Working surfaces — ailerons answer the stick, and the flaps ride the gear 94d1ef1

Chase view just came alive. Until now the fleet flew with frozen wings — the stabilators wagged with the stick and the Tomcat swept her gloves, but the trailing edges were carved in stone. Now the surfaces work: every jet in the player fleet, plus the Fulcrum and the Flanker, moves her wing like she means it.

• Ailerons on the stick. Roll right and the left aileron droops while the right one kicks up — differential, the way the books say. The AI flies by the same rule: watch a bandit break hard and you’ll see his ailerons working against his bank.
• Flaps on the gear. Wheels down and the flaps travel with them — dirty up for the ball and the trailing edge says so, retract on the go-around and they come away too. The Viper, true to life, does both jobs with one pair of full-span flaperons.
• The Tomcat rolls on spoilers. A swing-wing has no ailerons — never did. The F-14’s flaps ride the pivots and sweep with the gloves, and her roll authority comes from spoiler panels that pop up on the down-going wing. Watch the wing tops in a hard turn.

It changes nothing about how she flies and everything about how she looks doing it. Pull into the break and watch the wing work. — HB