Fjordmonkey

It's strange how people will flail at Microsoft because of Windows 8, to be honest. Is it perfect? Nope, definitely not. Is it the utter disaster that some would have it to be? Nah, far from it. I'm currently running Win8 Pro on my lappie, the gamebox and on my auxillary box/mediacenter/chatbox at home, without any issues apart from the fact that Cliffs of Dover doesn't work on it (but hey, CLoD has it's fair share of issues regardless, so meh). Apart from that, I don't really have any gripes with Win8, although it took a few days of "zomgzwtf is this!!!?" before I started to understand where to find things and how to get things done. Hell, much about the noise regarding Windows 8 smacks of the same noise people came with when Windows 95 came out. Bah, now I feel old...

I learned to ALWAYS wear a double set of earprotection the hard way, standing between two F16's when they fired up. I only had one yellow earplug in, and I've lost the ability to hear sounds above a certain frequency in my right ear because of it. JFS'es are bleedin' loud! Standing inside a hardened concrete shelter when the jet fires up also tends to teach you that you can never let your guard down when it comes to protecting your hearing. And while a civilian ramp isn't enclosed like a HAS, you still need to protect your hearing in any way possible.

Can't help it, but there's a brutal beauty in the Phantom.

Wish I still worked on Vipers :( But yes, earplugs and then the big defenders. Cuts down the higher-frequency noise very nicely. If that's not enough, you can always go fork out the money for custom-made, noice-cancelling earplugs. I know that quite a few Crewchiefs at Ørland MAS and Bodø MAS here in Norway use those.

I know, Marcos, and saw the image :P Merely making a silly joke, that's all.

What planes? Ahem... I mean....what implants? :pilotfly:

New technology right there: CATO. Curry-Assisted Take-Off :megalol:

It can't, but you won't be able to convince the Fast-jet proponents in the Pentagon about this, sadly. With the eventual phase-out of the A10, you loose a very important quality in a battlespace: the ability to fly CAS/BAI-missions very close to friendly lines. A burst of 30mm HEI does a whole lot less damage than a 500lbs JDAM, but it won't flatten a good portion of the area surrounding the target-area. I personally don't think you'll be able to fly the same missions with the F35 as is done today with the A10. The A10 is purpose-built for the mission it does, while the F35 tries to be a jack-of-all-trades. And in many cases, trying to do too many things leads you to do none of them well. I'd love to see what happens to an F35 that gets hit with something as simple as a chance burst from a ZSU-23-4. An A10 would most likely be able to get the pilot home, but I don't have the same amount of faith that an F35 would.

It's 50 years old :P There's been a lot of developement on how to make an aircraft easier to service over the last 50 years or so (hell, look at the JAS39 Gripen), and after thousands of flight-hours aircraft tend to develop kinks, quirks and individual personalities. One of the CrewChiefs I worked with on the RNoAF F16's once said that old aircraft are like old women: Stubborn, set in their ways and needs a lot of tender love & care to keep in good condition :P

Their loss :megalol:

Could be interesting, especially if they made the vest so that it squeezed you when you started pulling G's, let you feel when weapons left the rail and the vibration when you fired guns etc. Hell, I'd buy one :P

I stand corrected :)

Looks more like a wheeled BTR-60, to be honest.

Seeding at 1.1MB/Sec :) Going to let it seed until I shut down for the night in 2 hours, and then start it back up again at 0600CET tomorrow morning.

ACE2 ftw. It's one of the mods that I absolutely refuse to play without. Have a server set up where me and a few friends of mine tend to muppet around on Warfare-maps playing strictly Co-op. Tried out the Warfare-map for Falluja yesterday, and with AI difficulty set to High it's a tad on the insane side. And DayZ.....blegh, don't get me started. It's probably a good mod, but I'm so sick of Zombie-games these days that I could yell for moose :puke:

Brilliantly done :D More of this should be done, since we throw away equipment all the time that still has many years of service left in them.

I just had a somewhat funny image pop into my head: Matt's house, with a bunch of simmers outside trying to get in, zombie-style :P Instead of braaaaiiiins, we go siiiiiiiiiiim..... Anyway! Carry on, nothing to see here! (are we there yet?)

SLUF's, Scooters and Harriers? Hell, now we just need a new map to go with it :D

When Combined Arms gets around, it might be fun, depending on how it's done.

I'm all for the Hind, to be honest. I really miss playing the old Microprose-made Hind-sim, and it's also my ride of choice in ARMA2 (even though one cannot by any stretch of the word call ARMA2 a helicopter-sim).

Definitely good stuff there. Here's the Norwegian show about the Norwegian Viper-pilots. Mind you, it's in Norwegian without subtitles, so it'll be gibberish to anyone not knowing the language. http://www.viasat4play.no/format/play?fid=2528

Nifty! That reminds me that I need to find more shows like that. It's interesting to see how they train pilots in other countries.

Hey, wasn't that one of the guys that were in the television-program Stridspiloterna that was aired in Sweden a while back?

100 Years of Air Power Anniversary-paint of RNoAF F16 with tailnumber 686. Will do displays at various airshows around Norway this summer.

My first reaction was "Wow, that's one hell of a maintenance-team right there" :P