Max weight

[Eagle7907]

So I noticed that the max weight value isn’t correct at all.

 

NATOPS says 76,000lbs for cat takeoff or 72,000lbs for shore takeoff.

 

I’m guessing the 74,340, or whatever it is, is a value between the two and a limitation of DCS World. My question is, in the sim, does this limit hold water? Is it different? What’s the actual simulation limit? What’s simulated in this aspect currently?

 

 

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Edited June 7, 2019 by Eagle7907

[HunterICX]

Actually it is

 

72,000 lbs is for the A variant on shore take off and the B/D have 74,349lbs on multiple sources I've found online.

 

I've found the 76,000 lbs for the D variant for Cat Take off in here: https://info.publicintelligence.net/F14AAD-1.pdf but I can't find anywhere if that's the same for A and B variant.

[Eagle7907]

Max weight

 

I have the B NATOPS. Found it on Hoggit. It does say as stated above.

 

I don’t see anything that says 74,349 for max weights anywhere in this manual.

 

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Edited June 7, 2019 by Eagle7907

[Raubritter]

F-14B. Chapter 4. Operating Limitations.

1. Catapult launch — 76,000 pounds.

/scip/

2. Field takeoff and emergency landings (minimum

rate of descent landings only) — 72,000 pounds.

3. Field landings — 60,000 pounds.

[HunterICX]

I have the B NATOPS. Found it on Hoggit. It does say as stated above.

 

I don’t see anything that says 74,349 for max weights anywhere in this manual.

 

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Just found that same manual, I stand corrected. Now I wonder why some online pages about the F14 state that 74,349lbs as max weight. :huh:

[Quid]

Just found that same manual, I stand corrected. Now I wonder why some online pages about the F14 state that 74,349lbs as max weight. :huh:

 

The reason so many websites list that number is because 74,349lbs has been a publicly released figure for the F-14's maximum weight since the 1970s. I'm not certain where that figure came from precisely, if it was based on experimental loadouts, or Grumman's test-dropping the airframe to failure, but I know its been quoted for decades, printed and re-printed in aircraft reference books and even Tomcat-specific books, but it doesn't match the manual numbers.

[draconus]

You can find 74,349lbs limit in NAVAIR Standard Aircraft Characteristics both for A (1977, service) and D (1985, preservice).

[Eagle7907]

So it sounds like that number may have been a preliminary number or at least the max for the A. So again......

 

My question is, in the sim, does this limit hold water? Is it different? What’s the actual simulation limit? What’s simulated in this aspect currently?

 

 

It is really difficult to be loaded with bombs and have 100% fuel with the 74,349. Obviously with 76,000 it is easily done. Makes me wonder if the 76,000 was revised after the B was refitted for strike missions? Anyways, I would really like to know what HB knows and what number is correctly simulated.

 

 

 

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