Shmick

FaceTrackNoIR with a modded PS3 Eye (which was admittedly a bit fiddly) and DelanClip works well for me. I've never used TrackIR though so can't compare Bring on the Rift or equivalent, though!

Yeah, I like that. It'd still potentially be a bunch of info though and whether you'd transfer it peer-to-peer (which could be very slow and would be a bit error prone methinks) or have your client upload it to the server would be an interesting one. Sounds like the kind of thing that would perhaps best be done by mods? Presumably when I'm connected to a server with you and you've got a custom skin, my client gets the skin (file?) name... Could a mod tell that my install doesn't have that skin and attempt to fetch it from http://awesomedcsskinsmod.com/, where you've uploaded it? Just riffin'... :-P

It'd have to be optional or skins limited in detail, coz I don't wanna have to download 200 meg of fresh skins every time I join a server :-P

He's probably spent the past six months in the workshop making hundreds of 'em and just going through the pile of paperwork to get 'em out? Dunno man, sorry :-( ...But soon, methinks!

Not 'til early September I'm afraid... But he's working through the backlog!

Not in North America but mine are apparently in the post as of < 48 hours ago to 'Straya. It all just happened in the past few days, perhaps today's your day! :-P

I'd like to host a server, but yeah, has to be dedicated. It'd be modern fighter air-to-air oriented and in Canberra, Australia. Ideally, it'd run on FreeBSD too (even if just under Wine) :-P

ETs you mean? You have AIM-9s that you can fire without generating a (radar) launch warning. 'Course, without the EOS, it's not quite the same :-P

I dunno - surely combat aviation is more-or-less a super-set of civilian? I can't imagine where DCS would be unable to support fun with civvy planes. The ATC's a bit crap right now, but other than that...?

To reduce landing weight and speed

Wouldn't mind a modern heavy option - Air Force One, perhaps?