn't coming up anymore. It's most disorienting but I can close one eye and bring up the settings but not that initial WMR screen. WMR Home and Elite Dangerous seemed fine, so just DCS.

     

    1) Anyone see anything like this?

    2) Any way to get that debug setting window back?

    F-14B AI is frustratingly stupid

    in DCS: F-14A & B

    Posted

    From my personal experience, since I prefer them to RTB rather than punching out, whenever they call bingo, I send them rtb. So far they always made it. They seem to go into a more fuel conservative mode then as they do not try to keep up with you anymore, but I could be wrong, so please take it with a grain of salt.

     

    Heh noticed my wingman ran out of fuel once about waypoint 2. I was watching him after I finished the mission and he raised and lowered his landing gear 4 or 5 times on the approach, though he did land. And he was taxing around all over the place and finished just before I landed lol.

    JSOW/JDAM attack 8 targets - update.

    in DCS: F/A-18C

    Posted

    Can't reiterate that enough! Last thing you want is to meticulously set 8 points and forget to undesignate the last --> ripple firing through all of the others with the last designate!!! :megalol:

    Nope. Never done that myself. Nope. No...............

     

    That might have been me last night lol. Finally getting back in the Hornet regularly after a long run in the Tomcat and trying JDAM and JSOW (especially the Cat don't have em and no F-14D anytime soon).

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