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Yes, you can match frame rate with rotation of the blades. But that's not what I'm questioning. It's the lack of motion blur which cannot be achieved with normal 30fps video camera. I searched a bit about helicopter facts and altho not hind specific, usual hovering RPM for helicopter is 1500. And 1600~1750 for cruising. So 1500RPM means 25 revolutions per second. Try shooting something that spins that fast with a still camera. Try taking picture of a fan. Or wheels on a running car. What do you get? Motion blur which this video doesn't have. Only way to eliminate motion blur is with very high shutter speed which normal home video cameras are not capable of. You guys can try shooting something spinning at 1500RPM with home video camera and pause a frame. Believe me. You will get motion blur. With my DSLR camera, only way to take picture of something moving that fast without motion blur is using faster than 1/2000 shutter speed. Yes there are high speed cameras that fast but only used in lab environment afaik. Hollywood and media companies use high speed cameras as well but are not that fast. Fastest one I've worked with are 120fps. Edit: No 1500RPM was for RC Helicopter lol. Chinook spins at 225RPM. But that's still too fast for normal video camera to take without motion blur and the point still stands.

Wow, that's awesome. But it can't be rotors matching frames like everyone's talking about. Even if the frames are matching the rotors, there's gotta be motion blur. I don't believe it's real but it's not frame matching.

Yea, I believe Papyrus was one who kick started all these online gaming. At the time, racing online with 30+ player was unthinkable. And everyone's mentioning Voodoo but anyone had Rendition? That was my very first non-pixelated gaming experience for me. Unfortunate that 3dfx crushed them. Now that I had more time to think, more gadgets comes to my mind. My first sound card... not SoundBlaster but Adlip card. Again, unfortunate CreativeLabs crushed them... seems like every peripheral I choose goes obsolete lol.

I just upgraded a month ago. Core 2 Duo E6600, 8800GTX, and 520GB RAID-0. I was considering 8800GTS too but at the time, there was just $150 difference between GTS and GTX. And the performance difference was well worth it for me. And I'm looking to go SLI in about a year and by that time, there'd be very little price difference between GTS and GTX. But GTX SLI would be substantially more powerful than GTS SLI. And what RAID-0 does for games is loading times, installation times, and faster file transfers under Windows. But even if there is no frame rate gain in games from RAID, why not go RAID? It's not like you have to purchase expensive SCSI controllers like we used to. With today's motherboards, RAID controller comes with it and RAID-0 doesn't decrease hard drive capacity like RAID-1. Buy two smaller drives rather than one big one. Yea two smaller drives will be more expensive but not much. In 500GB setup, two 250GB drive may be $10 more than one 500GB. Some people tells me "yea but in RAID-0, if you lose one drive, you lose all data". Well... that's same for single hard drive. It's actually better with RAID because if one drive goes bad, I can still use the other for single drive setup. Whereas with one large drive setup, if it goes bad, you have to buy another. And for motherboards, make sure the motherboard is Intel Quad Core ready. Nowdays with cheap CPU prices and really high GPU price, you tend to upgrade your CPU before the GPU. And I'm a believer that multi-threading in gaming will pull itself together soon. Finally, compare prices between Newegg.com and ZipZoomFly.com. Some components, newegg is cheaper and some are cheaper on ZZF. And ZZF has free shipping on everything so consider the shipping price from Newegg. I bought half the components from newegg and half from ZZF. Make sure you purchase Vista OEM when you purchase the hardwares if you're planning to go Vista. OEM is cheaper than Upgrades.

Two things comes to my mind. They're racing sim related rather than flight sim but... First is not really a hardware but a bill. I can't even remember the year but sometime mid 1990's, Papyrus was doing a beta testing for their NASCAR racing online called Hawaii. Wasn't really online like today's internet. People had to call Papyrus' server located in Boston with my modem. I was in California and was shocked when I got the $2000 phone bill. But that's when I got hooked on online simulation. Thankfully, soon after that first month, those 10 cents a minute long distance deals got popular. Second is ECCI steering wheel at $1200. That's when Thrustmaster T2 just came out for under $200. ECCI was like a Rolls Royce. Costly but heck, it was only half the cost of my phone bill.

Are you using default trackIR hotkeys? Or did you remap them on your joystick? Have you tried using different keyboards or joystick buttons as hotkeys? Which trackIR version (software and hardware) do you have? Try disabling UAC in vista and reinstalling both TrackIR and LockOn.

Thanks, I'll try that... You make it sound so simple.

Got Lomac when it first came out but put it aside due to all the bugs. Now it seems it's much better sim so I purchased the expansion trying to get back into it. But few newbie questions for those experts. First, missile behaviour seems to have changed in FC. Or the AI enemy in campaigns are just too damn good. I usually have to dispense all my missiles on one F16 to shoot it down. What's changed? Secondly, and this is more of tactical question. I manage okay in 1 vs 1 situation. But in 4 vs 4 engagement with AI wingman, I have problem effectively utilizing my wingman. It seems all 4 enemy fighters engage me and 3 of my AI fighters engage same 1 enemy fighter all at once. What would be the proper procedure in these type of 4 vs 4 engagement? I tried targeting each enemy and giving "attack my target" order to each wingman but it's so hard targeting each fighters when they're flying in close formation. There's gotta be better way. Oh and yea, I know that it is easier to engage multiple enemy with F15 but I'm talking mostly about russian fighters like Mig29 or Su27. Thanks in advance.

If it isn't just the combat training you're looking for but aviation training in general, you might want to look into getting a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator if you don't have a copy already. Either version 9 or the new version X should work fine. It has a very good in-game lessons for basic aviation.

These are some things to check. Make sure you change the trim axis to "axis" rather than "slider". Or try vice versa if it doesn't work. Slider doesn't work for my saitek and I have to use axis. If you have more than one controller connected to your computer, make sure axis and button assignments are all cleared for controllers you're not using. For example, I have gamepad which I use for other games and some of its axis and buttons were assigned to flight controls. Which conflicted with my Saitek joystick. Same goes for mouse. If you have joystick with toggle switch, make sure it's not set to continous in your profiler. For longest time, I couldn't figure out why some of my joystick buttons were acting erratically. It turned out that I mapped Shift+B and ctrl+B (for brakes) on aux switch and they were set to continous. Basically it was holding down ctrl+B. If you have profiler for your joystick, try turning it off and assign trim to the axis.

I've had similar issue with erratic controls. But in my case, it was because I had multiple controllers and they all had its axis assigned to pitch and roll. I had to select each controllers and clear the assignments in options. Just another thing to check.

I love this sim with 3D glasses and TrackIR but have hard time targetting ground units with the 3D glass. HUD doesn't seem to line up properly with the ground units in 3D. I have to disable 3D when playing A10. Any other 3D glass users have this problem? Bought LOMAC as soon as it came out, played for about a month and then fold it because it was buggy and found out there will be no more official patches. Glad to have found out about this "unofficial" patches and started playing again last week.