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^^^^ The helicopter in the first pic looks like a commanche. Looks cute!!!!

Yes I wasnt sure about adding the T but yes SMT Now you are scaring me about the indian Mig 29K and my intentions:huh: The imaginary campaign/air war that accompanies each aircraft. Mig 29/Su34 attacks georgia after georgian provocation :) F-16 NATO/FA 18 US NAVY sent in to repel Su 27/ Su 33 conflict escalates F-15 US responds Su35 BM (the last of Gen 4) Russia baptises its baby

RCS reduction ???? All they got to do is clean up the engine area and this thing is easily the hottest plane on the planet. sniff sniff F14 I'm so superficial hehehe

He is way close check at the end of vid on landing When I say close, my thinkin is with testing a brand new fighter you sort of want to limit things that can potentially go wrong. They were closer tham 100m thats for sure

Wish list in order to kill off FC 2.0 slowly AH64 2011 Mig 29SM or Su 34 2012 (Ground Assault) F-16C/D Block 50/52 or F/A-18E 2013 (Nato responds) Su 27SM or Su 33 2014 (Full scale) F-15C with AN/APG 70 2015 (All out) Su 35BM 2015 (The last one) (non stealth) I can dream we will have all these by 2015:joystick:

Thanks AlexHunter :thumbup: surprised how close the chase plane was :surprise:

Ok after months of being a noob with intel cpus and chasing my tail I finally have a dual core system at 3.6GHz (stock volts) Thank god i didnt go for an i7 otherwise it would be a year lol E8500 at 3.6GHz multiple days with 12 hr prime runs on each day. BUT performance is not as good as i had hoped for. I should have gone for an i7 lol

Based on what reviews I can find and user opinions like yourself:thumbup: I need a joystick that can handle Il2 1946(SOW whenever it gets here) and Black Shark. The HOG seems to be the only option left as an upgrade for X52 Pro which i use currently. Does FC 2.0 support dual throttle?????

19th of May is the next update for the HOG. Eager for reviews as X65F and G940 are failures for me.

ROFLMAO I copied the pic and zoomed in but I guess my eyes are going. I thought the dark aircraft was PAK FA Thanks for clarification

Thanks for that Its the other way around with th F22 being slightly bigger PAK FA looks hot Wonder what the final engine blend into airframe will look like Only aspect that makes it look a bit old school but its early days

As usual the Russians look better correct if I am wrong but isnt PAK FA a bigger airframe than F22 by a sig amount

Found this in case anyone wants some info on the Project Oxcart A12 Archangel program http://www.foia.cia.gov/a12oxcart.asp

Thanks for sharing.... Great pics of that engine Mach 3.5 :P The passage when he describes what its like with no lights on in cockpit is dream like......:) I prefer the A12 because theres no backseat :)

Are you talking about the non pro version only????? I bought my X-52 Pro about 2 years ago and everything still calibrates ok (touching wood) I just opened it up for the first time this week just to clean it out and reapply some grease. Its a good value stick for me, My first HOTAS and its lasted two years

I always had nVidia powering my sims until now. Il2 could be run with no limits with nvidia cards but with ATI there were limitations Are you running water = 4 water = 2 In Il2 config. This ATI 5770 breaks 3 generations of nvidia for me. My last ATI was a 9600XT which i ditched soon after i installed IL2 FB for a 6600GT BTW i used to be huge into IL2 and with my new rig i have yet to install it. Which is the last Cat driver which supports IL2?????

E8500 @ 3.16 ATi 5770 1280 x 1024 4AA 8AF default high 1024 cockpit no mirrors Avg: 48.451 - Min: 18 - Max: 82

Cool thanks and phew

OK I just got my system up and running and Black Shark is not using both cores. I have a 50% cpu load with the 1.01c patch. I can fly online so i have patched correctly. Have they removed the affinity trick which was supposed to be in 1.01A.. AM I missing something???

Got my E8500 system finally running 3.16Ghz no thanks to ATI Cat 9.12 :(

:music_whistling: Love the Ki-84 :) lol on closer inspection its a Ki-44 :(

Not that it is a big deal at the moment but I read that HP only supports 16GB RAM where as Pro and Ultimate are able to 192GB ???? I will eventually buy Win 7 but need new vid card, HDD/SSD and PSU before i give Bill my $$$$$$

Alright!!!!! I built my system last night and it wouldnt run win 7 64RC Man was i pissed after a whole evening of painstaking building. I woke up this morning still pissed. (I want to play BS!!!!!!) Finally got it workin in XP but RAM wouldnt run at 1066 Updated to latest bios and ram runs at 1066 :) Turned of floppy controller in bios and WIN 7 64 RC works :) (thank you RGONe at DFI forums) I tried AHCI in bios and WIN7 wont run :( Cant have it all :) Hard disk might be no good (WD800AAJS SATA II) for AHCI Just installed Saitek driver and controller is all good to go :) I never had to use a profile in XP so i am hoping it is the same for Win 7 Wish me luck my BS install is about to start :)

Yeah Man!!! Looking forward to getting started sometime later this week. Thanks for that link and the temps info. Will certainly take it easier this time around and just go for a stock voltage oc. I overclocked my 3700+ and used Prime 95 for 24hours on full blend for stability(i tried orthos as well but prefer Prime) Also use Coretemp for my temp monitoring. I wanted a xigmatek dark knight but it would not fit the dfi mobo in a east west config so I had to dish out a bit more $$ for a Noctua FrostyTech is a great site for cooler comparisons if you didnt already know about it. Plus they are so helpful with cooling questions. While I enjoyed overclocking my athlon 64 and certainly agree with you on the addiction factor I am hoping that I dont need to OC the E8500 to run DCS at good frames at 1280 x 1024. Summer is here in Sydney and we had a 40C temp today. My room is 35C :) so that Noctua will be working hard lol

Wow FC 2.0 I'm goin the EtherealN way (BANG for BUCK) I just bought an E8500 with P45 mobo and 4Gb ddr2 ram just waiting on the aftermarket cooler that EtherealN mentioned earlier and a new case. I had been waiting a very long time (6months) for the socket 1156 release to build new rig (for DCS). Athlon 3700+ :( While it was tempting the voice of reason won out and told me to go bang for buck. The performance didnt justify the extra 20% in cost for a 1156 platform and even though the power consumption is great that wasnt enuff. Add the issues with the sockets (foxconn and i have read a lotes has also failed) and that pretty much dictated that i go with the proven lga775. Socket 1366 was also tempting but i dont want to kill the planet just for gaming. Hopefully i7 930 is 32nm and then 1366 becomes real attractive especially for a certain ww2 flight sim slated for release late 2010 (Oleg????) However my res is 1280 x 1024 so I can go a bit easy