F16 G-Tolerance

I had a quick try, yanking the stick in a level turn at M0.8 in a clean jet in previous patch you would gloc after 90 degrees of turning. After the patch you gloc after roughly 180 degrees of turning using the same method, no prior g warmup.

It also looks like you can dip into high g a bit longer now, but cannot sustain more than 8 g for longer periods (more than 15s or so).

Yeah, that's in rather stark contrast to the 9 G's for 45 sec in a upright seat that most pilots were found to be capable of sustaining in real life. The tilted seat in the F-16 would only improve on this, with the established effect being at least an extra 0.8 G in tolerance vs an upright seat.

https://link.springer.com/content/pd...3030-8%2F1.pdf

Excerpt:

1) "Tolerance. Average aircrew relaxed G tolerance in the F-16 seat is about 5.2 G (about .5 to .75 G less in aircraft without a reclined seat); the G suit can add another 1 G, and a good AOSM can add another 3.5 G or more of tolerance. When these are totaled, one can see that 9 G is a big challenge for most aircrew; there is little or no safety margin"

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e10...6e83c862ba.pdf

Excerpt:

"When the F-16-configured seat is used, the training profiles are set 1 G higher than they are when the conventional fighter aircraft seat (13* seatback angle, normal rudder pedal position) is used. The higher-G profiles are used with the F-16 seat because pilots report a 1- to 2-G subjective improvement in G tolerance in the F-16 as compared to other fighter aircraft, and because data obtained during centrifuge training when both types of seat were used revealed at least 0.8 G greater tolerances in the F- 16-configured seat than in the conventional seat"

Also I can confirm that there has been no change to the FM. Only pilot G tolerance has been touched upon.

No difference whatsoever. Instantaneous turn rate is still fecal, and G-onset is absolutely horrid, as we've grown accustomed to. I haven't tested it scientifically yet, but feels like it's harder to go past 9.0G now than before the patch, but don't quote me on that yet. And oh yeah, you'll still G-LOC before you can say supercalifragalisticexpia..... :sleep:

I just tried it. It's a marginal improvement compared to before, but still light years away from what even a below average fighter pilot would be able to sustain. If our DCS fighter pilot went to the IRL centrifuge qualification run, he would immediately be reassigned to fly C-130s :)

I just tried it. It's a marginal improvement compared to before, but still light years away from what even a below average fighter pilot would be able to sustain. If our DCS fighter pilot went to the IRL centrifuge qualification run, he would immediately be reassigned to fly C-130s :)

LOL. Your C-130 joke made my day :lol: