Victory205 your post reminded me of something. I did 20 years in the Air Force, 4 different AFSCs (what you call rates) one of them had me working in AWACS for a time. We were talking intercepts with some fighter jocks on a simming forum and sure enough the armchair simming "experts" where telling us how to run them "correctly". We were dumbfounded. I had to ask "Have any of you actually seen or been in an E-3?" Their answer was, no....at that point Flip (retired albino driver) just said he was done and left the conversation. Most of these back room simmers haven't even seen most of these planes they are "experts" on. To take it one step further we had a guy who was a huge F-4 fan. A walking encyclopedia of F-4 knowledge, and he had the audacity to tell a former F-4 pilot who flew in Vietnam, that he was flying it wrong. It is great if they have passion for their hobby. I'm an aviation nut....and yes I love the Tomcat....even though I was Air Force. But I would never have the unmitigated gaul to tell an actual fighter pilot his job.