Some questions related to the mudhen

[_Guill4ume_]

Hi gents,

Tried the f15e for the first time yesterday, I went for some bindings and for a full cold and dark procedure and most of the ( few but well done training missions ) here some questions / observations. ( sorry if some questions have been posted already, i went through this forum once or twice but can’t remember all.

 

- first and foremost I playing VR and the f15e is the heaviest ( vr/computer perfo wise) a/c I had ever experienced… i am used to play with f15c, f5, mig21, f14 and f16c and the experience was smooth. Here with same config and settings that was unplayable. I had to basically put everything to minimum to be able to have a smooth experience, even for cold and dark sequence. I am wondering how it can be on heavy servers like tti or blue flag.

- I got as well the align hold couple of time ( even tho I was respecting the step of the checklist - canopy clsd - brake hold - etc… ) I found out that : i was pre programming my mpd/mpcd for a/a , a/g and nav master mode as well as my 3 pages per screen and reviewing/checking it by snapping the castle switch. Doing that bring input on the flight controls surfaces and made them move. So it screws the process and go to hold. If I am not touching the stick at all it goes fine. Same if I go on stored mode for fast align. —> question here : can you fast align on MP servers? How is the accuracy degradation over time? Do we have in the system a page where we can find the accuracy? Like on my IRL aircraft I have a nav page where I can see the drift of my 3 ins in nm over time and when a certain limit is exceeded ( and not updated by gps position, because of spoofing or jamming for example ) i got an error message and then act accordingly.

-- So for the questions ;

- Can we remove the WSO? In the training mission I noticed that the GIB is not there and I like it. I know we should fly with a wso but as far as there is no integration like Jester, it’s just dead weight ( btw if we can remove it, is it shown in the a/c mass and balance, with all the gear it’s an easy 200 pounds saved  ). Further more in vr he ( or she, af 21st century…) seems glocked and it annoy me a lot, it breaks the immersion to see someone static. Flew a lot with GIB and I am biased  as dcs is all about the experience , I would like to tailor it to my taste/needs.

- I find the brightness of the 2 mpd very dim, even at max level. I know they emulated crt’s but flew with some good old crt and they are way much more brighter irl. If I compare it to the f15c it is really different. I found really important with the radar, as I lowered my resolution with the current max brightness i am not able to read the altitude next to the track file. Bottom line, max brightness during day is less than a irl screen. Should it be in bug report?
 

- Speed of the antenna tilt and tdc : I found the speed of the antenna tilt slower than an IRL mechanical radar dish. Is it like this in the mudhen or can I change the ´sensitivity’ via the controls mapping?
 

- Stuck on the training mission with a/a missiles employment. I bound controls to cycle loop through guns srm mrm but I don’t know how to cycle between the aim7 and aim120. On the armt panel submenu I see is by default the right forward station on sby but as soon as I cycle the a/a radar screen popup iso the armt panel. 
 

- Is there a way the remove the pylons on the cft’s? Via ME I found that the center line pylon and wing pylons can be removed but even not loaded with bomb i see all those draggy stations along the aircraft.

 

thanks for reading gents! If something else coming up I will edit the post.

[draconus]

2 hours ago, _Guill4ume_ said:

I am wondering how it can be on heavy servers like tti or blue flag.

It'll be even worse in MP of course

2 hours ago, _Guill4ume_ said:

can you fast align on MP servers?

Depends on the mission design. There are options for that in ME.

2 hours ago, _Guill4ume_ said:

Can we remove the WSO?

Also selectable in ME, in aircraft misc. options > solo. But it breaks immersion even more because 99% flights are done with WSO in the back IRL.

2 hours ago, _Guill4ume_ said:

Bottom line, max brightness during day is less than a irl screen.

I found the speed of the antenna tilt slower than an IRL mechanical radar dish.

You better have some good source on this before reporting a bug.

2 hours ago, _Guill4ume_ said:

I don’t know how to cycle between the aim7 and aim120.

Manual p. 295:

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Undesignate / Missile Reject Switch (Boat Switch)
In A/A radar or in A/A PACS page, short pressing forward (<1s) rejects the
priority missile type and chooses another active missile type.
If there are different types of AIM-120s, it would cycle through the types (AIM-120V,
then B). If there are both AIM-120s and AIM-7s, each Each BOAT FWD would go
back and forth between AIM-7 and AIM-120.

 

2 hours ago, _Guill4ume_ said:

Is there a way the remove the pylons on the cft’s?

No, they are integrated into CFTs afaik.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

5 hours ago, _Guill4ume_ said:

Can we remove the WSO?

Yes but keep in mind you don't want to do that for combat missions, since you need the backseater to turn on essential systems such as ICS, RWR and TEWS. Also the TPOD is turned on in the back seat, so if you select "solo flight" in the ME you can't swap to the back seat to turn those systems on.

[jaylw314]

2 hours ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

Yes but keep in mind you don't want to do that for combat missions, since you need the backseater to turn on essential systems such as ICS, RWR and TEWS. Also the TPOD is turned on in the back seat, so if you select "solo flight" in the ME you can't swap to the back seat to turn those systems on.

IIRC there are some Pilot-only specific bindings to turn on the TPOD, and EW stuff.  Of course, you can't see what you're doing.