Bremspropeller

Africa is a stunningly beautiful continent with lots of interesting conflicts and scenarios for DCS. Also, the french Air Power commitment in Africa was and is more than just Chad, but most conflicts are little known by the broad DCS player-base and it would be hard to build an economically viable map around it. Same goes for other African wars of which many have been ongoing for decades with death-tolls exceeding other conflicts since WW2. I'd love to see a sub-saharan Africa map one day.

I thought I'd found a bug with the TD squadre not being visible, but it's just the old "radar emits in standby" issue that led me astray. TD square doesn't show, but lock-tone and masked-tone both will work with the radar in standby and a target "locked".

Concur, AP engagement leads to immediate roll-trim divergence in MP. SP is fine.

Yes. Same motor in all variants: Snecma Atar 9K-50.

+1

It's not quite ABOUT the -17C, but there's some peripheral info in this report (about fuel character effects on the smokeless combustor section of said engine), which mentions the changes that were made to get the -17C: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA095057.pdf

The difference is rather simple - it's just a basic mixture tweak, so the derated engines are running at a slightly fatter mixture (colder, consequently more soot/ smoke). The de-ratng or up-rating (leaner, and up to stochiometric, hotter mixtures) should be performed in a couple of minutes if you don't need to pull the engine or associated components for the tweak. Not sure if the components were easily accessible on the J79/ F-4 to perform the change on-wing. The actual smokeless-mod (e.g. on later US jets, called J79-GE-17C on the Echo jets) was a different thing and required some parts changes in the hot section - mainly burner-cans and also the injector spray-nozzles. Hence the engines needed to be pulled and sent to the shop.

There is none. Unless you want to fight Bf 109K-4s over Stalingrad in your I-16.

WW2 type of ASW aircraft relied heavily on getting the subs at the surface, which won't happen all that often if you're looking for nuke-powered subs. Also, the specialized ASW aircraft do have more interesting stations and capabilities and they'll cover a large timeframe from the 60s to today (version dependant, of course). Capability- and performance-wise, both the Atlantic and Orion are the most interesting with the Neptune coming in close behind (quirky jet-engine pods, anybody?). I'm personally not terribly interested in the S-3. If one would want to do ASW, most sensible modules would be (in order) - P-3, if you're into shutting down engines to stretch endurance - Atlantic, if you like to have the right number of engines to begin with - P-2, if you like radials, but need that jet-time to get into the airlines

We'll need those.

Yes, please do that ED. Or just introduce a special options menu checkmark that makes people that don't have the force sensing hardware fly the jet and not PIO/ APC themselves all across the sky.

The first part of your turn isn't a turn at all, but just an AoA excursion that happens and then makes the airplane start to change trajectory. Notice the droops coming down (droops and slats are coming down at AoA >8°). The aircraft then hesitates with that AoA established and then starts to pull through the turn. Three things might be the cause, related or at least worth considering: - the F1 in game actually models the "Arthur" artificial feel system, so you sometimes have to pull more for the same result => you can switch that off in the specials menu and test it then again (Does it make the aircraft behave more like the F-5 then?) - the F1 is aerodynamically slightly different: it has a larger effective wing-sweep (hence a flatter dCl/d@* curve) and thus will behave a bit more mushy at first, when large pitch-rates are commanded - the F-5 is a bit more nose-heavy, so AoA excursions like in the F1 or MiG-21 aren't quite as easy, unless you have a boatload of trim ___ * read 'alpha'

Has there ever been a Gazelle variant with any kind of lazing capability, including handheld designators? This would bump up usefulness of the module even higher.

Hey guys, I was doing some 1v1 BFM practice with @jaguara5 yesterday, and we both noticed that the AIM-9J would never come up with a locking tone. We each fired a missile when believing to be inside parameters without a "locked" tone (both missiles tracked). We'd only be able to get a locking tone when pointing the missiles at the sun. Cheers

I'll just leave those here for later. Wing down (flaps up) launch (5:07) crashing d/t partial/ asymmetric UHT malfunction (8:00) Flying away from a bad ramp strike (8:45) Wing down, flaps up (droops blown) trap (first scene)

There was a re-winging programme in place. IIRC, the new wing came with different issues, like alternating loadpaths through the structure, leading to fatigue in different places. Before the re-winging programme, lots of fleet Intruders had relatively low fatigue-related g limits. The worst were the KA-6s.

Thanks for the tip!

Yes. RD is the only actual fast jet airfield in Israel on the Syria map. Chek your temperature and wind, which are going to make a good deal of a difference with heavy loads in the Scooter.

@fausete do you think the proposal above is feasible? Cheers

There are other factors at play, like tyre pressure (possibly deflated a bit for shore-only ops) and hydroplaning-issues. Some aircraft were more subceptable than others. The A-7 with hi pressure tyres supposedly needed unflared-landings to prevent hydroplaning on wet runways and unfavourable winds. I also seem to remember a tendency for tyre blow-outs on flared landings for hi pressure A-7 tyres. Not 100% sure if I put that memory into the correct file-cabinet, though.

What a helpful tip for new people trying out AAR. Ever thought about instructing?

If the ducking tanker didn't reel it's hose back in after a couple of minutes, people had an easier time. I've seen quite a few people almost putting the tip in, only to have the tanker zip up the hose and throw them off their game.

An-26 FTW! We need a proper Africa map. For reasons.

Did you power up/ engage cooling of the missiles? The EXT switch right outboard of the wingtip-missile station buttons should take care of that.