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Totally worth it, best plane to have a joy ride in!

Fly it like you stole it.....

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Beautiful skins, although my first flight wearing one didn't go quite to plan.....

This, https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/55201-pilots-notes-for-cockpit-photos/

I always thought so to, but I remember watching a Wags video when it first came out saying fly it on to the runway on AoA on speed. Certainly in DCS you can, lol.

Nice screenshot, that F16 looks fantastic...😇

Good weather and having to work my ass off because of! That said, I personally tend to prioritise DCS over il2, I just enjoy it more myself, horses for courses.

Agreed about the A20. Sid, have you played much with the German bombers, JU88 and HE 111? Sorry for thread sidetrack!

I hope it hasn't quietly been shelved, have a strange affection for that plane! Plus it gives something very different for the allies.

Has anyone who has been paying more attention than me, heard anything about the B25? I know it was the intention to make it flyable eventually...???

You use the FLOLS with the Tomcat too... Optical landing system - Wikipedia

Don't know how much this will help you or not Crash, Although its in an F16, the same principles apply. You can see I put the velocity vector onto the area of the runway I want to land on, as I come out of the turn. Initially I'm to fast, so I chop the throttle, and as the speed bleeds of I slowly raise the nose, increasing the AoA but so that the velocity vector remains on the end of the runway. Once the E bracket is in the middle of the velocity vector and that is still on the end of the runway, it is then simply a case of modulating the throttle to keep it all there, which will hold you on speed (in this case for an F16 @155 kn). You don't flare modern jets, but fly them onto the ground on speed and on AoA. As Tom has alluded to, the FLOLS is additional information to tell you whether above or below the glide slope. Above it chop power until on it maintaining AoA, below increase throttle doing the same until on it.

Like Reggie i have to be up at 5am tomorrow, unlike Reggie, I'm having an early night, so will be absent!!!!

Some more Viper pics,

And a 4k video of Thursdays nights antics, including my crap landing.... only because some nice flybys by Chris in his P51🙈

Have you managed to get the files yet?

Some more pics from Thursday's mission, a video is processing as I type.....

More DCS beauty....

More Tomcat fun from Monday night,

Does it have an E bracket in the HUD in landing config? If so, you trim on the downwind leg to put the velocity vector in the E bracket before you turn for final, then you don't touch trim again, use the throttle, but I'm talking generally here, don't know what is in the HUD on it, actually even if it has one, lol. And balls to getting a grade. I think the LSO can do one!!!🤣

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks pretty good for a mod.

Guess so! Some Tomcat 2.7 fun,

Some Harpoon action, almost a perfect salvo....

Can you see them here? https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/58030-dcs/?do=findComment&comment=1085874