Alicatt
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It's not just the range at H-H, between Leopoldsburg - Hechtel-Eksel there are the tank, artillery, and rifle ranges as well as the Sanicole airstrip.
Leopoldsburg is where operation Market-Garden was planned and set out from.
The dark line that runs from the north down and crosses the road at Molenheide is now a cycle path but during the time of the map it was a railway line, we use it frequently to visit our daughter in Zolder
There are also many military bases and infrastructure dotted around the area, some still in use and some still there but derelict and some have been built over now. This was/is heavily militarised area.
Eindhoven is not that far to the north from here.
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5 hours ago, maks said:
And i see Florennes air base in the ardennes , east belgium is not mentioned? Pretty important base !
And also no mention of Sanicole Airfield, the tank piste and shooting ranges there between Hechtel and Leopoldsburg, Sanicole was a training field associated with Kleine Brogel up to recently and the ranges are still in use, we hear them almost every day
They still drop paratroopers over Sanicole.
Then there are the training areas at Molenheide and Houthalen-Helechtren, the H-H range is used by aircraft to drop ordnance and while the A10s were here they used it for tank plinking I could hear the Brrrrt of the GAU8 in Eksel and while I was working in Zonhoven they regularly flew overhead.
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Nice! Can't wait for phase 3 and our local airbase to be included KeeBee and some F16 to fly out from there, now if/when the F104 is released...
Goetsenhoven is that not a small grass strip? I go there regularly as we have friends that live there, it is not even as big as Sanicole that is not included, and Sanicole has an annual big airshow which I have been going to every year since 2012.
I live about half way between Kleine Brogel and Sanicole and am directly under the flight path where the F16s turn from downwind to base.
Bitburg! Yahoo! drag raced there a number of years ago with some USAF friends
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11 hours ago, DSplayer said:
The report discusses that it would guide the missile toward an optimal trajectory to optimize the Mach number achieved. This would mean it would be nearly impossible to do in DCS since you can't make a missile in DCS go perform an exact trajectory like the one shown on Figure 2. This is most likely why your tests that you posted in your previous post didn't result a max Mach similar to the NASA simulation (as seen by the completely different trajectory that the missile took when looking at the altitude graph):
The tests performed 2 years ago that JNelson posted should thoroughly demonstrate just how close our missile is to the NASA simulations.The NASA simulation, not an actual live test then with the AIM54?
This AIM54 in DCS is a simulation of a simulation then?
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On 9/12/2024 at 11:50 AM, MAXsenna said:
Did you solve it?
Have a look at the link I posted above. Can save you some space if you have another disk.
And, doesn't matter if you skip some updates, they are recursive anyway. Every update just gives you the latest relevant files. A trick with lack of space can be to uninstall maps or modules you don't currently use.
Cheers!
Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk
Thanks for the info I will get to it when I get back home.
No, not solved it, it will be November before I have the time to look at it. Such is the life of a pensioner
I will be out the country until then so no PC- well one that is too old to run DCS so same thing
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Well with this last update I have run out of space on the SSD, 40GB short to complete the update
I did miss the last 2 or 3 updates so that might be it.
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Sanicole Airshow is promoting the Lancaster for it's show later this month
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2 hours ago, Slippa said:
^ Sounds great. Orkney for lunch, fly back, lovely stuff. Salad days eh.
That was back in the days when a flight was £21 per hour and I worked for an engineering company at the airport, had to give it up when my first kid came along, that and the prices in 1980 went through the roof, in a mater of months it went from the above to over £60/hour couldn't afford it!
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14 hours ago, Slippa said:
Sorry Ali but I can’t let this one go. You’re not getting away with posting that without getting an honourable mention. Classic shot
70s for ya . And that plate looks bleedin lethal
yeah, thank goodness they removed the need for front number plates in the UK round about then, my Honda CD175 had the same arrangement for it's front plate, they got removed shortly after the pic was taken.
I have another pic of the bike on the peri track of the local airport, have to dig it out. We were allowed to use the peri track for all sorts on Sundays back then, I also flew model aircraft there on a Sunday, Wednesdays were my day for Cessna 150/152 flights to Orkney for lunch fill the tanks up and fly back to Wick.
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1 hour ago, BrianTheBrain said:
Ah, going to airshows with my grandpa are wonderful memories to me, and may or may not planted the seed of my airplane video game obsession...
Never met my mother's father, he passed away the year before I was born, my father was the baby of the family and his father was old when I was born, he was over 90 when he passed and I was 4. My father was in the RAF at the end of WW2 and he took us to the airshows
Our family history is more with the sea than the air though, and even now being a retired marine radar tech I still mess around on boats and have just got a new one
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20 hours ago, Slippa said:
They’ve made a few great skins yeah, no template for skinners so far.
Some of the pics went AWOL because of the way the forum deals with em.
Enjoy the airshow Alicatt
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Always do, been going with my grandson since he was 2 he is now 16. I have been going to airshows for 60 years now, started when I was 8, got to see the Gnats, Lightnings, Mosquitos, F104, even a Beverly once
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11 hours ago, Slippa said:
Heard about this too yesterday. Good news, it’s where she belongs and they’ve already been missed by a few airshows and displays.
I hear she is coming to our local airshow at Sanicole this year too.
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12 hours ago, MAXsenna said:
Lower ID lights? Can't see them myself. Somethings up with the forum. I see this happen in multiple threads. Seems Mugga fixed it in the Sabre restoration thread.
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When first posted I could see the lower ID lights pictures, but now they are gone
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19 hours ago, freehand said:
Not sure what your saying ?
Not sure either, wtf is a " Maneuver Rating 0.0." and what has that to do with the price of a Grand Slam on the common market?
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4 hours ago, Tonker said:
I'd love to *like*...but no image for me I'm afraid.
It's now gone for me too, but it was there at lunchtime when I looked at it.
Something wonky going on with this web site/forum
Edit: Slippa's socks are still there though
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Working at Waddington a few years ago - maybe 20ish - having a break from the duties and wandering down the flight line came across a stall for the the Belgian Virtual Tigers as I knew of them from Frugal's days I bought a few of their items including a BVT T-shirt, the lady on the stall was the mother of one of the young lads and she forced note pads and sticky notes into my hands, those I used up until fairly recently and I still have the BVT T-shirt though it has faded quite a bit now.
I never knew back then that I would end up in Belgium living under the flight path of the KB airbase
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Thanks for the reformat @Victory205 can read it well now
Nice write up thanks for doing it.
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@Super Grover I see a lot of black text on a dark background, can you please reformat that for those of us that use the dark version of the forums?
Thanks
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Well at least Nightwish got their single out today
and tomorrow our training session with the boat has been cancelled until next Wednesday, so I may be able to fit in a download of the module
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3 hours ago, Tonker said:
Ricockulously excited by each update, thanks for sharing.
I finally caught up with Masters of the Air (what a 'kin waste of all that time, money and effort), and afterwards stumbled across this, rather more intetesting, series. Now looking forward very much to the Lanc, and the chance to understand a little bit better what those stupidly brave young men went through.
All power to your elbows, godspeed!
Have you tried Pathfinders? an ITV series about the Pathfinder Squadron of Lancasters during WW2
Can't find any other full episodes on U toob, I have the complete series of 12 episodes on DVD
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On 4/13/2024 at 2:09 PM, tribbin said:
I can't imagine ever flying without VR.
Are there people who have flown VR and stopped?
For about 30 seconds, gave me severe disorientation as I could not get the lenses to line up with my eyes and could not get the images from the two lenses to merge into one image.
I have had eye surgery 3 times and it is as close as they can get but still my eyesight is not perfectly aligned. ( this is one of the reasons I really dislike (only stronger) the F-14 cockpit and it's f-ked up graphics.)
Track IR I have been using since the late 1990s and now on the Track IR 5 pro, it works well for me.
Was walking through Glasgow last week with the wife and seen the Oculus 3 in a second hand shop (pawnshop) for a bargain price, teased the wife about getting it and got a definitive NO from her
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4 hours ago, Heimz said:
Cockpit shenanigans been done before, let's toast to more!
Ye gads I can just see the Grim Reapers now with their canopies off and riding into battle with the M4
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7 hours ago, Spatz said:
The Sparrowhawk HUD is coming - hopefully ^^
Seen it posted up on their facebook page this morning
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Alicatt getting a look inside a Chinook at RAF Cosford
I hope DCS will give us the run about that the Cosford display team takes with them when they go away from base.
The display team were sponsored by Landrover and they managed to fit the Range Rover Sport into the back of the Chinook , mind you the driver had to exit via the rear hatchback door
We were there as a Range Rover Sport club (RRS) courtesy of the British Army and Landrover
My RRS:
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DCS: Cold War Germany - preview
in DCS: Cold War Germany
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The tipping point for me came at Afghanistan, whoops Amazon had to deliver a 2TB NVME to replace the 1TB DCS one and then a clean install