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Not sure if this is Channel map or not; it went away when I switched to Normandy. DCS was not a happy bit of software this afternoon. Sent at least once crash report in, will continue to investigate, but just a heads up if someone else ran into any issues. Ran Channel just fine yesterday and this morning, incidentally, so it's not a slam dunk either way.

Bastage planted a tree on his way out the door. Took the wing off my jug without losing so much as a leaf. Maybe an ironwood tree.

Beta has its quirks; if you can appreciate what's there without getting worked up over what isn't it's worth the trouble. I had some issues with DCS not wanting to run today; switched to the Normandy map and they went away. Haven't taken the time to nail anything down, but this map isn't exactly cheese on toast; I'm expect there will be some tweaking as it matures. The Channel map finally got me flying warbirds, though. That's a boatload of fun, too.

So I can cut down the tree someone planted right in front of pad 25 at Hawkinge.

Flew from Folkestone to Framezelle, up the coast past Calais to Dunkirk (landed on the Dunkirk runway because there's aren't many things that can), over Dunkirk and back to Dover. This is a seriously beautiful map. Frame rates for me are pretty descent, but I'm not entitled to an opinion about frame rates. Whoever managed the details has OCD in the best possible way. Flying over this at 300 kts and 20,000 feet should be a crime. It would be icing on the cake to have more era-appropriate shipping available, but that's a different discussion and I imagine they've already got some plans for it. I can make videos, but lack a good place to post them.

Already crashed once trying to land at Dover Castle. Not the map's fault; my Huey landings are graded by CEP. Did land on the docks at Dover, delivered mail to the Chain Home site, spied on more than a few gardens, finally know that those thingys are called (groynes), brought the *cough* evening's entertainment to Manston. Who says Hueys don't belong on a 1944 map? The thing was designed for a Huey. Too much detail to leave it to fixed wing aircraft. I second the

Perfect! Just hoping to eliminate a possibility :thumbup:

Good way to quantify "very fast" is www.speedtest.net. There are several sites to benchmark bandwidth, since the marketing silliness telcos use to sell products only tell part of the story.

If it helps channel and P47 combined are roughly the same size as the patch.

I was going to do exactly that, but that NDA I signed when I left the Navy made it difficult. The paperwork is extensive, but otherwise it's pretty easy. Calling up to the quarterdeck to tell them reactor (insert number here) is critical can be entertaining to hilarious. Doing initial crit out of a shipyard availability is a nightmare, though. You DO NOT want to be the RO for that. Watched a guy take a leak in the [drinking fountain] after 12 straight hours on watch. It was another six before they let someone relieve him (figuratively and literally).

It's the whole complex systems thing. What seems easy in the conference room when you map it out on the white board (or chalk board) suddenly turns into the precursor for baldness when you try to implement. The rule of thumb we used, and I doubt it has changed much, is 95% of the code take 10% of the time. That last 5%? The day before you finally figure it out you're ready to quit and take up baking. Then you figure it out and walk on air until someone in the forum points out that launching the MAV off the right wing station makes the Moskva sink.

Someone said they hired a code monkey (and I mean that in only the nicest possible way) specifically for the F-16. It generally takes a month or two to get up to speed and churning out code when you're standing at the bottom of the learning curve. Much like the F/A-18 FanBois who said exactly what you just did a few months ago (the F-16 is getting all the love and they will release the Boulton-Paul Defiant before the F/A-18 is complete) you'll get your goodies in reasonably short order. For reasonable values of reasonable. In the meantime, if it helps, progress on one generally translates into progress on the other since they write APIs and not dedicated code for the most part.

I was able to buy it in the online store while I wait for the update to download. About bloody time ED gave me something else to spend money on. I was missing that great big sucking sound you hear when you play free games... :thumbup::joystick:

Big update. Once that's done you can download modules. I'm ticking along at 5.1Mb/sec here, which is respectable. I suspect the P47 and Channel will take some time once this is done, but I might get to wreck a brand new aircraft on virgin territory tonight. Then I can try landing my F-18 on grass. So far FOD isn't modeled, so I have high hopes.

And once again BN spoils our senseless conjecture with actual data. :pilotfly::joystick:

This is, after all, such a welcome and friendly place. Passionate. That's the marketing term they use to describe the environment.

From what I've read it's not the harpoon, it's the ships. Maybe both. Then again, maybe we shouldn't have been so concerned when the Iranians fired those harpoons at us (they didn't, but we were blissfully unaware it was a drill, hence red and free with white birds on the rails).

I use miter glue if that's at all helpful. Put layers of painter's tape on your base, lay the work piece upside down over that and put painter's tape on it so they line up. Put a line of the CYA part of the miter glue on the base layer, spray the activator on the work piece, then carefully lay the work piece in place. Won't move until you wedge it up.

I used to think this was a good idea until the second or third time I landed in the hanger bay. What's the point of land practice when there's no penalty for failing ship practice? They use FCLP to make sure students are ready for the real thing without killing themselves or pranging an expensive aircraft or more expensive boat. They use small, light, cheap trainer aircraft to do it. We can practice until the end of time with the 'real' aircraft on the boat. If FCLP was available I'd just run missions on the boat anyway, because there's no reason to simulate the simulation.

Watched the track. Seem to spend a long time upside down in the dirt. If I wait long enough is there a tower somewhere in my future?

MDFs can be exported. If you want radar exported (when it's not on the MFD) that's a different problem. I'm going to use Ikarus to mirror EW and save the three MDFs (which are exported) for things like SA, weapons, and radar.

Touch screens would probably be the hardest. You can use USB->video boxen (about $50 each) if you're out of hard monitor ports, but they get a little wonky on restarts and might require reconfiguration. Dedicated ports are always best. Easiest answer is small LCDs behind Cougar MFDs. Bad news, no matter what anyone hands to you, it has to be tweaked for your exact setup. No getting around it, because you're going to have to shift things around by pixels or ten at a time. We can get you started and tell you where to make the changes, but you're about to become an old guy who writes code. Sort of.

Seriously! In a perfect world I got back from Portugal on Sunday, back to work today. The world isn't perfect, and I have to wait until next year to get back from Portugal. Still working. That's a plus. Now all we need is the U.S. Navy. I can't see why they would add that, though. It's only the third largest air force in the world.

The Mk 2 SimPit. Working on Mk 3 (at least in the design stage) now.

You can do the inbound calls if the aircraft is 12 or so NM out, then map something for ball call. [bC] is my second favorite (apparently) SC grade result, after EGIW. I keep forgetting to tell them I'm landing. I can smoke this mission right up to the grove, then the wings, so to speak, fall off. I hesitate to upload my version of Bankler's mission because...well...it's Bankler's, not mine. I'd hate for someone to blame him for mistakes I may have made editing it, or give me credit for work he did. It's a brilliant mission, and he gets all the kudos!