Chris1012

This is awesome! great work. Looking at the way you've laid it out, this is going to be very easy to print and produce just the sort of effect I was after (built, not printed in one go)

I'm not sure Sharkey's book should be relied upon as Gospel, for fairly obvious reasons for those who have read it - the combination of his constant (I'm re-reading it now and highlighting, it's literally every page) criticism of every person and decision who didn't see his way of thinking and his set of priorities and self promotion as the best pilot in the task force, if not the Fleet Air Arm (recall how he immediately dismisses assessments by SHAR pilots back in the UK as "not exactly the aces of the base") really makes it hard to consider it a credible account, which is a shame because I'm sure a lot of it is a truthful retelling.

I should win because I haven't eaten well recently and them chips inside be good eatin'

well, if EC725 is the preferred aircraft, AW101 is probably just in a different class - AW101's empty weight isn't that far off the EC725's max takeoff weight. That said, AW101 would seem to me to be a closer replacement for the Mi17...

That would be its over its VNE at its max ceiling. Pretty optimistic.

One and four are on my A/C's checklist - RPM 1200, dead cut mag check

A mishap not long ago occurred when the cockpit filled with fog on touchdown...

Duck walks into a bar and asks for a beer, the barman, astounded shouts out "holy shit a talking duck!" the duck, having heard this before sits down and explains his life story, how he was bred in a science lab, taught to speak and then when the lab was shut down he was cast out into the world on his own. The Barman, clearly amazed says "you should join the circus, it'd be just the job for you!" the duck, confused replies "why would the circus need a plasterer?"

I can't figure out if this is a good F16 block 60 documentary or a good Red Flag documentary :D

Took a hit and upgraded, my problem was 1.5 would only load 1 in 100 tries and crash frequently. Updated to Win 10, now loads 1 in 2 and crashes less. Significant advantage in stability with a small but noticeable performance hit. Be warned, updating to Windows 10 means you will only be able to use runtime 0.7 - Elite will now not work. Patch is apparently coming in December (I can see myself playing nothing but DCS until then :D ) Windows 10 is free to genuine win7 users.

I get the same error - I just about gave up and then it just worked... once. 1 in 10 attempts loads and when quitting a mission back to menu, it crashes again. On the 1 in 10 tho, I freakin love this game.

same for me 0.7 runtime Rift DK2

I stopped the Oculus 0.7 service, game now loads.

Ran once, got an instant mission (soooo Purdy), updated rift to 0.7 and restarted now I get this. Verifying cache at the moment on steam and downloading the beta. (this is not a complaint :) ) ** Verifying the game cache did not work. will rule out my setup before submitting logs

A10's didn't have a on board oxygen generator until recently (2011-2015), the oxygen had to be carried on board - this dude's either filling her up, offloading it or some combination of the two.