F-14 Tomcat

I cannot get LUA for E gen to work or panel lights they flash but do not stay on.

Any plans to issue the "Handbush" (i.e. Manual) in English?. Regards, Edward

Hi, a s soon as I accelerate, all of the sudden the Altimeter and the VSI begin to behave like a pendulum; the needle of the altimeter moves like a tic-tac of about 500 ft, while the VSI, in opposition, ranges from 1000 ft/s to -1000 ft/s. The attache images captured the gauges in a time lapse of less than seconds. In the meantime, the altitude shawn in the HUD works properly. Regards, Fulvio Arman

Hi, a s soon as I accelerate, all of the sudden the Altimeter and the VSI begin to behave like a pendulum; the needle of the altimeter moves like a tic-tac of about 500 ft, while the VSI, in opposition, ranges from 1000 ft/s to -1000 ft/s. The attache images captured the gauges in a time lapse of less than seconds. In the meantime, the altitude shawn in the HUD works properly. Regards, Fulvio Arman

Did someone else find these "issues" (maybe it's my fault)? With the 2.00 version the Tomcat (B version) begins to climb under Mach 1, and over it begins to dive. (The 1.10 version doesn't started to climb under Mach 1, but went to dive also over it.) Yeah, I heard about the trimms (I don't like to play with them permanently ), but is this climb/dive normal (intentional)? On the payload manager I can't see the "load M61-A1" box (F-14B), but in the manual it's there. Speed brake in/out clicks twice for one push (and it can be heard in outside view too).

Is there some place I can go to find information on scenery? I'm thinking of trying to improve mine but don't know the first thing about it. thanks................................Joe / JR1Wingnut.

The F-14X Is not flying the flight plan and the vector switch is on an yet it will not follow the assign flight plan route? I flew Dino's F-14D and it flew the correct flight plan. Anyone with a quick solution. Thanks.

I have this problem in bot FSX and P3D. When I spawn a tanker with TacPack I just extend the probe, fly lose enough to the drogue and the refuelling begins (I can only verify by switching to the sparrowhawk HUD though) However, when spawn the tanker from the F-14 menu, nothing happens when I fly close behind (like within 5 feet of the drogue). Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong? Thanks!

For each stock skin there is a "ball call" soundfile in the Tomcat's folder. One for each squadron. What is it that ties the sound to a plane? I mean if I install a vf-84 repaint and I want it to use the vf103 wav file, what is it that I need to adapt? Is it something in the aircraft.cfg? thanks! Greg

Can anyone recommend me some books about flying the F-14? I'm particularly interested in what it must have been like to fly Tomcats off a carrier. I read Dave "Bio" Baranek's "Top Gun Days", and I'm finishing "The Last Top Gun" by Dan Zimberoff. To be honest I prefer this latter one because it gives insights in the life of a naval aviator on a carrier. Can anyone please recommend me some more books I should read? Many thanks, Greg

Hey I'm having a display issue I guess? The caution lights on the right hand panel by the light switches is just pure white. I can't see words on the panel, I can't tell if it's lit up or not. I've messed with my brightness settings and other settings but I'm having no luck. Had anyone else experienced this?

Those of you who use vLSO: What is your GPA and BR? My average is 2.73, and 78% Boarding ratio at the moment. What is the Navy standard? What is considered acceptable? I found that the Aerosoft Tomcat is extremely difficult to land properly because of the very slow reaction of the engines and also the sluggish low speed handling. (I believe this is very realistic). When I jump in the T-45, I get fair landings without any problems. I tried the acceleration Hornet with its insane stability and immediate engine response and I did my first OK landing.

When the launch bar is lowered, the Tomcat's nose gear strut compresses and the plane "kneels"in its own unique way. It's perfectly visible from external views, but inside the cockpit nothing seems to change. Are there any plans to make the kneeling visible from inside too? thanks!

With all the functionalities of the Tomcat, I find myself needing more and more buttons on my joystick. Is there any way to assign the hat switch down and up buttons to 2 different events? I only seem to be able to assign hat switch as a whole to one event. It would be great if I could both zoom in and out by pressing up and down. Thanks in advance!

Hello All, My apologies for the delay. The long pause in communication falls on me; I'm a 4th year PhD candidate (while also working a lab manager in a prosthetic research group) and have been spread particularly thin over the last six months between work and school. With that said, progress on the second service pack is beginning to kick into higher gear. Two major items of note are that a third F-14 driver contacted us in March, and he has been quite helpful in pointing out some subtleties in the cockpit that we can improve and make more accurate. Bad news is that our primary visual systems programmer (JR), has left the team because of personal issues. This means …

As some of you have mentioned, when configured for landing I have had to put in a lot of (nose up) trim on the downwind leg to keep things manageable. Is there any way to 'reset' or zero this trim before taking off again? If you do a touch and go or trap and launch again, the nose wants to shoot up pretty quickly and it is kind of sketchy. What did they do in the real world? It seems it's a guessing game while on the deck - if I even remember to back the trim off. Thanks

Hi Captains, I´m a newbie in your forum. I´ve got trouble with the NAV and COM. It doesn´t matter if I start that warbird in ready to taxi, or in cold & dark modus. Today both worked, the other day not and I don´t got a clue why? I´m able to set the frequencies via the TACAN Panel and the COM-Panel, but SOMETIMES the ILS-Needles will not be shown in the HUD. Same with the COM. Sometimes I´m able to communicate with the ATC, sometimes not. The Shift+6 hotkey sometimes doesn´t work properly also. If I start the FSX COM/NAV Panel with shift+6, it is sometimes dark, but sometimes it works during the flight, after landing it´s dark. It sound…

I noticed that when I`m on board of the Kitty Hawk the ASI indicates 50 kts on the HUD. Is this correct? I thought carriers were much slower, around 35 kts... Of course, the wind speed was set to 0 in the weather menu.

Are there any scenery add-ons for better realism at NAS Oceana or any of the other bases where Tomcats operated? What are you guys using for non-carrier ops? I have found some old (2008) stuff for FSX but it is not clear whether or not it would work in P3d. And how about vLSO - do you use that for FCLP? Thanks

I was wondering if it`s only on my end, but I have some issues with the landing sounds: 1) there is no tire screech or any impact sound when I land on a carrier 2) the sound of the hook catching a wire comes with a delay of about 1-2 seconds, sometimes my plane almost stops by that time. Is there any way to remedy these problems? Thanks

This great addon made me read and research a lot about how exactly carrier landings are done. I use vlso so i'm under a lot of virtual pressure:) I find myself having a hard time calculating the turn well, so i usually go further back and higher so that i have more time on final. It's really hard to control altitude during turn. This video says "meatball, lineup, aoa". There is a footage with the hud that doesn't show the tacan glideslope indicators. Did real pilots fly by it? For me it's a lot easier to see and follow than the meatball. Also, I find it a lot easier to land using the new hud, where everything I need …

I know it's not F14 related but i hope you might have the answer. I have 25-40 fps and it's pretty smooth. However, when I fly close to an ai it starts shaking back and forth over 30 fps. Therefore, I have to limit it. In game limiter: if i limit it to 29 fps it drops to 19-20. What happened to the remaining 10? No go. Tacpack limiter: it's an experimental feature and is not compatible with sweetfx. No go. Nvidia inspector: i can only limit the global profile, applying it to all games. I can't find fsx in the dropdown list. Any advice please? Thanks!

Hi, I have usually pulled around 30 FPS from the F-14X, and would like to do slightly better, are there any ways to get greater FPS with ti? With the VRS Superbug I end up getting more about 50 in the same situations. Thanks, Peter

I loaded the F14 in Persian Gulf and I see the carrier but the carrier is moving and the Tomcat is not. I was inside the ship at one point and then another time the carrier was ahead of me and I was about 20 feet off ground. I am using TacPack as well. Is there a fix for this?

Hello All, So this is a new set of pickles that has popped up when I'm using the tomcat and it have been having a lot of crashes... up to and including the infamous "blue screen of death"... I have been getting weird messages like c++ visual run time error and when I pan through the VC the screen will start to scramble and go blurry...as seen in the attached pics I have tried several things to include modifying my FSX.cfg to include the following: [BUFFERPOOLS] Poolsize=5000000 Usepools=1 [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=254 [Display] Panrate=200 WideViewAspect=true [Main] disablepreload=1 [DISPLAY.Device.AMD Radeon …