Panhead

i noticed :)

I'll PM you.

I have TS and SR up all the time. When I GCI, I can see who is using SR and who is not, by using the website or the desktop app. If they are using simple radio, they are aware of the public GCI channels from the -motd and from a few other documents. So, we have a known freq for GCI, and if my instructions are to those I know on SR, I use that. Because if they want GCI, they are on that freq. For those on only TS, I request they join SR for GCI. If they can't for some reason or another, I broadcast in TS as well. Is it cumbersome, yes. But I'm not going to force people to use SR for my GCI calls if I am doing it publicly. A public GCI is just that - for everyone. Would I prefer to use just one? And which would it be? Personally, I'd want SR for GCI exclusively. For squad only controlling (where I am not directing everyone), I am calling on one or the other. Not both. EDIT: For aircraft with a single radio, or two dissimilar aircraft in the same flight with incompatible frequencies, it may be a little tough... i.e. F5 or MiG21... Game the system a little and use TS in another channel for interflight and SR if you want GCI.

Hi, just to clarify what I believe Sacha is proposing - and some of you are agreeing with, including some of my own thoughts: A) In very general terms with no specific boundaries, we will assume that each airport is considered uncontrolled - i.e. no Tower/Departure/Ground/Arrival, etc. This means there is no human monitoring and directing aircraft. In games terms, there is no dedicated GCI for traffic purposes. B) Tune your radio to the airport tower frequency. 5 mic clicks will turn the runway lights on... no, wait... Just state your intentions on this frequency. You don't have to be all hard, and do it with proper language, but it will help. Whenever I try to be a gaming pilot I always mush mouth the comms and say shit all jacked up - so it's much easier for me to keep it simple. C) The only people on this freq are those using the airport. We can assume there will be those not using Simple Radio, or TS for that matter. No big deal. As stated earlier, adhere to a side of the runway if you want. Gentlemen, we have to take the initiative. If we throw our hands up and say people won't do this because they can't be assed to do it, or are not on comms, then we remain in a state of chaos. Create the opportunity for society to accept what is being done in a consistent manner, and we thereby establish the norm. EDIT: To those too shy too get on comms: don't be afraid of messing up. I mess up all the time and people ask me WTF you just say? I've been in radio broadcasting for going on 20 years, and I still get apprehensive every time I crack the mic. I've held a pilots' license for nearly that amount of time as well - and I still have to think before talking - and I still jack it up. LOL - just be yourself... be brave... don't be all talkie talkie on open comms... and smile. It's a goddamned game. Serious Business, and I'll cut a mf'er... but a game, nonetheless.

it could be, just letters alone (like MM) creates a wp at MM0000000000 then your second input of just numbers used the MM grid by default - as i described above. so in essence, you created 2 waypoints?

if people are jibber jabbering on guard... yea. they need to stfu.

i do :) except for one thing. i do not announce number of a/c in flight when taxiing to active. it's not SOP for wartime. civilian airspace in peacetime, yes. but not wartime. doesn't matter to be honest, and i'm being pedantic, really - especially since we do not have real ATC that can look out his window and there is no cross frequency usage by red or blue monitoring the uncontrolled airspace - but... whatev's. :D i still dial it in and state my intentions on local ATC channel.

It is disruptive, and completely unnecessary on the GCI freq in the game. if you must call fox, rifle, gear up, inbound rwy 27, saddled, etc., there are several thousand other frequencies you can choose from and coordinate with your wingmen.

truth. as an added bonus, any subsequent utm coordinates in the same letter grid do not require anything but numbers. the letters are inserted automagically.

To add a WP/MP, or whatever, to your flight plan: After you create a new one, ensure PAGE knob is set to OTHER, then press FPM. Press LSK R1 on the CDU to edit the current flight plan. Press the PG DWN button to move to the next page if you need to get to the end of the flight plan. Type name of WP you created earlier. It should pop up after a few letters entered. Press the Left LSK next to the entry that is empty (it says NEXT), and the WP is added to the end of the plan. You can dick around with it to learn how to replace a WP or Insert one in the middle as well. In fact, you don't even have to enter the name, if you know the WP number. Just put that in, and it comes up when you press the LSK to add it. Violin!

We're going to kill a friend, Yvgeni. We're going to kill Ramius. I could do this all day. Love me some sub huntin' quotes. :) We need greg to put a sub in BF. The F5 can kill it, apparently.

Ryan, some things in here don't react well to bullets. Yeah, like me. I don't react well to bullets.

Overlooked by accident. They knew about it during testing, but forgot to remove it is all.

In an A10C doing air to air he scares the living shit out of me. For real. I wish he spoke English instead of Romulan or something, so I can ask him 'how do'. ;)

i don't like you any more :mad:

:thumbup: Have your Cake :thumbdown: Eat it too Your choice. Not both! haha. EDIT: Boo! Greg. You are too nice to micro.

This round will see us as Blue, as we have already voted at the start of Test. I'll ask Flame if he wants to do a re-vote. If we do go Red, I'll have to be dedicated GCI (internal or public, depending on if Red GCI is already in place), with perhaps a KA-50 sortie once or twice a week. I'm not a very good -50 pilot and would not take those slots from someone else. I do not mind going either route. What I do mind is fighting for a UH-1H slot with people not on comms that fly opposite the direction we are working, and have to fly a Huey from goddamned Sochi to Gelen or Maykop :( Which is a direct result of the lopsided numbers. Don't get me wrong, I'm cool with random people joining the server and doing their own thing, but Tolstoy's Three Teeth... at least have the common decency to look at chat. :mad:

These words sound sufficiently erotic for me to google them using an anonymous browser session.

I most definitely see a SAM launch. Your FPS must be single digits with those procedurally generated trees and grass.

I just pop in Red channel and say "Hello, boyos!" Next thing you know I have the codes, and B1s can strike with impunity. :music_whistling:

Keeping true to spirit of the forum, I will oppose any view on fairness you put forth. :thumbup: But in all seriousness, I do not have a dog in this fight. I only fly A10C and more recently, Huey. I can't make an informed comment on anything outside of these two aircraft and certainly not their perceived counterpart(s). What I can say, without any doubt, is that SA-6s are the devil's work, and anyone deploying them are sinners beyond redemption. :)

Maykop AD around 2000GMT yesterday looked like downtown Hanoi. Red Mi-8 guys are heroes. Stopped our package cold.

You could very well be correct with nugget. I had never heard it except in the movies. But then again, I was never in a ready room, or anywhere else the naval aviators congregated. On the other side, though, regardless of duty station (fleet or shore duty), there were wogs and cherries, with the latter most often in use. PS: AND IT'S NOT MAGICAL! IT'S REAL! King Neptune graced us with His Royal Presence to hold court and I plucked an olive out of the Royal baby's fat-hairy-lard covered belly button with my teeth and ate it. :) PPSS: Yes, the equator.

Just to be clear: The Frequency Planner would not be of much use without Ciribob's work. Also, to reiterate, you do not need edit-level access to change the frequencies on the sheet. (Unless, of course, I'm retarded and do not understand basic sharing and access rights on Google Drive - which could totally be the case... I've been known to be right only 0.2% of my life, so says my wife.) If you want to change anything outside the range of B2:E2, you'll need to make your own copy by downloading it locally, or by making a copy on your own Google Drive. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jI83t8sfmaTc3O1nPQh417VMyvDf0rB_JAUlpWZ1E8E/edit?usp=sharing

We called them wogs or cherries in the USN. Maybe nugget in the movies, but wogs in real life. At least that is my experience. Of course that is in the fleet... I'm unsure what Naval Aviators called their students - maybe just Ensign. I do recall bludgeoning a few Ensigns and LTs from one of the the deployed VFAs with a sand-filled fire hose while they were on their knees crawling through month old garbage on the flight deck in 110F degree heat, and calling them dirty wogs - but never nugget. :)