F-14B Tomcat: Basic AFCS Autopilot Tutorial | DCS WORLD

NOTE: As Of June 2021 - Altitude Hold will now only engage if you are within +/- 200 FPM vertical speed
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NOTE: As Of June 2021 - Altitude Hold will now only engage if you are within +/- 200 FPM vertical speed Source: forums.eagle.ru/topic/274164-dcs-f-14-development-update-bounce-burble-and-orbits/ Credit: Truck Trucker

[@TLTeo]

Very important correction: during air combat, roll SAS is switched off. You can find Victory205 mentioning this all over the official forums.

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@pizzaparty-r1c]

Also, with AP engaged and A/P reference light on, when you let go of the stick, it will hold that attitude. Like the hold mode in the Apache AH-64. If you are doing maneuvers, make sure AP engage switch is turned off or the jet will have a laggy response.

[@Inkota]

Thank you. Just watched your F-14B's video and in each of them you apologize for the camera's movement. You can assign a hotkey button in TrackIR settings to freeze it at actual point (;

[@eddievhfan1984]

For those curious, the VEC/PCD is intended to integrate with not only the carrier datalink, but also GCI/SAGE air defense systems that also use Link-4. This allows ground control of the 'Cat, so GCI can remotely vector the aircraft into an intercept-useful in a crowded interception environment or one subject to voice jamming. VEC (vector) is heading/range guidance only, PCD (precision command) is heading/range/altitude. While not implemented now, I could see it being used with Combined Arms, such that a ground controller/AWACS could direct a whole squadron of aircraft without voice commands. Indeed, by using PCD in combination with D/L BOMB mode on the A/G panel in the RIO's pit, you could have a JTAC remotely bringing a strike aircraft onto a bomb run. Could be some cool stuff, if they ever implement it.

[@kraziivan_]

Damn your videos are great. I had it working but I didn't realize nosewheel steering turned it on, I always had to fight with it.

[@Scoobydcs]

I find with it switched on but not engaged (ie dont press noseheel steer button) it acts almost like fbw ie it doesnt wander around nearly as much and i rarely have trim it out either

[@TheRoadToTravel]

Thank you very much! Looking forward to the ACL/ACLS video :3 hope you are able to upload it today

[@IrishManJT]

I believe the E2C Hawkeye could control a Tomcat via Data Link.

[@grimreapers]

cool

[@sedlo]

Great tutorial, Cap!

[@glecaillier]

The 3 stabs controls go off too if you use emergency disengage autopilot.

[@MrLittlepe]

Don't think you mentioned it, but according to the manual selecting the Autopilot switch alone gives you 'Attitude Hold'.

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@D1CE579]

Pressing nose wheel steering light will not go out any reported bugs by any chance Cap

[@Scoobydcs]

I wonder how well that's mapped to the warthog AP controls on the throttle

[@Etyneo1984]

I may have missed the follow-on video you mentioned, but did you ever get around to detailing the Ground Track submode of the Heading AP?

[@grimreapers]

I have tested and currently not working as far as I can see.

[@kevin1873]

Lmao. When are you going to learn to pause that TrackIR view with F9?

[@grimreapers]

would love to but it's OpenTrack :(

[@AlexWBKK]

@@grimreapers with the trackhat software? you can set a button there too. Its named "toggle" in the trackhat app

[@CAL1MBO]

@@AlexWBKK lmfao I thought everyone bound this immediately

[@VonSpookydoodle]

Apparently a bug was reported for many missing keybind options "hsd selected heading" being one of them. This was reported back in 2019. Anyone know if this got sorted by now?

[@TotRuAv0015]

can't the f-14 follow the desired heading you select is it's autopilot that broke

[@JHallin]

I noticed something while fiddling with the switches that I did not see you touch on here and I wonder if you have the answer. When you turn on just the engage switch leaving all other switches in the default the flight dynamics of the jet change. It makes the jet feel more digital than analogue. For example lets say you are rolling from right to left and then want to stop the roll. Well i notice the roll drifts in normal flight but when the engage switch is on the roll will stop in a more direct, precise feeling, manner. Do you know why it does this? Have you noticed it? Thanks for the videos. I am new to DCS and your videos have been very helpful.

[@JHallin]

@Southern Fun Yeah that is exactly what I noticed. There is something there for sure, just not sure what it is. Glitch or design?

[@Shloomy_Shloms]

J Hallin yeah it prevents any drift and I don’t even have to manually trim the plane in flight, it pretty much holds your plane in the exact position you let go of your stick and prevents any sort of drifting, I’m hoping it’s an actual real system, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be

[@Goodmanisback]

I noticed that too and I quite use it a lot now! It "trims" the plane for me, which is really nice when I try to refuel, and it even trims you for AoA when you try to land and get down to a certain speed!

[@Shloomy_Shloms]

tms2196 I read up a little now and on the heatblur site in the manual it says (copy paste from manual) “By setting the autopilot ENGAGE switch to on the attitude hold is engaged, maintaining current aircraft attitude. Limited to within 30° pitch and 60° roll angles and the aircraft will be automatically moved within this range. Current attitude can be changed with the control stick and will be held when the stick is released.”

[@Goodmanisback]

@@Shloomy_Shloms that explains it, thanks for the info!

[@Scoobydcs]

My ap works when it feels like it now, i did 4 spawns last night and the ap only worked on 1 of them. You flick the switches and nothing happens, any guesses why?

[@felixlerner]

I'm having the same problem, the a/p ref light goes out for 2 seconds and then it lights back up.

[@colbillington]

Cougar shouldve used ACL...

[@grimreapers]

lol

[@joec4106]

First, love your vids!

[@grenadespoon]

When you flip the acm cover up it takes off some of the stability controls. Are you supposed to dogfight with them off?

[@beny874]

Yes. He didn't quite get that right. It isnt like the FCS in the hornet. It's also like the roll SAS is supposed to he turned off in certain carrier approaches as well. I forgot the exact specifics. The reason being in ACM is because the spoilers over the wing will have very very very bad effects in low speed high AOA manoeuvring.

[@vladimirlenin2582]

Not sure if I am going to get a response but I cant seem to figure out the auto throttle. Can it be used without using the full ACLS? Does the Rio need to configure something??

[@robertgross9580]

Please god make an ACLS video. The videos up now are sub par

[@grimreapers]

affirm Sir it;s on the list

[@robertgross9580]

@@grimreapers Tango Mike!

[@trucktrucker5043]

Have there been any changes on the autopilot with the latest updates?It used to work as you show on 2:40,but now i press the Autopilot reference button on stick,but it doesn't want to level the plane and the A/P REF stays red!It works only if i level completely the plane by myself,and not all the times.The same happens to both f14 variants A and B

[@grimreapers]

Yes but I haven't looked into it yet.

[@trucktrucker5043]

@@grimreapers I did a little research and found this forums.eagle.ru/topic/274164-dcs-f-14-development-update-bounce-burble-and-orbits/ ..Altitude Hold will now only engage if you are within +/- 200 FPM vertical speed.

[@grimreapers]

@@trucktrucker5043 Thanks truck!

[@robby2706]

hey dude you speak very fast....it's very hard to follow you

[@MrMulkerrins]

Change the speed of the video to 75% Einstein

[@exiletsj2570]

Just hire him wags for gods sake.

[@grimreapers]

lol #EDHireCap movement? xx