Just a curiousity about the F-16's speed.
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All my life I’ve always read that the F-16s top speed at 36,000ft is Mach 2.1. But even in a completely unarmed F-16 I’ve never been able to achieve that speed even in a dive. I’m just curious if that’s something wrong in the game, what I’ve read, or if there’s something I’m missing on the subject.
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All my life I’ve always read that the F-16s top speed at 36,000ft is Mach 2.1. But even in a completely unarmed F-16 I’ve never been able to achieve that speed even in a dive. I’m just curious if that’s something wrong in the game, what I’ve read, or if there’s something I’m missing on the subject.
Take a block 50 you will make it no problem , depends a lot on your climbbprofike though
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climb profile is really important, don’t stick yourself at high altitude, M 0.7 and sit waiting with full burner. You’ll certainly need an acceleration phase at lower altitude, to go past transonic, then resume climbing, during which you’ll certainly keep accelerating!
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learning to fly supersonic with a load on the wing, what can handle it, and using your fuel in time increments is a skill that develops as you become accustomed to every aircraft. Read about Phantom pilots. If you fly falcon based on watching youtube you won’t be indoctrinated into certain ethos and pathos of combat flight. go fast.
The f-16 can hit mach 2.1 in a climb at 35,000. Learn more about fluid dynamics, meditate on the physics of flight, you’ll start ripping wings off soon enough.
watch HUD footage of mach 2 flight in an f16, watch how the aviator gets it up there. Subtle arts.
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altitude restriction Push profile is burner to 500 IAS @ 200 ASL to angels 15, rinse and repeat. You can also do this in a climbing spiral if you don’t have a large wingload, using 5 G turns and inverting a scissor every now and then.
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Altitude to hit Mmo (level at least) is a small window. You want to climb at a minimum fuel to altitude with a DI 0 airplane (nothing on it) at the most efficient profile of about 330 KCAS. “Optimum” and “Home” profiles are slightly faster as they are also interested in distance along with height but they’re all really close to the same consumption. The goal is to get to altitude with the maximum amount of fuel left for the run. A lot of times the run extends out a distance with a turn around at max efficient cruise before the run so that if the engine fails there’s an improved safety for recovery.
Altitude band at which >M2.0 is possible is 34-44 kft standard day with the peak at 36 kft. If anything start and be above midpoint since you can always descend for a bit of a boost and the penalty for being low is higher than being above. For middle-weight airplane from 200 knots it’s expected to take five minutes and twenty-six seconds to reach the limit. It is a good idea to use descent to break through the M0.9-1.1 region as well as the final >M1.9 stretch to speed up the process as Ps is rather low here.
Doing some sort of tactical intercept where minimum time matters would be a different process, probably M0.9 to altitude being the main difference. Maybe you would switch Ps bumps from M0.9 to M1.6 depending on the situation early but I don’t know what situations would suggest that if any.
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Thx for the responses guys. Man that’s neat getting up to Mach 2 + and watching how fast the ground underneath is scooting by. Holy crap
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If you’re curious about your groundspeed look at DED, LIST, 6 for the INS page. You should be doing 1500-1700 kt gs. I also tend to set this page for taxi operations.
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Then check out the ded INS page - groundspeed 999
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If you’re curious about your groundspeed look at DED, LIST, 6 for the INS page. You should be doing 1500-1700 kt gs. I also tend to set this page for taxi operations.
May I recommend the GPS page instead? In BMS, same content as the INS page but with the addition of current time as well, which is helpful for ground ops.
LIST -> 0 M-SEL -> 6 TIME
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At M2.0 the jet stared to bank L/R without any input but it is reachable without any issue. I do not know about M2.1.
They did not fly faster than M2.0.
F-16CJ supplement also shows as M2.0 max speed regardless of PW or GE engine.
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Level flight was always m2.0 or m2.05 for production F-16s from what i have seen.
There was one F-16 I know of taken over m2.1 in level flight …… this was the F-16/79… had a J79 turbojet and a different inlet…also demonstrated no control problems even though that was anticipated.
They also thought back then they might have had a m2.2 requirement so a variable intake was looked into and that would have done the trick at expence of more weight…they would have had to recertify everything as well I expect.
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@14.13
could it be the BLK 30? they call it bigmouth due to its bigger inlet.
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@14.13
could it be the BLK 30? they call it bigmouth due to its bigger inlet.
The F-16Ns were block30s with GE engines, but usually with the smaller inlet.
Very very cool video.
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He has his hud set to grnd speed
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