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How to land your Tornado on an airstrip in a crosswind. By Tom N.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-9fzI0Orlc
Video created with OBS software.
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How to land your Tornado on a road and in one piece. First make sure that the road is clear. Video by Tom N.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KauaRquS38A
Video created with OBS software.
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Another crosswind landing by Tom N. Now observe carefully boys and girls. Oh, one more thing. Don't try in real life unless you want to wreck a 30 million pound plane. By the way, according to a Ministry of Defence (UK) report to Parliament in 2010, a Tornado flight costs £35,000 per hour. So a three minute video, done for you by Tom N, has already saved you £1,750.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9oMFV6SaQ4
OBS Software used for the screen recording. Learn and enjoy.
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SPILS stands for Spin Prevention and Incidence Limiting System (Tornado aircraft).
The SPILS system is an integrated part of the Tornado flight control system. It's purpose in life is to ensure the Pilot cannot lose control of the aircraft during certain flight regimes. A term often heard when describing fly by wire systems is 'Carefree Handling'. This generally means that a Pilot can 'drive' the aircraft as they wish but this computer will stop any loss of control due to a request that the airframe cannot perform safely.
In the Tornado's case a computer sits between the aircraft controls and the physical controlling surfaces such as the tailerons, rudder and spoilers. The computer receives signals from the pilot through the controls and decides whether or not to pass these to the control surfaces as requested by the Pilot. The computer also receives a vast amount of information from sensors mounted within the airframe and compares these against what the Pilot is asking for. It then instructs the control surfaces to deliver the best possible performance available for the manoeuvre requested without causing a departure. A departure is generally any loss of controlled flight.
These systems are not foolproof, they will not for example stop the pilot flying the aircraft into the ground.
Source: http://www.tornado-data.com/Tid/systems/systems.htm
In this video, Tom N demonstrates landing the Tornado on grass with the SPILS deactivated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6sddWliQI
Instructive video.
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So this is how to do it 8)
Thanks for posting. Brings back memories.
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Back in the days I thought of myself as the biggest fan of this sim but you definitely have got the honours. :D
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Frankie is the Tornado king 8)
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Correction. King of posting Tornado vidoes on Youtube. These videos were recorded by Tom N. He is mentally drained from flying Tornado and doing the game recording. Hence I am uploading to Youtube for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJzjWvMCUTQ
JP-233 attack video by Tom N. Part 1.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKjT86oVWc
JP-233 attack video by Tom N. Part 2.
Videos by the prolific Tom N, the King of flying the Digital Integration Tornado flight simulator.
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Thank you so much Frankie,
for uploading that footage,
but "mentally drained" sounds bad, as if getting brain damage,
if at all exhausted, but main reason for me is to keep a "low profile" in the internet
as in the videos ;-)
except after having delivered all those packages, then i prefer to accelerate in great height back so to save fuel and still using the afterburner as you can see in the height of 40'000 ft the reheat is quite slowly fuelburning but boosts speed further on (to mach 1.8 and more).
Another thing quite close was the threat by all those IR-missiles, really went short on Flares there and could not find my enemy CAP follower, he turned only because of getting into allied territory and maybe locked on by allied SCUD launchers (Or was he even shot down by allied forces? Who knows)
EDIT: i prefer to land at the edge of a runway because the allied airfield towers do a lousy job when coordinating multiple aircraft landings, those always land centered on the runway , the runway luckily is broad enough so that an oncoming c-130 machine can pass without touching when heeding this tactic.
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How to land your Tornado in three different ways. All in three minutes. Tom N is the new three-minute man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRkHyuxQSCc
Video by Tom N. Enjoy.
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Making a descent from 30,0000 ft. Engine thrust is set to idle. Doing a FOX TWO landing with engine still idle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8daS3dJdCY
Video by Tom N.
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Tornado Simulation Take off & Land heaviest Load 25 kts N S Crosswind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kd_T0Txc4g
Video by Tom N, DOW-resident Tornado test pilot and gamer.
By the way, this is the 100th post for the Tornado section in the Dogs Of War VU!
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Confessions about a little possible cheating -->
In most missions (IDS-only Tornado missions against fixed, non-runway structures) it is allowed to delete all waypoints in the flight plan thus deleting the targets for that planned mission.
Now when hopping into the plane you can ctrl-q exit the "customized" mission, the debriefing screen should be fairly empty for you couldn't have done much damage to your plane nor to the enemy AND that mission counts as a won one!
As told, that doesn't work fur JP-233 attack since a minimum hit percentage will be expected, the program also expects Tanks, Trains and Trucks to be hit and Airplanes according to the briefing (except for the ADV-free - mission, just get the slow Mi-24 Hind down with 10 missile attempts ^^)
Edit: This cheat helps only to be promoted for finishing those 24 missions
It is NO HELP at all in Campaign-missions and Command-missions,
since there you would wish for extra hardpoints ^^
--> Promotions were if i remember correctly F/O at the beginning = Flying Officer;
Flight Lieutenant after 24 missions, wing commander after completed the campaign, group captain after command.
I might have missed a promotion here, hmmm
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Thanks for the tip, Tom N.
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An IDS free-format mission by Tom where he wrought havoc among allied forces and got rewarded with the victory anthem and the positive mission check-mark. A sad day for his victims! He also gained some dishonorable air-to-ground and air-to-air victories in the mission.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayq8AKIZDlM
Go figure.
:-)
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Doublechecked with another Pilot fresh appointed flight lieutenant after 24 cheated missions (fast forwarding the protmotion, because i wanted to check the Demotion from flight lieutenant to flying officer!!)
BUT, nothing, same issue, getting the winning debriefing Jingle and a positive checkmark on that screwed flewn Mission.
Tja, it's definitely not wanted that way in the code.
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Addition concerning the Stall -Video:
Did you notice the Stall Warning indicator on the left side of the HUD?
(since the ironframe was "deactivated" it could not be seen in there as well, but it is there to be seen as the grey column, rising and falling according to the air stream around the airplane/ airfoil.)
I searched for youtube-videos, just to get more information/ insight:
visualized wing stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFcW5-1NP60
Cessna 172 stall recovery with 600 ft loss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dSrjVR0MvE
EDIT afterwards: maybe it is only the start of stalling they are practicing to recover from, because both are training to roll the plane to a side, then upside down and pitching down in the same moment, without airstream it would not work, so it seems just as the maneuver the SPILS is doing in the Tornado-Sim, just a little bit more spectacular. That explains also, why they are dropping only such a little bit.
Many thanks to those guys producing such nice videos for watching in youtube
and giving helpful instructions and information this way.
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How to land your Tornado in a Crosswind video 6. First step? Don't depend on your autopilot - turn it off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64xpZ5TZ7wY
Tornado connoisseur shows you how.
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Now for a Digital Integration Tornado video to make you guys feel more comfortable around SAM sites ^^. SAM avoidance. Let TomN show you how it's done. It shows what ECM does, what the SAM does and in which range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdi62iwpJUU
The SAM always shoots up way too high at the same angle. First up to about 1000 ft, only then does the missile try to home into its target. But by then already it is too late to do such a harsh maneuver and it misses and misses and misses. I tried to land again on a smaller runway but was a bit off and simply wanted to end that video, soooo that happened. (TomN, 14th September 2016)
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So now the ratio
of incoming missiles with and without ECM
within 1min and 30 secs
7 missiles with ECM on, 11 with ECM deactivated.