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A few corrections... Cirrus is the highest cloud layer and can range from 20,000 feet into the 40's. Cirrus is normally thin and whispy. Stratus is layer cloud. Cumulus is the puffy cotton ball clouds that you see building in the summer do to heating of the ground. If the cotton balls continue to grow vertically, due to colder unstable air, they become towering cumulus which can further develop into cumulonimbus which is a thunderstorm cell. All "alto" means is mid level so altostratus would be a mid level stratus layer. Basically, clouds are divided into 4 areas... 1. High clouds... cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus. 20,000 to 40,000 feet. 2. Middle clouds... altostratus, altocumulus, and altocumulus castellanus(towering cumulus mixed in an altocumulus layer)... 6,500 to 20,000 feet. 3. Low clouds... stratus, nimbostratus(rain or snow), stratocumulus, stratus fractus(stratus layer ripped or fractured by the wind), and cumulus fractus... 6,500 feet and below. 4. Vertical clouds... cumulus, towering cumulus, and cumulonimbus(thunderstrom)... based at 1,600 feet and can build upwards of 50,000 feet depending on the height of the tropopause. And yes... we'd all love to see a much more dynamic and detailed weather engine in a future Eagle Dynamics sim. :)

Hi, I wasn't that low. :) I tested this against an F-5E over open water... Han is correct... About 1500m and below, the lock was broken as I rolled inverted... when the target was in range of the EOS, the EOS will continue to hold lock while inverted and when I rolled back upright the radar switched back on holding the lock. The lock would switch back and forth between EOS and radar as I rolled. Cheers

Hi Octav, I wouldn't expect to see a change in the size of TD boxes in different modes. As for the bank angle issue... in the current build I have not seen an effect on lock on when at a low altitude... possibley in the next build? ... Han would have to answer that though.

Hi James, I seriously doubt that a missile mounted on a fuselage station would start off the rail... off the wing, sure but off the fuselage they are dropped first before ignition.

In Canada, a tower controller cannot clear an aircraft to land until the runway is vacated... you get clearance within 4 miles normally. As Cobra mentioned above, in the US, I have been given landing clearance when there are still 4 other planes ahead of me on final mixed with aircraft taking off ahead of them.

Hi Blaze, I can't answer any of your questions... sorry... and I would also love to see an advanced naval combat sim from Eagle. Cheers

What do you mean by V/D/AVT? Encounter/Pursuit/Auto? The bank angle does not affect lock on in v1.1 when entered in a BVR mode. You can adjust the size of the gun funnel but not the target box.

In v1.1 the IR seeker lock on logic has been changed so the IR seeker of an R-27ET now has much shorter range and is dependant on aspect and heat signature of the target.

Hi guys, The carrier is not being worked on in v1.1. 1.1 is not about naval operations... just as v1.0 was not about naval operations.

Re: Riple fire R27 I have seen the R-27ET chase down and kill an R-27ER in Lock On v1.0x.

Updated... see first post

I also mentioned the overcast mods for v1.02 that are out there and getting the mods incorporated into v1.1 but we haven't seen this happen. The mods for v1.02 do work in v1.1 so that option will still be available after v1.1 is released.

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Cool pics... Why do you think that an old tank on a weapon range would have fuel in external tanks? This for better imagination, how T-62 looked inside Looked like a T-62 because the thick collar on the barrel was near the center and not the end like it is on the T-55.

Yes... possibley only 2 or 3 different tanks with scenes from different angles of the one pass. If you see a fireball and black smoke, doesn't matter how long the smoke lasts, then the damage is internal because that is where the fuel and fluids are. External damage would not produce a fireball and black smoke.

Range tanks would not be combat loaded and would have minimal fuel and probably no ammunition... maybe Dice can confirm this. If it is true then these tanks would be much easier to blow up if they were loaded with fuel and ammunition. I just watched the video again... Tanks number 1,2,4,6,7,9,10, and 11 were all killed by witness of the fireball and billowing black smoke. That means, if all the shots in the video were of a separate tank, that the A-10 killed 8 of 11 tanks with one burst of the GAU-8A. Now.. it is possible that in the video the camera shots showed different angles of the same tank and if it did it still showed easy single burst kills BTW... hydraulic fluid burns very hot and would burn out quite fast.

Great video!! Is it just me or did it look like the Su-27 was shooting an S-25 rocket varient at the airborne targets? It looked like there were 4 different projectiles in the air near the first target when it got hit.

Hi everyone, Our favourite lady aviator has provided us with another excellent mission report but this time she flys the Su-25T, for the first time!! Great stuff Cat!!! :D Article is here: http://www.simhq.com/_air3/air_047a.html Maybe we can convince her to come by and answer some of your questions concerning her experience.

Interesting debate and please keep it civil. :) The way I see it... The tanks are on a target range and would most likely not be fully fueled and would most likely not have filled external tanks on them. When you see the instant explosion/combustion/fireball and the thick black smoke you can pretty much guarantee that the tank has been rendered useless and had a crew been inside it, they would most likely have been cooked.

Hi Brit! Put it this way... One word from a real Su-25 pilot... "cow". Have fun flying the Sukhoi "cow" in standard and -T breeds. :) You guys will see just how much drag a lot of these large stores like the gunpods and KH-58 will actually create and how it will affect the handling and performance of the jet. Overspeed buffeting is dynamic and the speed at which the buffeting occurs depends on what is slung under the wings. Cheers

Hi guys, Good job so far on keeping this civil... please don't take this thread downhill! My 2 cents... What having a no-padlock server does is to virtually eliminate the effectiveness of the Russian Schelm system. Trying to get the targeting reticle on a bandit while in a visual engagement is VERY difficult when panning the view with a hat. Players with TrackIR flying the Flanker or Mig have a huge advantage in a visual fight. I have TrackIR and have been in no-padlock servers with it on and with it off... the difference is night and day with regards to using the Schlem system. BTW...the padlock will only lock onto targets within about 20 degrees of the center of the view so it is not as magical as some people think. But, ultimately... if you don't think it's fair then don't join servers that have features enabled or disabled that you don't like. Cheers

A couple of new feature updates in the first post.

Ok I see what you mean. :)

I second that motion!! :)

Hmm.. We should keep the word "color" somewhere, so that the meaning is not difficult for Russian readers. Or, did you mean to add the self-test BIT pages? The PACS and the MPCD are 2 different animals AFAIK. The PACS is on older model Eagles. Multi Purpose Color Display is maybe how we should phrase it?