Robert31178

Fill up lol...she's thirsty!!

Happy birfday :-)

Jeffery Ethel RIP.....

Not yet....but someday. Belsimtek has said they are hard at work and hope to implement it soon. ~Rob

Huey......lol but I am the CSAR guy in my unit and pretty much fly only that, so..... My point for writing that is because It's subjective. I happen to be better at flying this helicopter better than the other's and better than I can a fixed wing a/C. You should decide what you think is neato and buy it. You may or may not be happy with it, hell I have buyer's remorse for two modules I never fly, but at least you'd know for yourself.

Ah, thank you so much. Always learning!! I personally am hoping for Tornado over F-111. Considering that these guys like to break new ground I wonder if HB might even be tackling a Bone? System wise it'd be tough, but fun to think about!!

Forgive my ignorance, what is "Tonka"?

I can totally understand switching up from 6 x .50's to a 20mm gatling gun....same idea, loads of rounds on target, only now you get the advantage of it being heavy rounds!!!

I'm late to the party, but hope you all did have a great Christmas!!!

You sure it was Steve Hinton? Thought Sr. was born in 1952?

.50's are the opposite of worthless. Back in Korea the .50's could pump out 900-ish rounds a min. Each round had a muzzle velocity of over 2800 feet per second. Each round weighed 619 grains and impacted with over 10,000lbs of energy. The Browning M2 also shoots pretty dead on for a machine gun out to 1500yds, That's twice as far as you'd ever engage an air target. Now multiply all of that times six. There's a reason why the US standardized it's armament to using the .50 during WWII. Against heavily armored ground targets it wasn't a great weapon, but against anything in the air it was a rip saw, thousands of pounds of bullets hitting a target so hard that in the words of one Jug pilot engaging a Bf-109 "it moved the enemy fighter visible sidways". Jets, by the nature of their fuel and power plant, are even more susceptible to incoming fire. To say that the .50 is worthless is such a closed minded, uneducated statement. One to one vs a cannon like a 20mm or 30mm sure, a single round doesn't do the damage, but you never have equal fire lol, you have 10 rds per gun times 6 guns all focused on one little area since the guns have a set convergence for each cannon round..... I think if nothing else you could look at the kill ratio during Korea too. We wrecked their crap lol, I wanna say a 10 to 1 ratio (fuzzy memory).....most of the kills are owned by Sabres, and of course these were equipped with 6 x M2 .50 cal. Were there other factors contributing? Yep, hydraulically boosted controls and better visibility on the Sabre sure were clear advantages over the MiG-15, but once in a position to engage you had your .50's :-)

Nov 30th, post #390 by Prowler in the RAZBAM A-6 Intruder thread. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3306928&postcount=390

I definitely agree with BB on that!!! Aside from the occasional snarky comment (guilty like most everyone ) and some unfair downchevks on a few posts this community is so much more lenient on off the wall comments and timeline requests. I see LOTS of posts that would have earned scathing remarks on the BiStudio forum website.

You mean like the CE2?

Dang, I was hoping I could be the New Year's hero lol...... Thanks for posting and hosting!! ~Rob

Good deal, thank you!!

Keep the faith lol.....i'm home on the Jan 1st, probably lunch time on the east coast USA. I'll put the link. Up. If it's not working I'll reupload it, etc.....

Uh.......huh?

Hilarious "quote" Tharos!

"......gimme a call, I'll be your RIO" Teehee!!

Same as Ark for me please

My squadron mates that have been flying the module since release have said It's an absolute bear with asymmetrical drops, and that they have been dropping bombs in pairs because it tends to go nuts like the F-5, only worse. No one has mentioned anything related to fuel usage yet, and I personally have not messed with any external loads yet so I can only pass along my mates' warnings to me when I first started flying her.

Actually....... During the 1999 Kosovo campaign VF-14 & VF-41 Tomcats were the go to assets because tjey had better targeting systems for bombing than the Hornet did. It could see and identify targets from further away because the images were easier to interpret, and many times Hornets just bombed or rifled on lasers aimed by Tomcats from the above mentioned squadrons.

Understood. I don't have Vig, but I was under the impression that it could work from roads just fine. Guess I was wrong:-( Just curious, what is AM2?

Do you have a "Pilot Radio ICS" button mapped? Once the helicopter is spooled up I use that instead of the / key. Also, the light on the enunciator panel stays on frequently for me until sometime after I take off. ~Rob