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While I'm usually the first to shoot any "gaming" idea out of the sky, that's actually a great idea. Immensely valuable for training/learning. "Let us rewind and see what I/you could/should have done". Not to mention the aforementioned advantages when the real world impinges on the important things in life... :)

As a pilot, I see no problems with the current insane installation of wind turbines in every possible and impossible location that can't be solved through liberal use of detcord. Nice to have power on windy days I guess. Unfortunately, winter and peak power requirements tend to mean either winds strong enough for the wind turbines to have to be feathered (=no power) or no wind.

Winds in km/h would seem most peculiar to me. Winds are normally given in knots in aviation, and I'd be surprised if the A-10 avionics have taken a different approach. Not that I haven't seen stranger things come off the drawing boards...

Flap gauge isn't custom made for the A-10, but rather COTS equipment. You get ten extra degrees of indication for free! A custom gauge would take eight years to develop, four years to procure, cost US$8 billion in dev budget (a bargain at only 120% over budget) and still lack indication of fully retracted condition due to an oversight in the specs. There would be outrage when the contract was won by a European company building it in Oregon, instead of by a US company building it in China... ;)

How about a good-looking ball cap? (That means aviation theme, not computer geek theme - I don't need to advertise being a geek, it' obvious... ;)

...uses a lot of space and adds a lot of weight. The DME part is included more or less for free with the basic DME capablity though. Not only small aircraft skip the bearing capability. In fact, the KC-10 is the exception for including it, as opposed to e g the KC135. The latter isn't exactly your average spam can. :) The difference between X and Y band DME (and the ranging part of a TACAN is a plain old DME) is only the pulse spacings in the signal - a way to double the use of the frequency spectrum. No technical reason to limit airborne use to Y band. However, you want to make sure you're not stepping on land-based navaids.

This link will tell you a bit about trimming in general and trim on the A-10 in particular. All is as it should. :) http://Http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=1150637&highlight=trim#post1150637

Units? In the map? Wow! I want some of those maps out in the real world! ;)

The gun fires two different projectiles, HEI and API. They have slightly different trajectories, so there's one dot for each. I think the top one is for API. Cheers, Fred

They have gyros, so they should have the optical axis of the seeker space-stabilized while you are slewing around.

Solution: Correct implementation. :)

Nope. Endurance = time. Range = ... erm... well... range.

Or five Gs... :D FWIW, I find spatial disorientation a very small problem IRL, compared to simulators with all the imposed limits on perception.

Hey! I got that, and yes I would! :) (Aviators must know enough of even the most peculiar languages to pick out critically important information like that.)

http://peg-reilly.blogspot.com/2011/06/stuck-in-taxi.html (My italicization) There. Scottish civil war averted. Now, give me my Nobel peace prize. If that can't be arranged, I'll settle for food. As long as it's not haggis. ;) Cheers, /Fred

Depending on wether you are talking about the picture of the pig or the picture of the 'hog, the answer is a one kind of a disturbing yes! :D

Haha, good one! "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who know binary, and those who don't."

Nope, 5 + 7 = 12... ;)

Its the MGRS coordinate. Same as you're given by JTAC most of the time.

That post made me think of this picture... ;)

Kilometer precision. Perhaps not desirable, but for a reasonably visible target quite usable. But then again. First link in first post in this thread: AB024067 would also generate a four-digit coordinate, AB2467 again. You have no way of knowing if it was indeed meant as aa four digit coordinate or if it was AB002467, AB024067 or AB246007.

No kidding... :doh: First link in first post in this thread:

It's a good one. Only thing I really can't stand about it is that it makes me long for gliding again. I dropped the license and only fly powered these days...

No! It omits leading zeroes from either the easting or the northing. Not trailing zeroes.

When you configure TIR Z-axis to control zoom (FOV) rather than longitudinal head position as per default, it will do just that... and you have to do it! It's one of those things where there is just No Going Back once you try! Forget anything else mentioned in this thread if you have TIR. If you don't have TIR, sell the cat. ;)