DCS World F-14A & F-14B Tomcat Cold Start Tutorial!

hey guys spud knocker here as always and today i was looking through my library of dcs world videos that i've made over the past more than two and a half years now and i realized that i had a glaring hole in my makeup of videos and that was an f14 tomcat cold start tutorial and i thought it would be a great time to rectify that missing hole in my dcs world tutorial library because i've seen quite a few new pilots show up in the spudsbuds discord server who have just bought the f14 tomcat and are looking for help with learning how to fly and fight in the big turkey bird now before we get started with this tutorial this tutorial will cover both the f-14a and f-14b as of early 2021 the startup procedure and cockpits for both of the tomcat variants we have are exactly the same so you guys won't have to worry about watching an f14a versus an f14b tutorial video and before we get started let's go ahead and talk about our channel sponsor fleeting edge supplements they make an awesome 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sequence and the way you start up different systems and flip switches and turn things on doesn't necessarily matter quite as much as in other aircraft like the av-8 the fa-18 or the f-16 or the pilot himself is actually responsible for aligning the navigation gyros and getting everything set and ready to go a lot of that responsibility falls onto the rio in your back seat and so you can kind of come up with your own methodology of what works for best for you for getting the f-14 started up and ready to go for takeoff and flying out into combat so with that being said you don't have to follow me exactly as you see me do things but it'll be a great place for you guys to start to come up with your own methodology of getting stuff ready to go so first thing i like to do is i like to go ahead and get rid of our hud camera here and get some better forward visibility in a jet that is already a little bit challenged in that arena next i like to go ahead and come down to my left hip and turn on my oxygen turning on the oxygen in a jet is definitely something that i tend to forget quite a bit until i get up above flight level one zero zero and start to pass out and then i kind of have a freakout moment turn on the oxygen then i'm good to go so make sure you don't follow spud knockers uh example with that one so next thing we'll do is we will get the ground electric power and the ground air started we'll open up the slash key to bring up the comms menu we'll go to the ground crew we'll go ahead and go ground electric power on the ground and we'll connect the huffer with the ground air supply connect ground air supply this is one of the main reasons the navy wanted to get rid of f-14s at the end of its service life is because it required so much ground equipment to just get the jets started up whether at a naval air station at an air force base they visit or on an aircraft carrier itself it's a lot less equipment that they gotta lug around next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna talk to jester and we're gonna tell them we're ready for startup but before we do that let's go ahead and arm our ejection seat open up the gesture menu we'll look towards the startup position and we'll tell them to start up if you're with a human rio in the background you'd of course just want to talk to them via discord or through the com system that is in srs for the intercom we can hear jester loud and clear so we'll tell him loud and clear and before we actually crank an engine we'll wait for jester to go ahead and close the canopy so that way it won't get too loud in here in the shelter adam serlick air base closing in turkey check ready to start now it's a bright early morning here at in surlic turkey and it's time to get going to get back to our aircraft carrier that we had to divert from last night so first thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and crank the right-hand engine first with a right-click on the engine crank switch next we're going to take our attention and put it onto the engine indicators down here to the left of the hud and the left vdi and uh hsd and once we get the rpm stabilized at around 20 or where this white bar hits the little r symbol next denoting the right hand engine we can go ahead and click on our right throttle and bring it up into the idle detent and we can see our hydraulic pressure has risen and our oil pressure will continue to rise as well our temperature indicator will spike and then stabilize and we should get our right hand engine to stabilize at just below 70 rpm for the idle setting on the throttle now at this point i recommend using the time that it takes to actually get the engine fully spun up and fully started up to start turning on other systems in the cockpit to make your starter procedure a lot faster and more efficient we can see that we're now stabilized out at about 68 rpm so we can go ahead and come back and crank the left-hand engine we're going to be looking for the same indications here about 20 rpm or when this white indicator bar hits the l denoting the left engine we can see the oil pressure and hydraulic pressure rising as well everything is looking normal we can go ahead and click on our left throttle to bring it to the left detent left idle detent that is and we can see our temperature indicator is spiking tit stands for thermal uh thermocoupled indicator temperature so titan but most people and most pilots and ground crew refer to it as simply just the temperature indicator for the engines we're waiting for the stabilization of our left-hand engine at about 68 rpm to let us know that our tf-30 engines are up and running and good to go so at this point we're all focused on avionics and getting things set up and ready to go avionics-wise so we go ahead and zoom out again and we can talk to jester and let him know to start aligning the ins we'll go for ins fine because we don't want to get lost over the eastern mediterranean as we try to find our aircraft carrier again go ahead and clear out that master caution and at this point we can start looking at our caution and advisories panel to see what we should do next biggest thing here is going to be our k deck our wing suite and of course our roll yaw and pitch sass or stability augmentation system so we get rid of a bunch of those cautions by simply turning on our roll yaw and pitch stabilization augmentation system what that's going to do is based on the angle attack air speed and the roll rate a bunch of different factors that is taken in by the k deck it's going to dampen out some of those control inputs that we put in some people say that it's very very easy to rip the wings off of an f-14 and a dogfight in dcs but without our sas turned on it would be even easier and pilot-induced oscillations would be the order of the day the next we can go ahead and turn our radio on we can have it either in preset mode or manual mode in most of my multiplayer missions in the f-14 you'll see me in manual mode as i switch back and forth between different discrete frequencies to talk to different people agencies and controllers we can also set up and get our attack and ready to go up front here with track ir it's a little bit hard to see back here and zoom in at the same time but we can have it off receive transmit receive trans receive air to air and so on we'll go ahead and leave that off for now and at this point we'll go ahead and reset our altimeter by giving it a right click and holding it for a few seconds to get rid of the red standby flag you can fly with the red standby flag there but it's a little bit annoying to look at throughout the entire mission we also have a knob down here to set our current altimeter setting for the airfield we're currently at next we'll go ahead and uncage our radar altimeter and we'll set it to about 600 feet and we can give it a left click to give it a quick test i like to always have it set to 600 feet because that's where it's going to go off in our base to final turn off when approaching the aircraft carrier next we can come in and we can uncage our standby attitude indicator and we can start to turn on our different displays including our vdi hud and hsd we can of course adjust our hud brightness our vdi brightness as well as our hsd brightness as well i always like to preset my gun to a gun rate of high whether i'm engaging ground targets or air-to-air targets i always like to just have it in a high position but you guys will also have your own theory with that as well next we'll go ahead and take our emergency wing sweep handle we'll push it all the way to the forward position give it a right click and then close the cover over it now this is very very important to make sure that we get our wing sweep set and ready to go when we reset our k deck once we're outside of this hardened shelter please please please keep in mind when you're flying the f-14 tomcat that you are flying the largest aircraft that's flyable in dcs world with the longest wingspan if you open up your wings in a small shelter like this you'll be very disappointed to find that your wings will explode and break off because you just scrape them against the side of the hardened shelter also keep in mind that at an air base like in sterling here in turkey when you taxi around the taxiways are very very small there are fences there are light posts all kinds of things that the wings in your f-14 tomcat can smack and break your wings right off which can be very very frustrating this is very similar to what you'll find when taxing around on an aircraft carrier you only sweep your wings forward once you are in an area that's clear and ready to go usually once you're set up and ready to take off from the catapult so at this point we'll go ahead and also reset our gun ammo counter the gun in the f-14 carries 675 rounds of 20 millimeter ammunition so we'll set it to 670. it's better to be a little bit under than a little bit over in my opinion we can also double check that we have that gun uh ammo setup as we need it to be by going to the air to air hud mode selecting the gun selector very quick we can see g and six for gun go to the weapon selector to the off position and go back to the take off hud mode next we'll go ahead and bring our um ecs air source back to both engines and we'll make sure that we get our ground electric power and our ground air supply disconnected as well we can see that jester in the back there is doing his own bit test of the radar altimeter and we can go ahead and turn on our nose wheel steering by hitting the nose wheel steering switch on our hotas we can also since we're at an air base here go ahead and turn on our external lighting we can increase our formation lighting if it were dark outside via this roller here the console lighting via this roller here which gives a red glow to all of the labels on the different switches as well as your instrumentation lighting here as well we'll get our landing light turned on you can also turn on cockpit flood lights if you wanted to here for a white light and a red light here as well so with that we are ready to go ahead and taxi on out as you guys saw the startup procedure is quite simple in the f-14 and you can make it go very very fast once you develop your own methodology of getting everything turned on and ready to go and of course we'll turn off the parking brake so we'll go ahead and start pushing up the throttles here now taxiing with the f-14a with the tf30 engines is a little bit more challenging than with the f-14b as the jet needs a bunch of throttle to get it to move but then at the same time it likes to get away from you and you need to definitely those throttles again and try to find a happy medium when you're taxing at a very tight quarters air base here at in sterling or on the aircraft carrier you just want to make sure that you're always staying on the center line which is very easy in the f-14 because that nose wheel is more or less right underneath your ejection seat so we'll just make sure we're right close on the center line to make sure we don't smack our wings on these fences or light posts that are right on the left and right hand side of this taxiway and we'll start to turn left onto the main taxiway out in sterlit as we taxi towards the active runway at this point we can go ahead and reset our k deck and bring our wing sweep hotass to the automatic position and unsweep our wings as we taxi down towards the active runway and we'll bring our anti-skid and spoiler brakes position to the both positions so that way they get both anti-skid braking here at an airfield as well as the spoilers will pop out as we can see in the rear view mirror and if we check over our wing when we bring the throttle back to the idle position and if we advance the throttle slightly we can see these spoilers come back in bring it back to idle the spoilers pop back out and help to aerodynamically slow your aircraft down during taxi if you're on an aircraft carrier you want to make sure that you have anti-skid turned off if you're at an airfield especially if the airfield is damp and wet like a rainstorm just passed through or it's currently raining you want to make sure that you have anti-skid turn on to make sure you don't accidentally slide off the end of a runway on an aircraft here you want to make sure you have anti-skid turned off so that way the aircraft doesn't release braking pressure on you potentially leading to an incident where you may taxi the jet right off the side of the aircraft carrier completely unintentionally also something very cool about the f14 is the k deck a reset switch here and the central air data computer which kdex stands for was the very first central processing unit or cpu ever built and ever installed in any piece of machinery it was a massive massive secret in the late 1960s through the 70s 80s and 90s and was really only brought to light rather recently within the last few years with the very first inventors of the cpu being engineers at grumman so i hope you guys enjoyed this video and i hope it helps you out in the future with getting the f-14 tomcat set up and ready to go for combat or just a training mission and if you liked the video please give us a like and a subscribe and uh we'll see you in the next one

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Length: 18min 8sec (1088 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 23 2021