Blood-n-Guts Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 First of all I want to congratulate Heatblur for this great job they are doing. I am not sure if this topic has been discussed in this forum, but I think it is interesting to address this issue. Is this Tomcat add-on added to the model? http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-airintake.htm Sorry my bad english FORTIS FORTUNA ADIUVAT
AH_Solid_Snake Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 If you mean the movement of intake ramps I haven't specifically looked for this on the various videos that have been published, but since it's a fairly standard DCS feature I would say its highly unlikely Heatblur would have missed it. If you look at the DCS F-15 module you can see the motion of the intakes very obviously because the entire housing moves to adjust the intake. For the F-14 it's a bit more subtle in that the intake ramps are all internal to the intake so you can only really see it through a slit in the top and from the front.
sLYFa Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 If you look at the DCS F-15 module you can see the motion of the intakes very obviously because the entire housing moves to adjust the intake. To elaborate a little. The "entire housing moving" is to compensate for high AoA, which the F-14 does NOT have. However, moving intake ramps, which might not be so obvious, are a feature for both the f-15 and f-14 (and many other supersonic aircraft). These ramps move according to a specific mach-number driven schedule to slow down air to subsonic speeds within the engine inlet. Failure of the AICS (as this ramp-system is called in the F-14) will also prohibit any trans/supersonic flight. I dont know for sure but it´s highely unlikely HB would omitt such an essential system from their F-14 i5-8600k @4.9Ghz, 2080ti , 32GB@2666Mhz, 512GB SSD
Strikeeagle345 Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 it is modeled as far as I have read / am aware of. Strike USLANTCOM.com i7-9700K OC 5GHz| MSI MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON | 32GB DDR4 3200 | GTX 3090 | Samsung SSD | HP Reverb G2 | VIRPIL Alpha | VIRPIL Blackhawk | HOTAS Warthog
Vilab Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 you can see this kind of thing on the mirage too the "souris" will move forward beyond Mach 1.2, and the "pelles" will open at high AoA
Victory205 Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 The intakes work as described in NATOPS. Fly Pretty, anyone can Fly Safe.
Maverick966 Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 First of all I want to congratulate Heatblur for this great job they are doing. I am not sure if this topic has been discussed in this forum, but I think it is interesting to address this issue. Is this Tomcat add-on added to the model? http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-airintake.htm Sorry my bad english Even in the Ace Combat the movement of the air intakes is modeled LoL
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