Plague2Delta

AV-8BNA all day.

I don't think the laser works like that. You could use a spot mark (sparkle) at night from a laser, and visually acquire with NVGs or your TPod as other person above suggested. Or just carry LMavs instead of IRMavs. Hope this helps.

Excellent! Just what I was hoping to hear. Thanks!

Just finally got my Jetseat KW-908 in the mail yesterday. Used it for about 5 hours since exclusively in the AV-8B. I just wanna say, it is incredible. I absolutely love it. Excellent purchase that enhances my flying experience. Thanks!

Would love to know too. Pretty much the only thing I am personally waiting on or care much about.

First day buy or pre-order for any C-130 or variant. Usually an A/G guy, but would love to fly the C-130, especially KC-130.

Definitely Southern Afghanistan. Helmand and Kandahar, so I can go back and give myself the air support I never got.

This whole post and "plea" is comedy gold and quality bants...Take a step back and realize this is a simulation where you are able to fly some of the most realistically modelled combat aircraft, participate in simulated combat and missions with people all over the world in real time, and yes pretend you are a combat pilot. Key word: pretend, because this isn't reality. For the time being there aren't female voices, pilot bodies (how would you know in a flight suit and helmet anyways, just stupid)...so do like you do when you fly, enjoy the simulation and pretend like the rest of us. As for the feels about the majority male dominated aviation community, get over it. No one has an obligation to cater to you over your sex. You already have the ultimate freedom and equality of access to the simulation and the community. Everyone is allowed their opinion (as is your opinion that you are being responded to), and the true equality is that you can come into this community, enjoy the simulation, and embrace the world of combat aviation, not make it a mythical patriarchal dragon for you and the white knights to slay. Besides that, why this social justice "plea," why aren't you flying and enjoying the simulation now? I am headed off to do just that.

Annnnd....pre-purchased. So stoked for this. :joystick:

Amen to that!

Hs 129 B-2 (maybe even a B-3 :pilotfly:), or Bf110 of some sort, flavor, variation, or taste.

My opinion is Harrier. We have been using it in my squadron as a stand in for the F/A-18C, and despite the limits due to EA and bugs, it is simply incredible. Also, I am personally biased, but the M2000C is great as well, I would still go for the Harrier hands down if I had to do it all over again. Hope that helps a bit.

Doubtful on the IL-2, but see your point. The F-35 is capable of far more, thus multi-role, which requires less differing airframes, less currency for pilots, less systems being employed, less communication due to information handoffs between platforms, etc...Sure, the A-10 fills the CAS role well, I am a huge fan, and I am also sad to see it go eventually. But, the F-35 was designed to do that role, and much more beyond. Just so you know, a little short sighted to ask what more is needed that isn't coming from combat rotor wing. There is a lot more. I agree with your thought wholeheartedly. I trust what people who actually fly the F-35 have to say about the F-35 more so than thinktank journalists with bones to pick just because they see a massive project, one that by the way, no one else in the world is capable of taking on single handedly at such scale. Jealousy breeds resentment, especially for sensationalist journalism. But yes I see the trend and hope others do as well.

CDI at POGO, no bias there at all, no way lol...Using a source document specifically outlined as a testing report giving transparency, as fact of failure of a program and declaring victory over the testing as if it is some huge political statement or "bucking the military industrial complex that gouges taxpayers"...yep, no bias at all. Guess it should be reminded these problems are being identified and addressed outside of combat mostly in testing or minimal service usage, unlike many of the "great" warplanes that tended to require costly retrofitting/re-engineering at the deficit of lives during war and explained as "lessons learned"...btw pray tell, who has a fifth gen. multirole fighter in numbers with 0 problems, 0 budget issues, and lacking petty political squabbling and speculation based on testing information being publicly released? Yea, crickets...Will take an F-35 overhead any day in the CAS role. But what do I know really? I am just a grunt.

Nice, great to see more Marine Squadrons coming on line as we get closer to release of the Hornet. 12/5 Virtual Devils!