Hornet, Eagle, Harrier-sticks? I'll go with Willie the Pooh's statement: Yes please, I'll have'm all :P And if there's throttlequadrants with that, I'll have those as well.
Then again, I've always been a bit bonkers :p
Once again I've got this weird mental pic in which a horde of DCS-pilots are shambling towards Wags' house, moaning "paaaaaaaaatch...." and clawing/scratching at the door to get it :P
True, but the F4 nearly outlived the F14 in operational use in the US, and did outlive the F14 overall since Turkey is still flying their Phantoms as far as I know, and will most likely serve longer than the last three.
Here in Norway there's a 200ft AGL hard deck. Combine that with the very fact that Norway isn't flat, you'll often have imagery that seems way lower than it actually is.
It doesn't matter if they didn't. People would still be impatient, and then crucify them for NOT promising anything.
Again, it doesn't matter. Either way you look at it, they are damned in the eyes of those that don't have patience.
What would you prefer? That they hold back a patch that isn't up to par and take flak for that, or release a patch that might have disastrous consequences for the players and customers?
Welcome to software development. It's ALWAYS a pick your poison-situation.
The biggest issue here is that ED gave a release-date. Even if they wrote the word estimated in 2-mile high capital letters in Arial Black-fonts, people would still go ape if the estimate proved wrong. Which it did, and now we've got this mess of a thread.
Sorry, but having been in the flightsim-community for a long time, five months isn't long to wait if the patch is of good quality.
I've got an ocean-sized swimmingpool filled with liquid patience. IL2: Cliffs of Dover taught me that VERY well...
Eh, I view this as a controlled experiment, and nothing else. Consider that the instructor pilot onboard with him was handling all comms with the tower and stood ready to take the controls if he mucked up too badly, this is not much worse than any other first-time pilot flying a pattern with an instructor pilot next to him.
If he had been solo I'd agree. As it stands, this whole experiment had minimal risk to it.
Either way, I don't think they got much in terms of accuracy out of the pods, due to the vibration of the thing and the lightness of the aircraft it was fitted to. I love the Vipers after having worked on them, but I can't help but think that accuracy goes out the window after the first round leaves the barrel.