Allways loved the "zipper". But altough SSW did a nice job, in the beginning there were some serious bugs. Most of them are solved and since update 3.3 the engine rpm does not drop to 60´% when i go over 10.000ft. I still remember when the F104 flew over our head with that haunting howl. Beautiful! That was in the early sixties. Our Belgian Air Force used the zipper. Anyway, as i said: still in love and i can take him easely up now till over 60.000ft. In the sim of course...Greetings from Belgium.
Are we talking about 500 knots indicated airspeed on the gauge or ground speed. At high altitude, 500 knots indicated can be Mach 2 and more than 1000 knots ground speed. If you're referring to the ground speed, then the issue might be the drag from the pylon tanks and the need to basically plunge from 36000 feet to 30000 feet to break the sound barrier with this F-104 (which is probably not accurate). Make sure to keep accelerating once past Mach 1 up to Mach 1.3 before trying to climb.
@@RaizSpace I couldn't' get above 350 indicated up around 35,000' with no external tanks. This flight model is way off of the real F-104 performance. Down around 10,000' I could almost get 500 knots until randomly it jumped to 800+ knots.
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Imagine a simulator that was a mash up of DCS and Microsoft Flight Simulator? Now that would be a perfect game/Simulator!
Allways loved the "zipper". But altough SSW did a nice job, in the beginning there were some serious bugs. Most of them are solved and since update 3.3 the engine rpm does not drop to 60´% when i go over 10.000ft. I still remember when the F104 flew over our head with that haunting howl. Beautiful! That was in the early sixties. Our Belgian Air Force used the zipper. Anyway, as i said: still in love and i can take him easely up now till over 60.000ft. In the sim of course...Greetings from Belgium.
Nicely done.
It's just like the real thing:) it's a death trap when turning.
I love this thing, it looks so cool
I couldn't get the F-104 over about 500 knots. What's up with that?
Are we talking about 500 knots indicated airspeed on the gauge or ground speed. At high altitude, 500 knots indicated can be Mach 2 and more than 1000 knots ground speed. If you're referring to the ground speed, then the issue might be the drag from the pylon tanks and the need to basically plunge from 36000 feet to 30000 feet to break the sound barrier with this F-104 (which is probably not accurate). Make sure to keep accelerating once past Mach 1 up to Mach 1.3 before trying to climb.
@@RaizSpace I couldn't' get above 350 indicated up around 35,000' with no external tanks. This flight model is way off of the real F-104 performance. Down around 10,000' I could almost get 500 knots until randomly it jumped to 800+ knots.
Were those airbreaks the same as on the U-2? Certainly look similar
Certainly the similar idea, but I don't know if they're the same.
@@RaizSpace U-2 based loosely on Starfighter
700 page manual? 😭 lol
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