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{{draft|newsletter|Please feel free to add content that you think will be of interest to the FlightGear community.<br>You can read the latest newsletter at [[FlightGear Newsletter October 2016]].}}
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=== F-16 updates ===
=== F-16 updates ===
Richard Harrison has given the '''[[F-16]]''' some new updates and improvements, including a new canvas HUD and functional MFD's.
Recently, there have been several improvements to the '''[[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon]]''', including:
 
Other improvements include a new mandatory blackout/redout system based of a description of how that worked in a 1979 Langley F-16 simulator. The system is time based, so the longer time you spend at a high G the darker the screen gets. To clear the darkness you must get below 5G for blackout and above -2G for redout. It also features G priming, so that if you for example pull some high Gs for a while and then go negative the redout will take longer to come into effect, and vice versa, as the blood flows to or from the pilots brain.


==== The F-16 has a new variant ====
* New [[Canvas]] {{abbr|HUD|Head-up Display}} and functional {{abbr|MFDs|Multi-function displays}} by Richard Harrison.
Included in the FGAddon F-16 is now an YF-16 (F-16 Prototype).
* New, more accurate blackout/redout system for FlightGear versions below 2017.1 (new system is integrated in FG 2017.1, see [[Changelog 2017.1|changelog]]).
It features very detailed aerodynamic data (13535 numbers from windtunnel data, most with 4 significant figures), covering up to 90 degrees AoA and ±30 degrees sideslip and the fly-by-wire is implemented as the real system anno 1975 when the F-16 went into production (except for gun compensation, speed brake and TEF). The fly by wire has full control of flaperons, rudder, elevators, leading edge flaps and to some extend trailing edge flaps and speed brake. Also the Aileron-Rudder-Interconnect system will automatically apply some rudder when aileron is applied. The aircraft itself has relaxed longitudinal stability, but the fly by wire system should keep you safe.
* New variant, the YF-16 (F-16 prototype).
** Very detailed aerodynamic data (13535 numbers from windtunnel data, most with 4 significant figures), covering up to 90 degrees AoA and ±30 degrees sideslip and the fly-by-wire is implemented as the real system anno 1975 when the F-16 went into production (except for gun compensation, speed brake and TEF). The fly by wire has full control of flaperons, rudder, elevators, leading edge flaps and to some extend trailing edge flaps and speed brake. Also the Aileron-Rudder-Interconnect system will automatically apply some rudder when aileron is applied. The aircraft itself has relaxed longitudinal stability, but the fly by wire system should keep you safe.
Beware of engaging autopilot for pitch or heading. That will actually change the trim, and that trim will persist after disengagement of A/P.
Beware of engaging autopilot for pitch or heading. That will actually change the trim, and that trim will persist after disengagement of A/P.
Erik Hofman has also updated the main F-16 to feature a FDM based on the same data, but modified to simulate larger horizontal tail. The old FDM is now a variant called F-16 (simplified).
Erik Hofman has also updated the main F-16 to feature a FDM based on the same data, but modified to simulate larger horizontal tail. The old FDM is now a variant called F-16 (simplified).
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