In Flight Alignment...

[Mr_Blastman]

So yesterday I was farting around and decided to go for a Chuck Yeager "The Right Stuff" moment, so I became a dot and when I was around Mach 1.5 at 42k feet I nosed up and headed for stars.  Up I went, and the needle kept spinning, 50, 60, 65k, the spinning slowed and my nose began to wobble.  Just before I hit angels 72 I mused to myself, "Wouldn't that be nice if I had a compressor stall?"

Funny how musings go.

Sometimes they actually happen.

And my engine went out.  My nose careened groundward and the distant Earth began to grow past my canopy glass.  Calm as I could be, I re-lit my engine and powered the generators back on by Angels 50 and regained control of my airframe.  My INS, however, was porked.  Gone was my velocity vector and I knew not how to align in flight.

I managed to land at a nearby friendly airfield without these modern HUD accoutrements, safely.  Still, I wonder, what does a Mirage pilot do when their engines go dead in flight, thus stalling their generators, too?

Is there a way to align in flight?

 

I know in the Viper one can, and have done this in that other Sim.  It would be neat if we could here, too, as I was pleasantly surprised that the compressor stall happened.  I also think I can blow past angels 72 sometime, as well, when I really try.

 

Edited December 6, 2021 by Mr_Blastman

[myHelljumper]

Hi,

The Mirage INS cannot be aligned in flight, you would need to switch to SEC mode to the attitude information.

[Mr_Blastman]

That's a bummer. 

On the bright side I actually found a use for the pop out auxiliary compass.