It’s just like flying the SR-71 Blackbird: At subsonic speeds the thrust-to-weight ratio is paltry, so to get the plane through the sound barrier you have to climb to 40,000 feet and then nudge it over in a dive to get it past Mach 1.
Once you’re supersonic, the jet engines will generate far more thrust and you’ll be climbing out at Mach 3 easily enough.
The deathstar if fun to play around with, I haven’t landed it yet, but it is fun crashing a million times.
Can i post a pic when i had a hop in an F-14, 25 ish years ago?
Why would anyone expect that… this is not DCS 
Always so kind!
Oh I wish I could today, but my wonderful wife is home today/tonight so it’s all reading/listening to books today.
For real. 
I did get like 3 minutes with it though while she was in the other room. 
Just enough to get some nice vapor cones going over the lake.
There is a Discord Channel on the MSFS server for real world discussion. The board is for the sim only. Thanks.
Very disappointed.
Carrier is only a challenge? really?
No catapults?
The landing challenges doesn’t even have TACAN / ILS
No F-14
All my hopes now are for third party devs like this:
https://flightsim.to/file/24323/carrier-ops-uss-enterprise
https://flightsim.to/file/23690/f-18-service-buddies-pilot-character-mod. For those who want a Maverick pilot model.
Here is how you nail the low level flying https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE49BCFB17C70CC77
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/u1EX_PC1Bxs
Where else can you strap on a pair of scramjets? Thank you Asobo and Microsoft. Took me three tries to get her up, but so much fun. The sound alone. lol
Found it, in the community folder. It was the an older version of the workingtitle g3000 mod, upgraded to v0.7.7 and works fine.
Thanks this was great instructions .. don’t need the inverted flight to reach Mach 3 but do to get the mission instructions
quoted from above
Take off with full throttle + afterburner (I don’t even touch the throttle afterwards to be honest)
Climb at 10 degrees up to around 30-35000 ft
Slowly push the nose down to -20 degrees and start descending down to about 20000 ft
Very slowly raise the nose and climb at 10 degrees again
The aircraft should have no problem reaching Mach 3 (the higher you climb the faster the Mach will go up)
At Mach 3, turn the scramjet batteries on and enable the scramjet. It will spool up, kick in and kick the vehicle out into oblivion (the regular turbines will stop working above 50,000 ft)
this all worked out … now I’m at 40,000 ft descending and have no direction to cape canaveral ??
so
I had to restart and do the inverted flying to get the next directions to canaveral …
success … landed 1AM
a couple of fun hours today … thanks
During the first transition make sure you go down longer after the roll out. Gaining speed is all it takes. Then follow the promts to flip switches and activate scram.
Yeah, I just realized that. I really wanted that helmet with normal gameplay. Just that…
I hit mach 9.5+ on this thing yesterday. Was absolutely delirious! What an experience. Never seen or felt anything like this in a flight sim. Wow…
Thanks Asobo!!! 
It was awesome for me man … One of the smoothest landings I’ve done to date!
Whaaath?! It can go that high AND hit Mach 10?!
Nice… Gotta try this 
