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!

Just wanted to drop a line and say I am a huge fan of SATAL now. Usually catch the stream afterwards on Saturdays, but it is now a weekly habit. Great work putting it all together and making it all happen, and great job to all the squadrons out there participating!!! Look forward to each week and the competition that will continue to build!

Bumpity Bump....:joystick:

Terrible news. Condolences to my Navy brethren, the families of each, and VFA-213. Semper Fi to them and rest easy Gents.

Whoa how did I miss this? This is still going right?

In that case Wags, when I get paid again, I will pick up something I don't have. Hopefully that will help support more.

Not sure that is how it works. They set the price based on their perception of work and value. The customer thus decides if the value of the product matches the price, then decides to buy. So, it sounds like you don't believe the cost of the module is equal to the work and value of the product. So, if that is the case, don't buy it. But don't sit here and complain like the sky is falling. It is 20 dollars off right now, which is the cost of a typical, normal, new module without discounts. I think that is more than fair that you have the opportunity to: 1) Pre-Purchase 2) Receive a discount for pre-purchase So, if you purchase or not it is incosequential, but stop pretending it is unfair. If you don't have the cash, save up. If you don't feel it is worth it, don't buy it.

I reckon you won't be flying the Hornet then. :pilotfly:

Finally. Pre-purchased, I am so stoked.

Ok guy. UCMJ articles are just opinions now? :megalol: Yea, ok sure, gonna lump your responses now into the TL;DR category. Also, I never said blindly follow any order. An unlawful order is an unlawful order, no matter what. No matter what your mindset is or what academies and schools you claim or the number of subordinates. That's like day one UCMJ training for the most basic recruits at E-1 paygrade. Have a good one.

I wanted to just hone in on this point, though a little behind on the discussion at hand. Note that this is not a personal attack; however, this is flawed. Now I am not sure whether it is the time or gap of service (I totally understand since it has been years since I served) or perhaps a more officer-oriented thinking. But, this is legally wrong, and I guarantee you most combat veterans, especially those in low-intensity or COIN operations as of late, are keenly aware. As per the UCMJ: Section 16c(1)©: "Lawfulness. A general order or regulation is lawful unless it is contrary to the Constitution, the laws of the United States, or lawful superior orders or for some other reason is beyond the authority of the official issuing it." Section 14c(2)(a)(i): "Inference of lawfulness. A order requiring the performance of a military duty or act may be inferred to be lawful and it is disobeyed at the peril of the subordinate. This inference does not apply to a patently illegal order, such as one that directs the commission of a crime." So, to say that somehow an effective combat unit can't have orders questioned is ridiculous, it trounces upon the hallmark of initiative, individual ethics, and understanding of applicable law (especially of junior leadership, both officer and NCO). I say that from personal experience in a combat zone (and in combat), where one does question at peril, but no matter what, I don't know of any other combat veterans (or active) who would willfully obey an unlawful order regardless if "the commander will be punished in due time and process." Yes, no matter what level (tactical, operational, or strategic) of authority, what grade/rank/rating/experience might say in an order; if the service member is given an unlawful order or even questionable order, it can and should be evaluated. Now, if it happens that the tactical picture or fog of war debilitated a view that made the order lawful, it is disobeyed at his peril. From what I have seen and experienced, this is exceedingly rare. More often than not, it is blatantly unlawful. (Of course there are cases of unlawful orders being followed, but mere cases out of potentially hundreds of thousands of hours of operations without fault.) So bottom line, to think that orders are always obeyed contingent upon responsibility of a commander, without question, is wrong. To think that somehow a commander has full authority to give orders without question or evaluation, is also wrong. For any subordinates, who do not question or evaluate the lawfulness of an order, is also wrong. I understand this post went a bit OT, but I honestly think that this misunderstanding has a good point from the perspective of drones/humans in the loop, etc. I also think that some clarification is needed on the original post. I do not fault neofightr, nor do I wish to argue, just simply state the applicable law governed by UCMJ. Upon reading this point, I felt a bit compelled to correct it, since I have personally seen this happen.