Ok ill message you on discord.
I got the F-15J & F-16AJ (Plus some Kfirs) if you want them too
Oh and the German event mig-23
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Yes for tomorrow.
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great, dm me in game or on discord after 14:00 and i’ll be free. Username is the same as here
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UK time?
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aye
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With harrier changes, is the weight capacity to still be able to perform VTOL reduced on the Gr7?
Struggling to get vertical landing functional with payload, the take off isn’t impacted too heavily, but just can’t get into a hover, even manually, to land.
Payload: 4 x GBU-12 {Outer Pylons} – 2 x AIM-9M {Dedicated Pylon} – 2 x AGM-65G {Inner Pylon} – TIALD
It should be the same.
Maybe something else changed, used to be able to hover with it, was the one I used when landing on carriers in Sim. Slightly peeving.
How much fuel?
IRL, for a harrier to Vertically land they needed to be below about 2200lb of fuel and that was without stores iirc. Not exactly sure how that translate in game. One sec let me boot up with WTRTI
14min, used to take ~20 for sim.
14 mins looks to be about the maximum fuel wieght of (iirc) 2200lb.
So with weapon stores, you would need to be below that. At 15 mins (infinite fuel) I was just about coping with water injection, but dropping like a rock without.
So it seems fairly accurate to IRL.
I dont really recall ever being able to manage a VTOL landing with stores + 20 mins of fuel before. I usually always try to land below 10 mins of fuel
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It was a struggle, but I did manage it a few times a long time ago.
This payload can get up off the ground and into forward flight relatively comfortably with water, the issue is getting to the ground with it.
Aye, it seems closer to reality, just feels a bit skewiff when it used to work good enough. Happy for greater accuracy, just wish there’d be some indicator somewhere.
They may have tweaked the thrust for when in the hover. They were messing about the thrust curves this major. But feels the same ish to me
May have been I was pushing the limits prior, and now it’s just properly borked on landing. It isn’t too important given I can just jettison the unexpended stores, but still confused me a bit at the time. Just wish it had an indicator somewhere :(
Yeah, you never know. Just wish we had a fuel dump mechanic as well, so if you were above the max hover fuel. You could dump down to pretty near it
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That would help too.
Yeah, i’ve had SB matches where i’ve taken off the SHar, immediately fired all weapons defending the carrier and had a hairy landing because I had like 25 mins of fuel :D Which is about double the max fuel wieght for VTOL
Generally why I put the VTOL payloads together, it was prior to being able to ditch rubbish into the sea with a keybind if you expended some but not all (such as only loosing 1 AAM). It isn’t all too important a change, just felt weird to not be able to land with stores compared to ages back.
Was checking it all to make sure it was sim ready for when I return to it in the next week or two, and discovered it no longer worked good 😿