3Sqn_Sven

Well I've been in the same server and I'm seeing very different results. At 1 minute past midnight this saturday (UTC/London time) 169th server will be running its BVR map again with participation of all 169th members. Come along and we'll try it out. I'll be a 15, you be a Su and if you can get me without dodging my shots then hats off to you and we'll swap it around, I'd love to see this for myself. If we're both on before then we can give it a go sooner. Peace out c u then BTW I know what you are talking about WRT not being able to see the mig. Turn off AA, it looks crapper but you can see a/c much better! 1024x768 on my 19inch is a pretty close estimation to how far I can see a/c when I'm flying.

Mmmm, well I get online about once a week for a few hours and my experience has been that I've never been able to motor along just dropping chaff and not evading and avoid 120's or anything else, I get smashed all the time by dudes in the 15. On the flip side I frequently smash Su's and Mig's with the 120, just 2 days ago I was up with Gideon and we killed 4 at once using shots at 25 and 15 miles. I think they were deadlier in 1.02 and I prefered the way things worked back then compared to what we have now. As for how it compares to the real deal, no one in this community knows how they really work, except for the few guys are who actually work on/use the 120 and can't talk about it. I guess in the end it comes down to an opinion of how deadly they should be in game...for playability they need to be degraded but the question is how much. I suppose that you would say they've been degraded too much...I'd agree with that. However, I would disagree that they are useless, as I have certainly been on both ends of the stick online, probably for 4 hours a week over the last year. My main point, and I believe Koncussion's point, is that you get a lot of people complaining that the 15 and the 120's combo is useless. I can guaruntee that anyone who flies against a 169th member will begrudgingly be proved wrong.

I was a beta tester for 1.12 and 1.12a (have pulled out of BS) and my statements stand.

Agreed. So many people complain about broken missiles, in particular the F-15 and Aim120's...yeah they don't work as well as IRL however thats just for playability. You need to get taught how to use the weapons correctly. 169th_Gideon and I went up in F15's in the VVS504 server yesterday against a 4 ship flight of SU27/33 yesterday and shot ALL down at once using Aim120 in the one single engagement, firing from 25miles at 40000ft down to the SU's at 20-25000ft. Using F-Pole and "various" 2 ship tactics we were able to trash all incomming shots and take out twice our number. There wasn't much wrong with LOMAC in 1.02 and there isn't much wrong with it now, you just need to adapt a little every now and then.

From my experience in the industry 1024 x 768 with no AA is a pretty good representation of how far away you can see a/c. Seeing a Su 45km away.... no way man. Just think how hard it is to see airliners cruising above you. Unless they are contrailing they are really hard to pick out, and they cruise between 4 and 6 miles up. Personally I play at 1024 x 768 and no AA to as it gives in my experience the best representation of tally distance. Unfortunately it doesn't look real good, but the a/c get too small at the higher res' and AA's. In this respect the sim could be improved. PM me for more detail if you wish.

STEWIE FOR GOVERNER!

...Maybe an X-Wing or two?

I was more than happy with 1.02. I of course changed to 1.12a because its the standard, however I don't enjoy the 25T. It's a great game but I'm an A2A man and I will only pay for BS in order to keep up with the online standard, I may get into the choppers every now and then but there's nothing I love more than the dogfighting. IMHO the reason for the decline of 1.02 was due to lack of organised events by the community, not because of a lack of features. I believe that if there was perhaps a dedicated server run by ED with weekly events and missions for squads to attack and defend objectives that there could be a lot more involvement, or perhaps ways to make revenue for ED. For me there been no sim I have enjoyed more than LOMAC. Going H2H against human controlled russian jets and vice versa beats in a fairly realistic manner beats every sim I've played in 10 years easily. I was happy with 1.02 but I'll continue to purchase in order to stay online!

PS if there's anyone from CH or Thrustmaster viewing, I'd buy a Hornet HOTAS setup.

flyable one day?? pleeeeeeeease

You're a champ! Thank You!

I really want to get this mod but every time I click on the link I get some travel page. How do I get the mod?

Wind will usually change runway direction in use, however there is usually only one direction that has an ILS. As such, in bad weather aircraft captains will have to work out what the tailwind limitations are for their a/c and how it will affect landing distance, especially for actual ground speed at touchdown vs runway length and aquaplaning speeds. If you come from the opposite direction to the set up of the ILS you will get reversed direction indications, unless there is a guchi set up at the airfield for dual ILS or backbeam equipment to get the indications right. This is rare however, I'd imagine even more so in the Black Sea region!

Nice work man, nice action scenes, fast paced!

Nice work dude, checking it out now!

Hey all, my friends PC ( p4 2.4 Ghz 1.5gb RAM 80gb HD xfx 6800xt win xp SP 1 nvidia drivers 80.77 DX9c, 400watt power supply) crashes in games after about 5 min. It works for hours at a time in windows, but crashes in games, ie BF2 and call of duty. The graphics card is only a few weeks old, the problem has been occuring for only one week. I have suggested maybe the system is getting too hot or maybe the power supply is on the way out, but I'm not expert. Any advice from anyone?

Yeah something like that. After something longer, more expansive, more blokes in it, but yes thats the gyst of it. Thanks!

I am in need of some footage of Taiwanese parliament, you know when those crazy politicians can't sort out their differences verbally and start throwing fists, chairs, and each other? Does anyone have some of this footage?

Tactical Assult also had Robert Patrick in it (T-1000 from Terminator 2). The movie actually had him and Rutger flying F-16's. I'm pretty sure it was filmed at a MiG-29 base from memory (Germany maybe). It was a sub-par film, came out in the late 90's. Not the same movie.

Same thing happened to me, if you disable your card's anti-aliasing the F4AF will work, turn on AA in the actual game itself. Pain in the ass.

Yes that's correct. The F-117 had a very small RCS which was evident when you were looking for it on a russian radar, and the B-52 flew very sluggishly and you could arm it with a very limited load, pretty much cruise missiles and dumb bombs.

I have a question for whoever runs the "Battlefield" server in Hyperlobby from time to time. A few months back I had a great time in you server, you had made it so that clients could choose any a/c they wanted, ie B-52, F-117, F-14, F-18 etc. The aircraft did not hover off the ground, they all seemed to have individual flight models (AI's I'm assuming) and it was just awesome. Just wondering how you did this? I would like to do it myself.

God I love doing that!

Yeah I'm pretty sure I'm talking about strobes. When I go flying I turn "nav lights on, strobe lights on" which turns on the red and green nav lights, and the red a white strobes. Probably differs from plane to plane and country to country. Everything else does. And whats the deal with airline food?

Yeah training is going well Rugg. Thanks for the well wishes. Will chat to you about it another time when we're both in HL.