Grumman F-14D

Congrats! You and your RIO have been promoted and got your new plane, but seems your RIO is still complaining about your landing skill?

How to fly?(IMOPORTANT!!!)

First click the wheels to remove the wheel chocks, then click the LADDER PANEL of the plane(which is near the LEFT COCKPIT) to lower the ladder and two steps for you and your RIO.

after you get into your seats, click the BACK OF THE SEAT to lock your position and wait 5 seconds for the seat auto recentering your view(Both to Pilot and RIO)(Click the eject handle above sosig RIO's head to tell him to leave.)

Click the YELLOW GRIP on the RIGHT OF THE FRONT PANEL to close canopy, then grab the STICK and THROTTLE and you are ready to take off (throttle thumbutton rearward to release hook, forward to open refueling probe)

Click the yellow lever near the throttle to fold/unfold the wings. Plz unfold wings before takeoff.

AI BackSeat

Your reliable backseat RIO —— Jester, is in charge of the Radar and AIM54 missile.

When he captured target, tell him:"Jester,Lock him." / "Jester,Lock target." and he will select the target and lock on.

Then tell him:"Jester,Fire." / "Jester,Shoot him." / "Jester,Launch Missile." and AIM54 missile will on its way.

Fire Controls

left trigger controls GBU-12, better release them after the lighting pod stabilized.

The AIM-54 missile have no control input.(No worries! Your helpful sosig RIO will help you fire the missile and keeping the missile locking on enemies, if he knows how to use the radar...).

right trigger controls cannon.(click the cannon panel and open it, then spin the barrels to chamber the gun before taking off).

Be aware that bullets and missiles/bombs aren't infinite, you have to land and reload them so always remember saving your ammo.

To reload the weapons, spawn Drums and Missiles, open the cannon panel and attach the Drum, it will auto load rounds into the integrated BeltBox, put the missile/bomb onto the pylons, if you meet weapon failures, spin the barrels of the cannon and pull a black block behind the bottom pylons.

(If the engine nozzle is too high for you to grill sausages, try 'borrow' something from the deck crew!)

To taxi to catapult/runway, there're two ways:

1.Hop into the cockpit and taxi out.

2.There is a tugbar in the spawner and hook the plane's launch lever to the end of the tugbar, then tow the bar to taxi out.

Notice

There're 5 cameras on the cannon muzzle / the tail hook / both side of the rear seat / front of the rear seat, grab and press touchpad/joystick upward to activate them.

Pilot's right MFD screen contains SA page which can detact flying targets.

The plane may glitch heavily.

If Jester(your RIO) noticed something is going wrong, he will immediately eject both you two for safety.

but if you are flying with someone else, you have to eject yourselves using the eject handle in front of your seat.

also, this will delete the whole plane after few seconds.

Change Log

1.0.0 Added F-14D and your free sosig RIO in Tools&Toys--->Utilities.

1.1.0 Added seat for human RIO. Added radar animation and some texture changed.

1.2.0 AIM-54 fixed.Added 5 internal camera on the cannon muzzle / the tail hook / both side of the rear seat / front of the rear seat.

1.2.1 Added SA to pilot's MFD for spawning flying targets.

1.2.2 Changed targeting script to make air to air possible.

1.2.3 Fixed Log window keeps pop up sosig errors.

1.3.0 20mm Cannon and AIM-54 missile now can be reloaded.

1.4.0 Launch equipment added.

1.4.1 Launch equipment tweaked.

1.4.2 Added afterburner effect, tweaked canopy moving speed.

1.4.3 Tweaked FCS.

1.4.4 "Do not use afterburner grilling your god damn sosigs! ...... And I wonder what does this ladder do..."-----Chief

1.4.5 Sausage grill function implemented.With help from Cityrobo and his mighty codes.

1.4.6 Now the back blast will blow everything away. Livery changed.

1.4.7 Ground crew should whatch out for the intake in case any stuff or person gets suck in.

1.5.0 Updated physical stick input.

1.5.1 Tweaked engine power, FCS and added nose wheel steering.

1.5.2 Fixed some desync issues.

1.5.3 Fixed some animation issues.

1.6.0 Fully detailed flight model!

1.6.1 At low speed, the wing sweep will be controlable manually.

1.6.2 Added working HUD!

1.6.3 Much more stable cockpit controls.

1.6.4 Added a marker on the right side of the cockpit (try draw sometiong on the right canopy!)

1.6.5 Added more space for marker drawing!! (both for Pilot and RIO)

1.6.6 Fixed missing wheels.

1.6.7 Added toggable wheel chocks and a tugbar.

1.7.0 Added eject function.

1.7.1 Making the Aircraft being able to tow by the tugbar.

1.7.2 Tweaked front gear totation and hired a psychologist for Jester to stop him randomly eject both of you.

1.7.3 Fixed seat rotation when ejecting.

1.8.0 Changed loadout, now the F-14 carries 2 AIM54, 1 GBU12 and a Lighting laser pod.

1.8.1 Fixed the issue that make right AIM54 not launchable.

1.8.2 Improved AIM54 and GBU12 model and texture accuracy, tweaked explosion range.

1.8.3 Fixed GBU-12 normal texture.

1.8.4 Changed wheelchock model, fixed radar behavior, bunch of mesh issue and added auto recenter when getting into the seat.

1.8.5 Added wheel antiskeed, tweaked wings to let the plane roll faster.

1.8.6 Jester become more talkative.

1.8.7 Fixed AIM54 guiding issue.

1.9.0 Added voice recognize for AI backseat RIO.

1.9.1 Some script changes to fit further game updates.