I did not purchase F-14, but suddenly my DCS tells me I can install it.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

I did not purchase F-14, but suddenly my DCS tells me I can install it.

What is that all about?

[AeriaGloria]

Have fun https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4153327&postcount=231

[DmitriKozlowsky]

Oh.....

[AeriaGloria]

Already ripped the wings off twice

[-0303-]

I did not purchase F-14, but suddenly my DCS tells me I can install it.

What is that all about?

 

 

Same question.

Ok. I read the free F-14 weekend bit.

Edited December 28, 2019 by -0303-

[Belphe]

Already ripped the wings off twice

 

Welcome to the real world ;)

[DmitriKozlowsky]

I have not yet seen a module with so many functions across so many areas as in F-14B . That is just the F-14B Pilot. THen F-14B RIO has more pages and pages of functions. This is like an actual crew course that takes 6 months to two years to complete.

This module is for the most hardcore dedicated DCS simmer.

 

Now, I believe that wingsweep is automatically controlled by flight computer, yet mine is stuck in full sweep.

[Knock-Knock]

Now, I believe that wingsweep is automatically controlled by flight computer, yet mine is stuck in full sweep.

 

Are you pressing the Master Reset (no 8 in following link)?

http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/cockpit.html#fuel-management-panel

 

Hitting the Master Caution Light on the ACM panel doesnt do the trick, it only turns of the Master Caution Light.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

Welcome to the real world ;)

 

I've spun it like Linda Blair's pretty little head. That is one nasty spin type. Even archdemon Pazuzu would say eff;eat I'm otta here and pull the cool yellow black loop! Wondering what that does.

[-0303-]

Wing sweep control functions offline in Training, shore base takeoff. It is stuck full back online MP?

 

Found it. After auto start the mechanical wing sweep control must be turned off / set neutral before the electric control can control it.

 

Push the yellow leaver next to the throttle all the way forward and right click on it and close the cover

Don't forget to press the reset button (It's right in front of the yellow leaver)

After that bind the HAT switch that is on the throttle

 

• Wing sweep AUTO
  
• Wing sweep MANUAL BOMB
  
• Wing sweep Aft
  
• Wing sweep Forward
  

Control it like that

after

 

 

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[CobaltUK]

Wing sweep control functions offline in Training, shore base takeoff. It is stuck full back online MP?

 

 

Yes, I pressed "Master Reset".

 

 

 

 

Wing-sweep switch in Auto ?

[DmitriKozlowsky]

A little intimidated. Which switch controls wing sweep. On cold start, with AI auto start cheat, after startup completed and Jester tells me ready to taxi. I taxi out to runway, the wing is fully swept. I accelerate down runway, wing remains fully swept. Managed to unstick, wing still remains fully swept back. In flight, wing remains fully swept back regardless of speed. So AutoStart does not take care of everything. In CONTROLS I was looking for Wing Sweep or similar setting, but did not find it. Yet.

[CobaltUK]

A little intimidated. Which switch controls wing sweep. On cold start, with AI auto start cheat, after startup completed and Jester tells me ready to taxi. I taxi out to runway, the wing is fully swept. I accelerate down runway, wing remains fully swept. Managed to unstick, wing still remains fully swept back. In flight, wing remains fully swept back regardless of speed. So AutoStart does not take care of everything. In CONTROLS I was looking for Wing Sweep or similar setting, but did not find it. Yet.

 

Try this video. It covers sweep. Automatic, Manual, Emergency hydraulic movement, reset and such.

 

[-0303-]

I taxi out to runway, the wing is fully swept. I accelerate down runway, wing remains fully swept. Managed to unstick, wing still remains fully swept back. In flight, wing remains fully swept back regardless of speed.

Had that, landed fully swept as well ... but found the fix.

 

Cheat autostart leaves the mechanical control in full sweep position. The mechanical control must be turned off. Then the electrical back/forward/auto will be in control. Electrical control is on right throttle. Mechanical control is right of right throttle (yellow lever).

 

Push the yellow leaver next to the throttle all the way forward and right click on it and close the cover

Don't forget to press the reset button (It's right in front of the yellow leaver)

After that bind the HAT switch that is on the throttle

 

• Wing sweep AUTO
  
• Wing sweep MANUAL BOMB
  
• Wing sweep Aft
  
• Wing sweep Forward
  

Control it like that

after

 

 

I think auto start cheat should turn mechanical override off.

[near_blind]

 

I think auto start cheat should turn mechanical override off.

 

If you spawn on the carrier and the auto start unswept your wings, your aircraft would damage the aircraft next to you, and then there would be any number of explosions. There is a reason they wings weren't unswept until the aircraft was attached to the catapult and preparing to take off.

[CommanderRabb]

Also make sure the flaps are all the way up. Sometimes it can be hard to see if it is fully retracted and that will block the wings from sweeping back past a certain point.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

Who like this?

https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=0IV4PqRw&id=C03AFAA5668FE36DC339B015CADE8DB6082FF2A6&thid=OIP.0IV4PqRwv1DaoxkJmyE9TwHaEK&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fi.ytimg.com%2fvi%2f-DXvJLseJ0I%2fmaxresdefault.jpg&exph=720&expw=1280&q=Advanced+Super+Tomcat+F-14E&simid=608036479378328586&selectedIndex=54&ajaxhist=0

[DmitriKozlowsky]

Ever since I saw Flight Of THe Intruder, I have been wondering the purpose of dark green waterfall of rectangles in VDI. THe BNO seat in A-6E had similar display. I get that light amber is sky and light green is ground. But what do the dark rectangles represent, as the rate of their display remains constant, or appears to, regardless of ground or air speed. Even with idling aircraft on ramp, they still animate.

 

On a minor note, Heatblur artists went crazy with Substance. A bit of weathering and texture sampling from photo is great. I love it. But they went way overboard. Interior cockpit weathering looks like it has been sitting in junkyard for thirty years, and not painted in 20. This is what first generation Mig-29A Fulcrums of Moldovan Air Force were like, when US bought them. Sitting out in open deteriorating.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

Had that, landed fully swept as well ... but found the fix.

 

Cheat autostart leaves the mechanical control in full sweep position. The mechanical control must be turned off. Then the electrical back/forward/auto will be in control. Electrical control is on right throttle. Mechanical control is right of right throttle (yellow lever).

 

I think auto start cheat should turn mechanical override off.

 

Where is that? I can't find it. My wings are stuck fully swept. Even with MASTER RESET pressed.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

OK I found it wing sweep. For record, it is not yellow. It is grimy dirty blackened dark orange with intelligible text markers with way too much weathering.

I though wing sweep is automatic in F-14 depending on speed and AOA. With pilot controlling flaps. Which setting is automatic wing sweep.

 

In Cold Start with Auto Start cheat. I get no pitch ladder HUD, and no HUD at all. Is that also not something that autostart controls?

 

This mod is so hardcore even Ron "The Hedgehog' Jeremy would be intimidated by it.

[near_blind]

Ever since I saw Flight Of THe Intruder, I have been wondering the purpose of dark green waterfall of rectangles in VDI. THe BNO seat in A-6E had similar display. I get that light amber is sky and light green is ground. But what do the dark rectangles represent, as the rate of their display remains constant, or appears to, regardless of ground or air speed. Even with idling aircraft on ramp, they still animate.

 

The rectangles are hills. They're meant to reinforce to the pilot that part of the VDI represents the ground, and to try not to fly into it.

 

 

On a minor note, Heatblur artists went crazy with Substance. A bit of weathering and texture sampling from photo is great. I love it. But they went way overboard. Interior cockpit weathering looks like it has been sitting in junkyard for thirty years, and not painted in 20. This is what first generation Mig-29A Fulcrums of Moldovan Air Force were like, when US bought them. Sitting out in open deteriorating.

 

Looks about right for all the F-14's i've seen in museums. It's pretty funny what twenty plus years of constant operation in a corrosive environment does to your aircraft.

 

OK I found it wing sweep. For record, it is not yellow. It is grimy dirty blackened dark orange with intelligible text markers with way too much weathering.

I though wing sweep is automatic in F-14 depending on speed and AOA. With pilot controlling flaps. Which setting is automatic wing sweep.

 

It's pretty yellow on my end :)

 

Assuming you've found the correct lever (the yellow striped one inboard of the throttle). That is the emergency wing sweep lever, which directly controls the angle of wing sweep. You aren't supposed to use it during flight except in case of an emergency. It starts in oversweep to reduce the aircraft's footprint on a carrier.

 

What you need to do is drag it all the way forward with your mouse, and right click it so that it drops further into the track it rides on. That sets the wings into computer control. Next you need to hit the CADC master reset button, which is the little white circle button on the left vertical panel that says MASTER RESET, and should be more or less directly in front of the emergency wing sweep lever.

 

Next, you need to make sure the wing sweep control hat on the throttle is mapped. It is the Wing Sweep AUTO, BOMB, FORWARD, AFT thing in the controls, you need all of those. Once mapped, hit the AUTO button, and your wings are now gloriously automated, enjoy.

 

http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/

[kontiuka]

Well, I enjoyed it for a whole 6 hours. lol. Now it go bye-bye.

[-0303-]

Jester is a coward. I did a rhubarb, plow the field altitude, to take out russian APC and Shilkas (Hoggit training server) and Jester screamed and ejected. I do this all the time with Spitfire or P-51's.