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One thing I've noticed and which seems to be reproduceable is that the stall only happens during the recovery and never during the departure / incipient spin. Going idle before starting any recovery action seems to not make any difference at all.

I don't find it to be annoying at all. It's your only direct fuel-flow indication. Use "hear as with helmet". It's hardly noticeable in most flight-conditions. If all else fails:

The radar generally seems to struggle with little or no delta v. That also applies to TEL in my experience, eventhough TEL usually is quick to snatch a lock. It will occasionally, however, go in and out of a lock - especially when nearing gun-range. Ground-clutter may be a factor. Haven't tested it too much and this is just from the top of my mind and experiance. On the road right now, so unfortunately no tracks. It may be an intentional thing, though.

Uh-oh, you don't want to mess with the little glowy people.. I guess that means the radar must be at least on stby whenever moving the airplane under it's own power?

Make sure you're reducing the load on the alternators, when operating in a speed- and altitude-range with bad cooling. One good way of doing so is going standby or completely *off* with the radar. You don't want to have that thing operate around a flying gas-station anyway.

*muffled keelhauling noises intensify*

Some sort of spray-effect from tyres and the engine during take-offs and landings on runways with standing water would really push up the atmosphere and immersion: Tyre spray on a Dash 8: Water spray on an A319 - mostly due to the exhaust jet - during take-off: On a borader scale, some more humidity-related effects would be cool, like spray during reverse thrust. Note the condensation over the wings due to the high relative humidity level and the vortex created on the cowl-strakes ofthe engines: Also note the vortex at the wingtips and flap-tips - this is fairly common and would create additional immersion: Not sure if the latter effect now does consider relative humidity and vortex core pressure, or whether it's just a static effect related to some sort of aircraft-parameter (like AoA).

Same. I think it was mostly down to parts availability and the hassle of keeping the system serviceable being worth it or not as squadron policy. So it depends whether your squadron senior officers are "believers" or not. It's not like the Navy wasn't cashstrapped, so ressource-allocation wasn't in favour of VTAS being up on all jets all the time.

Had that happen twice to me yesterday.

Another day in Centrafrique for Picardie.

Gotta be the fuel counter, as it also clicks when on the tanker.

Still trembling.

Hey Aerges, thanks for giving uis the asymmetric loadouts! It would be cool if the asymmetry would still give us the opposing pylon, though:

Yes. Available on the F1EE.

I'd buy a Katanga map. I'll take my Fouga Magister with rockets and guns.

Hey Spit, any chance for F1CZ #213? https://www.saairforce.co.za/gallery-and-media/37/mirage-f1cz/2 It's a MiG-killer: 6 Nov 1981 Maj. Rankin shot down a Cuban-flown Angolan MiG-21MF. Would be cool to have it inthe original and the "Spectre" scheme.

It used to work for me. You'll need to have the AAR switch unguarded and FWD and then turn up the rheo just behind (aft) of the switch.

Same here. Don't think so. Looks entirely non-Cali to me. Just like in this pic: The housing looks a little too socialist to for anywhere in Cali. I'd put my finger on domestic China. J-8s doing test-flights in the US at this altitude and over densely populated areas...yeah, nah. Also, I think both pics are doctored as the lighting suggests the aircraft was photographed at higher altitudes in bight sunshine vs. the ground being a normal low-altitude shot in the haze.

T'is a manly looking airplane... https://www.airliners.net/photo/China-Air-Force/Shenyang-J-8DF/7154985/L

Great info, thanks Hiro!

That's an interesting GP-9 retrofit on the PF! According to Y.Gordon, the PFM during ongoing production got the improved RP-21M radar. It's not clear, however, what the impovement was.

That's exactly the point I'm making: There are some more assets up the pipe than mentioned by the post I quoted. Yes, it's going to be a 100D. Fun fact: You could also build an Armée de l'Air Algeria themed map around those two aircraft (Spad and Hun). The Hun could also be used on the Syria map with the TuAF.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that some F-13s also recieved the R11F2-300 motor as a retrofit. Do you know if that is correct? Must have been an export-customer - probably in the Middle East or maybe India. Might even have been the EGAF, don't know anymore.

I do think that ~10% is quite a bit, depending onthe situation. Also, don't forget about the slightly better view outside the F-13 and that it most likely has a little less drag. The main drawbacks should be the low combat-capability (weapons and radar) and the low fuel-load. Isn't that a PFS? The PFx are so confusing as there's a hodge-podge of versions and sub-variants that are impossible to externally distinguish.

With lower weight comes lower AoA required for the same ITR and STR, hence less drag to be overcome by less thrust. The F-13 is widely known for it's best dogfighting capabilities in the whole -21 family by most pilots flying a variety of models, yet not much else. It's already short on fuel when retracting the landing-gear on take-off, it has to rely on GCI and it's combat value is very limited. It's a hell of an aircraft to fly, look at and have fun with, though. It's a MiG-19 with cooler shades on. I think there should be at least one Fishbed out of each generation: One F-13/J-7, one PFM, one MF and the Bis we already have. The two-seaters are also very cool jets and one of those should be useable somewhat as a contemporary to the upcoming Mirage F1BE. With those aircraft, you'll cover 80% of all redfor cold war jets. That's ballpark, so don't quote me on that. I'm not looking at WP air forces here, but mostly third-world tropical paradises with charming young presidents in tailored suits, which is what is a lot more interesting to me than all the Central Europe "Fulda Gap not going nuclear within 3 minutes" pipedreams.