If i’m not mistaken this song plays in GTA online when you are stealing the Hydra 
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I hope you guys keeps improving that VC. There is a lot of INOP switches and functionality in there.
What controller are you using? I have the Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus Edition and there are times I can’t steer at all. Maybe I am taxiing too fast as Dean said or the joystick is garbage.
If you’ve got FSRealistic its relatively easy to swap out some of the audio files to custom ones of your own choosing. Whenever I do a bad landing in the F-14 I get ‘son, your ego is writing cheques your body can’t cash’ and when I do a good landing I get ‘you can be my wingman anytime’.
You just rip the audio from the movie and stick it into the audio files directory of FSRealistic.
Mobias - That is the coolest thing I’ve EVER heard of - how very very cool of you to swap out those audio files
Reminds me of those that remember “chuck yeagers air combat” of simulation from the 90s. He’d sling insults when crashing “good thing this is just a simulator” and stuff like that
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I can actually steer the aircraft with no problem using a PS4 joypad, but what I meant was the graphics in the steering wheel if I use external camera won’t turn even if the plane is actually turning (i.e. in a right turn the plane turns, the rudder turns, but the rendered wheel is pointing straight)
I have tagged this to remind me to check the airplane, but there were no changes made to the models or steering in the latest update, so if they’re no longer working, it’s yet another bug introduced by SU7. Losing track of them all to be honest, there are so many.
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Top Gun Maverick - U. S. Navy Document Gives New Clues About Top Gun Maverick - YouTube - The fellow doing video is real F-14 RIO-Ward Carroll.
FWIW - I have flown into NAS North Island in about 1972 on a C-118 (DC-6), and out again on same two days later, as a ride along. I have visited MCAS Yuma, and walked near NAS Whidby Island, camping in the area several times for couple of weeks, beautiful spot, if never seen you must go there. I have never been to NAS Lamoore, have driven near NAS Fallon, in NV, as major highway south toward Las Vegas is there, and best way to go. Never saw the base. Had work mate who was stationed and then worked at the base after his release from Navy. All the places he mentions are real. I was hopeful, at least a few F-14’s was still in commission being used for research or training of some type, but alas, all are gone from active status. Sure, hope they did not meet the guillotine used to cut up B-52 years ago. Hope they preserved them at the boneyard in Tucson, AZ. It would be sad ending to a top-class first-rate Fighter Plane, which set numerous records for performance in her day. Guess need to plan flight out to Whidby in my plane (F-14b), about 3000 miles, guess got to figure legs now.
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I’m definitely getting better at my carrier landings. Now I’m smashing into the top of the fantail instead of smashing into the ocean about a half mile behind the carrier…
This seems somewhat familiar… 
I love Whidby Island, maybe because its a short hop from home? I have inquired with the creator of the USS George Bush if it would be possible to install the Carrier Arrestor gear at Whidby (just like IRL) on the runway. Hoping they are working on it, it would be good practice Trap landing on land before on a pitching (to bad that cannot be modeled) deck. Nothing worse then slamming into the fantail of the carrier because I cannot get a handle on AoA approaches. LOL.
BTW the T45c is the perfect trainer for carrier landings. 
Maybe that’s why the USN procured them?
Good grief yes. The Goshawk (and the Hawk, for that matter) are such polite little creatures at low speeds… I’ve actually landed a Goshawk properly on a carrier (once…)! The only negative is that the T45 now has a built-in launch/capture system triggered by the launch bar and landing hook deployment respectively. Which is great, except it kind of messes with the HDS carrier system (that uses an external program) and the USS GHWB (which uses a different external program), so I need to keep track of how I’m actually going to be doing the traps…
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Fun, yet difficult, but always rewarding. However it’s frustrating to know that some of these banks/turns are possible at my current skill with other planes but I can’t seem to do certain banks with other planes such as this Tomcat on the later slow sharp turns. I’ve tried the developers tips with lowering the plane’s weight and using flaps, but I can’t figure out if it’s something I’m doing in terms of speed/angle or my expectations to remain under a certain altitude are unreal.
Specifically the turns at the 11:40 mark and the 12:05 mark.
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Taking into account that the F-14 is the heaviest of the 3 models, it is the one with the most inertia, although the slats should help you with the tight turn at high angles of attack, and maintain the trajectory. It seems to me that you have flown it very well,
but you can improve even more the throttle management to keep the energy and the speed. What I would advise you is that you try to put the autothrottle in that area with a certain speed above 300-350 knots and increasing and that you analyze how the plane manages the throttle in that area to avoid losing power. You would be surprised in some cases how the autothrotle saves you time in a tight turn, preventing you from a stall.
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Thanks. I’m more of a visual person. I usually keep the settings as default as much as possible so I honestly have never even messed with the autothrottle. You’ve given me something to think about.
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I can do the first difficult one consistently under 3500 after some practice, but the one at 12:05, I just cannot stay within the canyon and if that’s the limitation of the plane, so be it. I like learning the plane’s limitations and I think my expectations to take that plane in that turn, might be too unrealistic. I was just very impressed with how the F-14 can do in the canyon and the overall time is really good especially compared to more modern jets, but not being able to stay within the canyon taints the “run”.
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Jack’s correct. Every airplane has what is known as a “Corner Velocity”, the best compromise between turn rate and turn radius. For the Tomcat it’s between 350-450 knots indicated, and improves with lower altitudes and cooler air temperatures ( cold air is more dense, thus more thrust and more lift ).
However, the real airplane wouldn’t try anything like this so the DC Designs Tomcat is doing well to get through there at all. The wallowing etc is expected when you have a twenty-five ton jet banked on its side at 250 knots, so no lift from the wings and the engines doing not much more than turning avgas into noise.
MSFS is realistic enough that it shows - something like this is beyond the remit of such a large fighter, unless flying at slow airspeeds. Your throttle should be moving all of the time to regulate airspeed depending on attitude, it’s how real aircraft are flown. Likewise, you’d have a much better chance flying from inside the cockpit where your instruments provide much more info 
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Very interesting about the cold air density.
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This might help a little… 
Max rate turn is at 2.21, 400 degrees at 6G.
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Crazy to think the first flight of the F-14 took place 51 years ago today!
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