This gives you the VF-84 Jolly Rogers version.
#F14 COCKPIT PATCH#
Let's use f14a2002.zip and the variable wing patch f14apat1.zip. Disregard my previous instructions.įirst, you need one of Dino's Tomcats. It appears that John Schumacher has updated his panel to include everything my hack had. I love flying this plane now.ĭisregard instructions in original post at the top of this thread. You also have a fully functional, pan-able virtual cockpit with working instuments. You'll have a great 2D panel (check out the side views - pilot's reflection on the canopy). Copy and paste, from panel.cfg in panel.virtual, the lines starting with vcockpit xx (01 thru 06) and paste the into the new panel's panel.cfg, after the "fixed window 37" section, and before the "default view" section.
#F14 COCKPIT INSTALL#
Create a new panel folder and install the new panel there. In the Tomcat2002_vf101 folder, rename panel to panel.virtual or something else so you can get it back if this doesn't work for you.
#F14 COCKPIT DOWNLOAD#
Go to the hanger, select FS2002 and download the two F14 panel files. There's a really good F14 panel on the VA Pilot ARNIC Pacific Radion site, A GREAT looking aircraft, but to be honest, I prefer to do most of my flying with a 2D panel. “Once that was all done they'd stow all that stuff, hit the big red button and start rolling the camera.I downloaded Dino Cattaneo's excellent Tomcat (F14av101.zip and patch F14apat1.zip). They would unzip their flight suit, pull out whatever they need to do their own hair and makeup - you know, spray their face if they needed extra sweat, make sure their mask was centred, their googles were clean. “Obviously everything in the cockpit needs to be stowed away. When you're pulling those days and doing the type of manoeuvres that we were doing, that's a lot. "The cast would have an hour and a half to two hours in the morning, and another period in the afternoon, but typically no more than four hours a day.
The beauty is that really is a shot of Tom in the back seat of that F-18, so he is there, being piloted by a genuine naval aviator. "For the exterior sequences - say when we see Tom flying an F-18, we're enhancing that F-18 with CGI to change it from a two-seat to a single seat. That's why even for a guy like me, who can watch something and pick it apart, I watched Top Gun: Maverick and it looks like they're real naval aviators.” “This process lasted for three months, all in parts of Southern and Central California. By the time they graduated from this one, and got into the F-18s, they were seasoned pros.
#F14 COCKPIT HOW TO#
And this was for the cast to learn how to pull heavy Gs. "From there, we moved on to the L-39 Albatross, a Czechoslovakian fighter trainer jet imported to the US - it's readily available, very manoeuvrable, very fun. This part was to build up their G tolerance. It's a single-engine, piston-driven aeroplane that's extremely manoeuvrable and capable of pulling a lot of Gs. "This is the aircraft the general public would’ve seen in Red Bull Air Races or other stunt shows. Their new instructor there was Chuck Coleman, a great friend of mine - again, this is all being heavily monitored by Tom Cruise every day, every step of the way. "We graduated from there to an aircraft called the Extra 300. "This gave the actors spatial orientation, and an understanding of what flying was all about, where to look where, where to move their hands, what all of the gauges do, the basic things. They had me build the training programme: we started them in Cessna 172s - my father and I were actually the first cast flight instructors - and those little single-engine aeroplanes are entry-level aircraft that anyone would learn to fly. "This was a process that was built in and heavily driven by Tom Cruise.