Woogey

Hey Pete, Welcome to the DCS forums! The A-7 has been pushed back a little bit, maybe some time in 2017. For sure expect it after the F/A-18C is released and the newness has worn off. A good guesstimate might be around six months after the Hornet or so. The good news is there is a freeware version available, although it uses an A-10A cockpit if I remember correctly. I'll look for the link for you. -Woogey

Ironically your wife's description of trains is amusing. I used to live directly across the street from a busy set of train tracks. They were noisy, my house would vibrate. But when I moved away, It took me the longest time to get used to the silence. It was hard to go to sleep without. I have lived in the Seattle area most of my life, and never got to see Tomcats in their natural state. Whidbey Island is not too far away, and Prowlers were a common site here. We also had 318th FIS F-15's, and later on the "Bulldogs" A-10A's of the 354th FS were stationed at McChord AFB about 15 miles from my home. None of these match the presence of a Tomcat or an entire Tomcat base for that matter. Your wife should consider herself lucky to have been inconvenienced by the noisy Tomcats! Lol -Woog

These photos illustrate a memory most won't recall. Maverick and Ice participated in the San Francisco Fleet Week during 1985, a year before the movie was to become the Summer blockbuster of 1986! -Woog

LMAO! For those that don't know, The members of Coretex have dissolved, and gone on to form different groups, which are all activley developing Quality addons for DCS as we speak. SuperBugs are bad for marketing, and won't be approved for DCS FOR another 5 years or so. Please let it rest. This is a LNS Viggen thread! -Woog

Nick, A fellow artist over at Groomlake Simulations was watching a cheesy movie called "The Thing Below". He brought it to my attention. The opening sequence uses stock footage that must have been filmed for Top Gun originally. As you can clearly see both the Iceman an Maverick jets on deck along with NH615 the Seaking that brought the boys back to the boat in the final Flight scenes of the movie. -Woog

Not that these are the highest quality photos, but I found them interesting. Nick I think you will recognize one of your birds here. These were all taken on board the "Big E" during the SoCal local training in 1984. I am not sure what scenes from the Ranger made it into the movie, as all the scenes I can find all lead back to CVW-11 and USS Enterprise. -Woog

Although Eagle Dynamics have unquestionably created the most detailed set of rural residential buildings ever placed in a flight simulator, every town looks the same. I wonder if the existing set of Houses and Buildings might benefit from some additional color palettes? Does anyone have any input as to whether it would be possible to add additional colors for Roofs, and also the walls themselves? Also, I have noticed that objects can be imported as libraries. Would it be possible to create a new additional building library that could help add a little individual character to each town? Objects like Grocery Stores, Recognizable Fast Food Restaurants, and University/college buildings, etc. Just a thought....... -Woog

I haven't read through all seven pages of responses yet, I will just add my two cents here. The CH-46 frog and the CH-53 would be great. The frog above and beyond the CH-53 for two simple resasons: 1) We don't have any form of frog in the Sim at this point in time, we do have an Ai -53. 2) Not only would the frog be a natural fit on the deck of an LHA or LHD, but it is the primary Vertrep platform for ship to ship transfers. Speaking of LHD, it is my opinion that RAZBAM should do a Wasp class, instead of a Tarawa Class. The reason being, Markindel just released a really nice LHA-1. We already have a LHA in sim. It would be really nice to have a Phrog model to go do insertions with similar positions as the BST Huey, Door gunners, pilot, and co-pilot. -Woog

Where are you posting your mod at? I'm sure I missed it here somewhere.

As beautiful as your renders are, We have yet to see a working ship-able example of your work. I love your enthusiasm and business model, it caters very well to our needs and desires as Flight sim enthusiasts. Obviously very popular considering the length this thread has grown to. May I suggest you focus on the Hornet Grips for now, and get an actual product out the door? I am less concerned on bringing the price down by mass producing a huge variety of products, if no products are ever made. Get me a working plug and play Hornet grip for my Warthog base, for under $300 USD, and I will be a happy man. I'm not even worried about the throttles at all. I do however want the same quality of switches that Thrustmaster uses, otherwise you haven't done anything more than re-create the old Suncom stick (Of which I own 4). I am afraid that this thread is starting to go the direction of "Vaporwear." I hate to say it (because it means I am losing hope :( ) but I am almost at the point of I'll believe it when I see it. Respectfully, Preston "Woogey" Martin

Chances are BST will not make the skin since BRAZIL does not fly this model of F-5 and you just created a reason for them not to. BST does not owe you anything, and did not promise ANY features, let alone supply a list of liveries that would or would not be included. I guarantee nobody will help you with an attitude like that. Maybe our replies will hit home and teach you a lesson, however unlikely that might be.

Hello Sir, Do you know if there is a way to set dual commands for a single position of a switch. For example: Run command 1 when switch is flipped on Run command 2 when switch is turned off -Woog

I can't make any promises on the Iranian F-5, but I'll see what I can do. I Already have 4 F-5 skins in the que. That will keep me busy for a month! Also I have a sneaking suspicion that E.D. Will direct Belsimtek to create an Iranian skin with the SOH map coming out and all. -Woog

Working on this one from the early 1980's now..... -Woog

I can't wait to get to work painting this bad boy! I have a few of these on my agenda.

https://www.facebook.com/aviationphotodigest/videos/824425770992312/ -Woog

As a member of the Hoggit team, will this become a full project worked along side the A-4E, or is this a solo project? Please Please on both fronts get them to us as Ai at the very least! so many projects never see the light of day. but that doesn't mean we can't at minimum get Ai out of them.

Well I thought that guide was going to be helpful! Unfortunately, I still have no connection to the sim. I set the path to DCS in the editor. I copied the Lua file over to Saved Games, started the sim, no sync up. I haven't got to the configuration of my viewports yet, because I can't even get the engine instruments to go active. I only have 2.0 Alpha, and 1.5 Beta installed. Not sure if that matters? Very frustrated at this point. I will try to pick up on this again tomorrow. Going to go watch some T.V. now. P.S. If I ever get this working, is it possible to use the BMS F-16 profile in DCS in conjunction with one of the Flyable F-16 mods, and F-15 instruments? -Woog

Hello Sobe, I am not a programmer, and Have been trying to get Helios up and running. Could you throw some tips my way? I can get Profiles up on my touchscreen, but getting them to connect to the sim and sync is proving to be an issue. Help would be great! Sincerely, -Woog

Just a heads up guys, I am a texture artist, and would love to throw some paint on her once you get the Fuselage all texture mapped. I can't wait for this bad boy! -Woog

Has anyone had any luck customizing the NTTR map yet? I'd like to back date the Control tower for Nellis a little bit. I know it has a different shape now, but it would be cool to repaint it like this photo shows. -Woog

All the more reason for Razbam to drop their KA-6 Ai into the Sim. It would be a perfect companion to accompany the Hornet and Tomcat in SOH combat operations!

Actually the map is huge, and Fallon is on this map, unfortunately it is not modeled. The area where Fallon is located is towards the edge, and the imagery is very lowrez. In case you were wondering, You can also fly over China Lake and Edwards AFB, neither of which are modeled. NTC Ft. Irwin is also on this map, good news here as ED DOES plan to develop out the NTC in the future some time. -Woog Edit: I have revised the Google map I posted current to 07-13-2016. I am not sure if E.D. updated and enlarged the map size, but it does in fact cover even more area than I originally thought.

Humpless I respectfully add my vote for a hump-less bent probe variant. No doubt you guys are aware that the Blue Angels version was actually the Hump less "Z" bend re-fueling probe version. What you might not be aware of, is Jester's Aggressor bird in later part of the movie (Grey #53) was actually the A-4F prototype. Initially Having a sensor probe in the place of the refueler, this was later removed, and never replaced. So it is also possible to have a no probe Scooter. I very much look forward to this aircraft, and can't wait to wrap some Aggressor paint around it! P.S. Boeing will license any of its aircraft for a variety of purposes including recreational game use. It is very much possible to get a license for this aircraft if you wanted to persue this avenue. I have already inquired to our legal department about game license in general (not this project Specifically). The royalty based licensing agreement terms are negotiable. -Woog