mattag08

You can use voice attack already. Just need to map the proper button combination.

So happy we finally got course/heading bug knob binds. Now we just need binds for Jester to utilize the Next Target button and Jester commands to adjust the antenna elevation by horizon-referenced degrees and relative degrees and we should be good to go.

How is it possible to break the lighting in this jet every single time we have a significant patch? I need to know if this is HB's or ED's fault because someone doesn't know how to properly manage their code.

Flap behavior seems abnormal, but I'll defer to Victory for final comment. Pitching moment should be down for flaps retraction and up for flaps extension. I know the horizontal stab is auto adjusted to smooth these out. Currently, both flaps retract and extend cause a nose up pitching moment (flaps retract is much greater than flaps extend). Seems excessive and backwards. I can get the nose to climb to 20-30 degrees by just cycling the flaps...

Unless ED stealth patched it at some point, the standard atmosphere in DCS was found to be modeled incorrectly when a 3rd party did computational fluid dynamics analysis of all of ED's missiles in the game and compared them to known parameters. The effects of temperature, pressure, and the rate of change of each with altitude are not modeled properly, which affects performance at different altitudes. It would also affect the performance of different aircraft differently since aircraft are optimized for certain Mach numbers, altitudes, etc. which means the non-standard atmosphere will cause better or worse performance depending on a number of factors. To summarize: this debate is largely moot because ED won't provide a proper atmosphere model.

Personally, I would be totally fine with this workaround. My unit really would love to have a player flown tanker.

This isn't the whole story. I just had a flight of four in the same flight and three of us could not take off until one particular aircraft launched. There was no particular order other than possibly it is related to the spawn order of the aircraft onto the carrier. This happened in both the F-14 and the new T-45 mod.

You can grade my passes any time.

If you had the flaps down (handle aft), then they deployed as soon as the wing sweep reached the flap deployment limit (I forget the exact angle, but it is fairly far forward). They didn't "automatically" deploy. You told them to deploy and they prevented the flaps from impinging the fuselage until that was not an issue and then deployed as you requested. Not a bug. You also damaged the flaps due to this (anything above 300 KIAS is a guaranteed flap jam). Forcing the wing sweep forward at high speed is dangerous and can lead to a wing spar failure. Leave the wing sweep in AUTO and only use the emergency handle if you have a wing sweep failure (if you do, you must follow the mach/sweep angle schedule or risk wing failure). Use other methods to decelerate like the speedbrake or high G maneuvers. Repair does not, and has never worked since the launch of the F-14. The only solution for a broken F-14 is to respawn.

It is likely an encoder in real life. @HB, any updates on getting this keybind added?

"Jump up and down" is a little much, but it certainly does not move as smoothly as more modern HUDs. You can visibly see the graduations of pitch and AOA it reports in T/O and Landing.

I suspect there is an issue with an induced G force as a consequence of aligning the F-14 to the flight deck as it starts its cat shot. Likely the 14 is being moved extremely rapidly a few inches up to align it to the deck, leading to the game thinking your pilot just experienced 20Gs or something. I would bet that the sea state and the pitch/roll of the carrier plays a role as well as MP sync issues and/or client framerate/bandwidth. Personally I see this bug about once per week, but have never noticed any correlating variables due to how infrequent it is.

Negative. It never "went" anywhere. It's been persistent for approximately 9-10 months now.

ACLS is still misaligned for the Supercarrier as well. How many more months before we get a fix for that?

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The spoiler brakes should close if the throttle is advanced, so this is backwards of the correct behavior.

HB, something has to be done with the missiles/radar. We are going on a year and a half without any solid resolution to these issues. The F-14 is a fleet defender/interceptor made to engage in air-to-air combat first and foremost. It's not enough to simply keep pawning off this problem on ED. There clearly needs to be increased dialogue between you and them about your module if ED truly is the only source of a solution. It's not acceptable that the F-14 has been incomplete or bugged in air-to-air for its entire release life. While I've historically been your biggest supporter, I'm going to have to stop recommending people purchase the F-14 until it is in an actually finished state. I've heard "the next patch will fix 'X' or the next patch will add 'Y'" since March of 2019 and it has never turned out to be accurate in a year and a half.

+1

I've flown missions in MP and SP with Jester and human RIOs over the past day/weeks. No issues.

This is a variation on the old ghost track bug in TWS. When the contact notches the radar enters track hold for that track. All is well except the track will pick a random direction and drift towards the edge of the scope at multiple miles per second, which causes TWS-A to then fail horribly. This is reproducible with basically any BVR scenario where you launch and the enemy notches when the missile is detected (AI Su-27s are a good choice). I think the main bug here is in the speed and direction of the track(s). The radar certainly should enter track hold upon a lost track, but my understanding is it should calculate the lost track's movement based on the last known position and velocity so as to provide the best possible guidance to the AIM-54. I wonder if the tracks are having some calculation going to an undefined value (or close to) as the target's closure approaches the F-14's TAS.

Have to have the missiles prep'd, selected, and in A/A mode for quite awhile before you'll get a hot trigger. Also the WCS needs a valid track in TWS or STT to shoot at.

Make sure the MLC filter is on.

Enemy 4-ship is the issue mate.

Set Stored Heading Align in ME. Then it's only about 3 minutes. :)

I'm well aware. The point is if the TID isn't displaying independent contacts in TWS you cannot launch an AIM-54 at each aircraft in the group. The only solution is to STT individual contacts, but this means you will still have untargeted aircraft which means a lost BVR fight. Any situation where the enemy # > friendly # means an instant loss.