Not much we can do about that unfortunately.
So the important bit about this, given Tornado F.3’s 21 unit AOA limit, that gives it a 40 degree AOA limit.
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I don’t think that translation can be correct. A Tornado test pilot mentioned flying at 40 units AoA during one test flight. That would be the best part of 80° AoA, which seems completely unrealistic.
Very likely he miss remembers and meant 40 degrees, which would line up perfectly with this showing a 40° AOA limit.
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That’s also very unlikely to be possible given the AOa limits were 21 Units. There is breaking the limits and then there is doubling…
It was in an official Panavia publication: Tornado Report No.4 - January 1990
Check out the SPILS! article (page 2-6). For some reason the Author refers to AoA as ADD (Airstream Direction Detector).
I think its SB + TIALD/TV causing issues. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt, and there doesnt seem to be any logical reason for it. But this was the same for the AGM-65Ds on the Harrier Gr7 when it was first added. Took a while before they were more usable/reliable. I reckon its the same.
The inner scale is a vernier scale used to indicate measurements 1/10th of the angle measured on the outer scale
It’s not converting between two scales
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Hmmm, might just be a special case or something given usually the max AOA is 20-26 units.
Could be, would be a very odd vernier scale tho.
Yeah, most vernier protractors in degrees have minutes of arc on the lower scale, but I guess from a metric standpoint it’s easier to understand 10ths of a degree than 60ths, even if it’s less precise
I’m also starting to think the two sets of numbers round the outside are just so it can be mounted on either side of the aircraft.
What about skyflash performances and stage 2g radar scale?
What do you mean by this?
Mean Tornado F3 CSP (Capability Sustainment Programme) mounted IR AIM-9L/i & ARH AIM-120B AMRAAM ? but not sure that equipped ASRAAM ?
Took some fiddling but it appears that sometimes the PGMs work fine, and others it has a full blown tantrum and refuses to fire and I cant figure out why. But for now, Im just going to chalk it up to usual SB shenanigans and some bugs from the TV + TIALD stuff.
But anyway, an interesting development for those who play SB. AF Health pools have been reduced/changed. You can now disable AFs rather easily, in fact, PGM-2000s make extremely short work on AFs, only 2 ish sorties needed to completely destroy an AF. Until AFs are “fixed” we may have a bit of an OP weapon system. and its a nice change to be the ones with the OP weapon for once
Is It right? Max horizontal angle detection limit is 112° degree, 51° to left and right, and in vertical Scan? Is It right?
I remember about things that left on radar of stage 2g and skyflash of a list of old fórum
The skyflash explodes itself, the function of monopulse shot down low target are failing.
Although the lock on mantain are awesome it mantain the lock on better than f14
The late F.3 carried ASRAAM
Not that late…
well by late i mean late 90’s/2000’s