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  1. https://store.heatblur.com/blogs/news/of-delays-and-silence To Heatblur, I appreciate the sincerity of the post. It sounds like you really put your best effort into it, but sh!t does happens sometimes. I also appreciate perfectionism and the aspiration to deliver a perfect product. Please go ahead and deliver us the best Phantom sim ever.
  2. It is possible that the tail wheel collapsed during taxi? Happened to me once - didn’t happen again, but I didn’t try to break the tail wheel on purpose for such a test.
  3. That would be great. It can even be FM-2 so it would be contemporary with the F6F and F4U.
  4. A helicopter dangling a huge pole with multiple giant rotating saw blades between trees and power lines? What can possibly go wrong?
  5. That is actually quite a tiny dispersion - less than 1/6 of a degree. The platform vibrations in-flight are probably on that scale (a guess).
  6. I think I mentioned this somewhere on the forum before - the USAF considered the use of the F-4E in the anti-ship role, but came to the conclusion that ships are extremely difficult to sink on land.
  7. 80% of the complexity was modeling the pilot’s “Olds” style mustache and its response to G effects. The F-14 pilot is clean shaven - that’s easy.
  8. I love sticking my head out the window and let my tongue and ears flap in the wind. I also bark at passing planes. I agree, it’s a bit annoying and an easy fix I suppose.
  9. @zerO_crash, if you again read my post above you will notice that I explicitly state that the climb rates are not real and are simply different units for power/weight ratios. This is because 478kw/2495kg says nothing to most people. The question was “how nimble” so this was a very simplified way to give numbers that are remotely relevant to the question. If you can give us better insight into the relative performance of these helicopters, by all means do! But all you did was to rehash in many words that the climb rates are not physical which we already knew, and update some numbers (which we appreciate) without providing any new insights into the “how nimble” question.
  10. Awwww… there does my phantastic phantom phantasy of loading her up with 21 SUU-11… and just let it rip!
  11. With enough runway you can simply drive to your target
  12. Israeli pilots talk about their Mirages much like RAF pilots talk about their Spitfires - they say it was a joy to fly. They praise it for being very responsive and intuitive. It just “felt right” and leading ace Giora Epstein repeatedly stated that it was much more fun to fly than his F-16A (in spite of the latter being far more capable). He actually stated that the F-16A was not fun enough for him… I can relate to that because the F-4E will most likely be the most modern module I will ever buy in DCS (except Kfir which is about equal). I don’t like modern jets that are more of a flying systems package held together by an aircraft. F-4E was far more capable than the Mirage in every aspect except close dogfights, where they were about equal or a slight advantage to the Mirage. This is the opinion of many ace pilots who flew both into combat, and flew dissimilar dogfights in training using both against each other. I have never heard any one of them who claimed the opposite that the F-4E was a better dogfighter.
  13. Why do you think that this is how I want to see them? I didn’t say they were bad fighters. They had a more important role to fill that no other plane could perform nearly as well and that was not holding defensive patrols - Mirages were more than adequate for that. Phantoms did shoot down Migs over enemy territory during deep strike operations. They were also used in a few aerial ambushes operations because… they were considered very good fighters as well! Plus their radar was actually useful as opposed to the Mirage’s. In 1973 Mirages and Neshers already got their Shafrir II missiles and were still considered top dogfighters. There was still little faith in radar missiles and much faith in the cannons. Mirages performed most of the combat patrols and got more kills than the Phantoms (Mosty the Neshers did IIRC). When IAF’s chief test pilot Dani Shapira first tested the Phantom in the US (probably a B), after they got out of the plane the American instructor asked what he thought of the Phantom. According to his autobiography Dani tactlessly replied: “in a dogfight, I’d rather be in a Mirage”… I can’t blame Dani - he also said that after his wife his loves were his Mirage III and his Spitfire IX that he couldn’t choose between.
  14. The dedicated strike types were the A-4 and Sa’ar (Super Mystere upgraded by Israel with license built J-52, the A-4’s engine). Phantoms were immediately recognized as the best fighter-bombers in the roster and were used mostly for deep strikes. The Mirage III & Nesher were considered better dogfighters and significantly inferior fighter-bombers, so during 1973 war they were tasked with air defense freeing the phantoms to focus on strikes. Iftach Spector, 107 sq. commander in 1973 said he had to “suppress the Mirage pilot” within his pilots (most of which transitioned from Mirages) so they stop chasing Migs and focus on their primary mission, which was to strike and get out. Of course he was unable to suppress his own inner Mirage pilot and went after Migs - including one incident where he sent his 7 formation members to RTB and he stayed to duel a Mig 21 in a crazy 0 altitude stall competition.
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