Dr_Pain

Spitfire Mk. XIV would be cool but would be tough to master.

I play in VR with Rift CV1. I have an LED lit keyboard and I peek out down the nose gap to see the keyboard. It sits in between my joystick and throttle. It works very well. It's so friggin' awesome to be on a carrier in VR in either the Tomcat or Hornet, especially with 5 or 6 planes on deck. I just sit there for a while watching them manoeuvre to the catapults for launch.

You'll enjoy VR. It does have it's limits, I'm using a rift CV1, but it's so nice to feel like you are in the aircraft.

I change my position by moving around in my chair then re centre the VR. Sometimes I feel like I'm sitting too far forward in the cockpit when I first get in an aircraft. So if I lean forward a bit and re centre VR then I can find the right spot. Maybe give this a try if you don't do it already.

P-38. It was the first plane I flew in VR in another game and it blew my mind. Also it's a good plane, had it problems Europe but here in the Pacific region it made it's name.

F/A-18 for me. I did buy the F-14 as they are so cool but I find it more challenging to fly. I've flown the F/A-18 with friends and the data link came into it's own. Also swapping A/A to A/G is easy. In fact I find the 18 to be more relaxing to fly. But then I jump into the F-14, nail that throttle and go to an external view and it's oh baby! :happy:

It's dry heat where I live too so the water cooling in the house and my PC works well. But I'm sure in Phoenix there is summer pain like the seat belt buckle becoming a branding iron. Also bare foot to the mail box, on concrete, ends up being some new age dance then the mail box itself is metal. But give me heat over cold any day :)

You want to keep in doors. Find a nice cool place with air con. Nothing worse than having heat stroke.

Add about another 10C and you get our hottest days where I live in Australia. 45C in January this year. I don't even bother running games on those days, not till the evening. It's -3/-4C over night here now and I'm bitching about that.

If you can't wait for the next sale it is worth getting even at full price. I enjoy it so much.

I have an led keyboard and I look down through the nose opening of my rift CV1 to see the keys. I have my keyboard sitting between my joystick and throttle on the desk in front of me.

It's winter here. Ponyville sounds nice :cold: A sale will warm me up.

I've seen an RAAF F/A-18 A land on a local air field here. A 1600 metre runway. He had two goes at it and the first aborted landing he had to go full afterburner. Got an up close tour of it but couldn't touch. Was a good day that. Now days this beauty lurks in the hangar...

Still very active here in Australia. We have F/A -18 A/B's, F/A-18 F and EA-18 G in service. The A/B's will retire when we get F-35 A's.

The nose gap is small but enough to look through. You don't notice it unless you look down at it. Hope this pic works to show it. The limitations I've found with Rift CV1 is I'm short sighted so needed Widmo lenses as my glasses would not fit in. Vision is not as clear over distant compared to a monitor, also you notice the screen door effect caused by the lens type. When it's cold it will fog up and when it's hot you have a warm device on your face so you sweat. Also if you suffer from motion sickness or are afraid of flying, it will trigger those fears as if they are real. I bailed out of a MiG 29 at 10 kilometres once, I am afraid of heights and it scared me but just for a little while. But you have natural head movement and everywhere you look you see plane. Your brain goes into over drive thinking "Oh my oh my god oh my god! I'm in a Mustang!!!!!!!!". I race sim and flight sim and it's coolest piece of kit I've ever owned. :)