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Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill Gigliotti takes off in afterburner on 11 December 2010 in F-35A AF-3. The aircraft, the first fully low-observable compliant F-35, landed at Edwards AFB, California, a few hours later. AF-3 joins AF-1 and AF-2 at the Joint Strike Fighter Integrated Test Force at Edward

The reason it’s called Standby is in redundancy of the systems. When you first turn on the battery, you are energizing the DC system and the Inverter will provide AC power for instrumentation. From TO IA-IOA-I A-10A Flight Manual As for shutting down the APU, from the A-10A Checklist in the same manual: So with the possibility of random system failures, it stands to reason that prematurely shutting down the APU, could lead to INU failure.

Neverending contest (military aviation knowledge). The rules are simple. First to answers correctly posts next question :) First question: What container is in the picture, and what's it's function.

Thrustmaster Warthog Profile for DCS:BlackShark: This is NO TARGET Profile! You don't need TARGET. Simply extract the .lua files and load it into the related columns in the options menu of DCS:BlackShark :thumbup: DOWNLOAD

I thought I would release the beta version of my airfield diagrams for DCSW as the charts are at the point where I need to print a copy and then work my way through the airfields to get the rest of the detail right. The radio frequencies, elevations, directions and measurements should be accurate with the mission editor the F10 view and the A10C's internal MAGVAR. I'll do the release as a separate thread to the design discussion to avoid the release getting lost in that thread. I'm working through tower placement and taxiway labelling in addition to points of interest however a lot of the Russian airfields dont have the taxiways labelled which complicates the matter, I'm thinking it may be worth waiting until the DCS release prior to revisiting this. I've also added references to the ADF's from the BS manual and if the interest is there I will release a Russian air force version with Metric measurements once the maps are finished. If anyone picks a bug or has some reference notes for the airfields let me know. UPDATE: Updated airfield name plus some error corrections For those of you printing this, I recommend printing in color to A5 directly, as the map lines blend better in color then gray-scale, however you can print 2 per page on A4/letter Airfield Diagrams.pdf

Here they are :) Win7/Vista32: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/10-12_vista32_win7_32_dd_ccc_ocl.exe Win7/Vista64: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/10-12_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe WinXP 64: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/10-12_xp64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe WinXP 32: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/10-12_xp32_dd_ccc_ocl.exe

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=62621

There are several very important items we are trying to address for the next beta, and these have taken longer than expected. We hope, plan, intend, but make no promises to have a new build available by 24 Dec 2010.

На сервере форума производились профилактические работы. Форум снова работает.

Ballistic Protective Maxillofacial Shield http://www.gentexcorp.com/default.aspx?pageid=1680

Yes, but too bad those add-ons utterly trash FPS, no matter the pc rig. And the worse thing by far is that the FSX community is in complete DENIAL about this fundamental FACT. Dont believe me? Head over to fecking UTAR AVSIM and see.

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What are you planning? Theyre just covers, man. ;)

I checked this version but I dont see the 'set frequency' commands but for the FAC? The fac has right command but now I wonder if you use the radio correctly because in the way it is setup it should talk on 72 FM, not AM. You cannot tune to 72 with AM radio. If you flip the frequency selection dial to AM or FM on the FM radio, you do not choose between bands. Rather you set the radio to either the AM guard channel or the FM guard channel depending on which radio you are flipping the switch. On the AM radio, the switch will only work when flipped to AM, on the FM radio the switch will only work in FM. But for normal operation and to be able to tune into a frequency, you must leave the dial to MAN which is manual selection (of frequency, trough the frequency selector knobs). So this is why your FAC responds when you flip it to AM, the switch in that mode has no function and the radio acts as if in MAN mode. If you set it to FM, you are tuning to FM guard channel and not the selected frequency. This is the same for the AM radio, so if you set that to AM, you will not hear anything because you have activated emergency guard mode. PS I think for aircraft, setting the COMM field should be enough, and if you dont set anything they will talk on default 124. My earlier statement about set frequency being required is false, but not when setting up FAC. PPS, I also suggest to set both the helis and the f15s to the same freq so they can be monitored simultanously.

HI Guys Shipment for Monday will be delayed until Tuesday I need to take a road trip with the wife or die.:thumbup:

Depressible Pipper My girlfriend has one of these, but I can never find it. :blink:

I saw your message at the mission thread and I checked this version. You shouldnt just change the COMM field of the unit, that doesnt suffice. You must give them a command, preferably the very first you give them, at their first waypoint. The command would be "Set Frequency" which you can find under 'Perform Command'. This also gives you the option to decide between AM / FM. If you put invalid frequencies (ie 30 for AM) it will not work. So the band selection for JTAC has to be on FM, then frequency 72, other airplanes AM plus 124/134) PS, use the top radio (the one directly below throttle) for AM, and the bottom radio for FM.

Other flights won't appear in the radio menus, only things you can interact with do. For aircraft, that means tankers and FAC. If you're tuned to the right frequency you will hear AI flights announce when they're passing waypoints and engaging enemies (unless they've been set as 'radio silent' in the editor). Obviously these things don't happen all the time so there's long periods of silence unless the mission is very active, AI waypoints are close together, etc. What do you mean "Got no response from the JTAC until I switched over to AM"? How did you 'switch over'? It would be helpful if you'd post the mission. The radios have always worked as expected for me (at least, once I figured them out :D) so I think it's more likely that you're just a bit confused. :)

old su-35 demo

Держи

After much adjusting and tweaking to make sure everything will fit with the components I've opted to use, here's what the finished product should look like more or less.

Я совсем не над тобой смеюсь, дружище!

A fighter pleeeease! I am a democtratic voice. Whatever that be Mig, Su, F, Mirage, SAAB or other original chinese pirate label - pleeease make it happen.

Еще несколько гаек "подкручено". :)

Ah, guess you have saved my night, was about to get bored. :) I have flown the mission for a good number of hours now. It was nice to see the different variations in missions and the improvements you made in for example the message system are clear. There is really already a lot of varation in the mission and I think I havent even seen every assignment yet. Sometimes it was a bit hard to make sense out of the message system because voices were going off simultaneously and sometimes it was as if they kept saying over, roger, over all the time. But I guess you know that. For proper brevity I think you can skip the "over". What you use now is radio procedure like they use in the army. It would make the messages more fluent because now they transmit like 4 or 5 times just to call eachother on the radio. The distances you need to fly are quite significant. For example one time I got shorad mission and I didnt expect the kind of threat that would be there and me and my human wingie both got owned there :) So we tried it again of course and by that time we had flown more than 200 miles already. Then the next assignment, for which we had to wait quite a bit, was 124 miles away from the first one so we were like WOW. In the beginning it is not so much a problem because you don't know what to expect. But after playing it a couple of times, you really start praying for missions that are close :) The system you have made is really awesome. The pace could be a bit higher. Or the assignments itself could be expanded so it feels a bit more rewarding after a long flight. Looking forward to the next installment, the ideas you have for implementation are very interesting.

Great vid! That's the spirit! :thumbup: Remind me not to speak to you over TeamSpeak then ;) BTW, the correct pronunciation of my nickname is boocheech (soft, short) :P Edit: As you've proved that the time given to you is not a wasted time I'll just make sure: - have you downloaded the EXTENDED version of the game manual from the official site? - did you know about Baal's/Miguez's tooltips mod that will display keyboard commands on-tooltips? It's all here - Rookie pilots - Quick Intro. Just a reminder.

W is the default key for brakes. Go into your options and check to see that W is your key for brakes. I had trouble with my pedal brakes till I realized that I had not assigned them in the options. Also, make sure your W key is the brakes both for the A-10 Game and A-10 Sim up in the left corner. That can be confusing as well if you are looking at the options for the sim and playing in game mode. Hope this helps. 150 kias seems very high for landing speed as well. Check your weight with a little math before starting the mission. Remember that the rule of thumb is 120 KIAS for 30,000 lb aircraft and 2 knots for every 1000 lbs above that. You should still be able to stop though, even at 150 kias. Also, what Exangelus says is completely true. Batumi is I believe at 13 ft ASL so the altitude is no factor. Don't EVER try to land with a tailwind. Careful there. No wet runways until you work out this brake problem as well would be my advice.

http://www.lazygranch.com/red_audio.htm I use clips from this page running in the background for atmosphere. Edit: another good resource http://www.milaircomms.com/

I made up a PDF of the steps required to save marked targets as a flight plan since that process was pretty involved and a bit hard to follow in the video, at least for me. Enjoy: DCS A10-C Saving Targets Via Flight Plan

I made a guide on how to do this (it assumes basic familiarity with the training material, but you can jump in it from there) and threw it on youtube as per request: It's not gospel on how this is done, but the method I'm using seems to work pretty well. I like the fact that you can store target data in flight plans.

It's a combination of the two, mig29. Technology is largely funded by more generalised or unrelated scientific studies and projects, combined with the industrial projects being funded at the time in the given nation. Everybody knew about radar in the 30s, but only Britain was making headway with small wavelengths and they were keeping that little piece of information top secret. Germany assumed small wavelength AI-radar was years away from development and relied largely on AAA-defence, other countries inhibited their industrial application of technology because of extreme conservatism in the military, shutting down development projects because of cost and spending the money building more ships or fortifications, or different technologies like advanced metallurgies. Most of the role of military Intelligence is in figuring out exactly what industries are being funded and what is being developed by the enemy rather than trying to steal it. It's also as much about counter-technologies than it is technology-equivalence. Industrial espionage is more about a race to the finish line than how to run the race. The most infamous example of genuine technological disparity in any recent time that wasn't just propaganda was the MiG Foxbat and it turned out to be a paranoid myth caused by US defence overspending. So pretty much at no time has there ever been any genuine technological disparity in terms of information awareness in any recent history all the way back to the Hundred Years War. It's just been a question of what your industry is producing and what you have immediate access to. It's the golden egg and the subject of political thrillers and much propaganda to actually have some technological Intelligence superiority than potential enemies, but it is fiction. Even if they don't know the specific details of a defence system or technology you're using, they know the physics it is depending on to work in the first place and could emulate it by trial and error in the very worst case scenario, but even this is rarely the case. Usually it's just about expenditure and present industry.

Купиииииите!

Карточка зарплатная, но с ее помощью я покупал, например, ГС2 в с официального сайта. Насчет другой карточки, попробую карточку жены, втихаря. ;)

Сохранили крайний раз с включенными ярлыками в настройках. Пересохраните в ГС где ярлыки выключены.

Спасибо ED за патч! Установил. Работает как часы.

Good to see more constructive suggestion :)

I think this more nuanced concept has merit, as it doesn't necessarily leave the folks with home built cockpits, etc. completely out in the cold. I don't know how feasible it would be for E.D. to implement with the current export .lua file system. It occurs to me, that perhaps E.D. should examine the possibility of splitting the current client export.lua file (hope I got that right) into several files that would allow a more granular approach, which could enable a more selective control at the server. Perhaps something like: cockpit_export.lua For handling status of switches, lights, etc. ownship_export.lua For handling datalink of the user's position data target_export.lua For handling datalink of detected target position data The server could then enable just the first one, to allow folks to use their homebuilt pits, TouchPal, TouchBuddy, LOVP, BSVP, etc., without enabling data linking. OR, the server could enable the first two, to allow data linking without target sharing occuring over the data link. Enabling all three would open up the whole ball of wax. The above is meant to illustrate the concept, not necessarily the particulars of how it should actually be divided up. I realize that it would require E.D. to re-write some of the core code. Whether it is worth the effort versus the estimated benefits to MP play is better judged by those in the know. It would also have fallout on the 3rd party side of things. Homebuilt pits, TouchPal, TouchBuddy, LOVP, BSVP, etc., would all be affected, and need to tweak their code to reflect the new file structure. As a potential benefit though, they could potentially see more MP servers that allow their use online. CB sends

Military and aviation news As the russian forum has similar thread i think we should have one too. :P Instead of opening new threads smaller news (that won`t transform into large discussions) can be posted here. Here`s the first one from me: Raytheon Standard Missile-6 Completes Key Developmental Test http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1363

Всем привет! Вот такая проблема - на Су-27 у меня шасси выпускаются одновременно с зарылками. Хотя в настройках всё правильно выставлено. На МиГ-29 и остальных всё нормиально. Версия стоит последняя. В чём проблема? Заранее спасибо.