New "heavy" options in the comms ?
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@Atlas
Sure, that was my reference. A heavy Viper would have a weight of 30-40000 lbs.For instance, the Block 50 flight in the AAR training mission with two bags. If you fill up the external tanks at the tanker and immediately go to land at Seoul, you have to perform a very good landing to stay inside the runway, esp on the shorter of the two runways.
Or in the dumb bombs TE, you are quite heavy when you spawn and it can be good practice to try and land right away
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@airtex2019 said in New “heavy” options in the comms ?:
@Flow32 it’s in the release notes for U2 … probably some doc files need updating tho.
Already updated for U3
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@Atlas I would assume that if you are landing in CAT III you are heavy.
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@SemlerPDX I land in whatever CAT I want to, dammit!! Don’t you be CAT-shaming me!!
@jayb Thanks for that info!
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@Atlas You’re not fat, you’re just “heavy”.
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@Ricky I don’t go for that clean, sleek, acrobatics look. I prefer the look that means business.
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@Atlas - You are the C-130 to his F-104.
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@Flow32 - in the civil air traffic world, a “heavy” is a larger airliner - like a 747, 777, or 787. But for our purposes calling “heavy” to ask for the longer runway does make some sense…and as I recall you can’t dump fuel in our Viper(s). At least I’ve never found that switch.
Question though - in the RW there are weight restrictions for engaging the arresting gear and not snap the wire - does BMS model that?
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@Stevie you can dump fuel with the viper, it’s injected right after the turbine Quite the efficient way to get rid of fuel ^^
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@Flow32 - and that’s how I’ve been doing it…but if I had an emergency and needed to take a trap, I’d still like to know how/if I’d snap the wire…might impact a decision as to which wire I’d try to take - short or long field.
One thing I noted very early on was not being able to find a max landing weight for the Viper in the book. Critical parameter for Naval operations…when I was working with VT-21 there was an incident on the first T-45A boat trip where a wire snapped and took off both of a deck crewman’s legs. Didn’t hear what type aircraft it was that snapped the wire, but it got my attention.