Air Combat Reference Books, DVDs and Videos reviewed at MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum

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Jack Morrison
Virtual Top Gun

This CD-ROM book is an excellent introduction to computer air combat. He pretty much goes through ALL the basics of flying the aircraft to combat and uses a variety of visual tools from creative diagrams and photos to the ACM Visualisation Tool.

If you're new to Air Combat sims or you want to get a friend interested in the subject make sure you bundle a copy of Virtual Top Gun with that sim-present you're thinking of giving.

The animation at right, showing a missile avoidance manoeuver, was excerpted from the ACM Visualisation Tool included in Virtual Top Gun. The tool enables you to view manoeuvers from these views:

Cockpit
Padlock
Chase
External
Fly-by
To Target
From Target
Track
Satellite

Note that the animation in the ACM tool is smooth (unlike my animation) and can played faster and slower, as well as with and without smoke trails and altitude markers. The effect is pretty much like the ACM tools used in USAF training.

I particularly liked the demo of basic Helicopter manoeuvers - notably the torque turn.

Topics covered in Virtual Top Gun

This animation was excerpted from the ACM Visualisation Tool included in Virtual Top Gun. Note that the animations play perfectly smoothly in the program.

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