Robert31178

I have a request - Is it possible to put in an update to have chocks added to the menu OR the brakes being able to be assigned to a pedal, even a single one? I have a button bound to my stick, and it's fine except for start up; I keep finding myself taxiing when I look up, usually I hold both pedal brakes down on a/c, or use a parking brake which the Scooter does not appear to have. I use CH gear so I am unable to assign it to a toggle. Is this something that can be done? Thanks in advance for considering it!! ~Rob

HF, will you by chance be doing any Marines skins for the Scooter, specifically the A-4F's of VMFA-214? I know this is an M but I would LOVE to see this one as my Pops flew with 214th at some point and also had time in the Scooter in the earl 60's out of NAS Glenview.

Yeah, this one is a home run. I spent all night in it flying wing, it was real work but after dampening the axis a bit she flies smoooo-ooth!! It's really well done, I mean the radar and nav stuff is incredibly well made and functions about as good as the paid modules. I'm very impressed.

"Some photos, Notice the refueling probe is offset on the "M"." Not sure if it was a retrofit affair, but you can see it as early as the F model.

The B/N did run the radars and steer points, hence the N in B/N....navigator:-) The steer points were displayed to the pilot on the VDI on the older models, not familiar enough with the E/TRAM to know if they had moving maps or anything.

Meanwhile my gray Huey skins look like unpainted aluminum.....grrrr.....

Do we know if the A-4 will eventually have it's own thread in the liveries section? ~Rob

Ok, thank you!!

I have a set, use them to fly Huey.....I won't go back to my CH Pros to fly heli's again. Looks like I should have waited to purchase them lol, this is a steal!

hey, I just saw that the carrier cold start is hindered because of the huffer. does that mean if the carrier isn't moving we can cold start, then once she's lit off the carrier can move?

Nah, stick around!!

I guess some people need to read about Hoser Satrapa's 2v1 fight against F-15's during Red Flag. Two fights actually, the second one the USAF Eagle drivers knew there was only one Tomcat and still got waxed. Per the RIO's story Hoser had the plane in full landing configuration and was turning all over the Eagles, flaps, gear, spoilers. I don't remember what year this was, but it wouldn't shock me if it were in an A model. We all know the limitations of the TF-30's, but the plane could still fly quite well as it had big ass'd wings, slats, huge control surfaces, and in the hands of someone as experiences as Hoser, or Snort, or any of those guys who flew it more or less from day one then a Viper or Eagle driver would more than have his or her hands full. For critical distance - I also read once on here a post on a thread that someone tossed up, it was a note written by an Eagle driver. He said something to the affect that with the A models they just went vertical and came down and killed the hell out of the Navy. With the B's and A+'s it became more difficult, and the D was such an advanced plane that the Tomcat pilots had to worry less about flying the airplane and could focus on coming up with more ways to kill them the Eagles. Going back to the first part, every plane has its issues. Every single one. Sometimes it's just the pilot that makes the difference. Whether it's 50 Hellcats vs a single Zero flown by Saki, late model 109's in the hands of an Experten tearing Mustangs up, a peasant air force sticking it to "the man" over North Vietnam, or a lucky punch in the nose on a fairly new Hornet in Gulf War I, sometimes the man makes the difference, not the machine.

I read somewhere that in the A's you did leave the deck in burner, but with the updated engines you could not because the thrust was so much that if you lost an engine as you were leaving the deck you would never recover the asymmetrical thrust at such low speeds.

We got a screenie thread started yet?

Si flew her today for the first time, logged about .3 hours making take offs and landings on an airfield. Had a BLAST!! Thank you so much guys, I wish Gos was around to see it mature from pics that made us salivate to coming "to the table". Scoot til you toot everybody!! ~Rob

Man I can't wait to get home!!!!!

Nope, not really. The F has the Merlin engine going for it, and if nothing else it would have been able to out turn all of these late model German fighters, but yeah it was an outdated airframe right off the bat. As I mentioned in the P-47 thread, it will enjoy even less success online than it did in real life simply because we, as E-fighter pilots, have so much more experience than all but maybe the longest fighting Experten in fighter aircraft that most of the advantages that the P-40 could carry into a fight are eliminated by the fact that all of us have studied our craft for decades in some cases. It's pretty much now unless you have a huge altitude advantage you won't survive in a P-40 unless you just aren't spotted.......and man are planes hard to see on this game!! Then there's the obvious, uh, where is our P-40 anyways?

STFU Frod, you'll get it and you'll like it, same as the rest of us.

Yeah, I saw that it was a Lockheed. Pretty neato!!

I know of one, they fly F-5 and F/A-18 as aggressors. Try this: https://discord.gg/hgYeSf

Scoot til you toot!!

Razor knows, he flew IL2 / 1946 series for a long time. We only have the -4 as a Mod.

Drumstick for the win....

Chief and Bern......I mean, you could always write the code for ED/BST yourself?

Will there be a JSGME option for those of us who run that?