Comments by "Pogo" (@pogo1140) on "Max Afterburner" channel.

  1.  @VirtualXIV  No, back seat, look at the wing, it has a dog tooth leading edge, that's only found on the 2 seat version of the F/A-18, behind the pilot you see the back of the plane, you don't see the back seat which means that Tom Cruise is in the back seat. In the F/A-18F, the stick is not connected to the flight controls, it's used for the radar.
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  2. Look up Joe "Hoser" Satrapa, he's the guy who's F-14 HUD tape had his gun crosshair planted on the pilot's helmet of an F-15 he was fighting. He's also the guy who took his F-14A (the one with the problematic engine) on a 1v2 fight against USAF F-15's. The guy who after he managed to shoot off his thumb, had the surgeon sew his big toe to his hand so he could keep flying. Then there's Dale Snodgrass, who's ex RIO has a tape of them getting 3 "guns" kills, in a single multi bandit engagement against F-5 aggressors. Again F-14A
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  3. In DCS and IRL splitting the throttle, full burner in one and idle in the other is risky as it can cause a compressor stall in one or both engines which has been the cause of more F-14 crashes than the Navy would have liked.
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  4. What's wrong with R2-D2? he was the the star of the Star Wars series, the only one to be in all 9 movies and saved the day in most of them. If someone gave me that as a callsign I'd have my helmet painted like R2's head.
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  5. The F/A-18D and F (the two seat variants) do not have flight controls in the back as far as I know. The controls in the back seat are for the radar and other things
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  6. You'd be surprise at how much less experience. Where US pilots average 150-300 hours a year depending on where they are in their flight career (lots of time while Lt to Commander, less as you hit Captain because you are now being groomed for a star) the average Russian pilot averages 40-60 hours a year with almost no BFM training. As one Navy pilot said, 40 hours means you learned to navigate, take off and land and fly formation and push buttons. Where the Navy has the Navy Fighter Weapon school, the USAF has it's Weapon school for the F-15, F-16, F-35 and even A-10. The Russians shut down theirs in 1991.
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  7. Question, can you control the number of rounds fired by the Vulcan in the F-22? Ie select 50/100/200 or unlimited rounds per trigger pull? I think in the F-14 one can limit it to 100/200 rounds per trigger pull and full shoot as long as the trigger is held down, on top of that, there is a high/low rate of fire. As the F-22 has essentially the same though lighter gun, I'm assuming that it has the same options.
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  8.  @BlyGuy  When the F-14 turned to take that offset, it takes a few seconds for the Radar to stabilize and the display to reflect that change. The F-14 RIO should have been familiar enough with the quirks of the F-14's radar.
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  9. ​ @AndyFromBeaverton  DCS maps don't come with vehicle pre placed. All we need is the terrain data.
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  10. Have they fixed the issue of the stealth coating being damaged when it flies at or above M1?
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  11. The SU-57's is showing up on NATO radars at over 200 miles
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  12.  @evitoonbundit2453  That layered air defense exists on both sides
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  13. Uh. blicks, looks around, "ahh should we tell him???"
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  14. Compared to the F-14, when the Navy/USAF flew them against F-14's they found the only viable tactic for a MiG-23 pilot was to dive for the deck in full burner and fly so low (below 100ft) and hope the US pilot lost sight.
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  15. Question I had was, how much time in afterburner does a clean F/A-18E have? Last time I did any calculations for it, I came up with about 4-5 min
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  16. The Ukrainians are only storing the unused F-16's and doing depot level maintenance outside the country. The active aircraft will be in Ukraine
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  17.  @park1776  Thus the Ukrainians have stated that the F-16's will only be stored in Poland and other countries. The active F-16's (the one's they have pilots for) will be in Ukraine
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  18. Unless the Pentagon can magically conjour up 120 JAS-39's or 40 Patriot batteries, the F-16 is the only viable option.
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  19. The sams pose the same threat to the F-16 as it does to the other Ukrainian jets, zero threat at 100miles as long as you fly below 5,000ft. At 200ft, the SAM radar has to be within 30 miles for it to be a threat
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  20.  @lewiswatchorn7239  Zagros range, SE Iran
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  21. What I want to know is how fast was it still going after the maneuver. Below a certain speed, the plane will be falling to the ground because it's now below it's stall speed and all the pilot can do is point his nose as he falls.
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  22.  @Ilyak1986  I put the mustang down to it wasn't flying when he got it and he might be just a part owner. The real question is look around his hangar and you start to wonder if Maverick has been moonlighting south of the border.
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  23. Honestly commercial sims air or ground allow for basic training and timing. I remember back when USMC used a version of DOOM to get marines used to squad tactics
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  24.  @MaxAfterburnerusa  For some reason they've never been able to get the pilot figure right. Not in DCS, not in Warthunder or others
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  25.  @corwintipper7317  Dropping one engine to mil while the other is in zone 5 does not produce enough differential thrust to generate the yaw and roll needed for the maneuver shown.
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  26. If the SU-57 uses thrust vectoring, it loses airspeed, lose airspeed lose turn rate, which to compensate for you use more thrust vectoring which costs you more airspeed, more energy as you fall out of the sky
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  27.  @MaxAfterburnerusa  The last plane that a new pilot flies that has dual controls are the TA-4 and now the T-45. Been that way since the Navy F-4's. Your first flight in the F/A-18 will be as the passenger while you IP talks you through what he/she's doing. then you land, switch places and they give you instructions from the back while you fly. The 2 seat F/A-18's are the designated FAC-A birds since NAVY doctrine mandates that one person flies the plane while the Forward Air Control focus' on the mission of managing and directing the air support assets.
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  28. The Luftwaffe was shocked at how hard coded the GCI training was into DDR pilots to the extent that their MiG-29's pilots were never trained to how to dogfight them.
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  29. So all SU-57's are still using their place holder engines, got it, no production SU-57's at this time
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  30. No, the F-14 can see the MIG at 80-100 miles, the MiG-23 would not see the F-14 until much much closer, it's closer to the F-4 Phantom II level of radar
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  31. Russians have not been flying their jets for years, the -57 is fairly recent with demo pilots being the ones with the most flying time in the jet. The Ukrainians who are transitioning into F-16's are all combat experienced pilots with over 500-750 hours of flying under combat conditions
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  32.  @dbuckleton  Don't know from what angle, the NATO surveillance planes were flying over Poland when they picked up the SU-57's over in Russia.
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  33.  @zombiefeast47  the S-400 is going to be forced to rely on ground radar. There is a roving Patriot battery out there and it's effective kill range has proven to be greater than the declassified effective range
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  34.  @nikolanojic6861  Iraq had manuals, Roland, mobile and fixed SAM. And Iraq in 91 had the densest combined air defense system ever encountered by the US since Hanoi.
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  35. Most displays are an arms length away. A function of the pilot's need to be able to reach switches and ejection clearance issues. You don't want your legs hitting anything during your ejection
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  36. For a movie, I want to see "Richard Herman's "the Warbirds" series, or "Thud Ridge", "at Yankee Station", or a "Red Storm Rising" mini series.
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  37. You're always flying against the pilot more than the airplane. The landscape of Korea and Vietnam are littered with the bones of pilots in superior airplanes who were shot down by other pilots in inferior aircraft. There are MiG-21's shot down by bomb laden guns only F-105's, MiG-15's shot down by an AD-1 Skyraider, or F4U Corsair, F-4 Phantoms shot down by MiG-17's. Heck there is even a HUD vid of an A-10 with a perfect guns track on an F-16 desperately trying to get out of the A-10's gun piper. There are living F-14A drivers (yes the plane with the flameout prone engines) who were known to take on F-15C's at 40,000ft where the Eagle rules and kick the ego driver's ass and out turn the F-16C's. As for the F-14, it was limited by the Navy to 6.5g but was routinely flown to 7.5 and 9g without any damage done to the airframe. The max G ever officially recorded on an F-14 was about 13g, and the pilot flew that bird back to base. It's also faster than the Su-57 at any altitude. An F-14 with 2 bombs and a targeting Pod can reach a ground speed of 1,000knots while flying at 50,000ft.
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  38. One other item. The F-22's had contrails, I thought you only get that between 25,000 - 35,000ft?
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  39.  @60degreelobwedge82  The US has not flown them in contested airspace, the Israeli have been flying the F-35's over Syria
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  40. Only after the F-16's sanitize the area for mobile SAM's
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  41.  @pollo4744  The way to block radar seeing the fan blades is to put a curved duct into the front, every photo of the "production" SU-57 still shows the fanblades
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  42.  @MarshFlyFightWin  Take out a ruler and measure 30miles east of the battle lines. now figure out how close you need to get to be able to shoot at a target that's moving away from you at 200ft off the ground. Hint, it's going to be within 30 miles east of that same battle line.
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  43. What's wrong with house of the dragon?
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  44. Remember that in VR, even in the 200-300 the field of view is massive, it's 89 deg with the Quest 2 it's 104° horizontal/96° vertical
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  45. In 80% of all air to air kills the victim never saw the shooter until after his plane blows up. It's been that way since WW1.
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  46.  @Takarde  The DCS F-14A models the TF-30's compressor stalls a fair bit.
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  47. How would a ramp increase the volume of air when what you need is a larger intake?
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  48. I've always wondered how many young pilots have flown their dad's aircraft. Considering the current ages of the Teen series fighters, it was a distinct possibility the the children would run into the plane that their dad flew.
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  49. Training time, A-10's spend almost 100% of their time flying A2G missions, F-16's do a 60/40 A2A/A2G
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  50.  @joshuaalistair3193  Training stateside forms the basis of the pilot's skill, so when they start dropping iron for real, the A-10 drivers are already more skilled at it than the Viper drivers.
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