I just happened to see the vid again just now, and was struck by what I was looking at at 1.35 in the vid. I never really took much notice before until today.
I have often wondered if the map tiles will be gone in the new terrain update we are all aching for. And sure enough, I needed to find what I was looking at in Google maps. I managed to find it in less than 2 minutes.
Check these pics out.

Thought I would match up a pic in the 4.38 pics thread. Again I found it in less than 2 mins.

@Aragorn said in Virtual Crew Chief for BMS:

@Tomcattwo Oooookay, then. (Amazing vid, BTW. Thanks.)

I have questions. (For any of the experts in this thread)

I’m going on the basis that there is no such thing as a stupid question, so - forgive me if the answers are obvious.

1. He seems relaxed when he ducks past the nozzle a few times, right…?
   SO - during the RAMP, when the throttle is pushed forward and the nozzle closes somewhat…

• What would happen if someone were standing BEHIND the nozzle…?
  Would they be blown backwards (like with heavy commercial jets)…?
  Would they get BURNED…? (Like - is that exhaust ridiculously hot…?)

Both…? Neither…?

Also (related) —>

2. When the nozzle is completely open. What would happen if one were standing right behind the nozzle…?

3. Assuming that it WOULD hurt (so this question is irrelevant if the above answers were: “nothing would happen”)…

• What would be a SAFE distance to stand behind the nozzle as it is:
  a.) Open. b.) Begins to close up…?

4. The safety pins on the landing gear…
   IF he had forgotten to pull one of those pins… (I am assuming here that they don’t seem in any way connected electronically; they seem physical)

• Could the jet still taxi and take-off; the issue only becoming evident when he tried to raise the gear…? Or - are those pins actually connected somehow, and would not allow taxi…?

I just can’t believe that in the entire history of military jet-aviation that not a single person on any one of a million occasions has not forgotten just one pin. Head-trauma from a year prior; concussion from last week; hangover; depression; thinking about a sick relative; simple brain-fart. Surely - statistically - it must have happened.

Sorry for SO MANY questions, but - I just need to know.
(I actually cut out another three that I have)

Lol, correct there are no stupid questions. You don’t need anyone who doesn’t know what they are doing messing around with aircraft.

1. The crew chief ducks down as he passes the nozzle. No one would argue with jet flux just like a civvy would not argue with a tank. Unless your Chinese. I argued with a Hercules once when he engaged reverse. I was at least 100m in front of him and he still won as I didn’t have my safety goggles on. The dust cloud was ginormous in the desert.

2 and 3 are only for the stupid. We all get trained to respect jet flux and safety distances around aircraft.

4. A safety pin would hold the leg in the downward position and would be shown as a red landing light when u/c up is selected when the other lights go out. The pilot would just land at the earliest opportunity. They would also likely be informed by the ATC that 1 leg is down. No big deal but embarrassing for the pilot. The pins are not connected to anything electrical as far as I know, but I can’t speak for every aircraft. The red flag on every safety pin is a visual sign from distance of a pin still fitted.

An idea just dropped in my head for loading Track IR.

I have often loaded F4 to find that I have forgotten to load TIR. So, how about a command line box to load TIR in the launcher?

@white_fang In the entire time I have had this game (since it was born), I have never experienced a relocation.
Has anyone ever been able to relocate?
Suggest some additional data to relocating in game. A preparation bar that fills, giving an indication how a relocate is going. Could also include damage to the relocation base etc. and how easy it is for engineers to get there to fix it. Just a thought.

@danster said in Virtual Crew Chief for BMS:

@Tomcattwo Great video thank you! I wonder why the crew chief waves his hand across each panel after he closes it.

Its a secondary check that the panel and locking tabs are flush with the aircraft surface. I only did this see-off a hand full of times in my RAF career, as I was second line servicing, where aircraft serviced (which could take months) carried out a flight test before being released back to the flying squadron. Panel security is of high importance along with the removal of safety pins. What we don’t see are the removal and storage of the seat safety pins and storage in the cockpit. They are stored in clear view of the pilot. The pilot usually removes the last seat pin (between his legs) and stores it with the other 4. All actions are ‘habits’ that are used to make sure everything is carried out in order and correctly. There are no parking spaces up there.

Sorry but not solved satisfactorily.

I decided to move my F4 from a 15 yearish old HD drive to a 21st century M2 Nrve (I think) SSD.

But for those who may be doing this in the future will need to know that the original F4 will need to be deleted.

F4 will do this automatically. Before I did this I copied and pasted the User config file onto my desktop.

The new download and install was faultless and simple. I expect nothing less from this great BMS team.

I cut & pasted my Config user file into it, ticked the ‘Launch without any setup override’ box and everything was as I hoped.

Except for my saved campaign files. They were missing. No big deal as I was only into day 2 or 3 of a campaign.

So, I looked unsuccessfully for them.

I/we, will need to know this info for those of us who wish to do this in the future. So if you know where they live, can you appraise the info in here for future movists.

For a few years now, I have had a toilet roll cardboard tube, blue tacked to the receiver. Somewhat similar to a camera lens anti glare shield, affixed to the front of the lens. I did a lot of camera work in my youth.
I painted the inside black with a marker pen. The whole idea is to reduce stray, annoying glints of light messing my view up.
I still need to draw the curtains sometimes to completely eliminate light problems.

@jagfour

I just thought, I’ve never seen seat pins in the F16. So here is a pic of the Jaguar I worked on for 13 years. The seat pin storage highlighted.

@Radium Thank you. To everyone else the pic is not from 38 but from 37U.
For those not aware of my input in the 38 thread where I find real world places in 38 pics over Korea and show the real world along with 38. And 38 looks magnificent.

@white_fang In the entire time I have had this game (since it was born), I have never experienced a relocation.
Has anyone ever been able to relocate?
Suggest some additional data to relocating in game. A preparation bar that fills, giving an indication how a relocate is going. Could also include damage to the relocation base etc. and how easy it is for engineers to get there to fix it. Just a thought.

I have successfully c&p the missing entries into my own keyfile. Thanks for help.

@Master-Yoda Which keymap is that. Its not in the F-16 default map?

@Master-Yoda Yeah I have seen that. Can you imagine fumbling about down there with a Mig on your tail.
I have been made aware of this new ECR by a yt vid that shows you what all the buttons do. I have thought that there should be 2 new lights, triangular in shape, either side of the jammer light. The left light on for XMIT 1. Both lights on for XMIT 2 and both lights flashing for XMIT 3.

I cannot find anywhere, in the manual or the key listing, where the selection of the jammer XMIT mode is. I would expect a toggle button to run through the 3 XMIT modes, or a button for each of the 3 modes. Advice please.

In 1F-16cmam-34-1-1 BMS pg. 362, the diagram showing the CMS button, the directions are given as forward, right, aft, left. Within the narrative, there are descriptions of up and down. Consistency of description is lost.

For a few years now, I have had a toilet roll cardboard tube, blue tacked to the receiver. Somewhat similar to a camera lens anti glare shield, affixed to the front of the lens. I did a lot of camera work in my youth.
I painted the inside black with a marker pen. The whole idea is to reduce stray, annoying glints of light messing my view up.
I still need to draw the curtains sometimes to completely eliminate light problems.

@kenguan I am only making an educated guess (as my memory is fading), but application of brakes, and/or ground speed, and/or weight on wheel switch (wheel off ground), undercarriage up selection, could/will disconnect NWS.

@Stuntman You are correct. I should have referred to my ‘The VR ready and beyond thread’ in the screenshots and videos branch.

@Radium Thank you. To everyone else the pic is not from 38 but from 37U.
For those not aware of my input in the 38 thread where I find real world places in 38 pics over Korea and show the real world along with 38. And 38 looks magnificent.