CVW-11: DCS F-14B Tomcat RIO School 

Carrier Air Wing Eleven Thank You for your absolute dedication, your Service, and for taking the time to do this amazing and professional educational video. I had only just heard about your channel because of Jabbers, I am truly thankful. The way in which you present the material is similar to what I have experienced in the USAF and also in civilian type rating training, you definitely know your stuff. Salute to you Sir!

Although I appreciate the effort which went into this vid I just have 2 negative comments about the video itself (not the content) 1- Speak up son! some of us are having trouble hearing you when you speak so softly..At some point I could barely make out what your saying. 2- When you are pointing out panels and switches you need to zoom the panels so they fill the screen..not everyone has 70 inch 4K displays to make out what the panels say or where the switches are.That cockpit is bad enough with the amount of wear they put into the textures so they are barely readable as it is but not zooming enough is making us go blind. Anyway thanks for the Info on the plane it was very informative if difficult to discern .

@@tonyz8553 I have no problem with the volume even on laptop speakers... maybe check that out on your end. Or if you can provide a timestamp for when it got quiet? As for number 2, whip out the manual and follow along as that's the best way to get the most out of this.

Amazing insanely excellent and helpful video. One small comment: Maybe consider not doing the mouth cluck sound? The first couple of times it’s no sweat.... but in a long video such as this, especially where the listener has to really closely pay attention to every word you say it got really distracting. Thank you for taking the time to make this.

Better than one sorry

Also time stamped sections breaking down each sections would be helpful

Tbh, most of the F14 buttons are hard to see.

@@JDoberman truth point blank in track ir or vr still is tough

@@deadshot4245 There’s a skin mod that makes the labels easier to see though. It repaints the faded text with clear white and bold text.

@@JDoberman use the cockpit livery, it really cleans it up and adds arrows to some dials etc

Wonder what time on Wednesday.

That's why this video is featured in the Heatblur official manual for the Tomcat, among others like Jabbers' stuff :D We love making these and hope to make more soon

They most definitely did... they absolutely soaked up every bit of info from the SMEs and really listened.

Couldnt agree more

James C awesome... I had a brother in law in VF-33... RIO... his name was Greg Luttrell. Not sure when he left.

@@stevenspicer14 name rings a bell - it's been 26 years but that name does ring a bell.

Rude! ;)

Thanks MicroVax good flying with you yesterday

Glad we could... help?

Bobby Everette awesome, I always thought it’d be cool to work helos

Tweaks can't solder for shit.

Gary Heath the right side scale indicates Vc absolute value and the left side shows you opening or closing...

I tried to post a picture but RU-vid doesn’t let me... if you look in the Heatblur manual in the DDD section, they have a good image of it...

1:41.30 and 2.45 jabbers vid. Steven Spicer, so is there extra symbology on the scales if something is locked up? Sorry trying to take in a metric ton of RIO info today. Thanks for helping tho

@@heefie8659 There is extra symbology, but not related to the closure. There is missile range, ASE steering info, etc. I don't believe all of the DDD symbology is there on initial, release, however. I know they still had a thing or two to implement.

Lol... I do remember filling the coolant once or twice because the AMEs were too busy. But yeah, they were stuck with it.

Just glad we didnt have to do it lol

@@stevenspicer14 if someone, cough cough, didn't drop a screw in the cockpit, glancing annoyed! Lol

Roll SAS is counterproductive to BFM in the Tomcat. The airplane will fight you with the SAS on as the SAS does not like high AOA maneuvers. For example; If you are at high AOA you will notice that if you stick left, you'll bank right, because of this the SAS will attempt to correct that and therefore make it worse. This is why for high AOA and slow you want to use the Rudder more than the stick for roll control, or think backward and learn to control that reversal and use it.

We flew joint missions and I did some lasing for the 14's out of Oceana, I live in VA

Hope we get an Apache in DCS one day! :)

FlightSimFan it’s the Deck Crew mod in DCS.

I think it’s just the visual. The switch had a tooth and the body had a tooth. You’d pull the switch outwards to get it up and over the tooth on the body.

Very little... the radar energy skips off the water like a stone and keeps heading outward.... so yes, hard for a bandit to shake.

@@stevenspicer14 Awesome, should make the Tomcat very dangerous in it's natural environment.

@@reillybrangan2182 but cats don't like water XD

@@ImmortalityYT tell that to the Tigers

@@ImmortalityYT tigers and tomcats love water

Thomas Still Nice... still in hangar 500?

@@stevenspicer14 what base were you at?

Thomas Still Oceana, all 10 years

@@stevenspicer14 Ah. No we moved to a fancy air force base in Florida. Sadly we are in the process of decom.

Thomas Still Oh! Times they are a changing

Aren’t we going to get the A soon?

@@angeloc1340 i really hope so ! ( and i REALY ) hope the D version

@@FamasTAW i have no interest in the a but would love a d

Johan G.Bruère-Dawson hmmm hard to tell. Did the RIO see DEST in the steering drum? Were you in Cruise display mode?

@@stevenspicer14 Hmmm... I'll ask him. I was in cruise mode for the HUD and DEST on the HSI. I'll try again. Thanks !

Yes, it puts the pilot's steering tee into collision steering, such that if he keeps it centered, he will meet ("collide") with the target at a point in space. It is, however, currently bugged and HB will have it fixed in the next patch.

@@stevenspicer14 thank you. This will make intercepts a lot easier than eyeballing the angles. Would you by any chance know if HB intends to implement TA display on the TID?

Nicolas Hartmann you aligned it per “session”, if I’m assuming correctly what you mean by session, I.e. for the period of time that a crew is manning the jet on the catapult. The fact that the crew is manning the jet is irrelevant to the alignment, of course... the only thing that’s relevant is that the jet and the boat can’t be turned to a new heading, or the alignment will have to be re-run.

@@stevenspicer14 I was talking about the implementation into DCS - the real world procedure was stated in the video, but I was wondering how it was done. I guess he loaded up the game, made the alignment, shutdown the jet, stayed in game, startet filming and started the re-alignment to benefit from the stored alignment. I further guess there is no way in DCS to jump in an F14 with stored heading information - that was my question.

Nicolas Hartmann ah, OK, sorry, yes, it doesn’t work in DCS the way it works in real life... in DCS, you simply check “Stored Heading Alignment” in the ME for your plane, in the same screen where you choose your load out. There’s a tab in there that looks like an envelope... it’s in there.

@@stevenspicer14 really an option I can chose? Didn't know that :-) Thanks mate ;)

No way

Muppetlord it is possible but extremely difficult to capture a maneuvering target with the TCS.

It greatly reduces your departure resistance at high AoA

Corey Ballard It’s the altitude difference as opposed to the absolute altitude...

Patriot Gamer funny you should mention, I’m working that now.

actually i think i understand it now. the line from the data link (i think) shortens to the maximum (dot at end of line) then when it goes in between the bright line that is the optimal range to fire the phoenix' at? then anything below that is closing in and when the line disapears that means you are almost too close and should probably switch to a different weapon?