Robert31178

He did offer a suggestion for a free map Reflected...... I don't really care what ED does as long as my gameplay experience is what it has been to date. Free map, buy a map, whatever, as long as I can ball out in my Huey on ops then yeehaw. If ED wants to charge me for an update though it had better be flawless. That's my only "expectation", fix whatever is wrong with Normandy and applied it to the new Cauc map so CA works properly. Aside from asking that stuff work properly if I'm to spend money on something I don't really lean one way or the other, but if my money goes towards other sweet modules like Hornet or whatever helicopter ED hinted at working on then yes please, take my money.

Ok, so right after posting the above it said "could work for Viggen.....", so I guess my question is that provided you can land on the road in a Vig then could you pull up to this and stay on the road and tale fuel and arms?

Question, with the roadside refueling and rearming, has it been tested with Viggen?

I have the the map posted and hosted, but my squadron mate said he had issues downloading it. Lemme see if I can get the link from my phone, otherwise on the 1st when I am home next I will post it and see if anyone else has the same problem. ~Rob

Updated link please?

Thirsty little fella!!!

Three words: I love it! Finally got my first flight in it two days ago (work...ugh), my unit CO ran me through a few start ups and talked me through an easy section take off. I flew his wing out to the boat for my first landing and plopped it down on deck with minimal instruction through the approach and none for the touchdown - I have been flying Huey nonstop since November of last year and apparently that's worked out nicely for me by teaching me, through repetition, how not to ham hand my controls. Made a nice take off from Tarawa and headed back to the airfield for a full stop and taxi there..... I was surprised at how easy this little plane was for me to fly. I was very intimidated from watching videos, but it turned out to be an absolute joy, I was very confident in my abilities to safely handle the plane after a very short time. I didn't have the time to put into learning any weaps yet, but next time home I will be doing so. As for the dogfighting: pick up a copy of " Roger Ball"; when you get to the chapter where Cdr Smith is helping the USMC test the Harrier by mock dogfighting it in a Tomcat be ready to have your mind warped. Smith says that he had trouble getting it to shoot out in front during scissors maneuvers, it could turn with him and maintain energy at lower speeds, and when he took it upstairs he was shocked to see it stay right with him - huge turbofan and a great thrust to weight ratio made it quite an ACM bird. He said he tried every trick he knew and the well flown Harrier stayed right with him for all but his last maneuver which was another huge energy manuever that also capitalized in the drag created by Harrier's gaping intake. Overall he thought It had great acceleration and was, in his opinion, a hell of a dogfighter. RAZBAM, looks like this one's up against the fence......stiill going.....this baby's outta here!!!! Homerun guys, really, a super nice plane!!! Thank you so much for the hard work! I haven't bought the M2000 and so I didn't know anything about the quality of your modules aside from what I read and hear, but this sure makes my tail wag furiously with thoughts of SLUF and CH-53's knowing now first hand how hard you work to bring us modules of this quality!!! ~Rob

"Flight of The Old Dog".......lol Patrick Mclanahan agrees with this.....

Is there an updated link to v6? The front page link and the one I saw on TapTalk both are file 404 :-(

For more on 572: https://m.warhistoryonline.com/vietnam-war/its-true-a-toilet-was-used-as-an-aerial-bomb-during-the-vietnam-war.html

I think I read it in a book called "Aces Against Germany" by Eric Hammel. The above story was from when he was flying in the desert, so not the Lightning in the picture, but it would have no doubt been the same name. He carried "Happy Jack's Go Buggy" on all of his aircraft as far as I know, but for sure 2 Lightnings and one Mustang that I've seen.

Well, that's what Chichlidfan was getting at, without a coder your wallet appears to have ample time to recover.....

I would like to believe that if they dropped the pic on us here in a message that uses the word "Christmas" in the title it implies the pic was a gift for this community, and so is the helicopter :-)

I have decent rudder pedals ( Pro Combats lol) and still have what Dough was talking about because of how I sit. I found that a small dead zone will keep me from having that slight pull to one side or the other. It does not effect anything else other than to correct my drift from slight and undetectable pedal inputs. I mainly fly Huey, where precision authority is of utmost importance for a hover, and I dabble in the F-5 and F-86, which is a finickey thing on the runway, and my local fix has helped for both. A little trick I use on take off in the jets is to pull onto the runway, get as straight as I think I am going to get using nose wheel steering, and then while the plane is still rolling I let go of nose steering, then I hold it down again with my feet off of the pedals. This seems to let the nose wheel fall perfectly into center with the jet. After the jet is rolling straight I let go of steering and brake to a stop. ~Rob

Regarding the last sentence of my earlier post, Alpha probe, not pitot I just learned.

The picture of Jack Ilfrey's Lightning reminds me of one of the greatest fighter stories, where he was out of ammo and a 109 was shooting at his wingman and looking over and laughing because he knew Ilfrey was out of ammo. Ilfrey rammed him, his port engine and wing went through the empenage of the German fighter, cutting it in half, Jack flew home on one engine. Off topic, but too good not to share....

Well, you could also be the camera bird now for airshow stuff lol....

Do you mean the no I stick on the throttle or the one in the thumb position on the stick itself?

I've had good and bad luck with HB's kits, but yes their cockpits are consistently lacking. I build a 1/48 scale Jug and I had to raid my spare parts box enough to call my finished model a frankenplane lol......i pretty much stick to Trumpeter, Academy, Tamiya, Fujiyama, and Hasagawa these days unless Revell drops a particularly juicy remake of an older rare kit. (They do engraved panel lines now!!) I know, back on topic.....sorry!! Obviously I'm a very excited little guy about SLUF. I don't wanna wait RAZBAM, I will, but I don't wanna..... ~Rob

Not so much TARPS, per the book I just read an A model with a TARPS pod couldn't carry GBU's. LANTIRN will be the pooh though!!

Mjeh......exactly lol.

Hopefully the word Easter doesn't hint at the next teaser release date lol.....j/k!! I like flying and consider myself a slightly above average ACM guy, there are always people better and not as good as an individual, and I think the RIO opens up some training opportunities and help not provided by single seat modules or a single person operated 'Cat. The USN embraced the NFO idea with the F-4 and once the MiG engagements started it immediately became obvious that the extra set of eyes was an immense advantage, especially in the Phantom with the visibility problem it had rearward. Another thing is you can put a more experience sim pilot in the back and you can teach a fledgling "naviator" what he should be seeing, talk him through maneuvers to counter threats, etc.....I've already worked a deal with a squadron mate to fly his back seat and help coach him through BFM/ACM situations until he can be successful on his own; he's a Hog driver and not experienced at all in fighters, you can see how an arrangement like this might help him survive and actually learn.....hope I don't let him down eh? I understand that in real life a good RIO can make the difference between a fair pass on a night trap instead of a greasy stain on the fantail of a carrier. I think it'll be very fun and interesting to sit in back and watch my front seater make passes and coach him through those as well. Lastly, the guy who I will be back seating with was a Surfman with me at a lifeboat station in the Pac NW, we worked well as a team in real life in some hairy situations and I honestly think that our already established crew coordination habits could provide us with a slight advantage in some situations. I'm 100% on board with this, a true two seat multiplayer fighter/interceptor.....I just need to be able to learn the BVR stuff cold so that I can help him outside of a few miles passed the pitot!! :-) ~Rob

Does anyone have a clue as to what this might be?

Or the 202? section?

Maybe a collaberation??