F-14B Tomcat: In-Flight Refueling & Fuel Management Tutorial | DCS WORLD 

He's an awesome cheeky b*stard! :)

when I was on like 7th go for the nozzle and missed again he gave me a "Use the force Luke!" line....I wasn't sure if i wanted to shoot him out of the cocpit or kiss him :D

ahhh good thinking Sir!

I snickered a bit there as well. SUPERCAP!

lol

Agreed. It weekens the fabric of reality!

Only way to preserve realism is to splash him once you’re done tanking

lol latch.. expression also used for babies that latch to the breast for milk.. i guess its the same, when feeling down and lonely you just need to suck that delicious kerosine to keep you going strong..u just need to calm yourself down, breat slowly and get that connection..

@@keepwalking6041 🤣🤣🤣 that's hilarious

I remember that. Good old days

and operating the radar. And dogfighting in tomcat. I find it all pretty darn hard, but then Im new to DCS.

Try OCG

@@cameronveraart9686 outstanding. You a member?

Interesting...

Yes, this is true! Some of the air sucked into the intake is used for the climate control in the cockpit. In real life you need to turn this off or you may risk some nasty chemical burns and watery eyes. @@grimreapers

Hi I’m new to the DCS f14 if you would wan to fly together?

lol

For the love of god, dont give them any ideas, its hard enough as it is lol.

Southern Fun - When I say spike I am referring to the fact that the throttle erroneously registers more input than I physically place on it. So, I maybe adding speed a percent at a time and then when I reduce a tiny amount, it registers a 5% drop. It usually happens when you reverse from one direction to their other in the throttle. This makes it incredibly difficult to control minor thrust changes up and down. It just about allows me to perform a Case 1 Landing, but it’s almost impossible to do any formation flying or air to air refuelling. I have sold my soul, one kidney and one of my children and have a Warthog setup on order which I am hoping will perform better!

@@NorthernerInSpace Sounds like your potentiometer is worn out! Just good old entropy doing it's job. Could be mitigated a little with the axis curves. I have the Thrustmaster Hotas X and it has a deadzone built in to the actual control chip software on the throttle, right in the centre area where you need the fine control. I'm planning on bypassing it with an Arduino micro to get fine control. Jealous of your Warthog purchase! :D

I also have a G940 that is pushing 8 years old I think. My rudders have the same spike you mention in your throttle. I can be on a constant rudder pressure and then let off a tiny bit and they flick back and forth before returning to the position my pedals are actually in. My stick has a stick in it as well. I pull back slightly and it sticks, then a little more pressure and it moves, though since I was pulling harder it is more of a quick yank that I have to counter. I do not even use the FFB so it is not a feedback thing but very well could be a glitch in the "centering spring" programming. Been about to pull the trigger on the Warthog as well, but I am not happy that my G940 pedals will not work with it. Since the throttle and pedals are connected to the G940 stick, I would have to keep the stick also plugged in to be able to use the pedals. Also with all the reports of the motherboards frying in them, I am not ready to drop $500 for flaky hardware.

Power5 : My rudders do the same. I set a 20% dead zone on them and it seems to reduce the rudder spike. I upgraded to a Warthog a couple of weeks ago. For now, I am running the G940 rudders through the G940 joystick until I can afford some separate pedals! The G940 joystick has its power cable removed and I have removed all bindings for it in DCS. I am very happy with the Warthog, but I may need to get a lighter spring for it unless I get used to it first!

Has the bricking problem been fixed on the WH? Honestly all that is stopping me from ordering. I had same plans as you are doing if I get the WH. And I have a 25% curve on all my Axis but no deadzones.

lol correct

Anything with a skirt eh? ;)

It's for carrier landings (Since the lights are so hard to see!)

I didn;t know!!! awesome

You can A) biase front/rear fuselage tanks B) enable/disable ext tank flow. But you can;t biase the ext tanks. Good news is that I think it biases them by default.

Hey , I got the same question regarding controls box how do you get it ?

It was bugged, he wasn;t supposed to have his baskets out lol

no curves and no dead zones on the F14 anymore.

Roger. FYI we interviewed two IRL Tomcat pilots and both say Bomb sweep is not used IRL.

@@grimreapers Yeah I think it makes it quite a bit harder to stabilise behind the tanker with the wings swept like that.

Bomb setting was too much sweep so most pilots just manually swept them back to 35°-45°. And the suggestion some are making to put air source to left is accurate.

Typhoon and F35 never. DCS only goes up to 1990. F-16 3-6 months.

You can always LCtrl+Z to 2060 where the F-35 (probably) be 90% declassified. We probably have a 6th generation fighter by that point im sure. Jk

@@grimreapers oh

it does actually light up in the tomcat too!

@@grimreapers no way! I'd almost pay to see that.

try adding some joystick axis curve.

please search "grim reapers max ferry range"

F-14 can carry more internal fuel (16K lb F-14 vs 13K lb F-15C) but less overall as the Albino has 3 bigger external tanks

Make sure you set EASY COMMS in the mission editor

@@grimreapers it happens when im in multiplayer server

@@emirimpramoglou4677 you have to set your radio to their frequency when not using simple radio and have to contact through that radio menu not the simple radio menu when the server is not in simple radio setting for your server that u join say it's 254.000 am set your main radio to that and talk through that radio I hope it helps I had difficulties at first aswell

Ur trying too hard take it easy and breathe

Sure you have it by now. I’m working on the Tcat now. AV8 and A4 next. In the beginning-45 days and a hundred attempts until a full bag of gas. And I used to do this. Trim trim trim.

thanks

Can you not set the speeds for all aircraft in mission editor?

Power5 when the tanker tasks actual script into fueling mode they are defaulted to very slow , I don’t remember what it is by default . You could do that for sure in the ME, but without deeper editing to the actual task speed I think they default back. The server I fly has various tankers at different altitude blocks and speeds because of the old DCS speed of tanker pre 2.5 unity giving people habits and then higher speeds and also accurate speeds and altitudes. Generally you want 20k and above 300 ias for everything nato tactical.