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#4. soundlist.ini entry

The YF-17 was a beautiful concept. Re-engineering it into the carrier-capable F/A-18A added so much weight and complexity onto what was originally such a light airframe (for a twin-engined fighter). "The first prototype (tail number 72-1569) was rolled out at Hawthorne on 4 April 1974, and made its first flight at Edwards AFB on 9 June. The second YF-17 (72-1570) first flew on 21 August. Through 1974, the YF-17 competed against the General Dynamics YF-16. The two YF-17 prototypes flew 288 test flights, totaling 345.5 hours. The YF-17 attained a top speed of Mach 1.95, a peak load factor of 9.4 g, and a maximum altitude of over 50,000 ft (15,000 m). It could attain a sustained 34° angle of attack in level flight, and 63° in a climb at 50 kn (58 mi, 93 km/h)." Let's compare the specs of both variants: YF-17 Crew: 1 Length: 56 ft 0 in (17.0 m) Wingspan: 35 ft 0 in (10.5 m) Height: 16 ft 6 in (5.0 m) Wing area: 350 ft² (32 m²) Empty weight: 17,180 lb (7,800 kg) Loaded weight: 23,000 lb (10,430 kg) Max takeoff weight: 34,280 lb (15,580 kg) Powerplant: 2× General Electric YJ101-100 afterburning turbofans, 14,400 lbf (67 kN) each Performance Maximum speed: Mach 1.95 Range: 2,990 mi (4,810 km) Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m) Rate of climb: 50,000 ft/min (250 m/s) Wing loading: 66 lb/ft² (320 kg/m²) Thrust/weight: 1.25 F/A-18A Crew: F/A-18C: 1, F/A-18D: 2 (pilot and weapons system officer) Length: 56 ft (17.1 m) Wingspan: 40 ft (12.3 m) Height: 15 ft 4 in (4.7 m) Wing area: 400 ft² (38 m²) Airfoil: NACA 65A005 mod root, 65A003.5 mod tip Empty weight: 24,700 lb (11,200 kg) Loaded weight: 37,150 lb (16,850 kg) Max takeoff weight: 51,550 lb (23,400 kg) Powerplant: 2× General Electric F404-GE-402 turbofans Dry thrust: 11,000 lbf (48.9 kN) each Thrust with afterburner: 17,750 lbf (79.2 kN) each Performance Maximum speed: Mach 1.8 (1,190 mph, 1,915 km/h) at 40,000 ft (12,190 m) Combat radius: 330 mi (290 NM, 537 km) on hi-lo-lo-hi mission Ferry range: 2,070 mi (1,800 NM, 3,330 km) Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m) Rate of climb: 50,000 ft/min (254 m/s) Wing loading: 93 lb/ft² (450 kg/m²) Thrust/weight: >0.95

RDRAM is Ram bus memory, which was first made available for Pentium III-based systems in 1999 (it had been used in game-consoles prior to this). DRAM, on the other hand, is a general term (Dynamic Random Access Memory). Back In the mid 1990s, or almost a decade after I started building systems for fun & profit, the first Pentiums used what was then marketed as FPM-DRAM (Fast Page Mode DRAM), and later, EDO-DRAM (Extended Data Out DRAM). By 1997, SDRAM (Synchronus DRAM) was starting to predominate. And that's all for today's history lesson.

Yes, I can verify that it is indeed working now.

In the objects folder.

Yes

PM it to me, and I'll have a look at it.

He's been asked at least a dozen times, and his answer is always the same: "This isn't that sort of a title....consider it more of a 'sim-lite'. We have no plans to add air to air refueling." The 2/3-scale maps used in the series offset (to a degree) the need for air to air refueling. Would it be a nice addition? Sure, but he's balked at it in the past, as it would probably be prohibitively expensive to implement. Probably because it would require a re-write of the existing code, or a possibly even completely new game engine.

All that information is in the knowledge base: http://combatace.com/topic/12210-getting-the-weapon-editors-to-work-in-winxp/

TEWS (as well as Vector) RWR displays require SF2 to work properly, as only the second-gen titles contain the necessary avionics code. Ditto for the RWR-list and its associated TGA files. You could always try the SFP1-style simulated TEWS symbology in its place : http://combatace.com/files/file/6838-rwr-symbology/

Use this weapons editor with the October 2008 patch: http://www.thirdwire.net/files/dl/WeaponEditor_022008.zip

Well, the aerodynamic values seem to be in order, but the min-max extents are duplicated, instead of offset left & right. That shouldn't have any bearing on flight characteristics, but the way they're currently setup, damage to the "right" vert tail will effect the left vert tail.

I said the vert stabs, as in vertical, not the horizontal stabs.... First, use ThrustPosition=0.0,0.0,0.0 on both engines, for trouble shooting purposes. Next, while I believe that "PropRotationDirection" is mostly cosmetic, why do you have them both set to left?

Ah, then....the plot thickens! Check both vert stabs, make sure that they mirror one another, and ditto for the engine values. Regarding the latter, critical areas are prop efficiency, power levels, throtte rates, moments of inertia (all must be equal or mirrored), and prop torque...since this is a twin-engine ac, it stands to reason that the props are opposed in rotation...that may be your problem.

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Ed, is this model twin engined, or twin-tailed, by chance?

They'ed be getting fat on apple-turnovers, muffins, and bagels, instead....

Did you add the nessesary lines to the vampire's .ini file? The lines for the Cockpit & avionics.ini files, etc?

You might be interested in this video...however, our resident member of the flat-earth society (who's name starts with a "D"), doesn't see the effect on his system 104G.wmv

Make sure that landing gear values are the same on both sides. Someone once sent me a model that had that very same issue, and that was the problem.

Until you create a friendly SAM site on the map for them, nothing will happen. For example, in the GermanyCE_Targets.ini file, you could ad the following data: [TargetArea335] Name=Hawk Site 1 Position=377931.000000,755974.000000 Radius=1500.000 ActiveDate=01/01/1959 Location=1 Alignment=FRIENDLY Target[001].Type=SAMRadar Target[001].Offset=-1000,-1000 Target[001].Heading=180 Target[001].ActiveYear=1960 Target[002].Type=SAMLauncher Target[002].Offset=-1100,-1175 Target[002].Heading=210 Target[002].ActiveYear=1960 Target[003].Type=SAMLauncher Target[003].Offset=-1100,-825 Target[003].Heading=315 Target[003].ActiveYear=1960 Target[004].Type=SAMLauncher Target[004].Offset=-900,-825 Target[004].Heading=30 Target[004].ActiveYear=1960 Target[005].Type=SAMLauncher Target[005].Offset=-800,-1000 Target[005].Heading=90 Target[005].ActiveYear=1960 Target[006].Type=SAMLauncher Target[006].Offset=-1200,-1000 Target[006].Heading=270 Target[006].ActiveYear=1960 Target[007].Type=SAMLauncher Target[007].Offset=-900,-1175 Target[007].Heading=150 Target[007].ActiveYear=1960 Target[008].Type=EWR ;EW_Radar Target[008].Offset=-1030,-1030 Target[008].Heading=0 Target[008].ActiveYear=1960 Target[009].Type=AAA Target[009].Offset=-3811.77,-8644.86 Target[009].Heading=135 Target[010].Type=AAA Target[010].Offset=4964.15,2753.31 Target[010].Heading=45 Target[011].Type=AAA Target[011].Offset=6101.65,936.03 Target[011].Heading=45 Target[012].Type=AAA Target[013].Type=AAA Target[013].Offset=5518.31,2496.47 Target[013].Heading=45 Target[014].Type=AAA Target[014].Offset=-7236.68,780.47 Target[014].Heading=357 Target[015].Type=AAA Target[015].Offset=-2236.46,4780.77 Target[015].Heading=357 Target[016].Type=AAA Target[016].Offset=-1003.55,5377.80 Target[016].Heading=0 Target[017].Type=AAA Target[017].Offset=555.84,4757.36 Target[017].Heading=0 Target[018].Type=AAA Target[018].Offset=-9020.22,168.15 Target[018].Heading=0 Target[019].Type=AAA Target[019].Offset=-9779.46,-166.05 Target[019].Heading=0 Target[020].Type=AAA Target[020].Offset=-5054.24,-4597.81 Target[020].Heading=0 Target[021].Type=AAA Target[021].Offset=-6367.74,-3873.45 Target[021].Heading=90 Target[022].Type=AAA Target[022].Offset=-7694.62,-3283.05 Target[022].Heading=90 [TargetArea336] Name=Hawk Site 2 Position=381989.000000,740468.000000 Radius=1500.000 ActiveDate=01/01/1959 Location=1 Alignment=FRIENDLY Target[001].Type=SAMRadar Target[001].Offset=-1000,-1000 Target[001].Heading=180 Target[001].ActiveYear=1960 Target[002].Type=SAMLauncher Target[002].Offset=-1100,-1175 Target[002].Heading=210 Target[002].ActiveYear=1960 Target[003].Type=SAMLauncher Target[003].Offset=-1100,-825 Target[003].Heading=315 Target[003].ActiveYear=1960 Target[004].Type=SAMLauncher Target[004].Offset=-900,-825 Target[004].Heading=30 Target[004].ActiveYear=1960 Target[005].Type=SAMLauncher Target[005].Offset=-800,-1000 Target[005].Heading=90 Target[005].ActiveYear=1960 Target[006].Type=SAMLauncher Target[006].Offset=-1200,-1000 Target[006].Heading=270 Target[006].ActiveYear=1960 Target[007].Type=SAMLauncher Target[007].Offset=-900,-1175 Target[007].Heading=150 Target[007].ActiveYear=1960 Target[008].Type=EWR ;EW_Radar Target[008].Offset=-1030,-1030 Target[008].Heading=0 Target[008].ActiveYear=1960 Target[009].Type=AAA Target[009].Offset=-3811.77,-8644.86 Target[009].Heading=135 Target[010].Type=AAA Target[010].Offset=4964.15,2753.31 Target[010].Heading=45 Target[011].Type=AAA Target[011].Offset=6101.65,936.03 Target[011].Heading=45 Target[012].Type=AAA Target[013].Type=AAA Target[013].Offset=5518.31,2496.47 Target[013].Heading=45 Target[014].Type=AAA Target[014].Offset=-7236.68,780.47 Target[014].Heading=357 Target[015].Type=AAA Target[015].Offset=-2236.46,4780.77 Target[015].Heading=357 Target[016].Type=AAA Target[016].Offset=-1003.55,5377.80 Target[016].Heading=0 Target[017].Type=AAA Target[017].Offset=555.84,4757.36 Target[017].Heading=0 Target[018].Type=AAA Target[018].Offset=-9020.22,168.15 Target[018].Heading=0 Target[019].Type=AAA Target[019].Offset=-9779.46,-166.05 Target[019].Heading=0 Target[020].Type=AAA Target[020].Offset=-5054.24,-4597.81 Target[020].Heading=0 Target[021].Type=AAA Target[021].Offset=-6367.74,-3873.45 Target[021].Heading=90 Target[022].Type=AAA Target[022].Offset=-7694.62,-3283.05 Target[022].Heading=90 Next, try flying an antiship mission for the red side, and see what happens to you.

I recommend that one also install Batman78's excellent hi-res F-104G cockpit textures, over the default TW versions. They go a long way toward's upgrading the ThirdWire F-104G first-gen 'pit to almost SF2 quality. The download link for it is: http://combatace.com/files/file/1707-f-104g-high-resolution-cockpit/

Because S-300s are set as static SAMs, the system will automatically place them and their corresponding SAM radars wherever there's a suitable red-side SAM site defined on the map. Hawks cannot be set as mobile SAMs, as they are data-linked to their radars. You need to have a SAM site declared for them in the terrain_targets.ini.

Also keep in mind that the cruise speed value will be applied by the game engine as an indicated air speed, rather than a true air speed value. This may pose a problem at higher altitudes. For example, 257 meters sec /500 knots indicated is well over Mach 1 at 20,000 feet...I doubt that any F-5 variant is capable of super-cruising in RL