Managed to get the J upto 50K ft on Crimea.
Started FMB Scramble with Center DT & 12 Mk 82's, a QOC pod (and only 3 Sparrow's if they were included - the lightest kit with D-Tank). Took off eastwards climbing. Dropped the bombs once over water post take-off, straightening up 'till 270 W, once by map edge, gradual climbing 180 across the map.
Dropped the central big tank past Freoydov (spelling?) 'till by other edge above Kerch at around 36,000-ish ft; once past 30K alt gaining further hieght required slight dive then climb, I started a gentle M1 initiated 180deg turn; it held steady around with only a couple of trimming units and a few units of AoA.
It took maybe 70 secnds to come about at high alt and mach, down to 240-ish (or roughly M0.8+ at that altitude) and about 50,100-ish ft by completion using 110% full burner all the way; and holding the stick steadily & gently still using early September's Phantom pack +Crusader packless less weapons fix - will get latest in a mo.
Ahem, I got the book name wrong and the reference I believe was Skyray related - such is the vaguaries of reading, your memory of it jumbles unless you note each specific references page & details etc, and I'm maybe 50 pages pasta 3 or 4 lines paragraphical referance.. Sorry.
Thursday 17:08GMT DST;
Managed to get 62,250ft from a high speed pull up & into stall - like making the the pointier curve/line of an egg shape with latest
and bombsight is very useful.
Its also helpfull on approach to landing too
- unless you triple tap the
ctr f1 past the frozen screen bug to cross hair only nose-cam-a-like mode; the frozen bug screen is 2nd ctrf1 function where an enabled hudmod conflicts with virtual pit gauges not being allowed, buit hit change pit view ctrf1 again to clear it - for those that think its buggered, its a glitch, not a crash.
If using Snakeeyes (Retarded Bombs - yeah their dumb compared to Pave GBU's) remember the drop point is between the bar marker and the lower scope edge - the faster or/and lower you are, the closer to the scopes bottom edge.