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One thing I am wondering: Since it's going to be on the DCS engine now, does that mean that horribly unrealistic "zoom the whole world in as if we had magic super vision" will no longer be usable? Hopefully, it will not be present in 2.0.

Great Teaser GA :)

2-3 from NoAssholes.net will fly wing with 3sqn if we're all available :)

That guy was hacking!

Come on Jim, you know "console" is a profane word in this enviroment!!! The only console any of us have is the center console in our cars :D

NoAssholes.net F-15C skin (based off of the Gray Walmis from ruggbutt)

Here's the biggie: How are the sheers, stalls, shudders, and spins? My biggest concern is a game like this calling itself a sim, but allowing the aricraft to be torqued far beyond what would be realistically possible. Hopefully, I am concerned over nothing. No one has put out a video showing the effects of over-straining the aircraft.

My only probem with ACE was the frequency of updates. I don't have a dedicated box. I rent a server. The frequent updates made it difficult for those of us with rented servers. I'm all for updates now, but I may be a little old fashioned. Wait a while and release an update once a quarter at the most. Releasing them at the frequency they did in ArmA 1 has made me gun shy about putting it on my server in ArmA2.

Well, I scored a couple of rims for $35 each from a local salvage palce. Not bad considering that it proved to be hard as hell to find 15X6 steel rims for a 2004 Suzuki Verona. If this place wouldn't have had them, it was going to involve shipping charges. Now, just gotta save up the $ to get the tires replaced and the front end re-asligned (that's the fricking biggie there).

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Not all planes were painted with a flat paint and that was it. Here's an LA-7 with quite a bit of wear on the paint job, but you can still see the gloss. It was standard to have the crew wax the aircraft at regular intervals even back then. Nowadays, waxing aircraft to a shiney gloss is nowhere near as common for various reasons military to military.

23 years. Just alot more prevelant than last year or the year before. Coming home this evening, saw a lady with the phone in one ear and waving her other hand around as she was talking.....all while merging into oncoming traffic. The inevitable happened - she slammed into a car. I stopped with every intent to sign a witness report. Luckily, no one was hurt. After I filled out the form, the officer read and it and shook his head. Just sucks that some of our city council have business constituents who were against the resolution to make it an offense to use a cell phone while driving. As I was talking to the officer, I heard you talking on her cell saying "Yeah, I got in an accident when I was talking to you. Hopefully, it will be the other person's fault" heh The "Stay Connected" philosphy is disconnecting people from the road.

How are the physics and the feel TimA?

I use the X-Keys and have good success with it.

This is not from a chain mail or another website. This happened to me, Bill, this morning. On my way to work this morning, I found myself adversely impacted by the idiocy of another driver. Now, while we all think everybody else is an idiot, everyone needs to look closer to home. As in, look in the mirror and evaluate is there an idiot driving your car. The most dangerous thing on the road right now fits into the palm of your hand, and many people have it located in their palm when on the road. That item is a cell phone. I was in the right lane, abiding by the speed limit of 40MPH. A person driving a bright yellow pickup with tinted windows was driving in the left lane. The weather was lousy. Raining and overcast. The driver in the left lane had their cell phone up above steering wheel height. Apparently texting or looking for the correct number to dial. More concerned with their own little world than the one they were driving in, they started merging right. They did not use their blinkers and they definitely did not look in their mirrors before starting the merge. Unlike the car my wife drives, mine does not have Traction Control nor a pristine ABS system. I hit the horn and started stepping (not slamming) the brakes. In the wet conditions though, all four tires locked up putting me into a 40MPH skid with traffic ahead, beside, and behind me. The skid carried me into the curb. Had I not taken an evasive driving course in the military, I have to wonder if I would have lost control of the vehicle and gone into a spin. I was able to maintain control and limp it into the parking of the Madison County Human Resources building. The damage to my vehicle is both rims on the right-side are bent and need to be replaced. Luckily, I do not use my car as a status symbol, so my rims are stock steel rims. Both tires will need to be replaced. Additionally, my steering is now out almost 10 degrees left. The driver of the pickup continued their merge even after hearing my horn. I did not get their license plate number. I was a bit more intent on maintaining control of my car as to not spin out in front of oncoming traffic. No use calling my insurance company. The rims, tires, and front end alignment will probably run the same amount as my deductable. So, some idiot just cost me about $500 for the sake of a text message or a phone call. For the sake of other drivers: 1) Unless you have a completely hands free, voice activated cell phone system, leave the blasted thing alone while you are driving. Don't even look at it to see who is calling. Wait until you are at a stop light or stop sign. 2) There are mirrors and blinkers on your vehicle for a reason. Use them! 3) Don't stare at the radio or GPS in traffic. If you don't like the song that's on, turn the radio off instead of fiddling with it while looking at the display. Program your GPS in a parking lot or, better yet, before you even leave. 4) Forget about your little world when driving in the big world. Not paying attention to the big world can bring an abrupt end to your's or someone else's little world. 5) Wait until you are at your destination to take the lid off of that scalding hot cup of coffee or open the wrapper on that triple-decker hamburger. I don't really care about your little world. I care about mine. I don't want your inability to pay attention to the big world to cause my little world financial strain or to come to an end. Please pass this along to those you know. Maybe someone who is an idiot will realize they're being an idiot and maybe, just maybe, stop being an idiot.

Hopefully the labels, arcade radar, etc can be turned off server side :music_whistling:

Anyone watching this one as well? http://www.airwargame.com/eng May be a good "in the meantime" prop jockey sim for those of us eternally waiting on BoB :pilotfly: ADDED 12/27/09 Video Review of WoP: Part 1: GUI Overview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHNjCq3SuDM Hope this helps answer some questions people ahve about the game :)

While having functional electro-mechanical guages would be a serious plus for a simpit, setting up a couple of monitors behind a cutout would probably be the better choice online given the exploits possible with the export.lua Take BaD CRC's Blackshark pit as an example. All of the guages and the ABRIS, are there. Just on monitors behind a cutout. LEAVU, while a very inventive addon, shouldn't be allowed in online play unless, as stated earlier, there was a export.lua settings could be specified via server side. Personally, I think that would probably be the best and fastest route to achieve. I have tried LEAVU and, until someone pointed out the exploits possible, I thought it was a hechuva idea. Now I think it's a heckuva idea that's dangerous to the online community. A player being able to extrapolate data that should not be accessible is not a good thing ;) At the same time, there needs to be a way for the pit enthusiasts to play online without having the means to exploit the game.

EW has come a very LOOOONG way. One of the first ECM systems palced aboard ships had a mode called Decoy. It's purpose: make a frigate seem larger than a carrier so the missile would come at it instead of the carrier. Talk about sticking it to the little guys lol!

I never got the whole "This sim is better than that sim" bit. I play each as their own creation. As far as DCS goes, we all have to remember that Blackshark is the first installment of a planned SERIES of DCS releases. As each one gets released, the involvement on the battlefield will grow. Personally, I'm not bored with it as of yet. One thing I would like to see is some randomization in enemy unit placements. Knowing what to expect each time can wear thin after a while, but then again who says we have to approach it the same way each time? One thing I would really like to see implemented in BS is to actually use the radio to communicate with one another (VOIP). This will make online play alot more immersive in terms of team coordination. With the advent of selectable frequencies, individuals flight groups could operate stand alone, but switch frequencies as needed. Nah, not getting bored with BS, Falcon, IL-2, LockOn, nor ArmA2. Each is a great combat sim in their own right.

:cry:My pants just got tighter

Top view of the HE-111Z

There was a Russian scientist who recreated the blast (on a small scale of course). He plotted the course it would need to be on as well as the altitude it exploded. His set up a mockup with sticks, detonated a charge falling on that axis, and the results looked exactly like Tunguska. Complete with the trees at the center of the blast still standing. The heart of the debate now is whether it was a meteor or a comet. There's evidence that supports both, but not enough to decide which.

Well, DIY is half imagination. For the fire extinguisher guards, the first thing I can think of would be to get four metal shotglasses (or four metal cups that size) and cut the top off to height. Drill the appropriate sized hole in the bottom for a white-capped momentary pushbutton. Dip the top edge into the rubber you get at Lowe's or Home Depot to dip your tool handles in (to prevent you from slicing your fingers open). Then paint them red. As far as the indicator panel, scrounge around ebay, electronic surplus stores, etc

Hehehe, that it can and it does look "gee whiz" As a former EW whose job is was to fry radars, it's fun being on the other side of it ingame :D Although I do admit in taking great pride in the time that a Foruno radar got on the same bearing as a test signal we were jamming and it was running the same Frew and PRF (system hadn't processed the circular scan yet). The smoke coming from the bridge of that fishing boat caused a good bit of laughter in the module LOL!