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I'm the middle of the A and pulled too far forward, sorry guys, but looks awesome. Yeah I had about 60fps in air and dropped to about 16 lining up for that shot.

Awesome job, many thanks

Awesome work buddy

Well 3dMax comes with tons of tutorials so check that and Google is your friend: http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=3ds+max+modeling+for+games&aq=0sx&aqi=g-sx4g-o1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=74cfd1f0296da1d2

Thanks George. Not much update pics if I'm honest but we made a very small breakthrough in the HUD so will be testing that and a few other essential system displays. I'm hoping we can begin Alpha test trials after VFAT (likely to be January).

Thanks Squid, I think it's important you guys know what we're doing, as our work is for the community after all.

Hey guys, a little update for you. I've been off work ill for the past 2 weeks so have got quite a lot of work done on a mod update, but have also been busy preparing for our VFAT show, more details to come soon. With regards to a mod update, this is what you can expect soon: Upgraded jet sounds More weapon options (Air-to-Air) A few tweaks on the skin - I wasn't happy with some details so have updated them. European skin pack - some of our friends have created excellent skins, so we will incorporate those as well as our own. VFAT 2010 - 3rd/4th/5th December We are still waiting for our confirmed display slot and are in discussion with the VFAT staff about a live arrival flight you will want to see (Typhoon plus guests). 3d Cockpit Work is still ongoing with this, creating panels, skiining them and we have made a very small breakthrough with some HUD work. We will be calling for some Alpha testers in the New Year, so keep an eye out for that post. I'll keep you posted about the mod update and VFAT soon. Thanks, Ells.

haha no worries, the guys at VNAO are doing an awesome job too so we don't mind.

haha thanks Shags, yep its European Air Ops, not Naval Air Ops. Ok FM is more Typhoon than F-15 and we are working on an advanced Typhoon FM at the moment. Currently you can pull 9g and fly up to 64,000ft. No we will replace the F-15 with Typhoon, hopefully air-to-air and air-to-ground. As we don't have the original 3dMax model for the F-15 we can't add it in another slot. Hopefully that answers all questions, keep them coming if you have them. We will be running a beta test early next year of the 3d cockpit, so stay tuned.

Nope not an F/A-18. it's our Typhoon 3d cockpit we're working on.

Excellent, I'll try them out today and report back any issues.

I've got a pretty good image of the Typhoon one, I'll post that up tomorrow

Awesome stuff and I bet it felt good talking to a real life Hog pilot about the sim we all love.

As Druid said, most of the real life training videos I've seen (JetStream Canadian F-18's as an example) form up either side a little back, that's your pre-contact point, then slide on over to centre and follow Druid's guide. Works for me every time and I can normally tank about 60% before disconnect. I've created a mission that may help you. http://www.veao.eu/dcs_a10/Ells-Refuel-Day.miz http://www.veao.eu/dcs_a10/Ells-Refuel-Dawn.miz Day starts at 8am and dawn starts at 5am as I was testing lights out from the tanker for a night time refuel. Tanker starts out 3 minutes after you startup, so gives you time to start from cold and follow him out on the runway. Tacan is set (although I don't use it as have visual most of the time) and tanker is on 131.00AM - read the mission brief. Form up on him at WP3 (shows 2 in ME but 3 in flight) and stay with him in the turn at WP4, this helps your formation flying, then refuel when he levels out after the turn. After refuel, slide out to his wing and stay with him until you break for landing, again practice formation on him.

Batou, check your PM please buddy, I've got some progress to talk about. Thanks, Ells.

Slightly updated textures, and with external model showing this time (little glitch before)

But you still felt good about the turn, and that's the main thing lol

Joined and send invite to all of my FB flying buddy's Great page, I have a couple of startup and shut down procedure checklists to add once I pdf them.

Awesome work, many thanks

I think the EAC is bound to a trim command at the moment but will be changed in next release (from what I've read)

Great videos, many thanks +1

Nice recovery there. Battery APU to off is what you're thinking of on startup procedure. Now reading the manual (yes I have RTFM lol) it gives you a procedure for ditching in water, sooooo anyone tried this yet, and survived, and what does the jet do, just bob along on the beautifully rendered waves?

Cool thanks Crash.

Apologies Mnemonic, we are having a few hosting issues, they should be there in next day or two whilst our servers switch over to the new address. Thanks, Ells.

Yep it's FC2 and no photoshop whatsoever, they are pure FC2 with a deeper blue sky mod (I'll find out which one and re-post details).