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  • Birthday 09/30/1967

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  1. Aggressor F-5’s were in the desert and if the equipment is installed it has to be maintained and the pilots have to maintain proficiency. Easy decision to not bother with ILS. And it really isn’t needed. In 15,000 hours flying all over the world in all kinds of weather, I probably needed ILS to see the runway less than 500 times, maybe a lot less than that. Never once in a desert.
  2. I forgot about PAR/GSR. Those are pretty exciting IRL. TBH, the way the weather works in DCS makes ILS pretty useless. Trying to get ILS mins at one airport is going to sock in all the rest, generally speaking.
  3. T-38 is a trainer and required the ILS for the curriculum. I imagine the foreign buyers put the ILS in for much the same reason, proficiency in procedures versus any combat usefulness.
  4. Non-Precision approach minimums are sufficient for what the F-5 does. 600 ft universally and as low as 400 in some spots If the F-5 needs an ILS, it shouldn’t even bother to sortie.
  5. Imagine typing multiple paragraphs agonizing over when you are going to be able to play with your new toy? It does make for fun reading though.
  6. I know that it being buggy sucks but you dont really need it to fly through the clouds for short periods. Other instruments provide all the information you need to fly blind.
  7. Logistics is going to run out of F-5 wings long before it runs out burned out light bulbs for the F-4.
  8. Naw, it just means they hit the big volume discount number and finally sent them to be produced.
  9. No reason to stick to historically accurate paint schemes. Do custom paint. Makes it easier to find your wingman as well.
  10. Can the Phantom WSO get a different name? Jester was not the guy in the back in the first place and its a horrible name. My pick would be ZEUS, Zero Effort Unless Supervised.
  11. Its only 40 lbs or so. 80 lbs is the worst case. I think its the stick actuator that would fail before the hardware. Pizza curls ain't gonna cut it for FFB at a realistic level but any reasonably fit 70 year old can handle realistic stick forces.
  12. If DCS had user map capability, this would be a fun one time map. It certainly would not be something worth paying money for, even if the period appropriate assets were available. I have flown Battle of Midway in 200 player PvP events a few times. They were fun events but by the time DCS has a complete set of assets for that battle, WWII will not hold interest for anyone still alive. It would be easier and much faster to resurrect an old WWII MMOLG and stage all those Pacific events on the maps they did decades ago. Probably more fun, too.
  13. Having changed brake media myself for 40 years, I am familiar. However, all you are doing is proving my point. Brake media is subject to wear, yet, until that media is worn beyond limits, performance is not affected. Long before they reach that point, normal pre-flight inspection and routine maintenance will drive replacement of the affected component with no discernible performance impact from the pilot point of view. The simulated brake media is going to be scattered across the simulated landscape or at the bottom of a simulated smoking hole long before it is necessary to simulate replacing them.
  14. I don’t get the idea of “wear and tear” either except for tires, paint, turbine temps and eroding leading edges or domes. You might fly a jet with multiple items “inop” if they aren’t mission or safety critical but even the ancient, clapped out, zero maintenance freighters I flew way back in the last century were basically binary. Worked or it didn’t.
  15. It would help to know what post you are addressing. I don’t see anyone saying bent metal is good in any case.
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