Well I’m well on my way to completing the event and i’m very interested in the f106 itself, but after taking it for a test flight I’d like to point out some things that need to be corrected before the plane makes it to multiplayer.
Starting with the issue raised above, the F106 “shooter” wasn’t simply equipped with a radar ranging, gyro gunsight; when they replaced the AIR-2 genie with the vulcan gun, they reprogrammed the rocket fire control computer to account for the ballistics to the 20mm vulcan, and calculate the optimum firing angle given the position, velocity and altitude of both the F106 and the radar locked target to produce what they called snap-shoot gunsight, which is equivalent to what the game calls EEGS (or rather, the EEGS is the f106 gunsight program developed for the F-16 - both planes made by the same company). Thus, the F-106 must be given EEGS.
That’s a separate issue unrelated to the gunsight (they are in fact entirely separate systems); unlike the vast majority of aircraft, upon achieving radar lock the F-102 and F106 didn’t simply display the relative position and speed of the radar locked target, they also calculated the fastest trajectory to intercept the target aircraft, and through a stering dot inside a circle directly showed the pilot where he needed to point the nose of the aircraft to be able to attack the target (now doesn’t that sound REALLY useful for sim).
How much ya’ll think this is going to go for on the market? Because I have no interest in another non-premium event thing. I have plenty of backed up planes and vehicles to finish spading out so I’m going to sell this thing.
If they could lock onto long distance targets, they would prolly be pretty useful for early BVR, but from test flight testing, I had to be under 2 miles to lock onto Mig-15.
Also when I say lock, I mean the SARH seeker, not the plane radar.
Edit:
I just realized, we can’t test the radar Falcons. I mistook the IR missiles with radar slaving for radar missiles.
There is maybe option for another F-106 in TT. There was experimental version with another AIM-4D missile under right wing. Also was tested on this plane Polhemus Helmet-Mounted Sight which is also shown on video same as mentioned missile:
You can see that it use same one piece canopy as Six Shooter from 1972.
