ShuRugal Posted July 22, 2016 Posted July 22, 2016 I am curious to know where in the aircraft the radar altimeter antenna is located. This information would be useful when making precision touchdowns, so that I may accurately estimate the actual height of the wheels from the ground at various approach angles, or to estimate the height of the tail when conducting low-level wheels-up passes.
DarkFire Posted July 22, 2016 Posted July 22, 2016 Good question. The closest information I could find was this cutaway diagram that's supposedly of the Su-37. No idea if it shows the radar altimeter as I don't read Russian. That being said, usual placement for a radar altimeter on a fighter appears to be a patch antenna under the nose somewhere, so it would be worth subtracting ~1m from whatever the HUD reading says during level flight to compensate for the depth of the intakes. System Spec: Cooler Master Cosmos C700P Black Edition case. | AMD 5950X CPU | MSI RTX-3090 GPU | 32GB HyperX Predator PC4000 RAM | | TM Warthog stick & throttle | TrackIR 5 | Samsung 980 Pro NVMe 4 SSD 1TB (boot) | Samsung 870 QVO SSD 4TB (games) | Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Personal wish list: DCS: Su-27SM & DCS: Avro Vulcan.
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