This section is built around an enhancement of blitz online manual,hopefully you enjoy and find it very useful in learning to fly Jane's F/A-18 to it's fullest.I've added additional links to other informative sites so you can can get as deep as you like on any subjet,skies the limit.Also there's a link to Jays campaign building and TACOPS mission building pages.There's still alots to add and if you have any ideas or material leave a message on the foum below.Remember the more you learn the more lethal you'll be and the longer you'll survive."Checksix!!"

While on the topic of how the F/A-18E was selected, Kreafle commented on the challenges of simulating an aircraft not yet in service vs. one that has been on the lines for a while. "Obviously, the toughest challenge is getting the data," he stated, although his desktop was a mountain of technical publications and charts. Still, for a team that prides itself on accuracy in their simulations, it is a challenge to instill that accuracy in a simulation of a plane for which the Navy is still gathering data. "Even for an aircraft that has been in service for years," Kreafle noted, "nobody knows exactly how it will react in every situation and after every modification; that's why they still do wind tunnel testing of 20 year old planes in different configurations."

That doesn't stop people from thinking they know everything about a plane's performance. Numerous players and some reviewers complained that the performance of the aircraft in Jane's F-15 was "wrong" and under-powered, to the point of arguing with an active duty F-15 pilot who contributed to the development of the flight model. When asked how Jane's F/A-18 may challenge "experts'" perceptions of reality, Kreafle immediately responded with "the speed of the F/A-18E." Most military web sites and even Jane's own reference books claim a top end speed for the Super Hornet of Mach 1.8+. While this would be good enough data for most development teams, not so for the guys in Hunt Valley. Kreafle displayed performance envelopes of recent actual flight data that revealed a top speed, under optimal conditions of altitude and no weapons loading, of Mach 1.6. With a more realistic loading, the numbers display a top speed of about Mach 1.2. Even though they know some people will scream that the simulated plane is too slow the team's commitment to realism dictates that they stick to the data. Another area that may surprise some veteran sim fanatics is a result of the very modern, computer-driven nature of the F/A-18E: the plane's extremely "departure resistant" design. What this means is that the airplane (and thus the simulated airplane) is very difficult to get into a situation in which it departs controlled flight (going into a spin, for example). Designer Chris Martin commented that his standard routines for throwing a plane out of controlled flight, for testing purposes, did not work on the simulated F/A-18. Another result of the computer assisted controls is that the real plane has a maximum turn rate of about 7.5 Gs, and even that is only in optimal conditions. The irony is that being so completely data driven in simulating the reality of the Super Hornet's flight model may cause some who don't truly understand the real flight parameters to think the flight model is too "arcade" like.

As you see the Jet use the best proven flight data available,trying to use another variant of the F18 to model the SH would be inaccurate.Hopefully as mode proven data on the Jet is available someone who worked on the code will upgrade the sim. The fact is Jane's F/A-18 is a very accurate flight and weapons modeling also the avionics suite.On these pillars stands JF-18,and no other Jet sim has better combine Flight,Weapons and avionics modeling,not even the great work of Falcon SP-3.[IMO]

Cockpit	Basic Flight	BFM	Formation	M-Tactics	Building Campaings
HUD	Character	Basic ACM	Combat	W-Tactics	Building Missions
MDI/UFC	Disruption	Off-BFM	DO-BFM	SAMS
AA-Radar	Takeoff/Land	Def-BFM	DD-BFM	M-Builder
AA-Combat	Refueling	HO-BFM	Hi Aspect BFM	B-Areobatics
AG-Radar	Navigation	BVR	Prin-BFM	A-Areobatics
AG-Combat	Miscellaneous	ACM	Co-ACM	Weapons