333 - (Flying and Simulating) The F-14 Tomcat

omega tau science & engineering podcast

Guests: Nick Pirnia, Okie Nance, the Heatblur development team
Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Alexander Grote

The F-14 Tomcat is one of the most iconic fighters, certainly among its generation. In this episode we talk with Nick Pirnia about the aircraft’s development and history as well as about flying it with former pilot Okie Nance. The aircraft is also available in the DCS flight simulator and the third part of this episode is a conversation with the development team from Heatblur about how to implement the F-14 in DCS; if you haven’t yet, check out some of their videos, this thing looks unbelievably realistic!

The F14 Program

00:03:14

F-14 Tomcat | Skynight | F-111 | Swing Wing | Phantom | F-22 | Fire and Forget | Phoenix Missle | Amaraam | Spoiler | Flaps | A-7 | F-18 Hornet | M61 Vulcan | Pratt & Whitney TF30 | GE 110 | TARP | ROVER | A-6 | Echelon | Latirn POD | AN/AWG-9

Flying the F14

01:13:36

Fly by Wire | Yaw Divergance | Flat Spin | Engine Stall | Afterburner | Glove Vane | Direct Lift Control | RIO

Heatblur DCS F-14 Simulator

02:33:31

Heatblur Studio (F14 Manual) | Digital Combat Simulator | Wikipedia Article for DCS | Open Source Flightmodelling | Nasa Overview for Flight Modelling | Avionics | F-14 Flight Manuals | Angle of attack | Dynamics of Flight | Jet wash | Wing vortices | Center of Gravity | Wake Turbulence | Computational fluid dynamics | Look up Table | Ground effect | Stagnation temperature | C++ | Compressor Stall | Emergency Checklist | Central Air Data Computer | Radar Equations | Ground Clutter | Missle Guidance | INS | IMU | Datalink | RWR | Behavioral tree | Topgun :) | DCS F-14 Trailer