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DOUBLE R-27RE KILL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKItYFR9Ei4 How about this! Launched an R-27RE missile... I became nervous when I thought it missed despite my MFD showing it was still tracking. Launched a second RE missile before the first struck. Bandit 1 goes down from missile one. Switched lock to Bandit 2... missile 2 tracked and killed HIM! WOW!

Wait until you see what's coming... something big I'm working on.

I need more fiber.

Yeah... I don't know about you're wingman but mine have been known to do some pretty stupid things. :joystick::mad: I was actually shot down by my wingman's R-77 once!!! Bad luck but still....weird. *I know that the AI needs work but I don't mind it.

If my language is offensive I apologize. :music_whistling: Frankly... I think I sound like I'm constipated on the toilet. LOL! I wasn't able to fly last night but tonight... heh heh heh... I conquer all. I'm getting better but I need the practice. Oh, Cosmonaut! Thanks for the incredible screen mods! You rock!

Heck yeah I have tacview! Without it I'd be totally screwed!! I know about the extended range of the ER. I'm taking away my jammers tonight and see how I do.

I did well last night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prL0aNfCrVE

I usually take the leader and my wingman takes his follower (who technically in real life IS the real leader).

When should I shoot? Max range? Should I fire one and then another 13 seconds later THEN dive or dive quickly after launching and fire another on the way down?

Well... didn't go as well as I had hoped today. I set up a training mission and practiced forever. My wife was VERY understanding. :pilotfly: I played the scenario initially against 2 MiG 29s with excellent AI pilots. I was leader of a 2-ship. I started off at 2800 meters and the fulcrums at 2000 meters. I have jammers and the MiG 29As didn't. I played the scenario at least 18 times with these parameters and I couldn't hit a single aircraft with the R-27RE. That's right... not one. Now... TACview showed that the missiles were tracking much better but none were hitting. I was whacked time and time again. I was on the verge of suicide so I switched to random AI in the MiGs and the fangs came out. I started getting more aggressive. Once the AI was set for random I started winning engagements about a third of the time. FINALLY one R-27RE HIT and killed a bandit. Sometimes the bandits would stick together and not separate. I would then make a 75 degree turn to the left or right to try to separate them. Usually it wouldn't work and I'd have to order my wingman to simply engage bandits and THAT would cause them to separate. Usually the leader would stay at around 1800 meters. If I went after him then I'd let an Alamo go at 2600 meter altitude and then dive for the deck at 50 degrees. About half way down I'd let another another one loose and give myself between 600 and 1000 meters altitude between us. Usually these shots would force him to turn and at times even run! When he would turn I would pour on the burner relight and try to maneuver behind him. Usually he would show me he flank and I'd fire a third Alamo. Tacview would show that the first and third would be close but would fail to hit. At this point either I'd pop an TE at him and smack him while dodging his wingman's shot (because my wingman is an A-hole). OR he'd turn into me and pop me in the face with an R-73. This usually was followed by extreme profanity from me. The second scenario involved me going after the wingman who dropped down to 300 meters altitude. I saw this happening and after learning about the ground clutter effect I dove down to the deck to try to get a clearer shot at him. We end up trading Alamo shots (his is an R while I manage to shoot first with an RE). I then either get into ET range or even R-73 range. I've heard a barrel roll can be a great way to dodge a missile. This true? Any further advice?

Doesn't bother me! I'm just happy I found the reason!

Because you can't manipulate objects very well using the "stock" system.

ATTENTION ALL YE WHO USE FRAPS! I think I found the culprit to my drop in fraps framerates. It's the damndest thing. I found out by accident. I'm not saying this will work with everybody but... here goes. Last night I did something that solved the problem. I played Silent hunter IV for 10 minutes. Fraps worked great there. I then went back to LOMAC and lo and behold I got framerates of 12. Not great but at least its running. I come ohme today and... same problem. What the hell? What happened?! Well... unplugged the X52 joystick and sure enough problem is solved. I'll test it again tomorrow but I suspect the Saitek X52 might be sending signals or draining memory. Possible or not... it's happening. Doesn't matter to me at all... when I edit movies I don't use the flight stick anyway. Try it guys.

This is such a great community. I really appreciate not being laughed off the map. Some online sites the people would just look at a question of "the notch" as an insult. I 've heard of the term and knew it was a radar blind spot but I had forgotten it was due to doppler effect. Just rusty I guess. The ground clutter is something I never thought was modeled so I disregarded it. Shame on me for watching History Channel's "dogfights" on DVD and not considering "Duke" Cunningham downing MiGs with the sparrow (booo!) only when they had an empty sky behind them. I came home early today (wife in bed sick... okay but not well). Took care of her and then decided to try what you gents recommended to me when I had some time. It bloody works! Wow do those Alamos track now! I was only able to fly a bit before duty called but this is so encouraging. Once again this little international group of cyber aviators shows how bright it can shine. Thanks guys. "Fighter Combat" by Robert Shaw (circa 1985) arrived today from Amazon. In between grading high school papers I'll escape into a good tutoring.

But.... launching high and emitting low will improve the accuracy of the missile?! Wow! I didn't know LOMAC's logic even modeled ground clutter.

Why does this work in real life? I mean... I know that you have to go in closer to use your infrared seekers on the R-27ET but why does the altitude have such an effect?

Oh! Is this because of ground clutter?!! Best to have an empty sky behind your target?! So... launch high because longer range and because once it passes below him it will have ZERO smash to turn into him? Emit LOW so that there's no ground clutter? Am I right?

Okay... it's times like these that I wish I flew LOMAC more and skippered SHIV less. Someone explain "the notch."

COBRABASE WANT COOL COCKPIT FOR FLANKER NOW!!! Incredible work. I'll bet it eats framerates but if it looks this good I wouldn't care.

But won't that extend the range of my target's weapons? Higher altitude = longer range?

Can't be... nothing has changed with my system's drivers and yet in 48 hours my fr dropped to zero.

I just defragged and got rid of garbage. I closed out every useless program I have and still I get a FR drop to ZERO! It was working just fine with the same variables just 48 hours ago!

I can launch it all day at not even max range and the thing just flies stupid on me. One puff of chaff from an enemy mig 29 and the R-27ER will fly to Saturn.

Wow, all of a sudden my FRAPS program is seriously slow! I was wondering if you guys think that a defragging of the hard drive might cause a speed up?

I'm really finding it to be quite useless against AI pilots. I must not be using it correctly. I find it to be so easily spoofed. I'm treating it like a long-range sparrow. Like... okay, easily fooled AND long range... WOW! Now I can make nice long white smoke trails!!