Aerosoft F-14 Tomcat - RELEASED

[fsafranek]

Yep, a very cool feature of the intercept scenarios. You can swap out the included Su-27 Flanker or Tu-95 Bear for anything else -- friend or foe.

[Ian Warren]

Yep, just watched it again about 3 weeks ago. Obviously we are all living in the glorious past in our simming world! But it's the best place to be imo. I wasn't planning on getting this as I alread fly Dino's one, but after looking at all the great screen captures I can feel myself being drawn into serious temptation . . ..

I do believe Nick aka: 'choppernut' sat back and watched the movie again last night ... might have him hooked into a multiplay

Nice shot it was a great night

Great trying out the little A4 against the F-14 , great night nights MP

[YoYo]

I did Today video tutorial for catapult launch.



Watch in HD, the best way I think .

[neutrino]

I did Today video tutorial for catapult launch.

Watch in HD, the best way I think .

YoYo, awesome video, I felt like I am watching the movie More, more, more !

[flaviossa]

Very nice YoYo!

[strykerpsg]

Fantastic video Yoyo, perfect for a noob like me. thank you for generating and posting.

Matt

[TARPSBird]

Outstanding video, YoYo. I could almost smell my sweaty flight suit!

[ryanbatc]

Really well done tutorial vid... I actually like the music even though everyone plays it haha!

[JimmyRFR]

Really well done video! I've been following the checklists, and I appreciate how you've condensed it down into the essentials.

Good stuff there!

[delta_lima]

Hi,

Two questions for the group:

• what are the included liveries?

• How are FPS compared to other full-detailed, comparable avionics aircraft? Say, Razbam A-7 series?

thanks,

dl

[odourboy]

Great video Yoyo! Watching the start-up procedure has left me wondering how Maverick ever got his machine into the air?!

I have to admit I'm still on the fence over this one. I've looked at a ton of screen shots and I can't help be feel the both the VC and external shots I've seen have a bit of a 'cartoony' look. Have I got this totally wrong?

This video does a nice slow pan around and inside the aircraft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwYJL2VYmPA

It has helped me to get a sense of what's causing my hesitation. What I'm not seeing are some of the texturing details that I've come to expect.. the spectral sheen of the sun off the fuselage, the metallic gleam of the gear struts and VC switches, VC shadows.. this sort of thing.

[neutrino]

Great video Yoyo! Watching the start-up procedure has left me wondering how Maverick ever got his machine into the air?!

I have to admit I'm still on the fence over this one. I've looked at a ton of screen shots and I can't help be feel the both the VC and external shots I've seen have a bit of a 'cartoony' look. Have I got this totally wrong?

This video does a nice slow pan around and inside the aircraft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwYJL2VYmPA

It has helped me to get a sense of what's causing my hesitation. What I'm not seeing are some of the texturing details that I've come to expect.. the spectral sheen of the sun off the fuselage, the metallic gleam of the gear struts and VC switches, VC shadows.. this sort of thing.

Looks great in Prepar3D Also keep in mind that there are 300+ switches inside that cockpit so we had to think about performance too.

[odourboy]

Looks great in Prepar3D Also keep in mind that there are 300+ switches inside that cockpit so we had to think about performance too.

That's one of the best screenies I've seen so far! To be fair, while I've come to expect a lot of eye-candy I have to say that the apparent systems depth and FDE seem outstanding. The compressor stall, flat spin and air restart video John Cagle posted on Youtu.be is impressive.

[noddy]

[stovall]

Thanks YoYo for the start up video. I saved it as a tutorial for my efforts at cold start. The music brings back memories and the desire to check out "Top Gun" again.

[Victory103]

Nice job on the tutorial vid. I don't see it in the AS manuals, but my "D" NATOPS (flight manual) has an abbreviated "alert" launch checklist. The crews sitting alert would have already done a full systems check. Also, no lights on deck.

[navy81]

This is excellent, Nice work by all involved.
One question (so far)- anyone have trouble launching from Kitty Hawk?
I have full flaps set, launch bar engaged in (imaginary shuttle) and aircraft in tension (shift+ i), throttles firewalled (equivalent of zone 5) and aircraft wont launch after pressing Shift+spacebar. Handler (ACHO) is yelling at me to select zone 5 - can't get any higher up on the throttles, and mashing F4 doesnt change anything.

So, "suspend cat" (1,2,3 or 4 - doesnt really matter), and off we go on the "taxi of shame" back to the six pack.
Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
Deke

[JohnC]

Have you checked your hardware calibration? There's code written into the F-14 to go to Zone 5 with a double tap of F4 (once for MIL, second for Zone 5). The only way that should be able to be changed is if a hardware input then selects less than Zone 5.

I would encourage to look here if you use FS-UIPC:
http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?...on-in-fs-uipc/

and follow-up here if you are still having issues so we can get back to you quicker. (I know this is fast response time, but I check the support forums much more frequently)
http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/forum/686-f-14-x/



P.S. Great screenshot Noddy!

[Deacon211]

I had the same problem at one time. My throttles weren't quite getting to 100% and thus setting off the "Not Zone 5" logic. Have you tried recalibrating?

[gray eagle]

[YoYo]

Ahh, yes, its a my "old" video with ILS>TACAN of CV-63, not edited, nothing special, just from FSX .
Thank you for your attention @gray eagle.

[Ian Warren]

A question to the Aerosoft team: If there is going to be a patch or update for any reason later on, Is it possible to make the USS Kitty Hawk a separate model that go's into the aircraft folder and is made drivable with maybe 6 camera views or less , a basic control bridge nothing fancy, all this to be added to your TOMCATX package for people to multi-play. I know one person has to drive/command the carrier - be the CAG so to speak, it would be one heck of an added feature.

[fsafranek]

Hi,

Two questions for the group:

• what are the included liveries?

• How are FPS compared to other full-detailed, comparable avionics aircraft? Say, Razbam A-7 series?

thanks,

dl

F-14A Pre 1986:
VF-1, 1976
VF-14, 1976
VF-24, 1976
VF-114, 1977

F-14A Post 1986:
VF-2, 1991
VF-32, 1989
VF-41, 1991
VF-111, 1989
VF-154, 1998

F-14B:
VF-101, 2004
VF-102, 2002
VF-103, 2005
VF-143, 2005

I have the A-7 packages but haven't really flown them in a while so don't recall to compare. I can say that there is little if any FPS impact on my one year old system with this F-14 package.

[delta_lima]

F-14A Pre 1986:
VF-1, 1976
VF-14, 1976
VF-24, 1976
VF-114, 1977

F-14A Post 1986:
VF-2, 1991
VF-32, 1989
VF-41, 1991
VF-111, 1989
VF-154, 1998

F-14B:
VF-101, 2004
VF-102, 2002
VF-103, 2005
VF-143, 2005

I have the A-7 packages but haven't really flown them in a while so don't recall to compare. I can say that there is little if any FPS impact on my one year old system with this F-14 package.

Perfect - thanks Frank!

dl

[YoYo]

Hello,
the new tutorial for F-14. Now the time to show some of functions of radar AN/AWG-9 and how to operate AIM-54 Phoenix - the one from biggest and advanced air to air missiles in aviation history.
Beyond Visual Range attack.





For full operations (like in video) You need TacPack but many of these functions work without TP too.
Here is example key bindings from lua file (FSUiPC), so not many "mouse clicks" for "military keys" in VC too.
I hope You like it.