Unnecessary controls
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In general, what you call unnecessary is actually redundancy to mitigate failures. The jet is 30 years old. Lockheed had plenty of feedback to add stuff or remove unnecessary functions, dont worry.
To expand on this, statistically speaking because one thread of a select group of users (and yourself) doesn’t use a feature, doesn’t mean a majority of the people operating the aircraft don’t either.
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I would have thought the radar altimeter would be more prone to failure than the barometric one… barometric one just needs static air source to work, radar one needs power, computer able to interpret radar display, no wiring faults between the EMCON switch and the radar…
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I would have thought the radar altimeter would be more prone to failure than the barometric one… barometric one just needs static air source to work, radar one needs power, computer able to interpret radar display, no wiring faults between the EMCON switch and the radar…
I agree. But still, baro can fail. Or you could be stuck with a false QNH, for example, some stuff like that.
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so we have progressed from faulty altimeter to just not knowing the correct QNH… well in any event, the radar altimeter is useful for a variety of reasons. Hence setting the HUD panel options to have the RALT active and display the BARO setting primarily.
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TFR can not be activated if no ground radar
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GCAS too I think. Rad alt isn’t going anywhere.
Normal cockpit baro alt is from the ADC, not simple pitot-static system. It has a backup mode which bypasses ADC calculation for “standalone” behavior but is less accurate.
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GCAS too I think. Rad alt isn’t going anywhere.
Normal cockpit baro alt is from the ADC, not simple pitot-static system. It has a backup mode which bypasses ADC calculation for “standalone” behavior but is less accurate.
Heh well the ADC gets all of it’s inputs from the pitot-static system other than the AoA probes.
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The ramp start is a mind torture.
Needed a triple strength coffee after one try.
My mind is just not up to this sorry lads.
Back to Iracing for me and some ROF or even War Thunder.
My mind is not good enough.
Ever since I saw F4 on the shelves,I wanted to fly this but I guess I was given terrible genes.
You can’t choose that.
You get what you are given.
P.S. I was thinking that surely a dummmie can learn this over time but I’d neeed a teacher of supreme patience.
I reckon I could do it but I’d need someone online to teach me for 3 years.
Even the Bulls Eye Trainer is a mind ripper for me.
The manuals are way too cryptic for an average person to learn from.
i got good at drumming by repition ,just doing things and repeating for hours and hours till I got it but BMS requires SUPREME INTELLIGENCE.
It’s not the flying that is HARD in these modern sims.
It’s all the strategy elements and management which is totally the opposite of how my mind functions lol.
I suck at strategy games ,really suck.
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@ smasha…take a couple of days off and come back. Don’t give up. Try some other things and get more familiar with flying and the consoles and then come back to ramp starts. Just start at taxi or runway for a while.
You will find great reward by learning things (those Ah-Ha! moments) about flying this aircraft. Most things you do in jet are easier than ramp starts (from a procedural standpoint) so just do some of the other training missions. When I first started I would just load up the take off TE and load out the plane with whatever I wanted to practice with and would just pick any target I could lock up with the radar and/or TGP because in the TE nothing is logged in the logbook.
As I have heard so many times before as I was learning in this forum and others, this elephant can only be eaten one bite at a time!
But no one ever said from which end of the elephant you had to start eating. :lol:
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@ smasha…take a couple of days off and come back. Don’t give up. Try some other things and get more familiar with flying and the consoles and then come back to ramp starts. Just start at taxi or runway for a while.
You will find great reward by learning things (those Ah-Ha! moments) about flying this aircraft. Most things you do in jet are easier than ramp starts (from a procedural standpoint) so just do some of the other training missions. When I first started I would just load up the take off TE and load out the plane with whatever I wanted to practice with and would just pick any target I could lock up with the radar and/or TGP because in the TE nothing is logged in the logbook.
As I have heard so many times before as I was learning in this forum and others, this elephant can only be eaten one bite at a time!
But no one ever said from which end of the elephant you had to start eating. :lol:
I have done that a million times.
I take a break, come back,get totally overwhelmed and start getting down on myself then leave then when I have the courage again,I try again and get overwhelmed again.Sorry,I was short changed by the brain chef.
I’ll fix him up when my time is done.
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@ smasha…take a couple of days off and come back. Don’t give up. Try some other things and get more familiar with flying and the consoles and then come back to ramp starts. Just start at taxi or runway for a while.
You will find great reward by learning things (those Ah-Ha! moments) about flying this aircraft. Most things you do in jet are easier than ramp starts (from a procedural standpoint) so just do some of the other training missions. When I first started I would just load up the take off TE and load out the plane with whatever I wanted to practice with and would just pick any target I could lock up with the radar and/or TGP because in the TE nothing is logged in the logbook.
As I have heard so many times before as I was learning in this forum and others, this elephant can only be eaten one bite at a time!
But no one ever said from which end of the elephant you had to start eating. :lol:
Everything is hard in BMS mate.
Selecting a target you need to understand what all the mdf switches do.
Waiting for Australia to design an airplane.
One press,everything switches on automatically with out 5 rubix cubes sitting in your lap.
She’ll be RIGHT MATE!
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Radar altimeter is used for AGL in overhead breaks with wingmates, and when doing DME ARCs and ILS landings in 0 visibility, in case of mountains and charts being off. I have seen people run into mountains due to not having the radar altimeter displaying.
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@smasha:
The ramp start is a mind torture.
Only at first. By the 100th time it’s like getting in the car and turning the key. By the 1000th time you can do it before morning coffee.
I agree the reference manuals are confusing. A pilot is at heart an information aggregator. Putting the pieces together while learning is a kind of exercise to build the mentality needed to continue flying. If it is easy and spoon fed your brain muscle may be flabby when it comes time for the next level. Half of the challenge of piloting is having confidence and ability to build slowly a big picture of small parts. The mountain is too tall to step to the top at once. Don’t think about the top of the mountain, just the next step in front of you. If you do the next step in front of you always the top of the mountain will come to you.
Lastly no modern aviator I know of did it alone. Find an instructor/mentor that you like and work with and fly together. Flying with someone more experienced and good teaching ability is the #1 path to improvement.
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Only at first. By the 100th time it’s like getting in the car and turning the key. By the 1000th time you can do it before morning coffee.
I agree the reference manuals are confusing. A pilot is at heart an information aggregator. Putting the pieces together while learning is a kind of exercise to build the mentality needed to continue flying. If it is easy and spoon fed your brain muscle may be flabby when it comes time for the next level. Half of the challenge of piloting is having confidence and ability to build slowly a big picture of small parts. The mountain is too tall to step to the top at once. Don’t think about the top of the mountain, just the next step in front of you. If you do the next step in front of you always the top of the mountain will come to you.
Lastly no modern aviator I know of did it alone. Find an instructor/mentor that you like and work with and fly together. Flying with someone more experienced and good teaching ability is the #1 path to improvement.
Oman.
But I can’t do it because of the pilot’s legs.
I got 90 percent through it but there was a switch that I couldn’t reach and also I can’t see all the caution lights because of the pilot’s legs.
Is there a mod where you can toggle these on and off? -
Only at first. By the 100th time it’s like getting in the car and turning the key. By the 1000th time you can do it before morning coffee.
I agree the reference manuals are confusing. A pilot is at heart an information aggregator. Putting the pieces together while learning is a kind of exercise to build the mentality needed to continue flying. If it is easy and spoon fed your brain muscle may be flabby when it comes time for the next level. Half of the challenge of piloting is having confidence and ability to build slowly a big picture of small parts. The mountain is too tall to step to the top at once. Don’t think about the top of the mountain, just the next step in front of you. If you do the next step in front of you always the top of the mountain will come to you.
Most of the squadrons are a bit snobby if you know what I mean.
Is there a teacher or squad ron out here for NOOBS.
I mean NOOBs who have had the game since 1999 and desperate to learn?
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@smasha:
Is there a mod where you can toggle these on and off?
By default there is no legs. Just don’t install the mod.
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I know what you mean. Fly with me I can straighten you out and I promise I won’t make you join since there’s no squadron.
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@smasha:
Everything is hard in BMS mate.
Selecting a target you need to understand what all the mdf switches do.
Waiting for Australia to design an airplane.
One press,everything switches on automatically with out 5 rubix cubes sitting in your lap.
She’ll be RIGHT MATE!
Yeah, I dunno mate…. look up the Nomads that the RAAF used to fly. Designed and built in Melbourne, and widely regarded in the service as a death sentence if you got posted to flying them.
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smasha… you play iracing which requires a fine tuned car and thorough knowledge of the race tracks you run but you can’t leart to start the jet… I can’t figure out odd time signatures In drums… strange world… dont give up… it is like learning a difficult/complex break… just take it step by step…