The nice thing about the Tomcat is every switch, knob and button has a clickity click feel. Everything very robust and substantial. Like an old warbird. You can tell the designers borrowed a lot of ideas from past aircraft. Brilliant!

These videos are amazing...I can honestly say they get me flying and in the air waaaaay faster than if I were to be left to my own devices to figure this all out. THANK YOU!!!!!!

@TheHelix123

3 ай бұрын

lol 😂 it’s an hour long video of just clicking buttons. 😂 I don’t even know 5% 😂

I just saw the BUNO ID plate for the first time... 159437 belongs to a F-14A that has a significant historical fact to it, in that its one of only 4 USN F-14s with an aerial victory to its credit. It shot down a Libyan MiG-23 Flogger in JAN 1989 in the second Gulf of Sidra incident while assigned to VF-32 aboard the JFK. Its in storage out in the desert boneyard, with plans to restore and display it on the JFK if the plans of turning the carrier into a floating museum come to fruition. Also, 159437 never was converted to F-14B, its always been an A model.

@grimreapers

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome thx!

Thanks cap i didn't know how the buttons work in the f14 cause its so complicated and im still watching tutorials so i can fly the f14 in December

on the left side next to the seat is a hydraulic hand pump lever that is indeed usable. It might be for the brakes to refill the pressure.

@grimreapers

4 жыл бұрын

thx

Hey Cap. Another great video! F-14 uses pneumatic crank for the engines. For the landing gear lever, you can right click it and it will turn and pull for emergency gear down. Same principle for the arrestor hook, If you right click it, it will turn and then it will lower in emergency down mode. (Ripcord)

@grimreapers

5 жыл бұрын

thx!!

Very helpful with the explanations of the systems. I'm just starting to learn this plane. So many things to worry about lol.

So that windshield bit you were confused by. There are "vents" in front of the canopy that can blow air at it. Heated air to get rid of frost, or "rain repel" which is blowing a stream of air to keep rain away from the canopy.

Always happy with a New video!!!

This was SO awesome. Thank you.

Another great vid. Good explanation of all the functions that couldn't possible all be configured to hotas. At least an idea of where that button might be lol. I have cougar MFD's which are blank on the F-14B. Could map a lot of them. The training the pilots must have went through is unreal.

Nice work cap.

great very useful !!!

Stand by mode for the altimeter is to select the instrument probe giving data. When in stand by mode the altimeter act as the stand by altimeter instrument or the emergency one

I love Tomcat!!

Being a civilian aircraft mechanic, the "Park" and "Aux" gauge might be a Hydraulic accumulator gauge? Pressurized cylinders that hold a certain amount of psi in case you lose hyds. That way you're not completely boned if you lose em lol. There are similar systems on most aircraft. Besides that, the fact that it depletes after a few uses makes me think this. At least thats how it functions on aircraft I've worked on. If you lose hyds, you've got a few pumps of the brakes to stop. "Park" gauge for brakes, "Aux" for flight controls? I'm only speculating though, i haven't read the manual.

Rain repellent may be a squirt of fluid to clear the front screen in heavy rain. We have a system on the aircraft I fly that has rain repellent. Only used in really heavy rain as it screws up vision if applied to screen when not “wet”

@jamiehanna3829

5 жыл бұрын

I believe the rain repellent is actually air related. If you look at the base of the wind screen, there are three small openings that force air, or heated air, onto the face of the windscreen to clear rain or heat it.

@martinj7402

5 жыл бұрын

Jamie Hanna ok roger that. I’m not familiar with the F14 - I was just putting out there that my aircraft (A320 Airbus) uses fluid. Appreciate the correction cheers

@ChickentNug

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought it would be some sort of bleed air from the engines edit: I saw the reply lol

im not sure which video in this playlist mentioned but the tomcat does have a magnetic compass its top right of the dash in pilot seat lean far right and sit up its hidden behind the warning lightsu can see a red wire when sitting normally its down to the right behind that

PPH on the fuel flow gauge stands for pounds per hour.

@grimreapers

5 жыл бұрын

thx. Should have known that lol

I use these videos mostly as paint guides for my models

Sweet

Just trialing F-14! Gotta say the model is very nice. I can almost smell WD-40 and vaseline and burned kerosene in that cockpit... Sounds very nice also. After hornets easy carrier manouvers, was "littlebit" of confusing at first, but since you get in in the air it is (for pilot) not so bad. (not mentioning the carrier landing.. We dont talk about that in here ;D)

Probe heat is for the pitot static system. Having a heating element on the refueling probe would be fairly dangerous.

rain repel blast air on the front glass to clear it from water. Useful for carrier landing

@_lime.

4 жыл бұрын

Crazy to think about all the little things like this that the engineers had to incorporate into the design, and all done with 60s technology no less.

@espenjoh

3 жыл бұрын

@@_lime. a tube with beed air, from engine, through the cockpit, all the way up to the window, with heating challenges, clever engenierin! F4, F104 and other have the same solution.

@Matt_10203

3 жыл бұрын

@@espenjoh simple and effective. Good engineering.

For the altimeter: the stand by means that the altimeter is not showing data from the flight computer and uses pitot tube.

since a update my joystick FFB is out of center; i changed and tested different settings in FFB and yes it changed but than its in another way out of center; its either the x or y but i only can 1 centered to neutral in the mid. sucks. Any other model in DCS works perfect ....wtf is this ??

I need help, my master arm switch will not go on, it only goes down when toggled

How in the heck do you move around the camera im using keyboard and mouse it's all i got and i can't look around

F-14 engine cranking is pneumatic

I’m trying to find the damn “air brake” lever or switch! … oh, and I’m not flying this beautiful plane on DCS but on MSFS on Xbox Series X 🤣👍🏼 haha … but I’m still struggling to find the air brake.

@madmax3375

2 жыл бұрын

It's on the flight stick to the left. Xbox I'm trying to figure out how to use the mach knob on the lower right panel. I'm sifting through tutorials to get info on it. 👍

@lancealbon46

2 жыл бұрын

@@madmax3375 - thanks mate 👍🏼

Love to make this cockpit to fly DCS with.

New to DCS world and bought the Tomcat because why not XD. I have a major problem. It seems that the pilot's head does not follow my cursor whenever I move around. How do I fix this in the change controls settings?

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Hard to know what gear you have. Try pressing LAlt+c to bind your head to the cursor.

@ChickentNug

2 жыл бұрын

either double/triple click the middle mouse button or hit alt+c

30:45 "Got some circuit breakers here but I hope they aren't ever implemented." Honestly same. Can you imagine having to reset the breakers because you accidentally overloaded the systems mid flight? I enjoy that DCS is a realistic sim, but good lord man that's a bit too far.

So when is the F-4E releasing?

@grimreapers

5 жыл бұрын

not for ages

@JackFN_VR64

5 жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers dang

6:27 it’s a what?

pph = pounds per hour

@grimreapers

4 жыл бұрын

thx

complex.

This jet is so much fun to fly, but the cockpit layout is just awful. 😬

@grimreapers

5 жыл бұрын

agree

I don't know all the time. Not very helpful tutorial. Sorry this needs an overhaul cap.

@grimreapers

3 жыл бұрын

Roger