Aerosoft F-14 Tomcat - RELEASED

**Cirrus N210MS** · March 10th, 2015, 21:55

just order my copy of this amazing plane

**AusWilko** · March 11th, 2015, 06:21

I am tossing up to get this, looks realy good

***Ferry_vO*** · March 11th, 2015, 06:53

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)

**Cirrus N210MS** · March 11th, 2015, 07:26

got my copy from just flight it was $35.37 with store points used

**ST0RM** · June 22nd, 2015, 12:56

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

**hae5904** · June 23rd, 2015, 05:17

Originally Posted by ST0RM

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

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

Hank

***hschuit*** · June 23rd, 2015, 05:29

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

**Odie** · June 23rd, 2015, 07:07

Originally Posted by hschuit

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

Thanks for the update John; it's much appreciated! Keep making a great aircraft even greater!

***Cees Donker*** · November 11th, 2015, 20:18

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

***Dimus*** · November 12th, 2015, 01:48

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.

***Cees Donker*** · November 12th, 2015, 02:12

Originally Posted by Dimus

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.

Yes, but I have done that. Still no cigar.

Cees

**DaveB** · November 12th, 2015, 04:10

Hello Mate

Reading of your problems, I thought I'd give it a go myself. Being one of the great unwashed who bought this set 90% for the carrier and 10% for the F14, I've not spent a great deal of time in the F14 (shoddy I know as this is a stunning model). I can't recall having 'worked' her before on carrier ops so I read the manual (fascinating as Mr Spock would say). Having trapped.. I had the manual open at the relevant section and followed it as best I could. First thing that didn't appear to work for me was shift+w to crouch the nose leg although I have to say it looked pretty crouched. I tried this a few times with no visual indication anything had happened. Anywho.. NWS was working so I'd been able to get to the cat ok. Shift+i got me into launch mode though looking at the manual now.. I guess I should have used shift+l. It was all getting busy and I didn't want a telling off. I only did this a few moments ago and already I can't remember if I did actually hit shift+l too

Whatever.. she pulled down and the blast deflectors came up so I presumed all was good. Got a telling off for not being at zone 5 (I thought I was) so pushed the throttles to the stop.. waited for the needles to bend then hit shift+spacebar. I didn't actually leave like a scolded cat but I reckon 150kts was up as I left the deck. I've no idea where the inlet ramp controls are but I didn't sink to the sea so got away with it.

The gear wouldn't come up.. I presumed I'd broken it but it did eventually come up with shift+g.. no, probably ctrl+g.

I love the Tomcat pilots briefing though to do it as 'natural' as he describes would take many many hours so I'll continue to blag it for now. All I can say is that it's worked for me though I have to say, not exactly as described in the manual. I may not have water rudder mapped.. I'll have to check. I'll also make a point of finding where the inlet ram controls are!!

Have you tried using it on any other carrier or just Kitty Hawk?
ATB
DaveB

**joe bob** · November 12th, 2015, 04:27

The inlet ramp controls are just above the engine crank switch. If they are not in auto there is a good chance you are going to get a flame out on launch
A bit above that next to the gear handle is the Kneel switch that you operate before the Shift-I
At launch, rotate smartly to 15 degrees pitch and you should be off and running.

**DaveB** · November 12th, 2015, 04:51

Cheers Joe Bob

I actually found the kneel switch while trying to get the gear up after launch. Thinking about it.. when I took off from Culdrose, the intention was to load up Kitty and 'land on'. Because of this, I left the aircraft dirty (gear down and flaps 1 notch) rather than cleaning up and loading Kitty.

I really must try and use the F14 more because it really is good. The only downside is that I much prefer the D and habitually go for that version.
ATB
DaveB

***Victory103*** · November 12th, 2015, 06:31

Cees, what boat are you using? I've never had any major issues with launch, if I did I just moved to a different catapult on Javier's CVs. For those starting out, you can cancel out the engine issue in the ACM prior to take off, otherwise get good at air starts if you are sloppy on the pedals. For newbs, suggest flying the "B" to have tame engines and HUD. Pre-start make sure the ramps are AUTO and the Throttle Mode/Temp are BOOST/NORM (not sure if these are even working). Highly suggest mapping your stick as well, key commands like the wing sweep, flaps, and NWS (needed for autopilot) make the flying less challenging until you get to the boat!

***Cees Donker*** · November 12th, 2015, 11:43

I'm using the Kitty or the Nimitz. Same result. A lot of useful information here! Wether it gets me catapulted? I'll let you know tomorrow. First I must get some sleep and then my pupils are craving for my lessons in Dutch language.

Wish it was already weekend!

Night,

Cees

**JohnC** · November 12th, 2015, 15:40

Cees,

The teeter-totter question should be, if you're locked into the CAT, does a green message bar appear when you try to launch? If yes, then it might be setup, and should provide a hint to the problem.

If the answer is no, then it may be deeper. Also, what version of the sim are you running?

***Cees Donker*** · November 12th, 2015, 19:57

Originally Posted by JohnC

Cees,

The teeter-totter question should be, if you're locked into the CAT, does a green message bar appear when you try to launch? If yes, then it might be setup, and should provide a hint to the problem.

If the answer is no, then it may be deeper. Also, what version of the sim are you running?

I'll take a look later. I tried it in the Steam edition and in the normal FSX.

Cees

**JohnC** · November 13th, 2015, 06:02

One (major) issue is that there is an error in the latest complete build for FSX Steam. Instead of the Gold/Acceleration fileset, it installs the FSX SP2 fileset (e.g. carrier-incompatible).

To fix it; uninstall the current version and then install the Gold/Acceleration version, and manually point the installer to the FSX Steam directory.

***Cees Donker*** · November 13th, 2015, 12:45

Originally Posted by JohnC

One (major) issue is that there is an error in the latest complete build for FSX Steam. Instead of the Gold/Acceleration fileset, it installs the FSX SP2 fileset (e.g. carrier-incompatible).

To fix it; uninstall the current version and then install the Gold/Acceleration version, and manually point the installer to the FSX Steam directory.

Yes! That is the solution! Thank you John!

Cees

Great plane!