Robert31178

The purist in you should also note that the -4 is not what we are getting but is what was flown in Korea......a 3 blade Hog with Korean theater markings looks goofy.

Alrighty, I stand corrected then!!!

Uh.......good luck. You really think when the Tomcat drops folks are gonna just up and leave it to fly this heap?

Jug was reportedly a world class fighter above 30K. I know most fights don't take place like that here in the sim world, but from what pilots who flew her say she had a terrific roll rate, was very fast flat out, and could fall on a diving Jerry like a safe. The Hellhawks did some pretty good work against the Luftwaffe in the low/med altitude world as well; I've said it many times before, but they for sure gave better than they got vs late war FW's. I will say, for critical distance, that this is most likely the result of the German pilot problem, and the guys flying here are way more experienced in our "chosen profession" than your average German, or even American, fighter pilot, and as such I doubt the Jug would fare as good here as it did in real life in a low and mid level engagement.

Yep, gotta have a mouth since you'll be eating Aim-9's and Sparrows.....historically speaking of course.

"Or Richard Bong, with 40 kills? (all P-38?). Or Pappy, with 26 in the Corsair? " I was just saying because folks have huge boners for the Spamcan. And I didn't mean Mustangs of the Pacific, I meant even the Jugs in the Pacific did better than the Mustangs in EU in terms of highest score. If you want to go for just hard numbers then you have to go with Wolfpack, They shot down close to 700 Luftwaffe planes, and not at the end when there was a 5 to 1 numerical advantage over Germans, or when the pilot quality had declined substantially. They shot down more planes than any group of the war when the Luftwaffe was about as good as it was gonna be, mid-late '43 going into '44. George Preddy would have broken Gabby's record, I believe that, and it is unfortunate that Allied recognition really stunk across the board, resulting, predictably, in Allied pilots getting shot down way too often. Of course the top two aces of the war flew P-38's, and yes Boyington of course had 26 official or 29 or so unofficial between the P-40 and the Corsair, you have Foss at 26 in a bloomin' Wildcat, Hanson at 25 in the Corsair, McCambell at 34 in the Hellcat.......I can go on and on about the US greats, this was specifically aimed at the Mustang vs Thunderbolt convo.

Soooooon my man, patience!!!! Pretty good story time with RNZAF No 75 squadron: ${1}

Any chance you talk to the Buccaneer folks and help them get that one wrapped up? Congrats on the Alaska job! My pops flew Corsairs in Korea, was a USMC pilot for 14 years total, then flew for United for 29 years. He said the guys who flew in Alaska, airlines and bush guys, were hands down some of the best pilots in the world. Good luck in your new adventures!!

Corsair update??? It's a small one, but hell yeah guys!! Can't wait, my Pops flew -4's in Korea, I loves me some Hose Nose/Hog/Ensign Eliminator/you pick a derogatory name for one of the warbrid greats!

Man, getting excited!!!! ~Rob

Hey, I think the best part is that even in the Pacific the P-47 did better than Mustang in terms of scoring lol....didn't Neel Kearby have more kills than almost every Mustang pilot too? He had 22, Preddy is the only Pony driver who scored more than Kearby with 26, the next nearest all were in the 18-21 range. Also, this made me laugh today......

Is the sale on PG map over? If so then ore-purchase Cat, follow up with PG when able. If not buy the map. That's how I'd do it.

So....... Very fun to fly, really. Easy to make the jet do anything I asked. I did explode on touchdown even though I was as smooth as one could be - I am unsure of decent rate and touchdown speed but it felt like it was doing nicely at 110kts indicated? As for the modded export.lua, I use UIR with my unit, how does this affect it if it is renaming stuff like expert.lua files in my game? I also experienced this issue, anyone know how to fix this?:

Livery Ideas: For sure you need to do the MiG Eater from Gulf War 1!!! I know officially its kill was revoked, but it was a very busy airplane during the conflict, over 40 missions. I am finding conflicting images of what her starboard side actually looked like. I posted one that has the black/gray under the canopy rail, I have seen others without, and since there aren't nose numbers I can't say with any certainty which is correct. Can anyone with real knowledge weigh in here please?

-53!! Either the E or Pavelow would be neat!

To be fair I didn't wade through all pages of this thread, but yes, add it please!! I know everyone keeps mentioning that this airbase wasn't around during the Falklands conflict, but neither were the variants of the Mirage or Harrier we have as modules, so.....?

Pave Knife!!

It took me three different times/tries to really get into DCS because of the amount of time I had to invest in it to be any good. After spending about 12 years flying nothing but IL2: 1946 this sim was very intimidating. I focused on Huey and Sabre; I had purchased the Hawg as well but after trying to memorize 30 steps just to start it I gave up as I knew the weaps were going to be beyond me and my tiny warbird brain. It took me about 2 months of hard flying to become proficient enough in Huey to consider myself "combat capable" with the unit I ran with. I had very little help aside from YouTube at that point and learned tips here and there from "veteran" DCS Huey pilots, SnowTiger and Oghr. All of this got me facing the right direction. I should add that I also retired from the military before starting down the road towards Huey "pilot", so even with nothing but time off it took me months of flying many hours a day, repeating the same maneuvers over and over and over, to get to where I was happy with my flying. This sim takes a long time to get comfy with, each module takes a very long time to master, and it shows when you happen across people who clearly have invested less time into their chosen module than others you regularly fly with. This is an incredible sim, very rewarding, but it's the old "garbage in, garbage out" thing. ~Rob

You're right, I don't know what you meant because you should have not said "UH flight model" and instead stated something closer to "current joystick tech", especially if you're going to blow someone up for their perceived dumbassery.

That's not what some Huey pilots have said....but what do they know anyways eh?

"It will never happen but what would happen if you took the best P-51 pilot in the war and put him against the best 109 pilot. in the war? One on one. Who wins?" Good question. I read a study once, Bud Anderson vs some other Experten (cannot recall which one) on rate of scoring, and it was about even. I know he wasn't the best, but he was up there with 18.5 or so. The Luftwaffe was meeting the enemy more than any Allied air corps, so you they went by how often a pilot saw enemy planes. It wasn't a one pilot study either, there were others thrown in but I cannot recall who else was there.

Old template maybe? Is this HT-18 skin available to us? ~Rob

This.

I mean, the Phantom Pholks want their plane, but from a business standpoint the Viper makes more sense. It's newer so not only does it fit in with what ED has been building, but the plane is more iconic to the generation that started loving aviation in the early 90's and after......Phantoms were pictures in books to anyone in the US except for some target drones. As much as I want the Phantom, I'm a product of the late 70's, I feel like the F-16 is a good pick, especially the Block 50 as it falls in line with the Hornet we received. We'll get out Rhino at some point, and I'll patiently wait it, but I'll certainly buy the Electric Jet!!!

I think there is another thing in play here - experience in combat. I'll explain..... We who have flown flight sims for lcose to 2 decades have made thousands of mistakes, many times taking more than once to learn the lesson, and have gained valuable experience. While many of us would not have survived air combat most likely we now are more than equivalent to any Experten who flew from Condor Legion through to the end of the war. Now I realize the we aren't flying real warbirds, but at no point in the history of air combat did a person with tens of thousands of hours worth of combat time go against another with the same experience, let alone many of these vs many of these. With people like us flying simulations we have learned to exploit our favorite plane's strengths better over other plane's weaknesses, and the pilot makes the difference up. Some of us started in FS1 and Jane's WWII Fighters, came up through IL2, 1946, CloD, and now this and BOX series. We all are more experienced fighter pilots then any who have flown in real life. The 109 is superior to the Mustang in some ways, initial rate of turn, initial climb, but in WWII the Mustang was flown by more experienced pilots and usually enjoyed a 5 to 1 advantage in numbers. that's a no brainer. But for every story a US airman told of shooting down a German there's another about how in a 1v1 engagement with a 109 it took everything trick a Mustang pilot knew to even survive and it had to have been flown by an old head. While the 109 was an outdated design by WWII standards it could more than hold it's own vs any US fighter when flown by someone who had flown one for years. I've even read that some Experten had zero respect for the Mustang 1v1, but didn't like to fight Jugs. ~Rob