And all the aerial footage (aside from some “inside to outside” shots) were actually of real Mirages - they fitted out an external tank with cameras to get the formation and “high energy” shots and a Learjet for the other aerial scenes.
None of this “film it with an L-39 then animate a Hornet over the top”… though of course that did mean TG:M could include the Su-57 and the Tomcat 
For those who like giving their future selves presents, the MiG-29 pre-order is live.
I don’t need this yet. I don’t need this yet.
Oh come on bud, buy future you a present 
Because yes you do, yes you do 
Sooo tempted but at the same time I’ve been sitting on the FC3 Fulcrum for years. It’s fun to fly but I could never make sense of the HUD. Or metric.
The Soviet HUD is pretty simple, honestly. I’ll have to post a guide sometime.
But…metric is the definition of sense!
The Reference showing the aircraft attitude I can cope with when I have no other visual cues (e.g. at night). When I can also see the horizon, it does my head in.
It must be conditioning, but if I don’t have altitude in feet and airspeed in knots I get that wrapped up in mentally converting from metric that I end up in all sorts of trouble… Which is ironic considering my first car had a speedometer calibrated in MPH and I was always looking at it going - OK 30-35MPH is about 60Km/h, 50MPH = 80Km/h and 65(ish) MPH is about right for the highway (60, 80 and 100 being the most common speed limits).
I think Troll’s point is not that flying with metric is easier but that the metric system is easier to learn as every measuring unit is directly related to the others in a 10 fold.
If you are used the the speed limits and the overall flight characteristics of a plane in imperial then of course you cannot directly translate to the same plane but in metric.
Got it. I was raised with the metric system. Give me any Imperial unit of measure and it is almost like you are speaking a foreign language and I have to translate that into metric. Except when it comes to flight (sims) all of a sudden my brain can’t cope…
Yup, same here.
I don’t convert units when flying dcs. The Tomcat lands at 130, the MiG at 250. You drop a vipers’ gear not above 250, a flankers’ not above 450. As for altitude, 3 feet to a meter is close enough.
Im with you. A unit is a unit. To prove this point the F-15 AoA gauge is in units, not degrees. So it only matters that you know how much you need, no conversion needed. Far as Russian Hud goes, watching a couple of A2A or A2G videos and youll be up to speed. Russians keep it simple.
I too was raised with the metric system. But a “foot” (approximately 30cm or close enough to a third of a metre) is such a useful measurement for estimating things I still use it all the time…
when the 29 is released would be interesting to do a side by side comparison with the flaming cliffs 29
I know! Me as well…
But 1-10-100-1000, etc, still makes more sense than Inch-Foot-Yard-Mile
Im American and even i got say, a mile…5280 feet… what the crap is that?
Nautical miles. All you need to know 
I’d be happy to go to one system, any one system, so I didn’t need two socket sets!
This. When the horizon is visible the Russian HUDs make zero sense.
While I agree with the “a unit is a unit” mentality in general and much prefer metric in daily life use, my intuition of what’s slow, what’s fast, what’s high, etc. gets all mixed up if it’s not in knots or feet. If my HUD reads 250 in a Western jet I know I’m slow and need some energy regardless of what platform I’m flying. If my HUD reads 250 in a MiG I have no clue what that means in terms of my energy state.
It means you pray, regardless of previously held beliefs