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Carrier Landings
micro:
--- Quote from: SUBS17 on February 01, 2008, 05:43:42 am ---Have you ever checked out any of the older Tomcat sims like Fleet defender and Topgun Fire at will? It was sad to see the last Tomcats on a carier on video a while back I think its about time someone made a Tomcat sim. Think I'd take a Tomcat sim over a Hornet sim anytime.
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No, I was never really into sims until recently. I mostly used FSX as a procedural trainier for checkrides and evals at my current job. Then one day I saw Acceleration and bought it for the Reno races. I assumed that the carrier ops would be fairly unrealistic. When I tried it out, I was shocked. Not sure if I mentioned this before, but the carrier in Acceleration is identical to the one that was in the F-14D sim at Miramar (ie, look, lighting, putting your nose wheel in the box to get hooked up to the cat, etc).
It is sad to see the cat go, but it was a sledge hammer being used as a fly swatter. It was designed around the Phoenix to shoot Soviet bombers a hundred miles out. And while it adapted to other roles VERY well, the original intent was never used and not one Phoenix was ever fired in combat.
I would love to see a Tomcat sim of the same league as acceleration. Let's start a petition ;).
SUBS17:
Petiton already started although I have to point out yes the Aim54 has been used successfully in combat. But it wasn't the US Navy who earned those stats.
http://www.fighterops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7010
The reason why its a locked thread is the same request keeps popping up from time to time F-14s very popular. I have to agree on the realism BTW with the carrierops its far better than previous sims. The only one better was Super Hornet which had animated ground crew.
micro:
--- Quote from: SUBS17 on February 02, 2008, 07:05:32 am ---I have to point out yes the Aim54 has been used successfully in combat.
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Elaborate, please. ???
SUBS17:
The Iranians used them quite a few times in the Iran/Iraq war and even shot down fighters with them I think the closest range one was fired was 6Nm.
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_211.shtml
I've heard a few stories about it quite a big fight between Iran and Iraq theres a few books about it as well.
micro:
My misunderstanding. I was refering to why the US got rid of the Tomcat.
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