Poll to "unlock" the Generation 1 Harriers Virtual Instructor AOA limit

[MatrixRupture]

The Generation 1 Harriers have just received big Buffs on the Dev server, however the Virtual Instructor limits the exploitability of these buffs by restricting the max AOA of the plane to states below buffet onset and far below the average maneuvering tone of say the Sea Harrier whose HUD has AOA maneuvering indicators up to 20 degrees AOA.

The current AOA limit in mouse aim is around 16.5 max, my proposal is to increase the AOA limit to 20 degrees starting at 400 knots IAS or so as this still remains below the planes IRL wing rock state according to various sources.

Allowing the Harrier to pull a reasonable AOA in combination with the improved thrust vectoring and combat flaps will make it usable in a dogfight instead of a boom/n/zoom fighter.

Harrier 1 Mouse Aim AOA limit // Gaijin.net // Issues

• Remain at a locked 16.5
• Increase to 20 starting below 400 knots IAS

[Caernarvon02]

seeing as they burn energy fast might as well burn it for really tight turns

[MatrixRupture]

Yes they shouldn’t burn as much but they lack a lot of thrust even on the dev server lol.

Tight turns is what it was good at.

Taking away its ability to turn hard at low speed and its true twr is annoying but it’s been like this for 5 years.

[MatrixRupture]

Unlocking the AOA to 20 degrees would allow the Shar FRS.1 with 70% fuel and 2 AIM9Ls to turn inside of a mouse aim MIG-21 Lazur-M

While only using 88% throttle… use 100% and you just straight up beat the MIG-21 in a close in fight.

[DJ_CABAZON]

Can you use vecoring to get more aoa?

[MatrixRupture]

IRL yes significantly so.
In game no not really.