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Somebody uses the launcher? So far no issues, other than some eye candy on the ground at Ramat getting shifted around. Nothing quite like spawning in with a canopy support running through your spine, but the aircraft and I seemed fine once I taxied out from under it. Did some eaggbeater runs to check out new heliports, overflew Beirut at mach 1.something, then landed and had lunch at this really awesome place near the waterfront (no idea why all the windows in town were blown out). No skips, stutters, or problems. Performance was excellent on my antique 2080ti; I'm due for a refresh when the 5 series comes out. No (almost no) mods either. Maybe those are related.

Now that is a spicy neighborhood.

Syria, Kola, and even some Sinai. For those of us on 110 baud acoustic couplers this might be an exercise in patience. Then try to go offline again. Not much hope, still going to try. Then back to Syria, because it's basically impossible for that not to be the primary map at this point. Up to those other guys to change that if they really want.

Is that $59.99 each? I've found that allying the insurgents with CTF Red (which might not be too significant a stretch) smooths over the gaps yawing crevasses in the 'Insurgent' set. Also gives them air and naval assets. I do confess that I try to make those gullible (baby blue) beret guys a little more professional than the dudes standing in the back of pickup trucks. Good thing the NHTSA hasn't caught them yet!

The hornet is one of those aircraft you have to fly all the way into the ground. If you chop the throttle the ground accelerates up to meet you very, very fast.

If landing the F-4E on a carrier is a sin I wonder what punishment awaits me for landing the F-16? Does tend to prang the gear and the carrier gets all officious about it, but I never did a good job of listening too close to what officers said. The carrier crew will repair the F-15E gear for me, but they won't hook it up to the cat. Seems rude. Somewhere I have instructions for adding aircraft to the allowed list on SC. I'll need to dig those up and see if we can't get bridles working for the E, particularly since mine always seem to have NAVY painted on them somewhere. Leave the hook up and chop the throttle on touch down. Alternately don't land, or take off, on a carrier, but watch out for F-14s. I believe the score is still NAVY - 1, AF - 0. That pilot made Admiral, not too surprisingly given his daddy was also an admiral.

The F-18 RWR export is arguably the hardest because you have to change a few other things. The F-14/16/5 just need a line of code. Sometimes the hardest part is nomenclature, because ED got 'consistency' confused with one of the myriad forms of clap and compulsively avoids it. I've pretty much got anything I fly exported more or less the way I want (except the F-4, but that's HBs fault), which makes updates a pain in the turkey feather. Almost enough to make me think seriously about OBGYN or whatever that mod manager is called. Some day I might even put the control manager mod in. Typically mods get shunned, but I'm getting less and less concerned about it.

Best excuse to avoid the wretched hives of scum and villainy I've seen. Once in a while I get feverish and think it might be fun to try a MP server, realize I can't, decide the poverty inducing mental illness is more important than the wretched thing, and go back to either running a canned mission or creating my own. Of course the F-4 doesn't handle exports, so the RWR is this big green thing on the right side of the main screen. That's actually not a bad place for it; doesn't really distract me in general, but contacts are hard to miss. I did experiment with MP a long time ago and gave it up for Lent even before the IC started to fail and that decision was enforced for me. If MP is a thing then there are decisions to make. Everything is a compromise, and it all comes down to what's important to you. Don't expect ED to do anything about it.

Manilla. Always remember the smell, and some things I discovered reading a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune years later about places I went while there... Tough place to grow up, in general, and that your partner only beat the <pixels> out of you is a good thing. I've met descendants of Vikings, and I've met young ladies who've more recently survived the PI. Much as I am loathe to return to the topic at hand (before BN sharpens his claws) I have not seen very much about updates to the Kiowa, which makes me wonder if/where/when PC plans to visit some of the more colorful complaints embedded in the 21 pages of this topic. Granted there are only about five things in those 21 pages to look at, but they seem worthy of attention. The S:N ratio here is about average, unfortunately. I did notice, and expected, it would be excluded from the sale.

After so many crashes my head is more soft than not. The Kiowa is a sure thing, I'm just holding out. Good news is while I'm in holdout mode I can casually fly a CH-47 into a tree for no other reason than I dipped the nose without adding power and for petty technical reasons it lost altitude That or the tree grew really fast. I should submit an unsubstantiated bug, because given a choice between incompetence and software errors the software loses every time. Wait, your girlfriend plinks tanks from a Gazelle while enjoying an adult beverage? Where did you find this mythical creature? Does she have a sister? My wife just rolls her eyes when I pretend to fly in my seriously over the top, OCD-inspired, wanna-be pilot contraption! Of course my wife was probably born a little farther southeast than your girlfriend...maybe that's it...

I love listening to stubborn knowledgeable people argue; it's scary the kinds of things you can learn (for example, more than you ever realized there was to know about wiring harnesses in F-16 wings and the difference between motors on AIM-54s and redonkulous bits about avionics and engines and...). It's the other kind of stubborn that gets old very quickly! The only things keeping me from this module is the price tag and the reality that I can't fly the six or eight helos I already have worth a darn. Precision landings are possible only if we use the WWII definition of 'precision'; landing relatively close to the same map on which we took off... Otherwise from what I gather this has the same problems as every other brand new mod. Since the knowledgeable people have given this their seal of approval if there is ever a sale its fate is sealed; flaming wreckage and touch-down about thirty kilometers away from my approach target.

For your next challenge, which MiG-29 flew at Rockford in 1990? Not the Ukrainian MiG a couple years later, the first time a MiG-29 did US airshows; I believe it was Russian. I had the MiG T-shirt from that airshow for years.

Info? Like, the prelude to an update? You're kidding, right? This is the F-5; my absolute favorite abandoned aircraft. Cracks in a compressor blade? Nothing some JB Weld and Gorilla tape can't fix...don't worry about that vibration, it will settle down eventually...

9 FPS in Afghanistan (two EA modules at once; not my brightest idea). I put an F/A-18 at the same base and got ~120 FPS, so that was more about the -47 and less about the map. Took off, flew around, saw a lot of what people are talking about with chopped textures, landed on that roller coaster runway, taxied around the base, took off on a gravel guard loop next to the wall, re-landed...F-18s are tough aircraft! 74 FPS in Syria. Off the map in Syria; there were no other object to render anywhere other than the statics at my FOB, but it was still 74 FPS. Still far below what I would call normal, but...EA. Kind of expect things like that. None of this has been re-tested for confirmation, so take it with a salt mine; nothing says I didn't have other apps running the first time and forgot about them. A bit later I'll try it all again under more controlled circumstances, but I think they moved this thread and that belongs elsewhere.

There's a little static (which might be something else; I literally just undid ED's 'helpful' axis assignments and configured the cyclic and collective), but this is a mod saver! Still some whine, but for whatever reason that's not a problem. Flew from my remote training FARP in Syria to the Helipad of Shame without any ice picks in my head and almost 10x the frame rate I got in 'stan. The CH-47 is officially a thing thanks to you! I greatly appreciate it!

No luck finding a sound mod for the -47, at least not in User files. Global search for 'sound', tried file type 'sound' (300-something files), no joy. Got over the headache, just going to leave that parked in the hanger until I can find a way to block out that whine.

Finally got my plate cleared off enough to fly the CH-47, repaired all the damage ED does with their helpful bindings, took off (it really is easy to fly) and realized the engine sound loop has a high frequency note that triggers migraines. Is there a way to replace the default engine sound, or is this just not a module I can fly (with the sound on)? So far, knock on aluminum, this is the only module I've run into that does that.

AOL Same and same. Apparently ED doesn't want people offline anymore; not so much as a pong from them.

Still not as much fun as jumping up to the 23-9 level in no. 1 diesel room in heavy seas. You have to time it right; jump just after the bow comes down off a high wave, and aim for that 4x4 hatch...but remember you're working with arcs and when the sonar dome re-enters the water that causes a lot of turbulence... Far too many good sea stories, and some of them are actually true. First time at sea after we came out of the yards nobody knew how to stow their shtuff. That was messy, and kind of funny as well when the personnel office looked like a tornado had gone through. That space is not modeled. We only ever had red and white lights, but maybe on bird farms they get more choices.

Nothing wrong with teleporting missiles. Once it's off the rail it really doesn't matter which rail it launched off unless you want to capture the video, and even then clever angles should solve that problem. In the mean time four heaters? Sign me up!

From alt.sysadmin.recovery: All hardware sucks, all software sucks. Ok, the F-18 is slightly newer and has a bitchin' Betty-Lou, the F-16 has a bitchin' Betty that chain-smokes. Visibility in the F-16 is better; that canopy bow is a distraction. The F-16 is a rocket where the F-18 is a beast. The F-18 has an extra pair of heaters on the wingtips. The F-16 has much, much nicer cluster bombs. The F-18 carries longer range A-G missiles (harpoon, SLAM), The F-16 has a HARM targeting pod, the F-18 has a built in jammer. They're the same only different. Just close your eyes and pick one. If I had to keep one to the exclusion of the other I'd be happy either way.

I looked at options like this before I built the simpit and often wondered how you get out of them. No matter where you go your flight controls go with you, and with the stick in the middle you have throw a leg over it to get out of the chair. Apart from which those mounting locations are way too high and far forward. I see some adjustability, but not nearly enough. My shoulders hurt just looking at the stick and throttle mounting position. It might work, and apparently it does for enough people that they sell these, so those concerns might be overblown.

That's her happy face (she passed the final quals; she doesn't get happier than this). Try not to annoy her. HOT-3 missiles make painful suppositories; she's already heard all the jokes and comments, so try being professional. Maybe that will work.

This one is seriously on the attack: null