lunaticfringe Posted June 8, 2022 Posted June 8, 2022 On 6/7/2022 at 3:54 AM, cjladd11 said: Kind of defeats the purpose and unspoken motto of DCS of being “as real as it gets.” Sure I’d love to be able to plug up every time I take the Tomcat in the sim, but like others have posted, it takes practice. I think I’m at a 1 out of 30 times being able to plug on the first approach. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro The most certain way to plug on every approach is to slow down. Get the jet set, trimmed up, approach to pre-contact. Then *walk* the jet to the basket. Baby steps. Gentle adjustment and readjustment. The less hurried the process, the faster the stab ultimately is, and the better set you are to take the big gulp on one touch. The more time is spent getting it right before the plug, the faster the actual refuel, with the added bonus that the experience and comfort in learning the look speeds things up in successive attempts. Your brain is literally learning to stop and smell the roses, and over time memorizes the look and the scent, thus allowing you to get faster as you practice. The sight picture becomes more natural, you get ahead of the control inputs, throttle, and trim, and pretty soon what used to be a two or more minute walk from the "ready" call to the basket is now less than 30 seconds- and you go from fumes to full up on one tap. 3
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