F-18 C/D, USS Vinson, Yellow Sea
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Since when Jane’s series have a 3D clickable cockpit ?
SO you are a little bit extreme in your statements.
one real annoying thing in the current F18 cockpit is the DED that is barely readable
As far as Super hornet is concerned, you are all right, it should be completely removed from BMS since we dont have any clue about FM nor cockpit
That’s another problem with both the C/D and E/F cockpits in BMS - real Hornets don’t have a DED…and so the DED should be removed completely from the Hornets and the associated functionality moved to how it’s supposed to be done in a Hornet. Which is also not the same for a C/D as it is for an E/F. The Jane’s and VRS sims really are the best out there as far as Hornet cockpit modeling goes. Good references.
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That’s another problem with both the C/D and E/F cockpits in BMS - real Hornets don’t have a DED…and so the DED should be removed completely from the Hornets and the associated functionality moved to how it’s supposed to be done in a Hornet. Which is also not the same for a C/D as it is for an E/F. The Jane’s and VRS sims really are the best out there as far as Hornet cockpit modeling goes. Good references.
True on all counts, except Janes has hideous grafix, I know as I still fly it when I can stomach it, VRS has no combat worth discussing.
We will need more advanced Bug functionality before we could remove the DED and I dont foresee that coming, info is scant on that topic. Mav keeps hinting but we have no reliable info. I suspect that my main Bug fix will be coming from the DCS one.
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True on all counts, except Janes has hideous grafix, I know as I still fly it when I can stomach it, VRS has no combat worth discussing.
We will need more advanced Bug functionality before we could remove the DED and I dont foresee that coming, info is scant on that topic. Mav keeps hinting but we have no reliable info. I suspect that my main Bug fix will be coming from the DCS one.
I think it’s more a matter of just mapping the functions as appropriate to the cockpit in question. There’s a lot of “DED” functionality that simply isn’t present in the Hornet cockpit - like putting the DED on the HUD…I actually had to explain to a RL Hornet driver how you can get rid of that in an F-16 once (he was flying F-16s on a USAF/USN TPS exchange) - based on my (correct) knowledge of where the switch is from flying FAF/BMS. Other than that it’s simply a matter of mapping out the DED/ICP function to the UFC/UFCD properly - Jane’s and/or VRS are good refs.
Using Janes/VRS sims as guides (which I’m betting is what DCS will do…almost have to do, really) the re-application of functions as they exist for F-16 could be done to the extent it could be done, and people would just pain have to get used to the fact that a Hornet is not a Viper and things work different.
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Dude who made the VRS Rhino admitted that alot of his reference info came from Janes F/18.
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Janes is actually is a very good reference for our purposes, as far as avionics/systems goes…past that it is was it is…was…where it left off.
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Looks good!
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Mav keeps hinting but we have no reliable info.
I am talking FM only , but everything i am cooking will not be in next update, unfortunatly … but still, this will be a significant evolution of the F18 FM.
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I am talking FM only , but everything i am cooking will not be in next update, unfortunatly … but still, this will be a significant evolution of the F18 FM.
REALLY looking forward to a Bug FM, brother…I’m ready.
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+1
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…which one?
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will not be in next update, unfortunatly
On the other hand it may mean that changelog is closed and update will be released shortly.
Shorter than 3-4 weeks, at least
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The Bug. The Rhino has no dedicated cockpit in BMS.
…you guys keep throwing me…because no self-respecting Naval Aviator I’ve ever encountered has ever referred to a Hornet of any variety as a “bug”…Legacy, Baby, Super, or Rhino…but never a “bug”. Story I’ve always heard is that VRS (and some others in commercial operations) took to doing that for some sort of legal reason sometime after the Super was rolled out, but I never hear that anywhere around USN circles (at least the circle I’ve moved in), and flat refuse to use the term myself…MMV.
I can wait the 3-4 weeks…standing by.
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Im with Stevie… havent heard the RAAF pilots I know call them Bugs. Classics or Supers, usually.
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Im with Stevie… havent heard the RAAF pilots I know call them Bugs. Classics or Supers, usually.
Thanks for the reminder Blu3wolf - “Classics” is one I’d forgotten…I’ve heard that one too.
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Rhino driver I know uses the terms baby, legacy, legendary, Charlie/Charles, and Super, Rhino, or Echo/Foxtrot. Never heard bug other than here and the VRS Superbug
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Understood.
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lol considering im not in the Navy, i ll keep calling it a ‘bug’
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…shun the non-believer…shunnn…