Rubberduck

Will work fine, I have the 680 and love it, really stable and decent/high fps with all settings at max, obviously it will also depend on your CPU.

Thanks :smilewink:

Yep although, that story is not in my copy, it is mentioned in passing but not in so much detail. That is I think from the updated/later edition. There is also a story about speed checks over california and the story in the book although similar again doesn't go into so much detail.link below.:smilewink: http://wesclark.com/burbank/sr_71.html

It was listed as used, with shelf wear, nothing about writing or the signatures. It has a couple of lines of text that have been highlighted, again not listed, and I am not complaining lol. The dust jacket is really good condition and no folded pages etc. Photo of the signatures :)

As a massive habu fan, i have been itching to get hold of a copy of 'Sled Driver' by Brian Shul for ages. For those not in the Know Brian is a retired USAF Major and a Ex Blackbird Pilot, flying missions over Libya after the F-111 strikes.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Shul Also a founding member of the the first operational A-10 squadron, from wiki :- He wrote this book about his experiences of the SR71 and also took most of the stunning photos, he published it and only a few were printed. They go on amazon for stupid money. Far more than I am willing to pay. I check regularly on Amazon for it, and often see on sale for many £££££/$$$$. I checked in January and was very shocked to see a copy for 'just' £73 including shipping to the UK from Atlanta. So click and it was mine :) :) It took around 4 weeks to arrive and I was gobsmacked to find, on opening the book that it has been hand signed by some of the legends of lockheed and the blackbird program. I have signatures from Lou Schalk, Lockheed test pilot, sadly dead now.http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/schalk.html Ken Collins http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/collins.html another test pilot, Robert Galliland http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/gilliland.html And Jim Easthan another test pilot http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/eastham.html To put these guys in context they are contemporaries of pilots like Chuck Yeager, and will appear in any history of Area 51 (the ranch) or indeed Lockheed or the A12/blackbird development program. Just goes to show bargains are available :) If any of you have an interest in the A12/blackbird I urge you to try and get hold of a copy, it really is a great book, however it is very short ( read it in 2 days) but the photography is stunning. You can get the reprinted book from Brian Shul's website but is still I think $400 :cry: :(

Have a look at pcspecialist.co.uk I got my desktop from there and they also do laptops, good thing is you choose your own spec and it is very intuitive. A good forum as well, good advice from knowlegable people, as well being able to post the spec here & get some feedback. You can get a quote immediately and use this to see if you can get some better prices etc, maybe worth a look ?

Quite true, definatley not :) In my defense they were taken with my i phone whilst excited after unpacking.... :D

Nor in real life :)

Hahahahaha same with me, made a numberplate acrylic fit my monitor with velco, redid my lua to make the MFD's fit the inside of the cougars, attached the mfd's to the number plate & then the monitor, looked excellent. BUT........ Image was tiny, kept pushing my monitor out of position if, in the heat of battle I hit one of the keys tooo hard, was really pants. So.... I reattached the bases to the MFd's and they now sit on my desk and the MFD's on my monitor are lovely and big :)

:thumbup: Well done, I just kept doing the startup mission till I sort of knew where everything was and order of switching stuff on then made my own startup check list. I then modified it to suit, now it is just a reference and I start up with no probs. Will stand you in good stead :)

I just mapped the center to the + key on the keypad as I use a WH, and these keys are used for the throttle, which is not needed if you use a hotas. I configured this in the TIR program not DCS, but you could also assign it to you HOTAS as well...:thumbup:

Have you tried it with just one display for comparison? And I would try disable the Aero as well. With the spec below running 2 monitors( 1 as an output for the MFD's admittedely ) I am seeing around 30-40 on the ground with everything on, and depending on mission around 40-80 in the air, i don't suffer from stutters either like a lot of people with cluster munitions. With that rig I would expect a lot more as well.... HTH

Also make sure that FFB is not enabled in the options, think it screws with the trimming i.e. it won't work.

"hawg 1-1, what's your currant tasking?" "cable laying over" LMAO

Can I have dibs on the track IR please?

I was opening mission planner, not the editor, cheers for the responses guys.

Ratfink, I went for the 240gb, very happy with it. bear in mind with win 7 and dcs, and not much else I am up to 157gb already :) Oh and from cold boot to working windows is around 12 seconds :) Dcs takes about 30 to get to mission ready, ie sitting in pit ready to start, not had a single stutter at all :)

Thank you :)

I have searched, and I have also tried myself, but to no avail.. Is there a way to change the start times or the weather of the default missions through the ME? I have found the button for my aircraft(player) but I can't seen to edit the local time and I can see no where where weather data can be added? Any ideas?

Nice one :) In the other thread you asked about monitors, I am now using a pair of samsung Syncmaster S22B350H full hd monitors which are very good. From my other thread intitial findings:

Some Pics of the beast :thumbup: I absolutely love it, unbelievably quick, DCS has never looked so good :) As I unpacked it, The water cooled i7 socket 2011 CPU, and my 4gb PNY 680gtx :) The radiator, seems alien to have liquid in amongst all that electricity :) Powered up, showing the AeroCool tochscreen fan controller, blu-ray and my card reader. The rear panel of the Sabretooth X79 showing the USB 3.0 ports and the bios flash port. I have been so impressed with the machine, it has far exceeded my expectations, love it :) Thanks for looking :)

Beast arrived yesterday, initial tests, (couple of missions) have shown impressive performance, round the cockpit at the air base with everything high and switched on except HDR (cos I don't like it), medium civ traffic and 500% birds, I have been getting a very steady and smoothe 40 fps. On external views around 80fps, couple of time peaking at over 130. This is just using the inbuilt FPS monitor. And I am yet to test properly, but intially is very very good, and load times are mentally quick, thank you to all that advised on this thread very pleased so far :) oh and it looks cool too, pics to follow....:thumbup:

My Asus 19" and a fujitsu siemens 19" look to upgrade these later when the bank account has recovered. Yep didn't want the headache of SLI so changed to a 4g 680. The company I have ordered it from have a hot room and burn in for 24 hrs, then retest everything. Also, the guys that build, test and QC your rig do write notes on your build which you can view online. Minimum you get is their name,so they have owbership of that part of your build. I have bought from them before and they are a very good company. take your comments on board and will do all the checks, appreciate the input. :thumbup:

On it's way, being delivered tomorrow :) :)

All good as everyone has said, these are the pedals that i use, very good, they lack the angle adjustment, but they are significantly cheaper, http://www.amazon.com/Saitek-Pro-Flight-Rudder-Pedals/dp/B000H67DDY/ref=pd_cp_e_0 just another option, HTH