Fjordmonkey

Running both Daemontools and FC here, without any issues with Starforce at all. Have multiple Starforce-games (FC, X2:The Threat), none have issues what so ever =)

Someone give that guy/woman a beer. Or twelve! Hell, give'm a case! These were insanely yummy.

I know that the Norwegian F-16's was retrofitted with the -200E's, which offer an electronic fuel control and engine management-package. Not completely sure of the powercurve on them (been too long since I poked around inside the Viper), but I think it was in the vicinity of 20 to 25 000lbs. It is also less prone to compressorstalls in certain parts of the envelope, which was a problem on the -100's.

I'm a rotor-head, and the Hokum has TWO of them! (technically three, but hey, the more, the merrier!). Been a rotorhead since the Gunship/Gunship2000-days on the Amiga, and I've been waiting for a good Hokum-sim for years.

*boggles* Okay, maybe I'm just way out in the fields again (often am, if not usually), but I think there was an airshow with the same name here in Norway this weekend. Might be wrong, though

Then try being in the shelter together with it, DarkSoul :D Did my year in the 331/334 sqn RNoAF as a CCA, and...well, 126DBa in the shelter while the engine is at idle = insanely noisy =) Thank the gods for earplugs! Nice pictures! Wish I could have been there, but I had to work. Besides, the trip from Larvik to Bardufoss would have cost too much!

Heehee! Great stuff! MORE!

It will also depend on cost vs capability. True, the F35 is a nice aircraft, but it's also more expensive than the Gripen. As far as I know, one of the main points for NOT buying the Gripen was that it had less range than most other competitors for the contract here in Norway (entrants: F35 JSF, F/A 18, Eurofighter, Saab Gripen and the Rafale). But with added fuel-carrying capabilities, and with the right price/Industrial-package, I wouldn't discount the Gripen. It's built to be easily serviced, which is nice since the groundcrew that service the F-16's today consist of one officer (CrewChief) and one conscripted soldier (the assistant). Ease of maintnance and the cost of this will also have a large say in what aircraft gets chosen.

Had a good chuckle over this one =)

Did my mandatory year in the military here in Norway in the RNoAF (Royal Norwegian Air Force), working as a CrewChief Assistant, F-16's, doing pre/through/postflight, light maintnance, RS-15's and other odd jobs including but not limited to birdbath (exterior washdown), assisting in dock-work (taking off and putting on hatches, engine-changes etc). All in all a very fun and rewarding year.

Here's another one, coming in at a whopping 40 minutes long. http://www.whas11.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=60862&catId=49

What signifies a good online pilot? My answer: one that can be repeatedly blown out of the sky, but still laugh and truthfully say that they've had a great time playing.

*whips out his sales-stand with the Patience-lotion™ tubes in it* Get it here! Seriously, I'm getting Black Shark even if I have to wait until 2010 for it.

Favorites: Supermarine Spitfire. Wonderful in every way Su-27-family (27/30/32/33/34/37). Looks, Grace and Power combined. Third must be a shared spot between: Ka-50 Hokum. Agile, fast, un-orthodox and deadly. F-16. Will forever be one of my favorites after working on them for a year.

That's some sweet shots, and a damn nice skin, right there! :) Looks like the Anab's launch hot and bothered :D

when it's done™! An old adage in the MMORPG-communities :D

Even after all these years, the Phantom is still one of my absolute favorite aircraft. Big, lumberings, noisy and smokin' yummyness :D

Mindblowingly good looking. This'll find a nice place in my collection of skins.

You were running an old version of PHPBB, and there has been a rather nasty security-hole in that version. So unless you have upgraded between the time your site got defaced and now, that might be how they got into the system. A DDOS-drone is one of the things I can think of what's happened.

First throughs: Cool! Second thoughs: That's going to be like driving a pregnant, drunk yak :P

I'd say that was fairly accurately modeled behaviour :P

Hmm..sounds damn interesting, that's for sure =) The only gripe I have about it except for the rather hefty price ($999 + shipping here in europe), is that it's dependant on two things: A vidcard that supports 3d stereoscopic vision (so far only nVidias do this, not ATI. To the extent of my knowledge, that is), and that the head-tracking requires Windows XP. While the last issue isn't really an issue since I do run XP, the pricetag and the stereoscopic issue is a problem. But the day I win the big pot in the lottery, I'm getting this and an nVidia SLI-setup :D

I'll admit to being sceptical to the StarForce when I installed Flaming Cliffs, but everything went smooth as silk for me as well. Calling it malware isn't the correct term, even though there has been cases where it SNAFU's the comp it's installed on. True, it would be nicer if it wasn't there, but I don't have any problems with it.

Cool ^^ Have to try that out, then. Would be nice to have it for the other aircrafts as well. Ah, well. A fuelhead can dream, at least :D

Overloading the G-limit is a good way to bring an aircraft to a permanent ground condition. Excessive G's can, as a worst case scenario, rip something off an aircraft in mid-air. Don't know about other airforces, but if an aircraft here in Norway gets Over-G'ed too badly, it will need a full shop-stay on-par with a 200-hour inspection before it will be certified to fly again. IF it is certified. There has been accidents with aircraft where an Over-G has created warpage of the main spars in the aircraft fuselage, which again resulted in a breakup in mid air, killing the pilot and crashing the aircraft. Not very cost-effective use of an aircraft. Usually, an aircraft is structually limited in the amount of G's it can take. For the F16 it's somewhere around 10 to 10.5 in a clean config, depending on fuel. Unless I'm wrong, the MiG-29 is rated for 13 or 14, just so it's theoretically impossible for the pilot to break the airframe through manouvering. This, again, would be limited by weapons and fuel-load. Would be nice if this was programmed into the sim, as it would help a LOT on immersion and realism. Right now the only fear you have in a "Yank & Bank" is stalling out due to going outside the envelope, blacking out, and of course the danger of the other sides pilots :P