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thanks fellas

L/L entry question Hi guys My UTM entry went fine, but for the Lat Long (eg. N4312.282) when i put in the whole thing including ".282" i got CDU INPUT ERROR. only lat long without decimals would be accepted. Any ideas? eedenn

any flying counts... it doesn't matter if its on the space shuttle or a paraglider, its still the experience of flight! I once heard a cliche story about a cessna 172 private pilot applicant who looked up at the king air and said i wish i was up there. Then there was the guy in the king air looking at the nice shiny CRJ's taking off out of his regional airport and saying i wish that was me. The guy in the CRJ looked at the brand spanking new 777's taking off out of the international he was feeding into and said thats where i want to go. The 777 pilot up at 41,000 feet towards the end of his long haul cruise, looked up and saw the sun glint off the windshield of the space shuttle, and said...i wish that was me. The astronaut in the space shuttle, thousands of hours of experience, including test pilot, to low time, bumping-through-the-night cargo charter, (while flying over a little airfield) looked down and said, thats where i learnt to fly...wish i was down there flying a 172! eedenn

to answer some questions QNH, or "altimeter setting" is what is used by the military in states. Is there a plan to change the voice comms in DCS to match this? it does affect terrain clearance, level deconfliction from other traffic and altitudes to climb to when trying to hook up with the tanker. Unless ofcourse everyone else is flying off the QFE at YOUR departure point. (unlikely) The altitude you set QNE/ standard/ 29.92 inHg (or whatever you wish to call the transition altitude/level) is mainly for terrain considerations, and sometimes airspace. Spot heights on the charts are based on QNH which is the local altimeter setting corrected to sea level. So it is safe to say that you would need that to know where you are in elevation in relation to the terrain, and whether or not you are above MSA (minimum safe altitude), MEA, MORA, MOCA or whatever is depicted on your chart. Although at times some of the above are given in flight levels. The reason why the transition altitude is 18,000 in the states has somewhat due to the terrain in the mid west. They would rather have a uniform transition for the entire continent vs having one change from region to region, re: europe! QNH in millibars or hPa, not a problem on jets as the altimeter scale has both hPa and in Hg. as for us going to moscow or somewhere in china, we have tables for feet to metric conversion (one for China/North Korea, and one for Russia/Mongolia, as their RVSM levels differ somewhat) but for SIDs (or DP's) and STARS there is a metric to feet conversion on the Jeppessen plates. However we do not base our descent and approach on QFE, we request QNH from ATC. QFE vs radar altimeter: QFE is referenced to a point on the airfield, and therefore indicates your elevation above (or below) that reference only. The radar altimeter however will bounce up and down depending on what is below you. including buildings, trees, birds, other planes or whatever solid strays under the radalt transmitter! You would lose all sense or where the airfield was in relation to you, after you do some maneuvering. hope that answers some questions

spot on!

guilty as charged! i fly the Airbus A330/340 in real life, but the Hawg when i get home!

i have the same problem

I just le the dude at the computer center figure it out for me. I'm pretty sure I got ripped off, and then there's the language barrier! But hey, here I am ready to go! eedenn

Finally went out and got one together... thanks for everyones help eedenn

wow! thanks for the quick replies to everyone! you guys are certainly on the ball! To answer some questions first: i do travel a lot (airline pilot), but i dont intend to take the gaming computer with me. traditionally we're all mac'd out in the house, and even though my macbook pro ran black shark fine, it cant and wont handle the likes of A-10! However, since i have close to no idea about configuring gaming computers (or computers in general) and since i cant spend a load of dough on a computer just for gaming, ive just had a look at some of the dell desktops. Ill post the specs below. I live in hong kong, so really it should be quite easy to get a computer built from scratch, but i fear being ripped off (as a foreigner living here) by the local computer know-it-alls and the computer centers in town. Anyways, here is what i had a look at: Build My Dell Intel® Core™ i7-960 Processor (3.2GHz, 8MB) Dell™ ST2320L 23"W HD Monitor with WLED 6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 3 DIMMs(3X2GB) 1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive with Native Command Queuing McAfee® SecurityCenter™ (Multi Language) - 30 days Single Drive:16X DVD+/-RW with Dual Layer Write 1GB ATI® Radeon HD 5770 Accessorise My Dell Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Multi-Language) No Speaker Dell™ Studio™ Multimedia Keyboard Black Also Includes Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64bit Multi language please do tell me what you think, i can keep looking, but im quite impatient to get to playing A10 already! As per the comments, im staying away from laptops now... eedenn

Hi guys im trying to sort out a computer for myself for A-10. Im not much of a techie with this stuff so i need some help to know whether this is good enough: Build My Dell Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64bit (English) Intel® Core™ i7-640UM Processor(1.20Ghz, 4 Threads, turbo boost up to 2.26GHz, 4M cache) 8GB Dual Channel 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM (2 X 4GB) (1333MHz Memory operates at 800MHz) 320GB 7200RPM Hard Drive Also Includes 11.6" WideHD 720p WLED (1366x768) Display Integrated 1.3 mega pixel web cam 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 335M thanks much eedenn