Feedback Thread F-14 Tomcat Patch July 24th 2023 + Hotfix 28/07/2023

[sLYFa]

I've read this too on the forums but I never saw anything in the RW manuals or any SMEs stating that anything except zone5 or MIL was used on the boat. Fact is that the TF-30s are most stable at either zone5 or MIL and thats the critical part when launching from the boat. Anything else is asking for an engine failure during cat launch.

[draconus]

On 8/9/2023 at 6:19 PM, fat creason said:

I filed a bug report in ED's Jira for the carrier launch blackouts, there's not much else we can do about it. The lower launch speed seemed to help for some reason...

NATOPS says about initial momentary 15-20G vertical load from the compressed strut during cat launch firing - that'd be indepentent from speed. If that is modeled they have to figure out how that affects pilot momentary G load simulation.

[fat creason]

15 hours ago, draconus said:

NATOPS says about initial momentary 15-20G vertical load from the compressed strut during cat launch firing - that'd be indepentent from speed. If that is modeled they have to figure out how that affects pilot momentary G load simulation.

We model the forces of the strut being compressed - when it releases at the end of the cat shot it's what gives the initial pitch up attitude. We tuned the strut forces to get a particular attitude on launch. The blackouts are caused by poor logic that controls the blackout effect, which we have no control over. ED needs to use a rolling average for G instead of what seems like a hard coded number in an IF statement. Or they could simply disable G-based blackout while on the ground. An API call to disable blackout could also work. I have suggested all these solutions in a Jira ticket with ED, so hopefully something can be done about it soon.

Edited August 20, 2023 by fat creason