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NEW Realistic HUD for the Hornet
SpazSinbad:
Just because... here is a new Free Video DVD zipped of mostly A4G Skyhawks doing visual landings (meatball, lineup and Opt AoA) onboard HMAS Melbourne. Most of the videos are amateur but you won't see the like of this again. Video possibly better quality than what is seen on Utube at: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bengello
4GB zipped A4G Ops on HMAS Melbourne DVD Video free file download was made available at top of page:
www.a4ghistory.com (http://www.a4ghistory.com/A4GvideoDVD.zip) 4GBs
neutrino:
Spaz, the ILS needles in the HUD are referenced to the velocity vector symbol. If the velocity vector is below the horizontal (glideslope) needle, this means that the aircraft is below glideslope and needs to climb. If the velocity vector is left of the vertical (localizer) needle, this means that the jet is left of the runway centerline and a correction to the right is required. If the needles are centered on the velocity vector symbol, this means that you are exactly on glideslope, on centerline. If your position relative to the glidepath doesn't change, the needles will stay in the same position relative to the velocity vector no matter where the vector is currently on the HUD.
A full-scale deflection of the glideslope (horizontal) needle represents ±1.4° deviation from glideslope (center ball) and the localizer (vertical) needle full-scale deflection represents ±6° deviation from centerline. So the glideslope needle is more sensitive than the localizer needle. Also, because they represent the deviation in degrees, rather than distance, as you get closer they become much more sensitive, just like the ball.
Here is an example of the aircraft left of centerline and below glideslope:
--- Quote from: SpazSinbad on November 19, 2009, 04:58:16 am ---Sludge, bear with my questions please - I'm not familiar with these systems. Do the crosshairs in the circle indicate on glideslope, lined up? I'm not complaining here, so in your screenshot as indicated by the ball 'slightly low' your glideslope indicates 'slightly low'? What is lineup info? Is that still visual? Both yours and neutrino's night screenshots are lined up so it is not clear to me about line up.
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SpazSinbad:
neutrino, thanks for clear explanation with graphic (pictures speak a thousand words). Certainly the new HUD looks to be a marvellous change. Congrats all.
wilycoyote4:
Glad to find another improvement for the Hornet.
Sludge:
This is to Neutrino...
As I was trying to describe, in the pics below, youll see the first pic, the GPS destination and range are displayed fully. The second, when the range increases, it starts to cut off the number. The third, at even farther range, and its almost halfway cutoff.
Will also include my "panel.cfg" so you can see the numbers I used for the full-screen (f10) HUD that stay correllated at .90 zoom. The three areas are: 1. [window titles], window00=main panel, window05=minipanel 2. [window00] 3. [window05] Cutting and pasting these to your panel.cfg file will enable a full screen usage of the new HUD.
Still enjoying the new HUD and probly flying right after writing this.
Later
Sludge
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