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Great, appreciate that!!!

I also must say this DCS: P-51D is absolutely the best virtual flight experience I ever had! Incredible how it flies through the DCS world as if you fly through real air, not to speak about the enthralling sound and the feel of sheer speed! Super!!!

Participate in a quick and dirty airfield attack in your P-51D, joining forces with F-16's and SU-25T's! Your goal is to work on the troops and trucks at the side of the runway. They will be marked by an orange WP marker. You just start in the air. ROE: Let's kick some ass! Try to avoid unhealthy attention from Strela's, Schilka's, angry BMP's and the likes. If you can bring back most of your plane to base, well, it sure beats walking the way home. FT P-51D attack from 3 sides.miz

I thought it was the aerial firefighting brigade! :D

Its just incredible fun; I mixed in an airfield attack with F-16's and SU-25T's, set as my task to take on the soft targets. The fun of a lifetime! Those BMP 2's firing at me while I just fly very low between them and see the bullets fail to catch me! Absolutely super!

I like the loading screen of DCS World, with the F-15C HUD. Sign of things to come?

DCS World is absolutely great, flying the Toad in it is a real joy!

This is really excellent news! I most welcome the Toad in this series!

I agree. I'm not sure how it is with the datalink : do the F-22's have Link-16 receive only, or only radio comms with the F-15's ?

Absolutely superb!!!!

F-22's at Al Dahfra close to Iran: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/armada-masses-near-iran/

+1

Indeed an issue, that affects also other planes. The AI seams almost invulnerable, with Godlike SA and able to dodge most missiles with ease, except for your AI wingman, who mostly sucks at everything he's doing. Against AI, I now only fire when within the NEZ, that gives the best results. And I almost always need more than one missile hitting the target to get a kill.

So it will be SU-35 then. I can live with that :D Honestly it isn't really my ambition to fly the Flanker primarily against Eagles, like in FC2. I guess unless in a full scale peer conflict most of these air superiority fighters do largely asymmetric stuff, keeping watch over the airspace. The Flanker's wing makes that you can fly fast but also can loiter and be very manoevrable at low speeds. Plus you got very good range. Ideal for CAP, QRA, Border patrol, intercepting UAV's etc. Currently, in FC2 off-line I'm trying to intercept and visually identify Yak-40's, that I let fly very high or low in the mountains.

I really want to cry while flying DCS:Flanker! Tears of joy! The best thing I guess is that you have to do a lot of stuff before you can shoot an R-27 missile. That must make it most thrilling. Living for ages on the wrong side of the clouds here in Belgium, my dream is to virtually fly high, not down below. Su-27S: whaaaawwww!!!! Let it come!

So it seems it was the right version's first flight:

Some discussion into possible causes of the crash, including an interesting mishap table at the end of the article: http://hamptonroads.com/2012/04/navy-explore-catastrophic-breakdown-scenarios

^^ +1 !

As I understood it, fuel load is also calculated on what you can have as loading for landing. Aircraft that need to do a landing with full tanks often do a few circles to reduce weight or dump fuel, don't they? Super Hornet is also touted as having a higher bring-back capability than Hornet, something which implies that a Hornet normally does not recover to the aicrfat carrier with the same load as while taking off. In the Bosnia Campaign many fighters dumped coslty unexpended ammo for the Italian Coast to match their bring-back capability.

They also considered Aces zero-zero ejection seats, but it still proved somewhat less practical :D

This version of the events, although perfectly plausible and a correct representation of the AF investigation, is currently disputed in court. And I would say very rightly so. There would have been no incident whatsoever if the OBOGS didn't shutdown. If you think that an OBOGS system that shuts down during combat manoevring whatsoever is an acceptable thing, you're dead wrong, as well as the US top brass that produced this very questionable and to my mind disgusting assessment. Furthermore, there is no way whatsoever we can ever know whether the statement "but he fumbled with it for too long without minding his flight. By the time he looked back up" is actually true. It is just a very plausible explanation, no hard fact. Claiming this to the detriment of a pilot's honour is very stark an attitude from a seat. I would rather be more careful before expressing thoughts about why a trained and experienced pilot failed to save his own life. I kinda guess he had a higher stake in this than we have.

+1

I will buy it of course!

Since I still have loads of fun with FC2, I will certainly buy FC3, even if the update is only modest. I guess the least we will get is some of the newer 3D models that are already in DCS series, maybe the weather engine and new mission editor. And maybe a 64-bit version.

I wouldn't worry too much though, there is little doubt they will eventually fix the hook problem. Much of the heated debate on F-35 has not much to do with the aircraft itself or its performance, but with the risky economics of concurrency between testing and production. Each major design problem that emerges during testing has a potential costly outcome if you want to retrofit delivered aircraft. To be honest, as we look into the Eurofighter and Rafale programmes, something similar has been the reality: although there was minimal concurrency, the specifications of the first tranches were so narrow, that you ended up buying aircraft only capable of training flights and very symbolic air defense. This has meant France has had to pay a lot of money to upgrade its first batches of Rafales, and that both UK and Germany are now trying to get rid of their first tranches of Typhoons, since they are honestly not very multimission capable and would need very costly upgrades.