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RE: [IMPORTANT] Please Read carefully the annoncement!!!
Latest posts made by Dragon1-1
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RE: [IMPORTANT] Please Read carefully the annoncement!!!
I suppose we should all brace for a horrible, hideous monster that’ll only look like anything on mobile, if that. I hate “modern” forum UI with passion, especially IPS. I hope whatever replaces this forum gets a decent look, but I’m not exactly hopeful.
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RE: F-16 G Limit CAT III
The Viper’s FCS doesn’t really support that the way Hornet’s does. IIRC, in the Viper you basically command the G with the stick. Max stick deflection=max G. The Viper isn’t aerodynamically stable, you can’t really fly it “manually” the way you can do with the Hornet.
@Dee-Jay:If your a/c is not reusable after your landing, mission may be successful, but you have -1 a/c for subsequent planned missions (depending on severity of the over-g). Not stimulated on game.
Still better to have -1 Weasel bird than -4 strikers+their pilots. And it certainly is easier to find another Viper than another nutter who’d fly it into WEZ of various kinds of SAMs on purpose and then fool around long enough for them not to lose interest and trash his HARM. Then again, those guys were dodging SAMs in Phantoms just fine before the Viper got that gig, so maybe G limits don’t bother them that much…
TBH, campaign should simulate bird writeoffs from things like over-G and landing accidents (maybe as an optional difficult setting). IRL, treating you planes like rental cars is a good way to have attrition creep up even if you don’t exceed any limits.
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RE: F-16 G Limit CAT III
G limitations mostly applies 99.99% of flight time, when you don’t have a missile tracking you. (And when a missile is tracking you, it means that you’ve failed your mission).
Unless the mission is SEAD, then it’s just another day in the office. In fact, if it’s tracking you, it’s probably not tracking whoever you’re escorting, nor did it go quiet to spoof your HARM. So… mission accomplished?
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RE: Forward roll
Outside loops are a thing in some aircraft, but they’re extremely dangerous due to hemorrhage risk from negative Gs. Also, IIRC, in the Viper in particular the lubrication system of the engine doesn’t like being inverted (including negative G) for an extended period of time. Since it takes a while to do such a loop at manageable G loading, it might not be possible to complete it without damaging the engine in the real jet. Not sure if it’s simulated in BMS, but it might be.
In general, anything not specifically designed for showboating at airshows has the risk of not liking inverted flight. This may preclude outside loops, which is fine because pilot physiology doesn’t like that sort of thing, either. Besides the “Messerschmidt escape” (a sort of outside split-S, which German pilots used in WWII to escape early Spits, since the latter had carburetor-fed engines that would quit under any sort of negative G), there aren’t many practical combat maneuvers utilizing negative Gs.
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RE: Do I need all this expensive hardware to be competitive or enjoy the sim?
I made my own headtracking clip with 3 cheap LEDs, three resistors, an AA battery holder, a large paperclip (to hold the leds) and a laminate board to solder it all to. Stuck some velcro on the side and mounted it to the headphones. Worked great with Opentrack, I never wanted real TrackIR.
I think T-flight HOTAS is actually pretty good, you can learn to AAR with any hardware, as long as you have the patience. Just mind that you’ll need to find your own technique, what works for TM Warthog users or in the real jet won’t work for a low-end gaming stick.
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RE: Defeating the F-14 in BVR.
Well, the F-14 is a BVR interceptor. It’s faster than the Viper, and the AIM-54 (154 is the JSOW) has better performance than the Slammer on top of that. Your best bet is to hide behind mountains and use ambush tactics, or to run the Tomcat out of missiles (of course, that doesn’t get you the kill, since it’s faster).
It’s more or less the same situation as with the MiG-31 and R-33. You can’t really duel it in BVR, because it’s holding all the cards. IRL, you may be able to use ECM to level the playing field somewhat, but there’s not enough data to say for sure. The earlier Tomcat radars were particularly susceptible to jamming and notching, but F-14D fixed that (though there’s not a whole lot public data on that one). Either way, in BMS I don’t think it’s simulated.
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RE: Is smoke a bad sign outside the plane?
Unless it’s the F-4. Then you have to decide if the thick black smoke trailing behind it is an engine fire or just business as usual.
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RE: Long life Falcon BMS
We’ve been there with FreeFalcon already. And what a hot mess that was…
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RE: FCR to Detect and Track at 0 Closure Rate?
I don’t know how it is in the Viper, but the F-14 does have a filter at zero closure rate, which they say is used to reject returns from the ground directly below the aircraft. Other aircraft using similar radar tech presumably have it, too, but I don’t know, maybe it’s different in the Viper.
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RE: Duplicate ded etc on hud
Yeah, it’s annoying more often than not, though AAR is a good use case.