New Viggen Pilot – Loving the Module! Looking for Clear Info on Overhead Pass and (Possible?) Overhead Break Landing

[Zev]

Hi all,

I recently purchased the AJS-37 Viggen module and I’m absolutely blown away by it. It fully lives up to Heatblur’s incredibly high standards, and I’m genuinely impressed by what this aircraft can do and the capabilities it brings as a combat jet.

I’m still very much at the beginning of the learning curve and working on getting more familiar with the aircraft, but I’m enjoying the process a lot so far.

Right now I’m trying to get a clear understanding of two procedures: the overhead pass and the overhead break landing. I know these are two different things, but I’m having trouble finding solid information on how they should be performed in the Viggen.

For the overhead break landing in particular, I’m not even sure whether this procedure was ever actually used by the Viggen in real life—if it wasn’t, I’d love to know that too.

I did notice that Chuck’s Guide briefly mentions the overhead pass, but the actual execution isn’t fully explained. The AJS-37 Flight Manual (RC2.1) also touches on it, but not in a way that gives me enough confidence to perform it correctly in DCS.

So my question is:

Does anyone have a detailed explanation or tutorial for the Viggen’s overhead pass, and can anyone confirm whether an overhead break landing procedure exists (and if so, how it’s done)?

Any guidance, references, or videos would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, and fly safe!

[TOViper]

Welcome to the Viggen-world!

RC2.1. page 146 should give you guidance for the overhead pass.
Fly over the airfield in 500m AGL with 550km/h.
Adjust forward speed in downwind to reach the "10km" baseleg in 500m and 320 km/h (this requires switching master mode to LANDN P/O and then back to LANDN NAV; this is called flip-flop; otherwise the CK will use the "20 km" approach pattern geometry).
Once aligned on the runway center line, start final approach and aim for ~3° glide path.
Extend landing gear.

The head up display (SI) guides you all night long ... just follow it.

The rest you know for sure ...
 

Edited 3 hours ago by TOViper

[Rudel_chw]

2 hours ago, TOViper said:

RC2.1. page 146 should give you guidance for the overhead pass.

 

Thanks for the keeping the manual updated, I used it as a guide when editing my landing training mission .. here is an Overhead Break landing video that I recorded while developing that mission, hopefully it will be useful to @Zev