DCS F14B Tomcat - Speed & Angels - Mission 10
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Night qual
00:00:00 - Briefing
00:12:13 - Takeoff
00:23:04 - Marshall
00:26:41 - Approach
00:32:50 - Trap
00:39:56 - Scorecard
System Specs:
I7 8700K
Nvidia 1080ti
32GB ram
2tb M.2 SSD Drive
27in screen
Thrustmaster Warthog
Saitek Rudder Pedals
Trackir 5 - Ігри
Really enjoying this series. I think my favourite part is how much shit you give yourself and how stressed you get 😆
But seriously, loving the content. Learning heaps about the tomcat, I'm going to have to pick this campaign up!
That's great, you won't be disappointed! Great campaign.
Thanks, yeah I'm always in a bit of a flap when flying haha. Double so at night!
Thanks for sharing....
Your ejection was ABOVE AVERAGE lol
This campaign is so valuable as a training tool for Tomcat people. You just have to be emotionally ready to have your feelings hurt once you get your grades. 😂
It really is! Great info I will look back on & use for practice. Overall I think the grading went easy on me actually haha. More happy surprises than expected!
You sir are an inspiration :-) Out of interest how many hours did you have on the Tomcat before you started the campaign, or rather how would you class your competancy/familiarity with the aircraft? I am still working my way through the Hormuz Campaign with the Harrier and I always watch your video after I complete each mission, I always have a good laugh at our joint suffering/enjoyment. Keep them coming please, great content!
Thanks for watching along, you're too kind! I'd say a fumbling inspiration at best ;) haha. I think playing the zone 5 campaign a while back has really helped with this one so far, that was about 25 hrs right there. Once you complete any campaign you usually get a good grasp of jet, altho I'd still place myself well below competent. Especially with the flight characteristics, I manage speed poorly still. System wise I'm familiar with how all works but struggle to replicate consistency. The plus side is I actually find the Tomcat one of the more straight forward jets to manage in front seat. In the end I do wish I had more time with any jet before tackling these campaigns, but it would take me years to get around to everything. I usually read the briefings to try make sure I'm up to speed on each system & but eventually just have to give it a crack. While I'm pretty competitive & want to get it all right, sometimes you have to have a bit of laugh at yourself too when things don't go to plan haha. If you got through Hormuz hats off! That was a tough one
Night you don't take your hands off the controls for any reason on launch...hence flash the lights...hotas on the throttle. If that friction lock is loose or not tight and you don't have your hand on the throttle and it works back on the cat stroke you just screwed yourself. As far as marshall...tail of the TACAN needle and dme is one end of a line draw that line to the imaginary tail of the TACAN needle at 147/21....now slide the line that connects those two points to the center of the VDI compass and the course you fly from your present TACAN position to the 147/21 fix is at the top of the compass rose where that line falls...use a pencil or straight edge. Reciprocal of holding radial is FAC until visual with the ship/ball. Keep updating the course as you go periodically and teardrop into holding or parallel into holding whichever works as you cross the fix. Inbound course is 327 with the "arrow head" of the tacan pointing at the ship on 327....easy peasy
Thank you! Great info. I'm still trying to visualise radials & the VDI, will need to jump in cockpit to put in practice. I've got the Peasy bit, still working on the easy haha
@@lankypilot778 before I went to flight school I drove ships so this us what the surface Navy does with maneuvering boards...I got to the point driving destroyers that I could do it in my head...in flight school it was just an extension of that so I'm cheating when I say easy since I had it down before climbing into a plane....same concept.
Why are you selling yourself short, that was not an unsat, you got an average :) Congrats on completing the RAG, now you're gonna need everything you learned in 'real' combat. A few notes:
- That guy with "56000" was holding up the weight board. They need to know your weight to set the cat's strength properly.
- Ignoring on screen messages for minutes is a sure way to break a mission, time is linear, I can't bend it to make stuff fit in 3 minutes less :)
- Interesting how you pressed the 'salute' button, and nothing happened. For me it automatically turns on the lights at night. Maybe they changed it recently or one of your installed mods is messing with the Tomcat module.
Good luck over the Marianas!
wait it did turn the lights on for you as well. Sounds like a mod bug, then.
@@ReflectedSimulations the master lights you mean? Yes it was bit odd that the don't come on during day ops starting up & have to press, but at night they go automatically. I deleted all my asset mod files after you mentioned it. Only have tacview associated unless that too causes issues. I read a forum post of others having master light issue during night op
Also thanks, but i caused an incident on flight deck, the night before going to war! I feel it's only fair haha. Going to be using all this training in future, really is brilliant. Not to put it in practice.
Also yes im hopeless with the spacebar. I'm so focused on the cockpit i dont even realise message there sometimes. Every campaign! It an anxiety for me
@@lankypilot778 I checked, and it launches for me when I press the salute button at night. Tacview shouldn't be a problem, it's mainly things that have a 3D model.
@@ReflectedSimulations okay I will have another check though see if any missed. I noticed you had launching with the master lights as option in mission notes, if that a procedure thing in real life?