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Things you like about the F-16 (Multiple Choice)  

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  1. 1. Which aspect of the Viper you like the most?

    • Exterior Look/Appearance
      85
    • Interior Look/Cockpit Layout
      90
    • BVR Performance
      52
    • BFM Performance
      30
    • Air to Ground Performance
      52
    • Avionics
      64
    • Weapon Systems
      50
    • FBW/The Feel of Flying the Jet
      47
    • Speed/Acceleration/Climb Rate
      75
    • Easy to Learn
      33
    • SEAD Capability
      35


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Like TobiasA the real F-16 is one of my favorite planes

It could do a lot


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17 hours ago, TobiasA said:

The real F-16, the DCS F-16 as it is now or the DCS F-16 is it is expected to be? 

In game.

12 hours ago, ruddy122 said:

The distinctive shark mouth


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Yep. Isn't that the most sexy part of the jet? 😄

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What an irony, F-16 has been designed together with "The Fighter Mafia" as an ultimate dogfighter and the second smallest amount of people like it's BFM performance...

 

I guess we need to wait for some early lightweight F-16A with pure maneuverability to show who's the boss in a knife fight.

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2 minutes ago, bies said:

What an irony, F-16 has been designed together with "The Fighter Mafia" as an ultimate dogfighter and the second smallest amount of people like it's BFM performance...

 

I guess we need to wait for some early lightweight F-16A with pure maneuverability to show who's the boss in a knife fight.

Eh?  Er...the Viper's in Early Access and the flight model is a work-in-progress.  All Viper drivers are eagerly awaiting those mods.  

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On 8/10/2021 at 11:40 PM, Dawgboy said:

Eh?  Er...the Viper's in Early Access and the flight model is a work-in-progress.  All Viper drivers are eagerly awaiting those mods.  

 

Yes, FM will be revised. But it won't be same drastic change, more like fine tuning I guess. It's FM is already done true to the NASA wind tunnel tests report, ED is doing a great job.

 

F-16 we have right now is simply very late variant post cold war block 50 CCIP around 2007. According to DCS it weighs some 9000kg empty... It will never be as maneuverable as early F-16A in BFM which was more than 1/4th lighter with exactly the same wing and airframe.

Different era, different purpose.


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Honestly, my favorite thing about the Viper is how it's a small, highly capable fighter that just feels "cozy." I like driving small subcompact automobiles because I can grok where the rest of the car is easily, and the few times I'm driven larger vehicles I get nervous because I can't mentally judge where the rear passneger-side is intuitively.. That's how I feel in a Viper vs. the Tomcat. I also enjoy the F-5E and AV-8B for similar reasons.

 

Plus, I think the Viper is simply a pretty aircraft and is fun to fly.

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you forgot to put "Deluxe Vista Canopy" in the poll dude. 😆

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15 hours ago, bies said:

It will never be like an early F-16A in BFM which was more than 1/4th lighter with exactly the same wing and airframe.

And less acceleration, difference in maneuver is not great.

 


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27 minutes ago, Ватрушка said:

And less acceleration, difference in maneuver is not great.

 

Block 30 - the first Big Mouth from 1980s and Desert Storm - has the best T/W, acceleration and climb rate.

 

 

Better listen real life F-16 pilots who flied all the different F-16 variants, not Forum Theorist. Pilots called F-16C "lead noses" due to heavy radar inside the nose deteriorating maneuverability, but offering better detection parameters.

 

 

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"The block 50/60 series are still very good airplanes, and lightly loaded, more than capable of holding their own in a fight. But, because of their higher weight, they just can't turn as quick as the earlier blocks could.

 

This was lamented by some of the pilots I had at Eglin- we had block 15's through block 50's there. The pilots loved the power and avionics capability of the 50's, but in a straight out visual guns 'fight', the lighter blocks held the upper hand in maneuvering."

 


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