A2A TACAN is broken for all modules right now. You get direction to the tanker but no ranging
The Community A4 has a new version released today on GitHub. Iâm excited to try it out tomorrow.
Until, one day, we get the A-6, the A-4 has to scratch that itch.
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Ah, ha! I thought I was going nuts!
On the subject of the symbology in in general, for the Hornet anyway: for a long time Iâve had issues with the Hornet MFD in HSI mode - the sequence lines wonât show up unless I âfiddleâ with it. And sometimes the TACAN wonât either. I fix them by pressing the respective buttons (on/off) til I find the combo that gets it back again. All in the Hornet and only tested on Syria and NTTR.
As I wrote somewhere else here, I tried it and wow!
You can definitely feel itâs a small aircraft!
Only thing I donât like is the lack of NWS*, how did such a thing worked with an embarked plane?
Have to find the time to try out the weapons.
Ah, the manual is included as a knee board but itâs a bit technical and doesnât report the actual keyboard binding.
*apparently the plane was really like that.
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I worked with a dude that flew both the A4 and F8 (yeah, Iâm old). I recall an evening in his den decades ago, after lubricating him with some adult beverage, the subject of roll-rate came up (I was just as big a geek back then). Raising his eyebrowâs, âoh yeah, they will hurt ya [rolling hard]â. I had no frame of reference til I took the above Forever Free Aircraft Mod out for my first spin!
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From what Iâve heard from old handlers, lots of planning and thinking ahead by the yellow shirts, and a good bit of helping by pushing on noses here and there.
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Hehe yeah, makes sense.
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Didnât the handlers have some kind of nose wheel bar that they attached so they could steer the Skyhawks after trapping? I seem to recall old video footage of that but canât find it.
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Man the way that thing castored right after the trap ooof.
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