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IFE Tomcat is out!
- Thread starter Mr.Mugel
- Start date
Seahawk72s
SOH-CM-2023
Start-up
A start up walk thru, followed by a take off and finishing with a carrier landing.
A start up walk thru, followed by a take off and finishing with a carrier landing.
Updated already ! :
VERSION 1.0.7 POST RELEASE HOTFIX
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Fixed minor glitch in inner spoilers "down" flag behavior
Fixed minor glitch in right inner spoiler flag
Fixed minor glitch in VSL selector switch animation
Vastly reduced HUD Camera visibility interaction area (to avoid interfering with joypad cursor)
Vastly reduced Ejection CMD lever interaction area
Fixed cold and dark start conditions for horizontal tails and engine nozzles
Modified static F-14 models to reflect typical cold and dark conditions
Added option to disable Jester self-ejection (JESTER->OPTIONS->EJECT!EJECT!)
Modified Jester self-ejection conditions (more tolerant)
Added options to force retraction of crew boarding ladder (JESTER->OPTIONS->STOW LADDER)
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(i particularly like this last one, love to taxi with the canopy open
)
VERSION 1.0.7 POST RELEASE HOTFIX
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Fixed minor glitch in inner spoilers "down" flag behavior
Fixed minor glitch in right inner spoiler flag
Fixed minor glitch in VSL selector switch animation
Vastly reduced HUD Camera visibility interaction area (to avoid interfering with joypad cursor)
Vastly reduced Ejection CMD lever interaction area
Fixed cold and dark start conditions for horizontal tails and engine nozzles
Modified static F-14 models to reflect typical cold and dark conditions
Added option to disable Jester self-ejection (JESTER->OPTIONS->EJECT!EJECT!)
Modified Jester self-ejection conditions (more tolerant)
Added options to force retraction of crew boarding ladder (JESTER->OPTIONS->STOW LADDER)
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(i particularly like this last one, love to taxi with the canopy open
)
Updated already ! :
VERSION 1.0.7 POST RELEASE HOTFIX
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Fixed minor glitch in inner spoilers "down" flag behavior
Fixed minor glitch in right inner spoiler flag
Fixed minor glitch in VSL selector switch animation
Vastly reduced HUD Camera visibility interaction area (to avoid interfering with joypad cursor)
Vastly reduced Ejection CMD lever interaction area
Fixed cold and dark start conditions for horizontal tails and engine nozzles
Modified static F-14 models to reflect typical cold and dark conditions
Added option to disable Jester self-ejection (JESTER->OPTIONS->EJECT!EJECT!)
Modified Jester self-ejection conditions (more tolerant)
Added options to force retraction of crew boarding ladder (JESTER->OPTIONS->STOW LADDER)
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(i particularly like this last one, love to taxi with the canopy open
personally, I kinda like this one: Added option to disable Jester self-ejection (JESTER->OPTIONS->EJECT!EJECT!)
Priller
Well, you had a good go at that just in time, didn't you
Well yes. For the first time in my life, I felt a form of abandonment anxiety!
Priller
centuryseries
SOH-CM-2023
I think you're mistaking the carrier crew interaction with DCS which has the interactive, modelled and animated.
Mr.Mugel
SOH-CM-2024
The MilTech Supercarrier Pro works very well with the Tomcat. It has animated crew controlled via an ingame app, blast shieds and even useable elevators. All on moving carriers. Sadly no period correct carriers with Tomcats on the deck.
I seem to not be able to work through the complete voice assisted startup, I get stuck where I am supposed to set the flaps to 50. No matter what I do, I can't get past that.
Anyone already got her into a flatspin, too? It is very scripted, basicly just showing you, that you f****d up. Goose wouldn't be happy.
I seem to not be able to work through the complete voice assisted startup, I get stuck where I am supposed to set the flaps to 50. No matter what I do, I can't get past that.
Anyone already got her into a flatspin, too? It is very scripted, basicly just showing you, that you f****d up. Goose wouldn't be happy.
Thanks CS and MM !
Indeed it proved to be the DCS carrier ops that i remembered. Been a while and i actually never looked back no matter how fantastic it was compared to that lump of clay that sits there in the middle of the ocean waiting to be disintegrated.
Sorry bout the lump of clay, thats only because AFAIK carriers still have to sit there like a dead duck, atleast if you want to land on them, quite a disgrace if you ask me. These MS/Asobo boys really have a thing with water, don't they ? They left decent water spray/wake effects for floatplanes en flying boats to a third party as well. I figure (or maybe *hope* would be better in this case) that all will be corrected re carriers in 2024. The Forrestal class carriers do look great i must say, maybe even better than the payware MilTech Super Carrier ?..
No 1970s/80s carriers with animated crew et all is deal breaker. F-18 or F-35 does not float my boat so to say. I always liked the F-14 and certainly not because of Top Gun although the flying bits are fantastic. Kinda like 'The Final Countdown' better (not the song!! Blehh ) you know, "Splash the Zeros ! " the shot of the Japanese pilots face as a Tomcat wooshes overhead the canopy of his Zero is epic !
And yes, i can't get along with this Jester guy all that well neither, i'm trying to write up sort of a start-up checklist via the various videos but thats not easy peasy neisy. One start-up procedure makes use of that various tests button while another seems to completely ignore it and gets away with it nontheless.
Flatspin you say??... I haven't even managed a landing i could walk away from.. It's a though kitty this one !
Indeed it proved to be the DCS carrier ops that i remembered. Been a while and i actually never looked back no matter how fantastic it was compared to that lump of clay that sits there in the middle of the ocean waiting to be disintegrated.
Sorry bout the lump of clay, thats only because AFAIK carriers still have to sit there like a dead duck, atleast if you want to land on them, quite a disgrace if you ask me. These MS/Asobo boys really have a thing with water, don't they ? They left decent water spray/wake effects for floatplanes en flying boats to a third party as well. I figure (or maybe *hope* would be better in this case) that all will be corrected re carriers in 2024. The Forrestal class carriers do look great i must say, maybe even better than the payware MilTech Super Carrier ?..
No 1970s/80s carriers with animated crew et all is deal breaker. F-18 or F-35 does not float my boat so to say. I always liked the F-14 and certainly not because of Top Gun although the flying bits are fantastic. Kinda like 'The Final Countdown' better (not the song!! Blehh ) you know, "Splash the Zeros ! " the shot of the Japanese pilots face as a Tomcat wooshes overhead the canopy of his Zero is epic !
And yes, i can't get along with this Jester guy all that well neither, i'm trying to write up sort of a start-up checklist via the various videos but thats not easy peasy neisy. One start-up procedure makes use of that various tests button while another seems to completely ignore it and gets away with it nontheless.
Flatspin you say??... I haven't even managed a landing i could walk away from.. It's a though kitty this one !
StormILM
Charter Member
So far it's a fine model, many carry-overs from the DCS version but the one I dislike is that Jester ejects when I pull out of a dive for a low level high speed pass and makes the smart-a** comment: "GOOD LUCK!!!" before the F-14 becomes a high speed convertible. lol. I guess there is a way to disable that function.
collensr
SOH-CM-2025
Back in 2001 I spent quite a bit of time at NAS Oceana. This was a period when the Tomcat was still fairly numerous in the Fleet and Oceana was rammed with them. I was embedded with VF-41 "Black Aces" documenting the retirement of the F-14A for a number of UK Aviation Magazines. I covered their work ups for their final cruise with the Tomcat - a cruise would culminate with The Black Aces taking the Tomcat to war on the first night of Operation Enduring Freedom. As you can see the squadron was by now routinely carrying the LANTIRN pod which they employed both in their conventional strike and FAC roles.
As we are in Tomcat mood I thought I'd share some of my shots.
As we are in Tomcat mood I thought I'd share some of my shots.
Victory103
SOH-CM-2026
As a massive and longtime Tomcat fan, I've got just about every book with loads of pics, but thanks for those shots!
Mods are great ! Thanks !
But what's still missing is a *written* Start-Up procedure. By now there's a truckload of F-14 Start-Up tutorial videos. What's the use ? I can't take a video on board, i have no laptop or I-Pad or any sort of Pad whatsoever. What happend to a normal PDF manual ??....
I payed Jonathan Beckett a coffee for his version of a written Start-Up procedure checklist but there's all kinds of stuff missing ! Give back my coffee, Jonathan !
Can't still get the wing sweep to work for one thing... (just can't get the yellow knob to move from its down position). And how about a Cold & Dark option ? Not there then ??... (i had to learn from a video that the ejectionseat safety pin needs to be down in the safe position, not up because i clicked it.. $#%^%!!Grrrrr )
But what's still missing is a *written* Start-Up procedure. By now there's a truckload of F-14 Start-Up tutorial videos. What's the use ? I can't take a video on board, i have no laptop or I-Pad or any sort of Pad whatsoever. What happend to a normal PDF manual ??....
I payed Jonathan Beckett a coffee for his version of a written Start-Up procedure checklist but there's all kinds of stuff missing ! Give back my coffee, Jonathan !
Can't still get the wing sweep to work for one thing... (just can't get the yellow knob to move from its down position). And how about a Cold & Dark option ? Not there then ??... (i had to learn from a video that the ejectionseat safety pin needs to be down in the safe position, not up because i clicked it.. $#%^%!!Grrrrr )
DaveWG
Charter Member
You could try Chuck's guide for the F14. It's for the DCS version, so a lot of the weapons stuff will be irrelevant, but the startup should be useful.
https://chucksguides.com/aircraft/dcs/f-14b/
https://chucksguides.com/aircraft/dcs/f-14b/
Mr.Mugel
SOH-CM-2024
Hey Javis, I agree with a lack of documentatio.
The Heatblur DCS manual should still be a goos input for procedures and layouts:
https://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/index.html
The Heatblur DCS manual should still be a goos input for procedures and layouts:
https://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/index.html
Dimus
SOH-CM-2025
I second that. Chuck’s guides are really good and straightforward and most of it should sting MSFS.