The F-14 has the power andĬontrol authority to break the airframe and break it easily. You must pay close attention to things like your angle ofĪttack and, perhaps more importantly, the G-meter.
Load up a few too many G’s and its all over for your F-14. This, fortunately, doesn’t happenĪll that often but one must bear it in mind when you go flying. Spin that you may not be able to get out of. Of a turn, fighting with your control inputs and putting you into a stall or Fly it badly and it will bite back by throwing you out I was almost immediately at home in the jet after flying many of the other aircraft in the DCS World line-up.įly the F-14 well and it’s a rewarding fighter with heaps of It is both agile and relatively stable in most regimes of flight and that makes the F-14 is easy to fly in basic maneuvers. The F-14 gets by on good piloting and a superb aerodynamic design that gives the jet plenty of advantages. High altitude in the F-14 over the Nevada desert. There’s no fly-by-wire here to protect you from trying to over-G theĪirplane. Interesting spot in the DCS World line-up with the power, sensors and overallĬapability of some of the more advanced jets but with the steam gauges and directĬontrol flight surfaces that you expect from earlier generations of jetįighters. I’ve written before about how the F-14 Tomcat exists in an Models in DCS World with all of the weight, inertia, adverse yaw, and otherįlight dynamics that you’d expect from a massive twin-engine jet fighter. Don’t get me wrong, Heatblur’sįlight model here feels as real as the best of the other top-notch flight Is surprisingly light and easy to control. Despite its 64-foot (un-swept) wingspan, this enormous fighter My first flights in the F-14 Tomcat in DCS World have been aīit surprising.
Highway to the danger zone Splash one F-5E in training. With the DCS: F-14 Tomcat, Heatblur is tasked not only withīringing a top-grade flight sim product to DCS World but also tapping into that Reference being dropped casually – you’ll find this article littered with them. You can hardly go anywhere in the flight sim community without some Top Gun
Of you have watched and re-watched that movie dozens of times (I sure have) and Much of a star in the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun as Tom Cruise was.
The F-14 is something else beyond just a jet – it’s also anĪircraft that has been elevated to legendary status. The ultimate F-14D version ultimately had a long career before being retired in 2006. Later models represented by the F-14B with new engines solved most of those problems. The Tomcat was not without its flaws and the F-14A model suffered from issues relating to its the TF30 engines that had reliability and power related issues. What that failure spawned what was ultimately one of the most effective carrier interceptors of all time.
Delivering a strike aircraft to the Air Force and a carrier interceptor for the Navy all in the same airframe proved to be too much. I’m sure everyone who has ever read anything about the Tomcat will know that it was designed with the lessons learned from the failure of the F-111 project. Navy to field a new generation of fighter interceptor that could reach out and intercept Soviet bombers before they could get within cruise missile range of carrier battlegroups. The F-14 Tomcat design came out of a need by the U.S. Produced one of the most spectacular DCS modules we’ve seen to date. Up to that kind of scrutiny is a very tall order but if my first impressionsĪre anything to go by, Heatblur has met and exceeded those expectations and Whole generations of aviation enthusiasts. Hands on with this module and with an aircraft that has made impressions to Heatblur Simulations DCS: F-14B Tomcat was released intoĮarly Access just a few weeks ago giving the flight sim public their first