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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

T-38A Is OUT!

LOL.. Just to dispell the myth Oleboy.. It is a Cntl-E bird as well. She is whatever you want her to be.. Even if you do everything by hand though it is very easy to start, and handle. Plus we included the standard Garmin GPS stackup (Shift+3) for those that don't want to do VOR navigation using the steam gauges/DME. We made this aircraft for a wide range of users, not just the hard core military types.. It is meant to be a trainer/lead in to our F-15C and F-15E Eagles that are upcoming.
 
Can't wait to pick this up guys, looks really top notch, great idea of making a trainer before the Eagle release!
 
well worth the money. would anyone be interested in a multiplayer formation flight, or giving a shot at sharing the cockpit?
 
OleBoy said:
Congrats on the release. The screens on the site, it looks great!! Not for me though. I don't do anything with heavy system integrated pre-flight, in-flight, or after-flight. It's Ctrl+e for me :icon_lol:
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Ctrl-E?

It's actually FASTER to click on the two start buttons, flick the two finger lifts on the power levers*, since that way both engines start nearly simultaneously!

I can have both engines started in under thirty seconds!

* BTW, even with Ctrl-E one still must "unlock" the power levers from Cutoff to Idle position anyway.
 
I'm confused about the training bases that are supposed to go with this..... were there just new afcad files made? I never saw my scenery reload once I installed the T-38, and I still have no parking spots at the training bases that were mentioned in this thread. Is it a separate download?

Either way, I am having a blast with this thing. Starting to get good landings....
 
skyblazer3 said:
I'm confused about the training bases that are supposed to go with this.....
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The AI and Airbase (Free!) package hasn't been released yet. It's being throughly Beta tested. I can report that even when loaded with 32 AI Talons on the ramp at Reese AFB, I experience virtually no impact on frame rates...

...I get a solid 29 (locked at 30). :)
 
Thank you

Jumped on this aircraft immediately! Read the quick start and took to the air. Two landings, one at Creech AFB and then Nellis. Just gotta say, WOW, I am shaking like a leaf. VERY nice job Milviz!!

Jim :salute:
 
JAllen said:
Jumped on this aircraft immediately! Read the quick start and took to the air. Two landings, one at Creech AFB and then Nellis. Just gotta say, WOW, I am shaking like a leaf. VERY nice job Milviz!!

Jim :salute:
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Did 'ya keep it around 0.6 units AoA? :applause:
 
LOVE IT! Excellent work Milviz! (looking forward to the C model...)

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I was assigned to the USAF Clinic at Vance in the mid-1980s. What I'll call my Christmas present one year was simulator (full motion with video some of the time) rides in both the T-37 and T-38. The T-38 IP I "flew" with was the physiological training officer at the clinic. He knew I was a private pilot, even then inactive for a few years. With a lot of coaching, I landed the T-38 on the first try :wiggle: only to get a chuckle for the instructor station and a brake failure. :salute:

No such luck on the Milviz airplane. It took three tries and in answer to Bill's question to someone else: Down final, yes, but I insisted in pulling the nose up in the flair. Ouch!!

Glenn
 
I have no idea what the AoA was. Couldn't look. LOL Lots of speed and very little flair. The sounds are from another world!! Too much control input and the subwoofer was shaking the desk. Gets attention quick.

Jim
 
This jet teaches how to fly properly in the hard way. It is a bit like the Fokker Eindecker regarding the AoA. ;) A little shallower glide path on approach helps during the flare, as described on the manual.
 
Green donut at touchdown can't be bad, right? Compared to everything else in FSX, making a simple turn is an adventure. Really get a feel for stick pressure I think. Small inputs make good things happen but big movements make disasters. 'Pulling the turn' now has a new meaning. Pull, no, FEEL the turn is more like it.

I expect many will get it in the air and completely HATE the experience of trying to fly it. I was not so happy with it for the first 10 minutes. Those who think the A7 was difficult are going to need a tranquilizer if they try the T38A! Docile this Talon is NOT.

Question, was the T38 meant to be tough to fly, so tough that big jets are made easier to live with?

I'm going to be flying the T38A for a long time. Commuting to Nellis in my camo painted 310.


Jim
 
One point the IP made with me, as we responded to an accident, was if something goes wrong at less than 150 feet, you are dead before you percieve it and begin to respond. Milviz's history about the airplane being designed for future century series pilots rings true. The delta wing -102. And -106 especially, and the B-58, have reputations for being really difficult rides.Glenn
 
JAllen said:
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Question, was the T38 meant to be tough to fly, so tough that big jets are made easier to live with?...


Jim
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Jim when I was in pilot training my IP once told me, "If you can fly the T-38, you can fly anything."

I would like to clear up a misconception. The T-38 is not a hard plane to fly. 50,000 and counting pilots can attest to my previous sentence. However, you have to fly the T-38. It was designed and still is an advanced trainer.

When the plane was built, the term "Widow Maker" applied to several of the current fighters. The reason was pilots were coming out of the T-33, which is a very easy plane to fly and going into swept wing, delta wing fighters with very different flight characteristics, especially in landing. So the T-38 was created to teach pilot how to handle these airplane in a two seat IP controlled environment.

One of the problems with the Century series fighters was the speed in which things happen. Pilots would not be prepared for this and get behind the airplane. Getting behind the airplane in a fighter will kill you. The T-38 allowed you to get up to the speed of the aircraft. A true story. One which I still remember as clear as day some 40 years later.

In my T-38 dollar ride I was in the back seat. I remember pumping the brakes, seeing the engine RPM gauges to to 100%, brake release, feeling the ABs, and seeing the nozzles swing open. The next thing I recall is climbing out of traffic and the IP was contacting departure control. I was behind the aircraft. :icon_lol: At this point I had over 200 hours of flying time.

Enjoy the Milviz T-38. Just give yourself time and patience to learn to fly. It takes the average student pilot 12-14 hours to solo the bird. Learn to fly it and you will experience one of the most faithfully accurate aircraft within the limits of FSX.
 
JAllen said:
Question, was the T38 meant to be tough to fly, so tough that big jets are made easier to live with?
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Just from a sheer aerodynamics standpoint the T-38A will be harder to fly than your average aircraft at lower airspeed. The narrow wingspan, and thinner chord of the T-38 naturally give it very poor low airspeed characteristics while decreasing drag. Which is the main reason it requires such high takeoff/landing speeds compared to say the Cessna 310. The faster you fly the T-38 the better, and easier it will handle. That is one of the reason that the fatalities are mentioned above for pilots transitioning from trainers to the Century Series fighters before the T-38. You take someone from a stable, high profile wing aircraft. Then put them in a less stable low profile wing aircraft, and you are bound to get accidents as the pilots are not used to thinking that fast so early in their career. So the T-38 is mainly meant to be a lead in to these type of aircraft by replicating their design characteristics in a 2 pilot configuration for safety of training. Granted you do not have the IP there to teach you how to fly, so kind of have to figure it out for yourself and that is where the difficulty comes in. I have had MANY crashes in early T-38 testing. All part of the learning curve. Hope you have fun flying her!
 
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