How to choose a flight altitude?
-
How to choose a flight altitude??
Use the force Blunder …. let the flight altitude choose you.
-
Wow, I didn’t know anyone flew higher than FL400 in missions…
I find it hard to maneuver against R-77s when I am that high. Any tricks? (assuming that I launched my slammer and the enemy aircraft sent r77 my way)
part of the advantage of being 40k+ is that very few SU-27s will fly that high. you will almost always have a pretty big first launch margin, and the fact that you can effectively move at like mach 1.5~ while running burner helps too. if they do try to climb into you, it’s very likely that they’ll just spend all of their energy in the climb.
if you are launched upon and not going very fast you’re probably dead. adders will fly forever at that altitude, and since your engine power is relatively low you’re not going to get up to speed very fast.
for this reason, it’s very unwise to be so high unless you’re pretty sure you will be able to firstlaunch and then run ASAP.
-
If there’s no degrade for look-down-shoot-down radar modeling, your a “big dog” at low FL against medium range AAM.
AFAIK LookDown/ShootDown was modelled since the old RP-days of Falcon4. There was an Excel provided to calculate the ranges.
I don’t think BMS made a step back and kicked the implementation of LD/SD.
-
Sry this is probably a dumb question, but what does NOE mean? I stunbled at this a few times recently, but so far couldn’t figure out the meaning
-
Near On Earth. (If I’m not wrong)
-
Sry this is probably a dumb question, but what does NOE mean? I stunbled at this a few times recently, but so far couldn’t figure out the meaning
Near On Earth. (If I’m not wrong)
Nap-of-the-Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap-of-the-earth
C9
-
what does ‘nap’ mean?
nap = near ? -
Nap of the earth.
Too late;-)
-
Thanks everyone for these quality replies!
“Nap” usually refers to the fuzzy texture of materials like carpet, felt, suede, etc. I guess the phrase is intended to suggest the earth’s surface has a similar character.
-
Thanks for the clarification.