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Sunglasses are useful. I did two flights in a glider, largely hands-on, which was awesome, with a short aerobatical routine flown by the instructor. Don't forget the rudder! Maybe on gliders adverse yaw is much stronger due to wingspan, but I remember that without rudder the plane would just bank and sort of slide down the plane of the wings.

I think it would also be a good idea to download the SP1 outside of windows update since it basically is a collection of all the updates, so it might come in handy in the event of a reinstall of windows.

It looks to be quite a nice system for the given budget, however I'm not sure about the PSU...I would take a unit from another maker, but that is because I don't really know Zephyr as far as PSUs are concerned...a modular 650W from Corsair might be considered.

Thanks for posting this, it's very interesting.

Say something along the lines of "gaming". After that you'll receive a confirmation e-mail and can then proceed to download.

The first part is still not available, maybe you could upload it somwhere different? I've seen the video on vimeo though, and it is made really well...it must have taken a lot of time to do it right!

Don't worry! You just need to apply for a free non commercial license here, and then download the api and install it. After that get FaceTrackNoIR (get also the latest beta update, it works and adds some useful settings). You only need ppjoy if you have to use the 64bit version of dcs, otherwise you can just get the trackirfixer here, place it in the bin/x86 folder of dcs, let it do its thing and then you can use the fakeTrackIR protocol in the tracking software. It is much easier to set it up this way, since setting up ppjoy on vista/7 is possible but quite a hassle.

It happens if they haven't spotted anything yet.

No, it doesn't need track-ir. You just need the "face API" from seeingmachines, which is freeware for non-commercial purposes, the program, and the ppjoy software, which is needed to make a virtual joystick. Input is then sent from the tracker software to the fake joystick which is then mapped in DCS. Additionally, if you use a 32 bit version of dcs, you can skip the ppjoy part and use the track ir fixer, which is a free utility that "unencrypts" the TIR protocol and enables you to use the fake track ir protocol of the tracking program instead of routing everything through a virtual joystick.

Think this might be of interest to anyone trying this out: it helps a lot to have a good-lit room...making the lighting better here made it possible to lower the smoothing settings and thus to improve the responsiveness of the whole system.

I don't know. I've read that using TIRfixer it "works better", but since I'm using the 64bit version of A-10C I can't try it. Still, even with the 64bit version it's possible to use ppjoy and set facetracknoir to "virtual joystick" mode.

It does that a bit, but it is manageable. Its mostly about finding the right settings. Since it is free I highly reccommend anyone with a decent webcan to give it a try.

Works also with A-10C without problems, at least using ppjoy.

As far as I know, very early missiles had the annoying tendency to follow whatever strong ir source was they came across, including the sun and glasshouses. This would also be why such early missiles are easily deceived by flares. More moden missiles use also digital imaging techinques to ensure they're following the right target, if I'm not mistaken. Remember reading something to that effect about the AIM-9X a while ago.

It's a very good thing that there are places such as Martin House...one should think to make a donation once in a while instead of getting some other addon for example. It's a great idea from you to hold this contest, and sorry to hear about your son too...

Those were Italian AMXs there, tusler :) one can hear how the pilot is "not amused"...

I agree that Korea would be very interesting, if for nothing else to compare it to falcon :)

I tend to fly as fast as possible...the Hog might be relatively slow, but the same rules to evade SAMs and AAA apply.

What I'd really like to see would be an F-15E...there should be good info at least on the not-so-recent avionic variants, or maybe the Tornado, since now we have a Russian and an American aircraft.

I'd also like number one. The best way to practice "new things".