pyromaniac4002

I'm sure you'll find plenty of people are more than willing to help a newbie. I know when I'm flying and someone asks a question in chat, typically one or two people plus myself will try to answer it. Bottom line though, the worst that could really happen is people are just going to wipe out most of the targets before you can get much of a shot. Just watch out for SAMs and AAA. Also IFVs (BMP-2, etc.) aren't nice to get hit by either. Happy hunting! edit: Oh, and don't worry about ruining anyone else's experience. So long as you don't crash a plane every 200 ft along the runway of your airbase, it's pretty much impossible to inadvertently affect someone else's day for the worse. If on the other hand, anyone was looking to grief some fellow pilots, there are ways to do it, but again it's not something that happens by accident.

lol, I don't think it should be...

It's a direct-fire TOW.

lol, relax. I'm absolutely ready to hear who did what in which aircraft to beat an F-22, I asked you for a little bit of grounding in reality. We don't all live in a world of Christmas parties with our hot shot RAF buddies bragging about their 4.5 gen aircraft exploits against 5th gen ones, so I didn't think it would be such a big deal for you to give us something that was a little more solid. I appreciate your concern for my genitals, though it is unnecessary.

Yes. That is exactly what is being asked of you. In fact, if you don't commit at least one act of treason in the next 20 minutes no one will believe anything you say and we'll point at you and call you a stupid-head. :pilotfly: And actually I just got back from the library and the Typhoon holds the Guiness World Record for most number of times it never encountered an F-22 in DACT and royally kicked its Raptor-ass. </sarcasm> You know you could save everyone the trouble and say you're just going off of what your friend said, and you're incapable of believing that anyone could ever lie (except of course for in that internet machine thing, but not you, because then you could lie about your friend saying that, or even that your friend exists, or anything, because you're telling the truth but nobody else on the internet ever does and that's how it works).

Awesome link! Thanks!

Do you mean that you're playing on the internet with the "LAN" setting for your connection speed, or are you actually playing on your home network?

That's why I said "at least half reputable." Believe it or not, there are actually corners of the interwebs where little bits of truth accidentally fall into the cracks. Since we're not having this discussion at the local library branch, I thought maybe you could find one single instance of something on the internet backing up this supposed fact you're pushing, for convenience's sake if not absolute factual certainty. Why you've chosen to argue the semantics of proof with the time-honored "the internet is a lie" route instead of actually looking for anything that mentions an F-22, a Typhoon, and a WVR engagement in the same sentence is evidence enough that, besides your supposed pilot connection, you don't have the slightest reason to think this.

The hell? Didn't they just release BF3 last year? By the historical development schedule EA/DICE has been using with the Battlefield franchise, we've still got 5 years of them pimping out the series to consoles and kids that love nothing more than to demolish buildings with a .50 cal machine gun. Only after that can we expect a new title that all but completely fails to live up to EA/DICE's promises of getting back to the root experience of what made BF great. This is a very confusing development indeed.

+1 :lol:

Thanks Yo-Yo! Gotta admit, I may not have actually, read, the change... log... But I'm glad I'm not just crazy for thinking my throttle grew an inch and a half of usable space.

Yeah, see, this "he said, she said" thing isn't something that counts for a valid source. If there was something on the internet that was at least half reputable, it would be helpful to see it because I think the F-22 can certainly hold its own in a WVR engagement with a Typhoon. It's not a matter of "well, it's designed for stealth, so it's not maneuverable," it was designed for both and it does them both pretty damn well. You characterize it as though these Raptor-flying jerks are a dime a dozen when a Typhoon can get in close on them, and that to me seems a little unbelievable (as it does for a lot of people). And there was the other guy earlier that said they've never actually met in any exercise to date, so if there's something you can show that even establishes that they've gone head to head, it'd be a start.

Just one source, please? I've never heard anything like that, and it's not something you should expect people to just take at your word.

There's simply no way that anyone involved in choosing between the YF-22 and YF-23 expected thrust vectoring to do anything "harrier-like." Being able to maintain control past 110 degrees angle of attack is useful in its own right, and to boil the worth of thrust vectoring down to whether or not you can pull some Tom Cruise, stop-in-mid-air move is pretty ridiculous. Just because the Typhoon doesn't have thrust vectoring doesn't mean you need to pretend that And I'm sure you're using the assumption that the F-22 is flying on a full tank of gas while the thrust-to-weight figures you're using for the YF-23 may be 50% fuel, given that the F-22 boasts a much more comparable 1.26 T/W ratio at 50% fuel. :megalol: I don't get this beef that Typhoon fans have with the F-22. A Typhoon isn't exactly what I think of when someone asks me about the F-22's arch-rival, so why is it so offensive to admit that an F-22 will simply outmatch the Typhoon on most, if not all levels? It's a $150 million plane, it damn well should. It's the nature of a 5th generation aircraft versus a 4.5. Now for a quick token Su-25 comment... I think it's a fine aircraft. It's not pretty, it's relatively old, and I tend not to fly it, but in the right hands it's definitely an effective aircraft. It would need to be for having been around in one form or another for so long. I'm right there with you in admitting that when I'm choosing my slot on a server, I'll always take my beautiful death machine A-10C over an Su-25T, but it doesn't mean the Frog is a waste of time in its company.

What about the simple fact that I can take my collective to 15 degrees of pitch in a hover and not choke out my engines like they would have done at ~12 or 13 degrees? Something's definitely different.

Just experienced this myself for the first time today. I'm pretty sure it's a server-side issue, and I think we're all just going to have to wait until ED figures out what's up. Spent the better part of 40 minutes tweaking every little thing until a mission switch and someone else inherited the problem.

+1 Great find :)