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Just did my first start up and sortie, its a nice ride, currently the ugly stepsister inside, but with a major facelift on the way could see spending lots of time in it. Doesn't seem all that deep systems wise, but not simple either, weapons requires some study, flying parts easy with quality flight time already in a huey.

Look on the plus side, these last few releases have really raised the bar in fidelity and quality. There's plenty of SME's for them with great published information, as the sim building steam roller gets its gears in full motion we should end up with far higher quality early gen builds as a result. Success on one end normally transmits to the other. From my viewpoint the frequency of releases has really picked up steam, thinking we're on the hi side of complexity, there's a great chance the gravy days are coming for the early stuff as a flood. We'll soon see it in how WWII kicks off with a proper map or two with a couple more airframes.

Wouldn't happen to have any other controllers hooked up, like a steering wheel that's hooked an axis automatically in your settings? Quite common, if they hiccup or jitter, they will take over the axis for a bit at their current position, until you wrestle it back.

https://www.windowscentral.com/samsung-odyssey-heavily-discounted-amid-rumors-new-headset

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/ This comes in handy if you wish to do a pure component to component comparison, get a rough idea how they stack up against each other.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/500/#1510447 Read this

https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/samsung-next-oddessy-headset-design-patent-cnipa/ Possible follow on sighting for O+? O++?

The Hornet with carrier package is also a great deal, figure 24 for the carrier, you walk with a 40 hornet. Or figure it this way, throw in a carrier for five bucks above the Hornets current sale price.

https://www.goodrichhoistandwinch.com/products/detail/rescue-hoist-42305/ And one of these to attach.

Set it up on a second VR rig and gave rides to my daughter, she's a confirmed Tomcat fan now. All it took was a few launches and traps, she's already fairly proficient in an L-39 and UH-1, just turned 11. Beginning to focus and highly motivated toward a career as a commercial pilot, imagine that. Guess it's full blower on another Virpil system, time to send the worn out old cougar to the grave. But the effort and what they can actually learn in sim is well worth it!

The level of detail on the Guam map is a sight, hope the massive dip is sloped into the runway and field. Seemed the place had chronic water puddles on the ramps from the daily showers even in the sunshine. The trees and foliage, someone really did their homework! If the new WWII map looks even close, going to start filling the hanger with more props. So how many hours does it take a Tomcat to hit bottom in the trench when rolling overboard?

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-iran-taking-ancient-f-14-tomcats-and-making-them-better-74896 Fascinating story, didn't know the original Tomcat fleet weren't even sidewinder and sparrow ready, they had to add that capability themselves later. Nothing was really ready to go, training was never fully finished, nor spare parts delivered. First combat sorties were Phoenix and guns only.

With the A model hope we get the HGU-2A/P, don't think most people know it was the USAF who ran, equipped, and administered Iran's F-14 program.

If you don't make a perfect score on your trap, security shoots your pilot and deck crew shove your plane overboard.

Lucky enough to get a gig on Starlifters back in the golden age of air shows late 70's to early 90's. The shows all turned to crap after that, no more petting zoo's and after hours tours, and not so many put on by the forces themselves. Now its an all for profit business. Being in a trash hauler, you always wind up parked on center stage at any active mission base on the transit ramp, same spot every passing fighter looking for fuel doing a cross country does its RON and pit stops. Back in the day no one gave a rip if you went over and snapped a few shots and did some lookey see, as long as you belonged there yourself. That all kind of stopped in the early 90's. Kind of cool seeing them crammed on the boat anchored of Diego Gar as you arrived or departed. Back than there was still loads of color and art. An afternoon or two sitting on the ramp when Miramar was still a Navy place watching them sortie in the spots right next to us, even have a slide of the Top Gun bird with the big patch on the tail parked in front of the TG hanger in 85. Nobody seemed to mind me and my camera. In the 90's Cats were regulars at Klamath Falls, we had an ADF detachment out there to support, all military aviation guys pay attention to the on going action, its their nature. The guys always put on a show when they know competition is watching, they're all drinking and pissing in the same clubs. But than there was lots of cool stuff back than, the ear shattering of a Korean Sabre taxiing straight at you, or a diamond formation of Japanese Starfighters ripping low overhead, 106's sparring against phantom D's over a ICBM fields mil air space, or a pair of the last of the 105 wild weasles pulling in to park by the hanger next to the one you work in on their way to the bone yards. Tomcats were definitely a notch or two up on the head turning factor. Can't wait for the early A, that's my era. No movie needed for any memories, plenty there.

Impressive how much you've retained in the amount of time that's passed, really loved that job, didn't you! Top notch stuff, rare is the man who knows what ALL of the switches do, and why.

What difference does it make, they can still scale the world too their hearts content, the ability is there. They're not asking for anything new, just a refinement, and your not stopping jack.

How many years have you guys been around now? I've been jumping on and off since Flanker 2. Think the longevity speaks for itself, this sim is never going to be finished, the day it is finalized and finished it joins the rest in the dust bin. If the method works, be awful stupid to change it.

Don't think the Ojo will ever see the light of day, it did release in Malaysia months ago, than fell off the cliff.

There's a big difference between a BAK test and an actual emergency engagement. Test is done with taxi only, so speeds can be limited.

It also has an annoying feature, as you move closer to the mirror your pilot gets smaller. Good luck using them tactically, not going to happen.

One more thing you can try, https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=211227 There's more in the file you can change since, they made it more complex and separated more elements as far as colors. I found a lite blue was far more readable on the DDI's, but haven't flown a hornet in a long while.

Her way of admitting she was wrong about the effects of good quality simulation after all the years of proof.

In the Options menus, under the VR tab, check the "force IPD distance" which will scale your jet larger with a lower number. Disregard the meaning of IPD on this setting, it has nothing to do with the IPD of your actual VR HMD, it does adjust game world scaling, and very well.

Thanks, be keeping an eye out for it, looks like a good movie.