*** Posted by Rapier *** [Please tell me what is the role of the second pilot in two seat F16?] Hi Tiger, The second seat is for taking people like me and you for joy rides. No, only joking. Seriously though 2 seated aircraft are used for a number of reasons. They could be used to give wanabee pilots a chance to take the controls with an ...

*** Posted by Rapier *** [How do you deny an enemy which just locked the radar on you? Beaming the radar waves?] Hi, Use chaff, but I will occassionaly drop a couple of flare at the same time as this can confuse the enemy's IR system into thinking that the area where the chaff was ejcted is where the aircraft actually is because it's picking up

*** Posted by Rapier *** [Can you tell me how this works?] Hi Tiger, I will tell you what I know. Modern jet's use the fly-by-wire system for many reasons, it has a number of advantages. Firstly remember the old planes with levers to control the surfaces, well as planes got faster you needed a stronger arm. Imagine going at Mach 1.5 and ...

*** Posted by Rapier *** [Hi John, let me ask you something. Do you have any questions for me? I'll be very happy if you do. Tiger] Tiger, Did you say that you study fluid dynamics and aerodynamics? If so are you doing a project about the F-16? Rapier

*** Posted by Rapier *** [Hi John, I mean engines off, gear damage. Have you ever been in this situation? Thank you John Tiger ] Hi Tiger, I've had a flame out on final approach in F4 and it's not very nice. It can leave you short of the runway but if this happens still try to land at your base as close as possible because if you declare an ...

*** Posted by Rapier *** [Hi Rapier Thanks for answering. You shouldn't try to keep constant speed at max G. What you said 450-500 kts is the speed where the F16 can keep the speed constant. Remember the Ps curves of the F16 show that you have to keep the speed between 2 limits that are found on the top of the diagram. Study very carefully the

*** Posted by Rapier *** [Best moment - Everytime I go fly. But I do prefer low mountain flying. I never had a nightmare in an F16, but maybe a couple of close calls. Nearmisses is something that all pilots experience sooner or later when they are training close combat. I've had a few myself. Most G's 9.5 for 15 secs. Its not something we ...

*** Posted by Rapier *** [I've been away for a couple of weeks ;-) RUN John, are you there? Is everything ok?] Hi RUN, Anywhere interesting? Did you enjoy yourself? Rapier

*** Posted by Rapier *** [Great idea !!! I'm kind off bussy right now, but I promise to give the full story soon, so please come back and take a look at my site. RUN Three different pic's shows a ''danish flag-Draken'' a ''ribbon wound-Draken'' and a red Draken with a golden dragon on the belly surface. I really misses the stories behind ...

*** Posted by Rapier *** [Hi RUN Check out these: F16 carring two Sidewinders and altitude 15000 , level flight. Try to answer me reffering to my corner velocity not your classified. Thanks RUN TIGER Just try it out in the sim. Don't expect to be able to maintain corner velocity, but maybe you will be able to in the sim. RUN] Hi RUN, The ...