I’m impressed by what I see, but while I don’t blame Heatblur for it, I’m disappointed the missile will be limited to 7G. Hopefully ED adds the ability to impliment a G limit gradient to missile guidance in with their long promised AFM update.
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Oh god, stop making me want more modules
You didn’t already want the Tomcat?
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Its going to remind me too much of this.
I will be happy but crying every time i fly it. 
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Funny how my fave paint job is the ‘enemy’ one!
and if it’s anything like the Iris one, getting too handy with the stick loses you your engines very easily!
Note the speed is 581 KIAS!
The only DCS aircraft I managed to do that in so far is the Viggen.
Iranian Tomcats look awesome. Really dig the paint scheme (same goes for their F-5 and F-4 btw). I hope LN give them the proper weapons as well.
Then just hope we get the Hormuz map (and a …eeehh…improved… simulation environment) and the F-4 soon, and then we can all make cool MP servers with Iranian F-5, F-4, and F-14, and some western guys to fight them.
Many hopes, I know. But yeah, gotta try and stay positive.
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Off the HB Facebook (via reddit)
We’re knee deep into tweaking the F-14’s flight model performance using automated regression testing! Each part of the aircraft’s performance is automatically measured in the simulation and compared to documented performance charts.
Correcting and tweaking issues is an arduous and time consuming task, but the closer we get- the more tests come out with a PASS rather than a FAIL. This automated system allows us to easily verify that everything is correct every time we create a new build- which should help to avoid inadvertent changes in the future.
We’ve spent the last 3 years developing the F-14 FM; and we’re super excited about how closely it will represent the real deal. Check out an example below!
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Regression tests, the one thing DCS can’t have enough of.
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I’ve no idea what it all means but it sounds great
there is a typo 
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OMG Aginor!! The middle east is coming together. I for one cant wait.
Enemy tomcats?!? Awesome!! With a Phantom we might be able to do Iran - Iraq wars too.
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Yeah lots of options. Some planes just open a lot of doors. 
I just hope they don’t forget the rest of the sim. Planes alone won’t help.
And isn’t Ariodev working on a Mirage F1?
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Not the Cats we’re getting (for now), but still interesting.
http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/nnam/virtualtour/?s=pano682
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Necro Post? Necro Post.
Saw this video this afternoon and I was reminded of the concern over HUD FPS. As far as I can tell Bio’s got A/A Guns and Cruise mode in this video.
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From the Heatblur Facebook page:
The F-14 development crunch is ramping up and the team slips into a familiar coffee-fueled development mania. We’ve been around this rodeo twice before with the MiG-21 and AJS37- and we know that great things lie ahead! A development update is in the works to get you up to speed on the latest.
Speaking of the AJS37 Viggen though- we’ve just shipped a great set of bugfixes and features for this aircraft in the latest 1.5 patch! Big and exciting additions to the Viggen are yet to come though. Check out the changelog below;
Well… change log is here.
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Screw it, I like talking
So as you can see, the RIO pit is subdivided amongst two major screens. The top screen is the Digital Data Display, or DDD. This is a raw representation of what the radar is seeing, and will be mostly comparable to what you see in say, the F-15 (with some major caveats). Neglecting the PD and P Search modes, this screen should display information in a B-Scope. In non doppler modes, expect it to return reflections of clouds, terrain, and everything else.
The console immediately surrounding the DDD are controls for manipulating the radar. The right side is for choosing radar search modes. The RIO has is pick of Pulse and Pulse Doppler Search, Range While Scan, Track While Scan (Manual and Auto), and Pulse and Pulse Doppler STT. Above the DDD are a series of push buttons to select range, options being 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200.
The left side of the console is used manipulate the logic by which the radar filters contacts. The RIO has control of the gain of the radar in (non doppler) pulse modes, and while I’m not 100% sure, it looks like he’s able to manipulate the thresholds for clutter rejection and jamming noise for pulse doppler modes. What is automated (and outright abstracted in FC3) in later radars of the era, your back seater has direct control over in the F-14. Put another way: if you have someone who knows what he’s doing back there, it will be much harder for bandits to hide from you, if you have a rank newbie, your potential for struggle will be much higher.
The lower screen is the Tactical Information Display or TID (colloquially known as the “Fishbowl”). The TID is an aggregated display of what the radar sees in PPI format, with additional information fed in from the Link 4 datalink and other sources. The TID as pictured shows 50 mile scope (each “link” of the dashed line is representative of 20 miles of scope, 2.5 lines = 50 miles). The numbers along the left side show the minimum and maximum altitudes of the current scan zone, as well as the current angle of the radar. The bar of information at the top current (should?) display current aircraft speed and heading. When a radar contact is selected, it will display the contacts aspect, altitude, speed. More or less information, including jamming strobes, dynamic launch zone indication (DLZ), and data link information can be displayed, but this is chosen by the RIO on a panel just below (not shown). Additionally the TID is where feed from the AAX-1 Television Camera Set is shown when that sensor is selected. Contacts can be “bugged” via the TID or the DDD, and they will shown on both displays as selected.
The other notable thing in this shot is the AWG-15 weapons control panel prominently seen on the left side of the cockpit. This is where the RIO manages stores (for jettisoning, etc.), configures fusing for the missile, and launches the AIM-7 or AIM-54. There are also a number of switches pertaining to air to ground weapons (fusing, release quantity, delay, etc.). Until the 90s, this was a vestigial remnant of the original program specification that the Tomcat be AG capable. This functionality was cut in the early 70s due to budgetary constraints, and would not be fully pursued until the end of the cold war. Here’s an F-14A Prototype hauling 14 Mk-82s to make your afternoon.
The more you know…
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