Aerosoft F-14 Tomcat - RELEASED

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YoYo said:
Some asked about this.... More surprises will be in SP1 for AS Tomcat. : )
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Great work on the "Alicat" schemes. For a detail freak like myself it is very nice to see that you have got the special serial nr font correct on the IIAF paint :) Maybe a little less fade and weathering as the Imperial F-14As did not have much time to get dirty before the revolution and the name change to IRIAF. Maybe a few flew without changing the text during the early part of the war, but in general I believe that the Tomcats were rather clean while newly delivered to the IIAF.
 
Bought ver1.10 last night & installed. Nice work, but heavy on FPS on my rig. I'll try to manually reduce the texture sizes to aid that.

After a quick takeoff in the A-model (need to create a NWS button) I switched over to A-G mode to do some strafing. No go. The gun didn't fire. No sight or anything. Switched over to A-A and while I got the sound (1980s quality, ugh) no effects came out of the jet. Nor smoke. Couldn't even get any A-A sight on the HUD. I'll do some more reading tonight.

Has anyone brought this up yet?

Jeff
 
Yeah Jeff, I posted this in the Aerosoft F-14 support forum.No fix yet.Surprisingly, Air to Air the gun works and will shoot stuff down but is a bit short on tracer effects.
Stan
 
Version 1.10 question

I down-loaded the newest version, but I keep getting an error message. I've used both the US and German mirror site and still cannot unzip the file. Anyone else encounter this? I have zero problems installing the version 1.0.
 
Stickshaker said:
I did not have any problems. Is it perhaps your virusscanner?
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You know, I'm not certain I can completely rule it out. I did turn off Norton 360 Premier for an hour and still get the Red X when it scans it (though not sure why it scans while off) and removes it. I have even tried downloading to a desktop folder, right clicking to run as admin and still cannot get it to run. Again, so strange as the version 1.0 runs perfect. I'm a bit befuddled how to get the file to run correctly. As I just purchased an Alienware graphics amplifier, I really wanna see this in maxed out splendor.
 
Got mine from pcaviator.com.au last week, as it was the cheapest there (On 10% off Tuesday) with the strong USD compared to the Euro. It is a great aircraft, with some fantastic repaints available!
Bit heavy on the framerate when the smoke effects are displayed in external view. Makes a nice pair with Dino's F-14D models!

(Would love to see some low-vis VF-111 Sundowners paints though, still missing those)
 
Just peaked around Aerosoft to see if an update for the F-14 was ever released. I purchased mine from PC Aviator and they list ver.1.10 as current, which I've got. Several bugs were noted and passed on to Aerosoft, but after 5-6 month, I dont see any fixes. Has anyone heard anything?

-Jeff
 
ST0RM said:
Just peaked around Aerosoft to see if an update for the F-14 was ever released. I purchased mine from PC Aviator and they list ver.1.10 as current, which I've got. Several bugs were noted and passed on to Aerosoft, but after 5-6 month, I dont see any fixes. Has anyone heard anything?

-Jeff
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Hi Jeff, on Aerosoft the latest download is the same as you have, version 1.10

Hank
 
AS support forum, posted <abbr class="published" itemprop="commentTime" title="2015-06-08T19:05:32+00:00">08 June 2015 - 21:05 by</abbr> John Cagle:

Hello All, My apologies for the delay. The long pause in communication falls on me; I'm a 4th year PhD candidate (while also working a lab manager in a prosthetic research group) and have been spread particularly thin over the last six months between work and school. With that said, progress on the second service pack is beginning to kick into higher gear. Two major items of note are that a third F-14 driver contacted us in March, and he has been quite helpful in pointing out some subtleties in the cockpit that we can improve and make more accurate. Bad news is that our primary visual systems programmer (JR), has left the team because of personal issues. This means our capacity to improve items such as radar function are going to be limited. Mathijs has been particularly helpful in trying to find someone to fill in the gap.

On the timescale for release. Given the two items above, we're talking about splitting the second service pack into two parts where the first pack addresses some of the more quick and fundamental issues (i.e. bugs) and the latter part addresses parts that will take a little longer to implement. As we reorganize, we'll start to get more detailed about what will be included in which pack. Please feel free to ask questions, and I'll answer to the best of my ability.

Thank you all for your patience

Best,
John
 
hschuit said:
AS support forum, posted <ABBR class=published title=2015-06-08T19:05:32+00:00 itemprop="commentTime">08 June 2015 - 21:05 by</ABBR> John Cagle:

Hello All, My apologies for the delay. The long pause in communication falls on me; I'm a 4th year PhD candidate (while also working a lab manager in a prosthetic research group) and have been spread particularly thin over the last six months between work and school. With that said, progress on the second service pack is beginning to kick into higher gear. Two major items of note are that a third F-14 driver contacted us in March, and he has been quite helpful in pointing out some subtleties in the cockpit that we can improve and make more accurate. Bad news is that our primary visual systems programmer (JR), has left the team because of personal issues. This means our capacity to improve items such as radar function are going to be limited. Mathijs has been particularly helpful in trying to find someone to fill in the gap.

On the timescale for release. Given the two items above, we're talking about splitting the second service pack into two parts where the first pack addresses some of the more quick and fundamental issues (i.e. bugs) and the latter part addresses parts that will take a little longer to implement. As we reorganize, we'll start to get more detailed about what will be included in which pack. Please feel free to ask questions, and I'll answer to the best of my ability.

Thank you all for your patience

Best,
John
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Thanks for the update John; it's much appreciated! Keep making a great aircraft even greater!
 
This is truly a great aircraft! I have one problem though..... I can't get her to launch from the catapult. Having followed everything to the letter in the instruction I'm at a loss. I read in the Aerosoft forum that I'm not the only one, but I didn't see a solution.

Can anyone here help please?

Cees
 
I remember I had this problem and the issue is that you have to get to stage 5 A/B setting. My joystick throttle needed calibration for that. Alternatively I think you can use F4 to ensure 100% throttle setting.
 
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