Rypley's Hangar
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someone pm about sending me one of those elusive manuals, but it wouldn’t useful at all, since idk if new avionics could be coded anytime soon.
New avionics are possible to code if there’s a coder who’s both willing and able to do it. Not a trivial thing to ask for, but not impossible, either. However, nobody can code something that there’s no information on (which is why the ECM panel is still nonfunctional). Block A is different, but it’s not that different, and it’d certainly be easier to implement that than, say, attempting to give the F/A-18 a fully modeled avionics suite.
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… personally, if I find an available avionic coder in the team, I would ask him if he could be kind enough to fix the flaws we have on our current blocks and try to implement what we are still lacking (several things actually).
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Ofcourse current Viper blocks are priority, but there’s nothing wrong with collecting the docs, they might be handy someday. You can never know what future brings/
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I have a set of real old block glareshields lying around.
Tell me, what you need.Do you have the F-16A block 15 glareshield?
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Do you have the F-16A block 15 glareshield?
I’m 95% sure, that its a B15. But I have no history of it, so I can not confirm.
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the MISC Panel is almost ready, but you wont see any updates until Wednesday since i’ll be taking a day trip tomorrow, so we’ll see this Wednesday! -
I’m 95% sure, that its a B15. But I have no history of it, so I can not confirm.
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nice! thanks for the images! but, if possible could you do a right and top view photo? i’d like to use it as reference image to ease a bit the modelling.
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Very cool work thus far. Keep it up!
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I’ll see tomorrow
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Hey i’m back baby! and i brought some progress too!
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Hey i’m back baby! and i brought some progress too!
https://i.imgur.com/kPAvoHM.jpgThis cockpit combined with a F-16A model by Janhas would be perfect. Kee on your amazing work.
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Yep this virtual tour is excellent, now 1milion $ question is how various pages of SCP looked like and how it interacts with DATA FUNCTION panel.
BTW Did F-16A had any lasing pod in the inventory? I’m asking because of clearly visible Laser arm switch.
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BTW Did F-16A had any lasing pod in the inventory? I’m asking because of clearly visible Laser arm switch.
As far as ye old fashioned pit F-16A goes I think the first to get TGPs or certified for were a few Foreign countries including Pakistan on the ATLIS II. Venezuelan F-16As have been seen with AAQ-28 Litening TGPs.
There were probably a few more, however F-16As didn’t need a TGP and could still drop LGBs via lazing from another aircraft or ground based troops.
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Any advice on how to make the main ADI? i’m having some trouble with it…
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There were probably a few more, however F-16As didn’t need a TGP and could still drop LGBs via lazing from another aircraft or ground based troops.
It still had the switch for arming the laser, though, so there must have been some way it could use it. Though maybe it was just the designers anticipating it would eventually be able to use one.
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It still had the switch for arming the laser, though, so there must have been some way it could use it. Though maybe it was just the designers anticipating it would eventually be able to use one.
I can see that the Block 1 cockpit didn’t have a laser arm switch at all although those upgraded to Block 10 etc might have got one but again Block 10 and under didn’t have the cheek hardpoints.
Considering thousands of game changing LGBs were dropped on Nam in 1972 (mostly Buddy Lased) it was definitely considered from the start , LGBs were flight certified in the 70s for the F-16.
Note that LANTIRN Development started in the late 1970s along with the AMRAAM etc all intended for the F-16s future.
Thing is without an actual laser device there was nothing to use - Pave Penny was passive only AFAIK and thus ATLIS II was probably the first in the mid 1980s.
None of the pods used by the F-4 were suitable (Pave Spike/Tack) and could not be loaded.
ATLIS was flight tested in the 70s on the development F-16s, but Martin got the LANTIRN Contract and split with Thomson and the production version ATLIS II didn’t appear till about 10 years later.
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I can see that the Block 1 cockpit didn’t have a laser arm switch at all although those upgraded to Block 10 etc might have got one but again Block 10 and under didn’t have the cheek hardpoints.
As far as the manual says, the don’t have it.
Extracted from the official General Dynamics F-16A/B Manual -
I see, so by 1984 it looks like the laser arm switch was on the Block 15 cockpit diagram. Suppose that makes sense now with the cheek hardpoint provisions in place.