Required skill level: Medium
AI Efficiency: Untested

READ DESCRIPTION FOR FLIGHT INSTRUCTIONS

This is my final take on the F442 Jet, so the last variant features a little bit of every thing. Honestly I am a little tired of looking at this thing so there probably won't be to many variants to follow. It has a custom cockpit, which was a pain with how small the crew compartment is, tuned flight dynamics, and folding wings because all the cool planes do it now a days. As always it is a VTOL, and it has an XML modified fuel tank, so if don't like the unlimited fuel cheat on, simply pop off the tank. I added extra weapon pylons for the war hawks who need to shoot everything. Standard missile configuration is 4 Guardians since it's currently set up for patrols. Please an enjoy and comment as you wish.

Lore:
The F-442X was designed as a replacement to the F-428E. The Piper and Kestrel were excellent fighters, but there was a need for a much faster more aggressive jet to take on threats, and this fighters role is meant to be an ambush interceptor, protecting coast lines from small outpost around the island. Named Aquila which is Eagle in Latin, it was designed for air to air combat, and light anti-ship patrols. It has an aggressive weight displacement putting the center of mass just right in front of the pivot point of the engines. Despite this the craft isn't difficult to fly and doesn't need to rely on stability flaps like the previous models. Tuning from the experimental variant gave this craft all around stability at the cost of speed, but this craft is well-balance so a pilot will have all around capabilities.

Takeoff: Activate Group 1, point it in the direction you want to go, and don't forget to pull up.

Takeoff VTOL:

GROUP 4 MUST BE ACTIVE IN VTOL
(Group 4 stability assist is optional in normal landing)

Activate Group 2 and ascend, and activate Group 4 for stability, at altitude you activate group 1 which is the main flight engine. With this plane full power is all three engines, so you will need to push VTOL setting up which will take the plane out of VTOL mode.

Landing: Deploy land gear, and land it like a normal plane, activate Group 4 for landing assist stabilization.

Landing VTOL:
With VTOL landing mode, you want to set the VTOL settings back to neutral and pull back, Disable Group 1 and reengage Group 2 and 4 which is the VTOL nozzles and Gyros, at this point you can land it like a helicopter.

Please note you may need to bring each group engine group back to 0% first before switching to another engine group. The game will not set automatically set VTOL and the Flights to 0% when you switch.

Controls:
AG1-Main Engine (bring to 0% to switch)
AG2-VTOL Engine (bring to 0% to switch)
AG3/VTOL- Missle Bay Doors
AG4- Gyro/Landing and Autopilot Assist
AG5- Lights
AG6- Release Fuel Pod
AG7- Fold Wings