F-35, anyone?

[RodBorza]

i know this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find it by doing a search.

ED said that the next on the series will be an american fixed wing aircraft.

Many want the F-16, the F-15E and many more want the F/A-18.

But I was thinking..what about the F-35? Would ED go all "MicroProse" on us and release something on the 35, as MP did with the F-19?

[MTFDarkEagle]

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=51462

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=67102

[NoJoe]

I doubt there would be enough non-classified stuff on the F-35 to make a functional sim. If ED simulated it we'd probably only be able to takeoff and land. Actually, I bet even the takeoff performance of the F-35 is classified! :P

 

Bottom line, there probably isn't enough info to do an F-35 sim. And it seems like ED's stance is to not simulate something if they can't simulate it nearly 100%. :thumbup:

 

--NoJoe

 

[EDIT] There's always that AT-802U. :D

Edited February 19, 2011 by NoJoe

[Avilator]

[EDIT] There's always that AT-802U. :D

Which would make an EPIC sim.:pilotfly::joystick:

[RodBorza]

I understand that there are many things classified on the F-35, but I brought it up because since ED makes sims for the training, maybe, just maybe, they would be working on a F-35 sim and would release it commercially.

But, since many things are top secret, maybe will have a F-18 in our hands.

 

About the AT-802U: that's the REAL low-flying, slow speed close air support. For a (ir)regular combatant on the ground, that is a nasty airplane to go against. Surely, would be EPIC. LOL.

[Jinro]

I couldn't imagine carrier traps with a DCS sim set at max realism....awesome if I could pull it off, but doubt I ever could :P

[Nikeleye]

I couldn't imagine carrier traps with a DCS sim set at max realism....awesome if I could pull it off, but doubt I ever could :P

 

Apologies for going off the track of the F-35 (though, considering the plans for the F-35C, maybe not that off-topic).

 

I think the attraction of more than just 'combat' as a major pillar of the DCS series would suggest that carrier operations are a possibility. ED have developed a full fidelity cockpit simulator with land-based aircraft designed for air-to-ground combat solely. Let's be presumptuous and knowing that the next module will be a USAF/USMC/USN fixed-wing, and they'd want to make best use of the pre-made A2G aspect, and (hopefully) add the A2A aspect; it could be the F-16C/D given that there's 1200+ of them around the USA and that's a lot of pilots to train due to natural wastage , or an F/A-18E/F, given there's ~400 of them in USN service with another ~120 ordered, again needing much in the way of pilot training both new and replenishment. In my (amateur and uninformed) opinion that gives those two much more chance of a DTS contract with TFC than, say, an F-15, -22 or AV-8B.

 

When you consider an aircraft such as the F/A-18 it seems like to not add carrier operations would be wrong... and we saw in Lock On that ED have the basics of carrier operations down, so while ambitious I definately think they have the skill level to pull it off in a DCS-level sim environment.

 

And, let's face it... it'd add a whole new world of pain to the learning curve to do cat take-offs and arrested ldg's - one i'd probably fail hard at but would love every minute of failing. :D

[ColGray]

Plus to save time on building the aircraft carrier, I'm sure Javier Hernadez's Awesome nimitz class carrier could be transferred over