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Yea I am. My home PC is on the fritz so I have been playing it on my MacBook Pro and it's running pretty well. Just wish ATI drivers weren't under oppressive Apple control when using bootcamp!

Well I played online a bunch last night and I can say the game is awesome! I think the sound is what really sells it for me. Whoever engineered what you hear obviously cared A LOT. Hope you guys are having fun too!

This is pretty neat but I have to say they all look a little too chipper from my experiences. ;)

HAHA! it took me a second to remember who Chuck Testa is. Great video.

I was looking at release dates for upcoming games and I came across J.A.S.F. I guess these guys got the rights to Jane's name? Looks like an insult to Jane's Combat Simulations but I guess only time will tell.

lol, thanks for the (vacation) insert. When I was doing FCC stuff I got to spend 48 hours in Guam. There is something weird about being paid to chill on a tropical beach and watch B2's fly overhead.

Psy ops. No football for you!

Damn I'm getting more and more excited for this game. I appreciated the A-10C gun sound being delayed after impact which seems to be a problem in most games. And a little bit of B-1 action at the end was rad to see too! At least they didn't have 43 blackhawks buzzing around on the screen clipping their rotors on each other like in most MW trailers.

Yes! This is exactly how it is to be a chief!

I can confirm that. I was a flying crew chief for a couple of years on 17's(regular crew chief for 4). In my time flying I only did one tac decent with TR's deployed. It can do it, but she doesn't really like to due to stress on the doors. Plus TR disags were such a common problem I think most pilots didn't like the idea of deploying them in flight.

Likes this.

Dude that is so rad!

Listened a little myself. Heard a 135 call out an RTB.

I love the 15 tails in the background. This picture really does speak a thousand words.

I snapped this picture when I was doing Flying Crew Chief stuff for C-17s back in 2008. We only spent 3 or so hours on the ground in Tripoli. This was from the flight deck.

lol

Campaign missions are pretty rough at the moment. I find myself editing new parking situations for a lot of them so everyone will taxi and not get hung up. The loadouts mostly don't fit the mission requirements either. Right now I am stuck trying to do armed recon in the 3rd campaign and the game keeps crashing when MIG-29s come looking for me. Approach each mission with an open mind and ready to edit them in the mission editor. I still love everything about the game though, even the blemishes.

I have always wanted a print option also.

Not sure what the A-10C uses, but the missile defense systems on heavies have sensors that detect a rocket plume burst/IR signature from a launched projectile. That's really the only way I know how to detect an IR missile besides seeing it with your own eyeball!

*Likes this

So if you fly an F-15E, F-16, F/A-18 you are not a fighter pilot?

Well they do carry AIM-9's if that's what validates them as a fighter pilot. I am also pretty sure most A-10 pilots will move on to flying other fighter aircraft throughout their career if they haven't flown anything else yet. Three focuses? Fighters Heavies Bombers

For anyone that has an iPhone, I recommend the GoodReader app. You can upload PDF's wirelessly with the app and view them with it on your phone. I have the manual with me at all times! :D

An employment recruiter ("headhunter") inadvertently sent a letter to an A-10 pilot requesting his resume. His actual reply follows the request: Dear Sir: I am a recruiter in Dallas that specializes in placing students from key colleges in the positions they desire to be in with my clients across the nation. I work with companies of all sizes and industries. I received your name from several other members of the "Association of Former Students" here at Texas A&M University that I am currently working with. Feel comfortable that your information is confidential with my company. I would like to discuss whether you are currently in the market or even keeping your eyes open for the right opportunity. I would like to see a current copy of your resume to see what opportunities that you may be perfect for. Please send your resume via e-mail or fax to my attention, and I will follow up with you in the next few days to determine your level of interest. I thank you in advance for your response. Please e-mail me back at <******@odellrecruits.com" , or call me direct at (800)880-xxxxx Extension ##xxx. Sincerely, Aaron McCartney Senior Recruiting Consultant Odell & Associates ------------------------------------ Dear Mr. McCartney: This is in response to the email you sent me regarding your services as recruiter. Currently I am employed as a US Air Force Fighter Pilot flying A-10 Thunderbolts for the 25TH Fighter Squadron, Osan AB, Republic of Korea. My contract with the USAF does not expire until 2006. Here are some of my qualifications nonetheless, just in case any of your clients are need of someone with my expertise: 1. The ability to employ my aircraft, the feared A-10 Warthog, as one of the most capable ground attack/CAS platforms in the world. 2. Protect South Korea from communist hordes led by the Great Pornographer, Kim Jung Ill. 3. Drop cluster munitions from 10,000 feet onto unsuspecting DANKS (dumb ass north Koreans) and send 202 individual bomblets of wrath and fury into their starving, bloated, pink bodies. 4. Take a 6000 foot slant range Forced-No-Solution High-angle gun shot and kill troops in their wimpy little APC's with reckless abandon. (Do you have any idea, Mr. McCartney, what a 30mm Armor Piercing Incendiary round that is as long as your forearm does as it boars through a tank's walls like Jell-O? Let me tell you, it's not pretty.) 5. Get wicked-ass-drunk at the Officer's club on Friday nights, smokin' big fat Cuban cigars (this is Korea, not the US), drink Gin and Tonics like water, throw furniture off the roof, say 'f*ck' a lot, and piss off all the wives and hapless souls who hate our guts because they are not fighter pilots. Mr. McCartney, I have no idea how to "hold a meeting," "do a memo," "take a lunch," "think outside the box" or even sit behind a desk for that matter. I only eat, sleep, fly, and drink. I am an instrument of national policy the likes of which your clients probably have never seen. I would just as soon detonate a 500 pound Mark 82 Air Burst 20 feet above a DANK playground than wander through some corporate office blabbering about business plans and the latest episode of Ally "eat a friggin sandwich" McBeal. Thank you for your letter and please let me know if any of your associates show interest in my capabilities. I look forward to hearing from you.

Grrr... as soon as I stop my subscription, they do this!