That was a great tutorial, going to fire up DCS this afternoon and try landing the F14. I rarely fly it, although it is a whole new world of immersion.
Thanks for that. Been using the DLC solely prior to viewing your tutorial, and my E-bracket was all over the place, until now. Now, I know you'd have to put in a bit of throttle into the mix to maintain on-speed.
Great video very clear. I'm trying to do the landing tutorials for the f-14 but they make you turn pretty tight and fast to follow the green markers. I'd love to see someone upload a video of them doing the landing tutorials included with the module.
Thanks. Unfortunately I have very little time of doing videos, but I will do it when I have the time. Keep at it, the tight turns are alright, it just needs practice turning level or turning at a wanted decent rate. The gates are maybe too generous if anything, the put you a bit far on the groove atm. We're currently reviewing it.
Thank you. General instrument scanning applies. Your two main instruments here are AOA indicator and indexer, then altimeter and VVI, airspeed and mach indicator, VDI and radalt. Which one I am scanning more? The one that needs most correction/ attention at that time. Hope that helps! - please dont forget to read the video description, I recorded it in a rush and made some (verbal) mistakes, which are all listed there. Happy landings!
@@ronaldwatson1951 Don't know where the trim is in the cockpit. Most people just reassign the default trim keybindings to a button/or hat switch on the hotas.
@@Kaneguy thanks, I'm a Rookie and long time gamer from days gone by. I have a learning curve ahead of me, I truly appreciate your candor and response.
I always really struggle to get the Tomcat on speed with the right AOA. I can't wait to try your technique (trim to level flight then dial back the throttle). It sounds too easy to be true! Is this how you always do it, or just for long-approach landings?
Thank you, I would love to do more tutorials, but time is always an issue for us. Work on the Tomcat needs to go on, too.. ;-) I will try though in the future, in the meantime I can recommend Maverick, Jabbers, Redkite and others, who all do stellar tutorials (among others).
Direct Lift Control. They are spoilers that can be extended and retracted by the pilot's thumbwheel on the joystick, which either adds or reduces drag, means you can either climb or descend without changing pitch or power.
nice tutorial, most of this applies to carrier landings too. tbh, the best landing tutorials for the f14 were posted by you guys (104th). just a quick question, are you referencing your FPM on the HUD?
@@Bazzz000 Both. Our HUD is maybe a bit more reliable than it was in real life, because of that I am relaxing a bit, mainly keeping the HUD VVI tape on the left side in sight and taking cross checks from the analogue gauge. If I fly by charts and certain standard approaches, I also check for my altitude, as the altimeter is the precisest instrument out of these. But for this you need to know at what point you should hit what altitude approximately. In absence of this, you would use another calculation, that is the 300 feet per nautical mile decend, but that is for another video...
Did you deploy the speedbrake on this landing too? I couldn't tell watching the video... Also, hope you make more videos like this to inform us noob DCS F-14B pilots... Like taking whats learned here in this video and transferring it to landing onto the boat
My pleasure and thank you for your kind words. Making videos due to the work on the Tomcat is simply a time issue. But I will try. I can highly recommend all tutorials from our media partners, like Jabbers, my brother from another mother, 104th_Maverick, Ralfi, Redkite, Spiceman from CVW-11, Spudknocker, Hellreign, Magz and others. As for speedbrake: yes. I forgot to mention it. It should be deployed fully during any landing boat or land at all times.
that depends whether you fly VRF or IFR, that is visual flight rules or instrument flight rules. In the first case, simply visually. This also includes finding the airport by using known landmarks, which one should study prior to the flight, that can be something like "follow the highway, then overfly a town and the airport will be to the left of the river coming out of the town" or similar. For instrument flight rules, there are charts, in which case you need to set up waypoints that allow you to follow the approach charts. In absence of waypoints this is also done using VOR/NDB, ADF, or TACAN beacons to help you guide the aircraft. These procedures are much more involved and too much to explain in this comment. In both cases of course basic navigation skills are required and a prerequisite, and of course pre-briefing the flight and all phases of the flight prior to the flight is necessary.
Using roll inputs to keep on centre line, thanks for that tip, using rudder always puts me in the grass.
Same here, I was tokyo drifting around the runway everytime confused as all hell.
@@eyydri i did a 360
That's the reason I'm here too. I'm always in the grass.
Using ailerons to stay on the centerline was a new one for me. Great tip.
and I can confirm it works really well ;)
That was a great tutorial, going to fire up DCS this afternoon and try landing the F14. I rarely fly it, although it is a whole new world of immersion.
I watched this video and instantly started landing like a pro. Thankyou!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for that. Been using the DLC solely prior to viewing your tutorial, and my E-bracket was all over the place, until now. Now, I know you'd have to put in a bit of throttle into the mix to maintain on-speed.
Glad it helped!
I always do an overhead break for coolness. Straight in during the day is a pain.
Years later and still a great rundown!😁👍
Glad to hear it still serves a purpose!
Great vid! I'm gonna try it this weekend. I could never get the e bracket and indexer to work with me before.
Try trimming it for level flight to achieve "on speed" first before using it in landing. It is easiest to get used to it like that first ;-)
Awesome! Wish everybody did videos with the flights controls view on.
I believe the indexer stops blinking if you flip the hook bypass to land. It's blinking to tell you the hook is up.
yes, sorry, it was just a quick one take vid to help a guy in the forums, it is in the description though.
Great video very clear. I'm trying to do the landing tutorials for the f-14 but they make you turn pretty tight and fast to follow the green markers. I'd love to see someone upload a video of them doing the landing tutorials included with the module.
Thanks. Unfortunately I have very little time of doing videos, but I will do it when I have the time. Keep at it, the tight turns are alright, it just needs practice turning level or turning at a wanted decent rate. The gates are maybe too generous if anything, the put you a bit far on the groove atm. We're currently reviewing it.
I can’t finish that tutorial at all. I always end up shaking and end up in the water. I can not figure out what I’m doing wrong.
Good & clearTutorial, thank you :) .. nice touch showing the controls overlay.
I liked the instructions wish you had a pointer of some sorts to show where your monitoring. Good video
Thank you. General instrument scanning applies. Your two main instruments here are AOA indicator and indexer, then altimeter and VVI, airspeed and mach indicator, VDI and radalt. Which one I am scanning more? The one that needs most correction/ attention at that time. Hope that helps! - please dont forget to read the video description, I recorded it in a rush and made some (verbal) mistakes, which are all listed there. Happy landings!
@@104thironmike4 thanks just two questions #1 where is the trim on the F14? Do you have to adjust once you jettison tanks or use missiles? Thanks
@@ronaldwatson1951 Don't know where the trim is in the cockpit. Most people just reassign the default trim keybindings to a button/or hat switch on the hotas.
@@Kaneguy thanks, I'm a Rookie and long time gamer from days gone by. I have a learning curve ahead of me, I truly appreciate your candor and response.
DO NOT FLARE !!
so navy thing to say..
Man I've never seen such a soft landing with the Tom cat
GOD I see so many people with your PFP ahhhhhhhhhh. Unless it’s just you on a ton of vids 😂
Superb stuff. Many thanks.
I’m really interested in DCS, I have tried EF2000, Top Gun, and Falcon: Allied forces. Do you control every aspect of the jet in DCS also ?
It's a hardcore flight simulator. Yes, every aspect of the jet is controlled by the pilot.
I always really struggle to get the Tomcat on speed with the right AOA. I can't wait to try your technique (trim to level flight then dial back the throttle). It sounds too easy to be true! Is this how you always do it, or just for long-approach landings?
well in a case one you want to combine leveling and trim up plus speed decrease to get it done in time, but the principal stays the same :-)
Dam that was nice.
Really enjoyed this video- you need to do more tutorials ;)
Thank you, I would love to do more tutorials, but time is always an issue for us. Work on the Tomcat needs to go on, too.. ;-) I will try though in the future, in the meantime I can recommend Maverick, Jabbers, Redkite and others, who all do stellar tutorials (among others).
What does DLC stand for? Are you talking about the airbrake?
Direct Lift Control. They are spoilers that can be extended and retracted by the pilot's thumbwheel on the joystick, which either adds or reduces drag, means you can either climb or descend without changing pitch or power.
nice tutorial, most of this applies to carrier landings too. tbh, the best landing tutorials for the f14 were posted by you guys (104th). just a quick question, are you referencing your FPM on the HUD?
yes, with cross checks from the VVI
@@104thironmike4 cpy thx
@@104thironmike4 are you using the one on the landing HUD or the analog gauge?
@@Bazzz000 Both. Our HUD is maybe a bit more reliable than it was in real life, because of that I am relaxing a bit, mainly keeping the HUD VVI tape on the left side in sight and taking cross checks from the analogue gauge. If I fly by charts and certain standard approaches, I also check for my altitude, as the altimeter is the precisest instrument out of these. But for this you need to know at what point you should hit what altitude approximately. In absence of this, you would use another calculation, that is the 300 feet per nautical mile decend, but that is for another video...
Did you deploy the speedbrake on this landing too? I couldn't tell watching the video... Also, hope you make more videos like this to inform us noob DCS F-14B pilots... Like taking whats learned here in this video and transferring it to landing onto the boat
My pleasure and thank you for your kind words. Making videos due to the work on the Tomcat is simply a time issue. But I will try. I can highly recommend all tutorials from our media partners, like Jabbers, my brother from another mother, 104th_Maverick, Ralfi, Redkite, Spiceman from CVW-11, Spudknocker, Hellreign, Magz and others.
As for speedbrake: yes. I forgot to mention it. It should be deployed fully during any landing boat or land at all times.
how do you line up with the runway?
that depends whether you fly VRF or IFR, that is visual flight rules or instrument flight rules. In the first case, simply visually. This also includes finding the airport by using known landmarks, which one should study prior to the flight, that can be something like "follow the highway, then overfly a town and the airport will be to the left of the river coming out of the town" or similar. For instrument flight rules, there are charts, in which case you need to set up waypoints that allow you to follow the approach charts. In absence of waypoints this is also done using VOR/NDB, ADF, or TACAN beacons to help you guide the aircraft. These procedures are much more involved and too much to explain in this comment. In both cases of course basic navigation skills are required and a prerequisite, and of course pre-briefing the flight and all phases of the flight prior to the flight is necessary.
Beslan = School seige
unfortunately that is a very sad reality, but it has nothing to do with this sim or the video :-)