I’ve been looking into the control surfaces of the Gripens in general, mainly in landing configurations and what not (still urks me the slats haven’t been fixed yet)
For landing, it seems like once the gear is down the FCS configures the aircraft for landing mode and starts deploying once the plane slows down. Canards pitch up, elevons are pitched down. Slats aren’t deployed unlike the EuFi and Rafale upon touchdown. Could mean the Gripens could have a “landing flap” option.
On touchdown, canards flare down, along with slats drooping and the elevons pitching up for max braking force on touchdown. Would be nice to see this effect on landing since Gaijin has modeled spoilers deploying on touch down on aircraft such as the F-111s
To my knowledge, there isn’t a takeoff configuration for the Gripens’ flight control.
I’d like to put a bug report on these but I’m unsure if I can provide any more info and trying to dig in for flight control systems. I doubt videos will help since Gaijin would want more sources/info.
Screenshot from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJTht_xy5Uk (Landing time lapse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW4XVm_4gtY&t=92s (Gripen E landing)
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Keeping it fair for everyone while not being fair for Sweden
I would disagree with this. Gaijin plays the “it is realistic” or “not” card when they want to and when they want to, they play “we are trying to balance the game” card to make it “fair” for everyone. They just make the changes just so to make people keep playing but nothing more.
I mean Gripen is still underperforming, has a lot of issues and missing a lot of its features even after we pushed so hard to get it completed, which it probably will never be.
And you can probably find a lot of problems with many of other planes as well if you dig just a little bit. For example, the new Rafael also got nothing game changing if i am not mistaken? We are supposed to go for another 400k RP for a tail hook? At least, EF got a nice radar, that’s something.
On the other hand, the detail of the cockpit of su30s is just mindblowing. The information that you can get from the HUD is amazing. I am only playing that plane because i can actually enjoy the cockpit.
I have seen the same pattern in my olden years playing world of warcraft. They keep 1-2 race and classes OP so that people would open up new characters and put more playing time into the game. Next expantion, update, other classes get buffed and the cycle goes on.
Gaijin does the same thing with nations and vehicles. The obivous idea is to make people hooked up and make them spend more money is all. I mean I would gladly spend more money and keep playing if the game was completed and balanced is what they don’t possibly understand.
So in that sense, I am not quite sure if we ever going to see a game where we can just pick our favourite vehicle, play it and enjoy the game without being worried about it being unbalanced and incomplete. Unless, the senior developers are out of course. I’ll keep my fingers crossed but won’t hold my breath.
In addition to what I posted earlier.
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15-20? seems a bit low
I bring 30 minimum and that’s in addition to the fuel pod that i use to reach the battle, i drop it once i’m within 20-ish km of an enemy
Guessing you aren’t going WEP a lot?
I do WEP at takeoff and climb, then keep it normal for a while so that i’m not first in line for the ARH rain. Then mostly use WEP when turning and to gain back speed but then go normal again as soon as i’m close to Mach 1.
I’f i’m planning to go high and to ARH launches at the start i bring an external tank that i can ditch if i get locked/launched at so that i can turn better.
Keeping WEP off, reduces the chances of getting IR missiles launched at you as well and increases chances of your flares working.
yeah i just tend to turn it off quickly once i notice that, flare and turn it back on once the missile passes
Those two images are of parked ones though, when they are parked the hydraulic oil loses pressure and the elevons fall down.
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I wrote a report 2 years ago and it wasn’t even read.
Then you can send a private message to one of the Technical Moderators and ask about it. You can find all the teams and the areas they handle listed here: (Who is who and Reporting Procedure). If you don’t get an answer within a few days you can add more moderators from the list to the original message instead of sending a new message (that way you preserve the date of the message and it doesn’t look like a new request), adding one of the moderators to the message every 2-3 days or so until you get an answer.
Please do not to add the seniors until you have tried all other regular moderators, the Seniors likely won’t answer unless they are added and pinged by the regular moderators but if you’ve added all the regular moderators with no answer then you can add the seniors.
You have some strange knowledge about how hydraulics work.
That’s during construction and/or maintenance, i don’t think the same functionality can be said to exist on half built ones compared to completed in-service planes.
Here is a video with a couple of road landings with the C version, i timestamped it to a clip from behind the plane at 1:10.
The pressure in the hydraulic system can drop only due to faults in the system.
Otherwise, the system is always closed, and the fluid, whether oil or something else, can’t escape.
The video shows the moment of contact, but there is no continuation with braking.
There are several types of hydraulics systems and valves. Some stay in the same state when powered off, others don’t.
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