Alternatively, select sidewinder, select master arm on, wait for tone and pull trigger. Glad you've got access, Mav! Great vid.

Jester is such a help! One of my fav additions in Jester 2.0 Lovely work Mav! Always a pleasure doing AAR.

You fly so GUD Buster!

"I'm not Scott Manley" I lol'd hard at that one

"... I'm NOT Scott Manely, fly safe ...." Hilarious!

Looking foreward to more of your Phantom content, bud! VERY complete and informative! Thank you!

When I first tried this in the f-4, I really noticed the trim change. Not something I've seen in other modules. It really made it 'feel' like the weight was increasing.

The usual high quality, on point, clear and concise instructions - nailed it once again!

Legitimately kinda wild to have to be "dumping" fuel to refuel.

Top flying mate 👌

I did not realize a brick can actually get heavier inflight

Absolute PROFESSIONAL!

thank you for displaying the control axes indication

Well done tutorial!! Thank you for this. I am sure I will be referring to this OFTEN as I get to grips with this thing. So used to hose and drogue, so this will be a new arena for me. Whew....

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing, so excited for the Phantom!

Awesome video, thanks so much for the refueling tips. Refueling the Phantom fully armed up reminds me of the stories Blackbird pilots tell about having to feed in afterburner on one engine as they refueled on missions. Practicing this would give us some experience there if we ever got a full SR-71 module! lol Yes, I know it's vanishingly unlikely!

This looks so easy in your hands.... Thanks for the hints!!

Excellent tutorial, as you’ve gotten us used to … can’t wait to practice it myself 😊

Great video as usual Mav!

Good to hear a fellow Scot in the pit 👍🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Nice work! Looking forward to failing horribly at this come tuesday :D

If you guys were wondering going full burner and ramming the tanker in a fit of rage will cause you both to crash. I hope this helps.

Solid flying! Can't wait to give it a go myself in a few days!

Great job man!

Very Nice! Great tutorial that is loaded with tons of top-notch tips.

Ex 526 TFS WSO Not a bad video, but missed a few things. Most likely would have been a 2 ship launched off of Zulu (flight lead call sign Lima Mike 01) and not a 4 ship formation. Would have checked speed before opening the AR door (as the door is speed limited). I never turned the radar to standby. Directions calls were forward and aft; up and down by feet. Left and right was seldom called as the boomer could move you back into position. This AR did not have a turn it. In a IFR AR in a turn it was important to keep calmly feeding the "nose gunner" aircraft information. The information could keep him from getting Spiral D. Which is very easy to do on a night AR mission. The call would be something like "we are starting a left hand turn at 250 knots and up two". Note: During all refueling I keep my had on the refueling circuit breaker as it forced a disconnect. Only have to pull it one time, due to a pilot PIO. I did have a good friend that brought the boom home with him.

Thank you so much I I like you´re style of giving information to us. Fly save 🙂

Great video

AH Mav nice video mate! 😎

When the dude who on occasion casually switches to external view on live stream during AAR tells you this was a tough one (12:43), you know what you're in for :D

Thank you not Scott Manley!

Legend

one engine in burner! Man, you'll be burning half of what your taking in!! CRAZY COOL!

I love the dark green phantoms

When I grow, I wanna be like you

grrrrrrreat job

Nice! What curvature do you use for your stick inputs if you dont mind me asking :)

Great tutorial. Thanks a lot. What map are you flying over in the last scene?

The more you profess to not be Scott Manley, the more suspicious we become.

Wouldnt you open the refuel door first before trimming, since the door would change your trim?

Smoking is not permitted at gas stations. Lighting the afterburner while tanking is totally safe. 😂 Well done. Only having a single throttle, this will be hard. Maybe there is a way with modifier button option to temporarily adjust only one engine while other is in min burner?

Well done sir.

lol "I'm not Scott Manley"

How muxh longer does it take to refuel with one afterburner off? I mean you are burning a lot of fuel doing that.

Nice video and smooth flying there! I find that the F-4 is one of the easiest modules to refuel - especially with the Jester callouts. It's hard to see the light strip in VR.

Are you flying with Track IR these days? I remember having a long chat with you about it in Teamspeak back in like 2015 or something.

Did you keep AFCS on while refueling or do you turn it off? Altitude hold?

Awesome video. I'm struggling to get a tanker to respond!

What speed are you refuelling at?

does the phantom let you fly with some speed brakes out? I’m that kind of player that folds the tomcat wings and pops out the F-16 speed brakes to refuel

really helpfull video cant wait to fly it myself, but why did you call him a rio😭

Any hints for using curves? I generally struggle with the boom, but this is the hardest of all of them (I find)

for me it sais done even tho i have barly tanked anything is there a switch i need to check

Great video! Can’t wait for the carrier landing tutorials (eventually), but in the meantime, there’s a glaring lack of good carrier landing stuff on the A-4…. Wink nudge.

I just hope Jester doesn't get stuck in an infinite loop of "funny" jokes and Star Wars quotes while attached, like sometimes happened in the F-14.

4:35 the PDL shows the position of the boom, not your aircraft. no?

what Joystick do you have? is it FFB?

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Damn, I try and I cant reduce PIOs, no matter how I try to be subtle. The only jet I can refuel in air is f-18.

!buster

i absolutely hate this task even though im getting better at it, i opt for missions that don't require it or i try to be very careful to nurse my fuel.......or i just treat the mission as a one way mission so i don't have to worry about tanking for the flight home.

Sigh, maybe one day we'll get a kc-10.

I bet it gets delayed again. Looks like I got to become a KZfaqr just to get this jet.

If only it had Part Throttle Reheat

I can never get the right speeds lol even in the f18 haha

I got a couple flights in last night finally. All in all about what I expected, which is a very good thing. A couple observations… - On my first landing, which was a bit rough at Creech but certainly nowhere near as hard as a carrier landing, Jester makes a comment about needing the undercarriage replaced and then I find out I have no brakes. Now, I’m an old US Navy carrier guy. I’m used to planes that get slammed on a pitching deck all day long. That little tap and I lose my brakes??? C’mon, man! - I didn’t look too hard cuz I was wanting to get in the air and I knew I had yet to spend an hour or more setting up the controls, but all I saw were skins for either USAF jets or allied nation jets. Nothing from the United States Navy. I mean, the thing was designed and built as a FLEET defense aircraft for the US Navy. They have six skins for the USAF Thunderbirds, but not one navy skin. What is up with that? As an ex-US Navy flight deck veteran that actually served on a carrier that still had a squadron of Phantoms on board, I take great offense to this. - I may be doing something wrong procedure wise and no, I haven’t RtFM yet, but I found as I was screaming around the southern Nevada skies last night, that no matter how I set the radar up from the WSO seat, once I went back to the pilot seat, after a second or two the radar would go back to a B scope and 50 mile range. Am I missing something there? Is it supposed to do that and if so, how can I change it? Surely the pilot can do a PPI and isn’t locked into a B scope. I mean, it does show PPI for a second before it changes. - I’m also wondering why there doesn’t seem to be a Jester command to change ranges on the radar. I can tell him to change the elevation and scan size, but not the range? Edit: I looked again this morning and no, there are no US Navy skins at all. C’mon guys, this thing was built for the Navy! Edit: Okay, I get it. The Navy used the B and J versions, not the E. Well, I hope they come out with a US Navy variation someday.

ill just put this on the "no way in hell" list and move on...

I have always thought that DCS should have a “simplified” AAR mode for those of us with a lack of time to spend learning this skill set.

Can’t wait……..love mastering refuel in my modules

Easier to watch above the canopy after you rise your seat all the way up

Jet looks great, but I'm already sick of Jester and it isn't even out yet!

Should turn your saturation down a bit, your game looks comically colorful almost fortnite levels of color

"Return Pre Contact"....

Thanks for the video ! How can we turn off jester with his refueling comments, I can’t believe that for a minute he’d be telling the pilot how to refuel 🤦 This is my biggest issue with HB on Jester. Surely his name implies he is a clown, but I’d rather have a professional WSO :). Maybe someday they can provide different levels like newbie, average, professional But s simple “turn off comms with jester” would suffice for now … I know in the 14 I’d just turn down my mic volume to not hear his shenanigans

If you find yourself having to refuel midair, you have done something wrong.

great video I especially like the researched background information 🫡