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Now this sounds interesting!

Yeah, "old" bug, was introduced three to four updates ago... Did anyone manage to get GCI to respond on a dedicated multiplayer server? It looks like in singleplayer it works like a charm, but in MP I can't get any contact... (realistic comms)

Neulich bei der 1./JG71: PONTIAC 11 und PONTIAC 12 in der "last chance" für eine A2A training mission. PONTIAC 12 im overhead break über Nellis AFB zur 21L LOBO 12 bei einer A2G training mission kurz vor dem Tanken im anchor AR-625. LOBO 11 kurz vor dem contact mit TEXACO. Jester sagt, das sieht gut aus... Die 1./JG71 befindet sich nach wie vor in der B-Course-Phase F-4 und lernt fleißig, das Muster in allen Einsatzprofilen der Luftwaffe zu beherrschen und realistisch zu fliegen. Wer Interesse an realitätsnaher Fliegerei hat und mit uns lernen will, ist herzlich willkommen. Unsere Flugabende sprechen wir derzeit individuell ab, so wie alle Mitglieder Zeit und Lust haben. Für weitere Infos gerne eine PN an mich.

Neulich bei der 1./JG71: PONTIAC 11 und PONTIAC 12 in der "last chance" für eine A2A training mission. PONTIAC 12 im overhead break über Nellis AFB zur 21L LOBO 12 bei einer A2G training mission kurz vor dem Tanken im anchor AR-625. LOBO 11 kurz vor dem contact mit TEXACO. Jester sagt, das sieht gut aus... Die 1./JG71 befindet sich nach wie vor in der B-Course-Phase F-4 und lernt fleißig, das Muster in allen Einsatzprofilen der Luftwaffe zu beherrschen und realistisch zu fliegen. Wer Interesse an realitätsnaher Fliegerei hat und mit uns lernen will, ist herzlich willkommen. Unsere Flugabende sprechen wir derzeit individuell ab, so wie alle Mitglieder Zeit und Lust haben. Für weitere Infos gerne eine PN an mich.

Hi, I want to create a mission where Jester executes two INS updates overhead different VORTACs. I also want to have Nellis as homebase and Creech as alternate. Did I label the waypoints correctly, will Jester be able to work with this?

This annoying bug has ever been present since the release of the Huey. That's more than eleven years now... unbelievable.

1968 - 1989: Orange-red 1989 - 2009: dark-grey 2009 - present: green

Very justified request; now that Vonrd pointed me to it, I see these helmets everywhere in old GAF videos. Interesting to see is that - if I'm not mistaken - it looks like both the French and American helmets were in use at the same time, sometimes by the same crew. In this video you can see the pilot wearing the French helmet and the WSO wearing the American one.

I found this video which was posted 14 years ago, so 2010, and it shows the student pilots wearing the dark-grey Luftwaffe 1990s-2010s flightsuits, the dark-blue German Navy 1990s-2010s flightsuits and the green all-services 2010s-today flightsuits all at the same time, so I think it’s safe to say that the greens were introduced around 2009 to 2010.

Yeah, that is a pity actually, it is in fact not historically correct. All GAF skins for the 70s and 80s should have the orange-red flightsuits. In the late 1980s the GAF started to issue dark-grey flightsuits, but that didn‘t happen over night, you could still see some pilots using the red ones until 1990. I don‘t know the exact year when the GAF (and German Army and German Navy too, before that they all had their own colors, army=olive green, navy=dark/navy-blue) started using the common all-branches green flight suits, it might as well have been in the early to mid 2010s, and same thing, the change did not happen over night, you could see the dark-grey flightsuits suits along with the green for quite some time until all personell were equipped with the new green flight suits, and the miltary uniform regulations even today still mention the old flight suits (along with the classic grey aviator leather jacket that was a standard issue since the mid-to late 1960s) as a regular uniform alternative to the green flightsuit and green fabric aviator jacket.

Your photo from 1982 shows two GAF student pilots in flight training in the USA. There GAF pilots wore and still wear the standard US CWU 27 flightsuit, but once posted to units in Germany, they wear the GAF flightsuits. Green flightsuits where issued to all flying personel in the late 2000s, but in the 1970s and 1980s they certainly were orange-red. There are some photos from that era were you can see some wearing light-grey ones. I have no information though on which basis those were used, maybe they were issued as a "war time" alternative, along with the reds, but most photos and videos show pilots wearing the red ones. (Green flightsuits were introduced for German flying crews in the late 2000s, but they differ from the American CWUs.) I am ex-GAF, but not as a pilot or in the 1980s, but being a kid of the 80s, I dig that stuff The pilots of the 1980s were my childhood heroes. My avatar was made with the HB F-4 to represent that.

Thank you for the info, I learned something new today concerning the helmets. I only ever saw the American models in service. I think the pilots in the screenshots from the movie above are wearing the "Frankenstein" protection suits, used mainly for flights over (cold) water or arctic regions, not the regular flight suits. Indeed these came in red and green, nowadays they are green only. In the photo below these are regular flight suits, you can see that the GIB has pulled up his sleeves which would be hard to do in the "Frankenstein".

Eigentlich wollte ich den ewigen Zweiten mit "Second to none" nur etwas entgegen kommen und emotionale Hilfestellung bieten ( zumindest habe ich das so auch schon mal auf nem Patch einer Zwoten gelesen, weiß aber nicht mehr, ob das bei der 712 war)

Hi, thanks for this nice skin! The helmet might be wrong though, the GAF never used French helmets. The original photos you provided show the backseater with that helmet, and he also wears a green flightsuit which was not used by the GAF at that time (GAF flights units were orange-red in the 1970s-1980a), so I think the backseater in those photos was simply a guest from the French Airforce flying the backseat at the Tiger Meet, a common practice at that time.

Amazing map, amazing update. Well done Ugra!

Works for me, but you have to activate Attitude Hold first. Even the AP switches are animated now, I like it. Altitude hold works only straight and level though, in a bank it will sink.

You can, I do. The old FM may be underpowered according to the graphs, but it feels much more plausible and provides a flight performance as if you were flying a loaded Huey (with the discrepancy that the loading screen tells you you are not). With the new FM you often see people cruising at 130kts on MP servers...

"Second to none"

Interesting, the 1976 TO-1F-4F-1-34 mentions only the HD variant

Judging by the long list this is an excellent update to the F-4! I'm excited to try it in flight. Concering this point: Thank you, great addition! Will we also get the SAMP-250KG HD bombs? I might have to do some more research, but this post shows the GAF did use the HD variant, and depending on how you interpret the words, you might get the impression that the HD was in fact the only variant used in the GAF.

Yes, just checked, on multiplayer servers ATC still remains dead when calling it. So still no night flights on MP servers, as runway lights won't be activated.

Absolutely! Great module! And it appears it is even covertly kept in shape despite the "disagreements" between ED and RB.

Die Su-25(A) ist die Basisversion, für "Erdkampf"/Nahunterstützung von Bodentruppen konzipiert, hauptsächlich mit ungelenkten Waffen unterwegs (einzelne lasergelenkte Luft-Boden-Raketen gehen aber auch). Die Su-25T ist eine modifizierte Variante, die ursprünglich mal speziell für die Bekämpfung von Panzern vorgesehen war und daher auch die Vikhr-Lenkrakete tragen kann, die auch vom Ka-50 eingesetzt wird. Die -T hat das interne optische Zielsystem Shkval, damit kann sie mehrere Lenkwaffen einsetzen, z.B. optisch oder lasergelenkte Raketen und Bomben. Zudem kann sie den Fantasmagoria-Pod tragen, um Radarstellungen zu vermessen, und sie ist mit dem Mercury-Pod begrenzt nachtkampffähig. Die -T ist aber nie in Serie produziert worden, davon gab/gibt es nur ca. 10 Flugzeuge, die aber wohl im Tschetschenienkrieg eingesetzt wurden. Im die Flugleistungen der -A sind besser, die -T fliegt sich insbesondere mit (zu vielen) Waffen wie eine schwangere Kuh.

Ich will's gerne versuchen

Neulich bei der 1./JG71 - Zwei "Silver Lobos" beim Formationstraining mit AAR: VFR FYTTR departure Cloudsurfing Am Tanker im AR-641 anchor.