F/A-18E Super Hornet
Status: This page is a work in progress and may be updated or modified at any time.
Description
From the makers of the award winning Apache Longbow, Hind and F-16 comes the next generation flight simulation...
Welcome to the world of the most lethal, high performance multi-role strike-fighter ever designed - a plane so classified and so advanced that before today only the U.S. Navy's elite pilots have ever flown it. Now it's your turn...
F/A-18E Super Hornet is the most advanced and exciting combat sim ever created! Relish the ultimate challenge of any pilot... Of landing this awesome fighter in the most demanding touchdown ever...
Features: -
• WORLD EXCLUSIVE! Carrier take-off and landing on the
world's first fully active carrier deck - featuring other
aircraft and interactive deck crews complete with hand
signals and talk downs.
• Unmatched levels of immersive gameplay, across 40 huge,
in depth missions taken from live combat scenarios.
• Twenty detailed rookie training levels to help you get to
grips with the Navy's latest jet.
• Instant action quickstart for total pick up and playability.
• Multi-player head-to-head network and internet play for up to
24 would-be Top Guns.
• Two vast and authentic, target-rich war-zones - Barents Sea &
Indian Ocean - and a training area modelled from satellite data.
Game Information
System Requirements
Cover Art
Front Cover
Hints & Cheats
These hints and cheats have been gathered from the old sold-out.co.uk and mastertronic.com websites via the Wayback Machine. I haven't personally tested them all, but since they appeared on the official sites back in the day, they should be pretty reliable.
HUD Display Settings
Be sure to adjust the contrast and color of your HUD (Head Up Display) to ensure that it can be read against the surrounding terrain and weather conditions before you take off. There is no hot key to do this once you're airborne, and the cumbersome mouse-actuated dials can be difficult to adjust in the heat of battle.
Combat Mission Strategy
Take plenty of wingmen with you for each combat mission. The game will often throw a ton of enemy aircraft at you, and you'll need all of the air-to-air missiles you can muster to keep them off your back while ingressing to your target.
Fuel Management
Fill up those tanks! The default fuel loads for most missions don't offer enough reserve to handle the inevitable gas-guzzling turn-and-burn dogfights you will experience, so you may end up hitting bingo fuel before you ever reach your primary target.
3D Virtual Cockpit
The 3D Virtual Cockpit (F2 key) is disabled by default. You must uncheck the appropriate (and well-hidden) box in Super Hornet's configuration menu first in order to actuate it.
G-LOC Settings
Although it may feel like cheating, you would be wise to disable the G-LOC (G-induced Loss Of Consciousness) blackout effects from the configuration screen if you wish to have a fair fight with the enemy AI pilots. The unfair G-LOC advantage they have been coded with will prevent you from ever "getting on their six" in a turning dogfight unless you even the odds first.