10.08.2010, 09:00
Hello, good job on this new guidance alghoritm. I have some suggestions though:
1. Can you make the "Engagement OFF" mode the default one? IRL it's impossible to arm guided missiles on the ground, here - it's impossible to disengage them when on the ground and an ready-for-strafing-enemy is in sight.
2. Can you make AUTO mode removable by user? I'm only engaging it manually, and AUTO mode is just some kind of "pain in ass", especialy when I forget double-pushing it when disengaging.
3. AIM-9 is actually an close combat missile. I think that fallingdown first after accelerating and then going up isn't good flightpath for it. It's carried on the rail for a reason. It should go straight from rail, deatach from aircraft at the end of rail and start guiding to target imediately after deatachment. i know that aircraft can blow up itself this way but AFAIK this missile had arming delay, so it didn't blow up if it was too close to aircraft which launched it. As weopons in IL-2 don't colide with anything like other objects and if they don't blow up they can go through aircraft, if delay will be modelled there won't be any problem I think.
4. Finally, are you going to do some RWR an countermeassures in future? Korean ere planes - late MiG-15bis, MiG-17 and all F-86F had tail RWR wich warned pilots if there was enemy using RR gunsight behind them and sighted on them. Of course it requires new, integrated RR mod. I don't know how about countermeasures but as MiG-21 is comming you should consider doing it on first place after this mod. Especialy with this new guidance alghoritm which is a bit to "uber" for AI to avoid it
1. Can you make the "Engagement OFF" mode the default one? IRL it's impossible to arm guided missiles on the ground, here - it's impossible to disengage them when on the ground and an ready-for-strafing-enemy is in sight.
2. Can you make AUTO mode removable by user? I'm only engaging it manually, and AUTO mode is just some kind of "pain in ass", especialy when I forget double-pushing it when disengaging.
3. AIM-9 is actually an close combat missile. I think that fallingdown first after accelerating and then going up isn't good flightpath for it. It's carried on the rail for a reason. It should go straight from rail, deatach from aircraft at the end of rail and start guiding to target imediately after deatachment. i know that aircraft can blow up itself this way but AFAIK this missile had arming delay, so it didn't blow up if it was too close to aircraft which launched it. As weopons in IL-2 don't colide with anything like other objects and if they don't blow up they can go through aircraft, if delay will be modelled there won't be any problem I think.
4. Finally, are you going to do some RWR an countermeassures in future? Korean ere planes - late MiG-15bis, MiG-17 and all F-86F had tail RWR wich warned pilots if there was enemy using RR gunsight behind them and sighted on them. Of course it requires new, integrated RR mod. I don't know how about countermeasures but as MiG-21 is comming you should consider doing it on first place after this mod. Especialy with this new guidance alghoritm which is a bit to "uber" for AI to avoid it