sp wrote:
Thanks for the info John and Snerdley. That's exactly the kind of stuff I
was looking for.


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You didn't say whether you wanted the "regular" Hornet, or the Super
Bug...

From the NATOPS for the Super, I get the following numbers:

Slow - 9.3 to 90

Slightly Slow - 8.8 to 9.3

On-Speed - 7.4 to 8.8

Slightly Fast - 6.9 to 7.4

Fast - 0 to 6.9

It says on-speed should be about 136 KCAS at 44,000lbs GW, subtracting
1.5 KCAS for each 1,000lb under GW.

The "manual" for Jane's F/A-18 has the exact same numbers for the
regular Hornet - but no airspeed listed.

Yes, I know it was a game, but their test-pilot/tech expert (Jim
Campisi) was an actual Hornet driver and the lead developer was a
former Hornet radar guy (Matt Wagner) who was stickler for getting it
as right as they could...

Snerdley


On speed is around 8 alpha. You always fly with the e bracket centred
(unless a single engine approach)from the center of the bracket to each
top/bottom edge is about 4 kt, so about 8 total. the pitch ladder can
move with the wind or it can be "caged" to remain centred in nav master
mode. our sop is to leave it caged and use the ghost vv to measure
wind. radalt can be selected by a switch under the hud, far right. Ils
needles are centred on the vv if you are on the loc/gp and centred on
the wl if you are doing a backup approach (eg ins to stby/no vv)
hope this helps, this info is all for the canadian hornet
monkey