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I hope so too, otherwise all this waiting will have been in vain. PS> Nive track GGT.

I'll buy it in the hope it'll help the development of a jet ... but slow helicopter v stupid AI, no thanks.

Very Funny ... sad but true. On thread, I guess all those little ATGMs give you 4x more shots than an A-10 ...

Agreed ... :(

Weta, With respect, it is you who have missed the point - in this field, there will always be guessing, randomness and approximation! Tons of stuff is classified (and somestuff will always be) and the power of our systems IS finite (you can't model it all). Even the pilot of a KA-50 has no idea what will happen in certain circumstances so how can ED model it gaurenteed 100% accurate? eg. The damage effects of an AMRAAM on the a/c? Lots of randomness and guesswork ... And as long as it 'feels' right and has no obvious gaffs that's good enough for this armchair ace!

Does anyone have an English translation of a doc on the Check-six web site titled 'Le Combat Air/Air BVR en F-15C dans Lockon"? I'm ashamed to say my minimal French isn't up to the task and it looks like the author has put a ton of effort into it! Thanks, James

I'm sure they will be GGT, plus all the experience ED gained from what happened in LO ...

We've been promised A2A combat at some point in the future 1, 2, 3 years ... I don't think the info is going to be declassified anytime soon! So there will be guess work in DCS ... but provided it's believable to the majority of us (who will never get into a fighter let alone fly one) - then fine. Just don't go believing everything in DCS will by 100% true ...

Lets be honest, there is already a ton of guess work - eg. AMRAAM/R-77 performance, radar modes/performance for all a/c, SAMs etc ... educated guess work sure, but a ton. I'm sure they could do a believable F-15E if they wanted to ... Janes did years ago. Lets just hope ED get missiles/seekers/ECM a little more believably than they did in LO ... then I'll be getting my wallet out :)

I'm sure they already have them ... http://www.flight-manuals-on-cd.com/F15.html

Many of the older F-15E manuals are also available ...

http://steelfury.info/index2.html - Very impressive video. I've got SB Pro and while a great SIM, it's got a fair few limitations - infantry for one!

Despite all the faults, it looks and feels great ... especially low down where others just look c..p

Pilot, I think you are being a little optimistic! The last patch was released when? Ages ago. Development has switched to DCS ... it's never going to happen! We are not going to get a patch that fixes missiles/seekers/chaff/flares/ECM ... ED are not going to make money on it! We'll just have to wait for DCS to get around to doing 2 fighters and hope they do A2A missiles right this time!

Thanks for taking the effort to highlight this guys - I wish you well. I've kinda given up on LO online for now - just too frustrating. There is no fun in screaming at your monitor - too many exploits/cheats/bugs. 112 really broke alot more than it fixed. As for A2G, duffing up the AI is just too easy - feels like being the class bully! Lets hope that when LO A2A Simming emerges from this current dark age in 3-4years it's been fixed!

Nice ... but some of those shadows aren't working yet!

Totally agree GGT! Without a perfect ground system AI and highly detailed ground modelling, A2G ends up like plinking fish in a barrel - boring! It should be an add-in to a ground sim like SB. A2A is ideal for a SIM, in addition to your points it works well 1 v 1 ... which is what many of us end-up playing (even on-line).

Hmmm ... not sure about this. You read accounts of A2A combat and the number that start along the lines of "I caught a reflection of sunlight and quickly spotted ..." Also, we have no peripheral vision to help spot moving targets, plus the visibility in the F-15 is better than in LO, we have significantly worse SA than in LO with poor radio warnings from other sources, plus a/c disappear at about 2-4miles due to LOD change, plus we don't create smoke trails, wing vortex trails etc, plus we don't have the added incentive that we will die if we screw up! So, no I think RL is probably easier.

They are also an absolute pig to disassemble ... loads of screws! Cases are easy to scratch and then look terrible. No mouse nipple, no right click or mouse wheel ... how to those people survive! The OS doesn't suffer the bloat that afflicts MS OSs ... yet, and only has less viruses because few people use them and therefore aren't targetted ... yet. They do look pretty though and has a decent kernel lurking under that GUI. :)

I read somewhere where they describe Sea Harriers v German Mig-29s ... and the Harriers got eaten. They tried to exploit the doppler notch and the Germans were just too good - along the lines of "Yes, I saw you were doing that, countered and there you were ... right where I expected you - bang!"

Unless you're flying a Mirage III/V or a Sky Hawk ...;) Sooner rather than later ... please. Question for all you people that still play Falcon (not something I've done for a few years) ... what is the AAM missile modelling like these days?

Have a look at a program called ROBOCopy (free) - it has a mirror option that can duplicate one directory structure or files onto another. Be warned, it can also delete files - so make sure the source and target are right! It has 1000s of other useful options as well.

So ED are never going to listen to their customers ... great.

Until they fix the missiles its a moot point ... it doesn't matter what you fly!

EB, sorry to contradict, but WAFM is a direct result of the various issues for missiles in LO - its has been discussed as such for a number of years. It may now be part of a different product, but it came from LO. I've done enough programming to know that developers usually carry forward ideas and methods they've spent years developing in one product into the next. I'm sure the 2 products have a lot in common under the hood - even if the all code is new. Its all possible in code! However, I'm sure you know the code better than me! It would just seem like a good way forward - WAFM (and associated seeker updates) could be tested and ED could get paid for doing it. I'm actually surprised with the result of this poll - given the amount of money most of us spend on graphics cards, PCs, pedals, Track IR, HOTAS etc and time, the cost of an updat/ fix would seem small. However, I guess I too have under estamated the level of feeling of the majority of LO simmers here.