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Russian aircraft are normally under strict control, and the missle is picked for them by their controller. This was the thinking up to the breakup of the Soviet Union, what they do now is much closer to other Air Forces, allowing airborne pilots more control of the situation. Bearing is always from true north, ie you would turn to that heading to intercept the bogeys. A good way to visualize this; is put a bulleye over your position and give information about another flight from that bulls center (where your flight is.) Also with air combat fought beond visual range, information about other flights in your area is required.

All runways are numbered to the inbound magnetic heading, the last zero is not spoken. So if you are inbound to runway 15, you should be on a heading of 145 to 155 for a straight in approach. Duel runways have "L" or "R" to define what runway to use. Should you find an airport with quad runways (like DFW) then the right group will be the heading closer to right and left closer to the left, ie: DFW has 17L/R and 18L/R. Also, runways are picked by the wind direction to allow an aircraft to land/takeoff into the wind (which adds more lift). My knowledge of this, comes from having been an air traffic controller and pilot.

Don't forgeet that you need to unplug the hardware before you run the installation for ver 5. Also it creates a new icon to run the version 5 software.

I think he is using fahrenheit not celsius, which will make it about 26.6 c.

What would be really hot? a complete SAM system to simulate, thus a ground vehicle! There is a sam program. But it is not part of this companies sims. http://sites.google.com/site/samsimulator1972/home Has video learning and examples of famous sam encounters.

In beta 3 they have added the icp and some of the switches, but do not include what the keystrokes are for them yet. So maybe in the next release they will be included.

Have used it and it also works for me. Liked your big pictures as my eyesight is starting to go. Tried Popov's and the pics were to small for me, but it helped me also before I go yours.

The only place you will find PAR is at military bases. Today you will find most airfields have ILS and GPS approaches that are considered precision approaches so the need for the old style radar is not needed. In fact these days the microware landing approaches are more precise then ILS. While I was a controller in the Air Force for 9 years, I was a novice GCA/PAR controller, I spent most of my time as a Tower or Center controller. Also spent 6 years ass FAA controller and 3 years as an instructor, so I can field questions on this subject. Of note, Arthur C Clark (author of 2001: A Space Odyssey) wrote about his time during WWII as a GCA controller in his book Glideslope. GCA is ground approach radar unit, a combination of a regular radar scope and usually two paired PAR scopes ( one vertical and other horizonal),

Had same problem. Had to reinstall dx9.0c then everyting worked right.