Bremspropeller

Finally some decent use for that side-door minigun on the Gazelle There are several "hot spot" places worth modelling: - Border War - Bush War (Rhodesia => Zimbabwe) with involvement of it's neighbours - portugese colonies in their independance-struggles (Mocambique is interlinked with the Bush War) - the Congo has basicly constantly been at war for 65 years - other inner-african wars (Uganda-Tanzania, Ethiopia vs Somalia and Eritrea, etc.) - Francafrique (for example: Op. Manta and Epervier in the Chad have lasted for over three decades)

Pull the western map boundary farther west, include Sardinia (Deci!) and Corsica (Solenzara!) and model more italian mainland-airfields. The Typhoon, Tornado, Spillone, Macchi and Gina need a home.

Wow, starting as a Sabre squadron must be tough - I mean it's a great jet, but it's fairly specifc. Plus, it's a phat F-86F, not a sleek Sabre 6. Here's to having more Sabres! @birkenmopedwas that HLUP B component a part of LUTRANS, or were those flights a different matter altogether? Here's to having a Transall!

I can't believe you're not mentioning Alhorn as a JG 71 base. JG 71 was established at Alhorn and got their "Richthofen" name there. When they were flying proper fighters. Sabres. With proper leaders. Erich Hartmann.

The large (nowadays) taxiway inthe west at Düsseldorf Intl used to be a runway during the map timeframe: The large building at the southern end of the crossing rwy as shown on the dev screenshot wasn't there before the devastating fire in 1996.

I see what you did there. I'm somewhat a man of culture myself... Is there a way of dialling back the amount of Pam An 747s and BA 727s? It seems like the entire Pam An 747 fleet is in Europe (well, they were part of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, so...). BA never had 727s - the only 727s in BA-colours were operated by Comair in South Africa. Also, the "Negus" livery (1974-1985'ish) would make more sense for the time-frame (HS Trident): ================================ Uh-oh, uh-oh!

And make the F-5 have access to mobile air or whatever it takes to start off-airport.

Thanks Adrian and BN! For everybody else: As long as you stay below 25000ft, it seems you'll be fine for the time being.

@BIGNEWY next patch as in the hotfix planned for today?

And Skip had a freeze at above 28.500ft in a CE.

Just had a freeze on CWG in the BE and Skipjack in the backseat.

Neuhardenberg - that's "Marxwalde" (JG 8 ) for LV/LSK. Neubrandenburg "Trollenhagen" (JG 2) is already there. A nice surprise nonetheless.

I have seen something similar happen before the latest patch (can't remember the conditions), but at least it didn't CTD or freeze the game. The IDN and Boule were all messed up, but at least the pointer showed the correct position in RNAV mode. Was on CWG IIRC.

Before Flankers, there's a gazillion other Redfor aircraft I'd like to see. More Fishbeds (with a plural "s"). Fitters, Foxbats, Floggers and even chineese "copies" like J-5s, J-6s and J-7s. I'd like to fly an A-5/Q-5. Or a Flagon. All those are exciting. The Flanker just scratches the anti-Eagle itch.

The G91 had "short legs" because those forward operating bases (some of them grass strips) didn't materialize and weren't deemed neccessary anymore in the greater scheme after the shift towards Flexible Response. Hence the aircraft was forced to operate from it's main bases fairly far away from the line of contact. Whether it was a good dogfighter is pretty hard to figure: It didn't have any hardware to make use of getting into an avantageous position: No LCOS and no (within GAF) AA missiles. Removing one cannon (and prohibiting shooting of the remaining one) to fit TACAN didn't help with the combat value. It was very small and had - clean - pretty good subsonic performance as can be seen above in Smyth's analysis. As with the Alpha Jet, many pointy jet people within Luftwaffe never figured the use of an aircraft that was simple, reliable and could just GO NOW and fly 8 sorties a day. Had there been more ingenuity and imagination (and moreso: the willingnes to spend some cash), the Alph could have been an awesome jet. Like the Gina, the Alph would also have been an awesome asset for low intensity conflicts (e.g. Afghanistan). But I'm digressing...

Steadily meaning linear or is there any other equation to it? Is there any more info on the ARI as well?

FWIW, out of th 29G manual: There's no mention of aileron throw being decreased to +/-5° above 18° AoA. It just mentions a reduction in aileron authority above 18° AoA. Now, the authority part may be bad translation (could be meaning authority as in "aileron effectiveness"), but then agian neither does it state a reduction in throw to 5° or any other value for that matter. It says the ailerons are placed 5° up from the aircraft's horizontal reference line in neutral position - that's a wonky way of saying the ailerons at neural are both 5° up to create more washout - in order to decrease any induced yaw during rolls. ARI is mentioned as a function of the AFCS Damper at high AoA (whatever that means): "Lateral control is provided mainly by the ailerons, assisted by the tailerons if the LEFs are IN, and by the rudders at high AoA, provided the stability augmentation system is operating." [...] "Aileron-rudder-interconnect is provided at high AoA by the stab aug system to improve lateral stability."

Technically the 29 has slats and the 16 has LEFs, but that's just a tangent on semantics. The 29G manual says the LEFs [sic!] are out when: - either of the two flap DOWN buttons is pressed - landing gear is selected down (gear down overrides flap up) - maneuvering (greater than 8.7° AoA for extension, lower than 7° AoA for retraction, Mach below 0.8 [+0.1 / -0.05]) More LEF trivia: - "LEF out" disengages differential taileron - the Damper AFCS mode will counteract any pitch moments due to LEF operation (unless flaps are down)

Which "roll angle"? According to the 29G manual, there's no difference between the two down buttons. That's what they're actually called: "One UP and two DOWN" buttons.

Vamos a la playa.

JG-3 (one sqn 21MF, two sqns 29A) and supposedly JG-2* (at reunification 2sqns 21M and one sqn 21SPS/K) were to be the two complete MiG-29 wings in LSK. JG-9 had the 23MF and ML and JG-7 (21Ms) had been disbanded by September '89. That left JG-1 (Holzdorf, 21MF and 21SPS/K) and JG-8 (Marxwalde, 21bis both subtypes) with 21s for the forseeable future. The 21SPS/K is a PFM with the gun-pod preparation. First flight at LSK was on 3 May 1988. Induction into DHS (~ QRA) at Preschen was in 1 December 1988. In terms of missing MiG-29 bases in GDR we have Falkenberg and Altenburg for GSSD and Preschen for LSK. ______ * couldn't find anything about that in JG-2's "Geschwaderchronik" though, just here: https://home.snafu.de/veith/jg2.htm Perspektivisch war durch die NVA eine Ausrüstung des JG-2 mit MiG-29 vorgesehen.

I have been landing and taking off from Holzdorf's aux grass strip without any issues. Even with a full tank and A/G ordnance she'll take off in military just fine. A grass runway is never unprepared. Quite the contrary.

It doesn't. While it's got way better sensors and air power projection (gas, range, weapon load), the 29 actually has better sustained and instantaneous turn capabilities*. It should also have better vertical capabilities. Plus in it's time, it had the helmet sight over the Eagle with Mikes at best. The Eagle can be dangerous WVR, but it's not a guaranteed win - far from it. Ze Germans found out that you could actually out-bingo an Eagle when playing a bit dirty. But that's in an artificial setup. _____ * that's from Spanky's video, who had a decent amount of hours in both jets

So it is three buttons for two functions. And as the flaps are blown up by airloads, they could have just left out the entire box and tie them to the gear-handle

The G manual says - maneuvering LEFs come down whenever necessary (AoA greater 8.7° and M less than 0.8 {+/-} and retracting when above said Mach or below 7° AoA) - LEF come down with flaps selected down - LEF come down with gear selected down (gear down overrides flap up) There's no mention of different LEF schedules and it just mentions one UP and two DOWN buttons. "Pushing either DOWN button extends all flaps. Pushing the UP button retracts flaps and LEF, provided gear is up."