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I've had mine for a couple of years now. It's holding up quite well. It's mot MIL-SPEC quality, but I did open it up and inspect the wiring harnesses and the button/switch mounting and it was an improvement over the X-55.

Almost every characteristic of that landing, at least visually, brought back a lot of memories from when I was stationed aboard CVN-73 :)

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http://pensacola.craigslist.org/vgm/5539583965.html I can go check it out if anyone is interested

That's all fine and dandy until you guys need a ride.

Wings Of Prey never used the IL-2 monicker. It was the same developer who were licensed to make the console game "IL-2 Birds Of Prey". I was in Alpha and Beta for WoP and the Dev's never said it was going to be a full simulator. Even they admitted it was a sim lite. They got pilots into the studio to help with flight behavior, but never touted realistic flight models. It always was, and always will be a game with simulation elements. Same goes for War Thunder. It's not a sim. It can barely qualify as sim lite, but it fits well in that category. It's a game with sim elements that has an MMO grind built in. Not a bad idea. Watching how it pans out for them will be fun too :)

It's a sim-lite in FRB battles mode. Knowing and accepting these facts going in makes for some fun flying.

People should not use Photoshop unless they know how to use "Your" and "You're" properly. In the case of this pic - FAIL.

Given the smoke at the end of the runway at the start of the video, looks to me like it was something they were rehearsing. Both receive idiot marks from me in that case. Being on the strip on a mini-quad is idiotic and dipping the wing as close to the ground as that is idiotic.

Yeah, I didn't wanna get into MLS or sweeps...they're easy to go awry for the novice. With a freebie RTA program like http://www.e.kth.se/~johk/jdft/ he can get a visual picture of what's actually happening to the audio response in his room before, during, and after adjusting it. He can do some research on cubic volume vs saturation and how corners can attribute to harmonics. Max Length Sequences and sweeps would be the next step down the long and expensive route of audiophile-ism...followed by the search for 0.01% THD amplifiers and speakers where the falloff isn't right in the middle of the advertised range. Yep - it's a long and expensive road littered with facts, theories, and opinions galore :D

Welcome to the precipice of the world of "audiophile" Actually - the smiley curve isn't always the proper answer. It's a general answer that sometimes works, but doesn't always give the response the person is looking for. By making a smiley face, you will boost the lows and highs, but cut the mid ranges. The mid range is where the human voice is located in the audio spectrum. There's a couple of major things at play here: 1) The mastering & mixing of the audio of the movie. If a moron did it, then the balance of the individual sounds is going to be off and there's not much you can do about that. 2) Every room as a different response. Some rooms are really responsive to low frequency while others the mid range. SOme rooms hit saturation well before others. The actual purpose of an EQ in an audio systems is to balance the frequency response for a selected spot. This is achieved by using a pink noise generator, an RTA microphone in that spot, and a Real Time Analyzer (RTA). You pump pink noise through your audio system and the RTA analyzes the pink noise at the spot the mic is setting. Pink noise is all frequencies from 20Hz to 20KHz all the same level (basically). The number of bands per side of your EQ will dictate how much control over your adjustments you have. Now, most people do not have a Crown RTA 2 or a Goldline RTA sitting around. Not to worry. There are several free and open source RTA programs on the web. They are not as accurate as a dedicated RTA, but they get you in the general ballpark. To get the frequencies as level as possible, your EQ graph will look more like a bumpy road rather than a smiley face. Just remember to have your Bass, Mid, and Treble adjustments (in your TV menu or on you receiver) set to their mid point before running the RTA. Once you have your spot leveled out, then you can adjust you bass, treble, and mid settings to tweak it to your liking.

When my friends and I fly, it's always in a passworded server. The reason is simple: Some random yahoo coming in and playing the mission "their way" ruins it for everyone else in the server. Without VOIP, there's no way to communicate except via typing and that's not always feasible when employing an aircraft in a combat environment. Now, with Combined Arms, it's even more of a hassle. Pubbers join, start taking control of vehicles, and eventually degenerating into vehicle races or complete disregard for the mission objectives. There's also the ones who decide to leave their designated mission area to go on the CAS aircraft hunt so they can fuel their ego and stats. Password stays when we play.

Unless you have to ditch in East LA

As far as underwater weapons with a degree of accuracy, there's the Russian APS. That's what looks like the character is using in the lighting video:

WoP is a sim-lite. It has its place in the sim world. Not everyone is willing to jump right into a high fidelity study sim. Games like WoP are good gateways for them. There's not much out there that can compare to any of the DCS titles in that aspect.