It’s begins…
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Well, I did the basic control assignments, fired her up, flew to the tanker, received about 3000lbs of gas (that’s gonna take some getting used to! Slow throttle response, the johnson off to the right juuuust in your peripheral vision), took her past M1, and finally landed back at Andersen AFB. It looks and sounds amazing, flight model is convincing. I like it. Weapons are going to have to wait until sunday. I’m gonna have to check out the guncam!
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This guncam thing is bloody amazing!
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Only had time for a bit of flying before life intruded. Looks great, frame right hit is minimal even flying on a 2070 on my laptop. Took her up for a quick flight to check out some of the Syria upgrades. Definitely got some adverse yaw on the pattern, own fault thought.
Did the weapons tutorials, pretty straight forward. If you can make things come off the phantom and explode the Hun is a piece of cake. Now hitting what you’re aiming at… Very solid gun platform though.
Did a quick attempt at air to air refueling, the lack of depth perception in pancake and slow throttle response made that a no go on the couple attempts I had time for.
Overall with maybe an hour, it’s appears to be very well simulated and if that era is your bag fun. If the thought of a hotrod F-86 doesn’t appeal to you, then probably not for you.
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Fingers crossed my daughter goes to sleep before midnight tonight so I maybe try it out.
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Had a ball. I thought it would be a female dog between the compressor stalls and the slow speed manuvering. Not at all. Takeoff was surreal. Felt so fast!!! I came in hot on my first landing but greassed it ! However i may have burned the brakes to a crisp. It didnt stop at the end of the runway. I then did the a2a guns lesson. Landed this time w more patience and careful w the brakes. Too easy. No Dancing. Next i took on two Farmers. They killed my wingman and i fumbled w switches trying to go to missiles and back to guns. Twisting turning and Afterburning for my life. Landed hits but the Ruski didnt go down. In the end i ran outbof gas.
What a BIRD!!! IM IN 
LOVE!
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That looks real!!! 
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I started with the taxi and take-off tutorial, wondered why my pitch axis acts so erratic. Just before ditching it for “Early Access Woos” I double checked my bindings and saw for whatever reason I had Joystick twitch bound to the pitch axis …
Slightly embarrassed I jumped a lot of steps and went ahead with the rocket tutorial. This worked really nice and I left a bunch of smoking trucks behind.
I then went for a landing, but went long - somehow the idea to use a dragchute like in the Phantom escaped me. Also embarrassed I saw the rather massive handle for it on the left cockpit side… Oh well.
Overall quite fun for the first few minutes in the aircraft. Definitely a looker and keeper!
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It so cool! You have a fight and after the mission you have guncam footage with vintage effects for every time you squeeze the trigger.
Edit: I’ve just been running the Marianas instant action vs the MiG-19 and watching my guncam footage after each fight. I love it 
I might do a compilation of gunkills tomorrow 
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Hell to the Yeah!!! Please lol
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Oh my, that is one cool pit. Wouldn’t it be nice if the Huey were redone to this standard?
I love how cantankerous that engine is. On my first flight, I did three in-flight restarts
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I recorded a dogfight against a MiG-19. You gotta be smoooth with the throttle. Actually smooth with everything. With a little kick in the rudder it rolls quite nicely in a fight.
Here you go:
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Same for me! It was the cold start training and I decided to take off straight away, how hard can it be after watching all these videos?
Haven’t needed any air restarts for the rest of the afternoon/evening though. I changed 2 things:
- turn on pitch/yaw damper
- turn off force feedback (it is enabled in settings by default this patch) to make trim work
After I tried going supersonic (I can’t seem to get her past Mach 1.1 but maybe that is as designed due to lack of area rule), I of course ran out of fuel. Luckily I was over Senaki and managed a reasonable dead stick landing, considering I had less than 1 hour of flying time in the Hun at that point. Landed on the runway then ran slightly off of it to the side.
Then did the air-to-air guns, Sidewinder and dive bombing training missions.
I don’t like the 30 degrees dive angle. Will have to practice that some more.
Haven’t done any dogfighting, but I did try the aerial refueling instant action.
You’ll never believe it, but on my first approach I positioned my head at such an angle that I could see the tip of the probe as well as my gunsight, and then captured the basket immediately. Proceeded to fly formation (even changing the curve of my throttle in the middle of the refueling to only use the part between the detents on my T-50) and finished without disconnecting.
Genuinely found it easier than F-14 or Harrier.
I really like flying this thing
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Honestly, the F-100 is still a fighter from the 50s; at speed, it’s going to be a darling. Those wings love speed. But, once you go down below 300kias, it really feels hefty.
It feels fantastic above that. I need to give the AAR a try, already.
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I don’t see what the hubbub about landing this beasty is all about. Yes it likes to land fast, but so do its contemporaries. It resembles the MiG-19 quite a lot really, but has just a few more dials and gizmos to play with. I like it, like it a lot.
Three landings without pranging the kite. Done a couple of the trainings (start, takeoff, gunnery, missiles, rockets) and already feel quite “tactical” with the thing. Managed to bag the MiG in the instant action flight too, though the missiles only made token gestures, the guns tore him to shreds.
I can see why they didn’t put this on fighter duty. Against a well flown -19 it’s toast. But we should investigate. Who’s up for a classic mudspike Fight Club evening of shootiepew?
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