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Here's to hope!

The cynical view of it i guess is that the Air Force don't want people applying, at least not unless they are already well switched on to it and committed from their teens. I wonder just how many pilots in the RAF started off in the cadets aged 13 up? At least in our RAF, there just isn't enough positions for all those that would show an interest or aptitude, the chances of getting the top job in a fast mover if you're in the UK is pathetically slim. As far as the FAA having less stringent criteria, the only thing I could think is that perhaps less people would look into it. So did you get in Fallenphoenix? All the best with you Hide!

Big Gulp! I only wish I had done something sooner in some ways, then again I'm now in the part of my life starting a family of my own, a teaching career and well it just wouldn't be the best time for another couple years at least. Never mind, I guess I can always go in for a civie flying career later on down the track.

Canadian's don't do cat flaps

Skeen, kind of like how in most of Wales, there are more English people than Welsh :ph34r: que corrections from aggrieved invaders, sorry English gentlefolk :tomato2: We love them really My friend went on holiday to Florida, loved every minute, brought back shedloads of cool stuff like a yard long tube of pogs and a 2 litre Coke cooler, we had never seen such things in Wales before, at least not outside of a milking parlour.

Yo that site is class, "rummaging for discarded aluminium" put in mind the wierdos that hang outside the methadone dispensaries. Truely :lmaosmiley:

This set my nerves tingling, for all of my childhood my ultimate dream was to become a USAF or USN fast jest pilot! Had worked out a plan aged 8 to hitch a ride to Scotland, get on a trawler and somehow live in the States long enough to become naturalized and get in that way! Yes I know, dumb ass kid I was I didn't do it. So 26, too old? Meh the way my life turned out, I have a wonderful GF/Fiancee in all but ring, and she wouldn't be strong enough to make the adjustments to it but even though, my nerves are tingling. Hide 86, sorry if I interjected your thread somewhat but just wanted to say, if you think you can make the commitment to that path, Dude! Do it and you will Rock!!! If not, what's wrong with the Italian Air Force? Here in UK I am too old already

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So that's 1400 for us GMT+0 types! I can't wait! Should be sleeping then as have got a 14 hour night shift tonight but for that I will be setting an alarm call!! Ba ba ba bomb Saddam oo oo e ooo!

Just read a bit about Texas on the interwebs now, it's confusing! 6 flags over Texas and all that, but either way it's put me in mind for TEX-MEX tonight!! :drinks_drunk: Think I will put on that Johnie Cash mariachi song in the meantime.

So even though Texas is in the South, it isn't southern? Like Miami? I'm confused, always pictured those J.R. Ewing Cowboy types as Southern brothers.

If paranoia makes you live longer I think I should take up playing the bong again. For ears I reconmend shaping the wax from a baby bell to fit, wala, instant ear protection add on to standard cone shaped foil hat!

Rgr. Thanks for confirming that info as tinfoil sourced.

Brilliant!! I have been searching the net but found nothing. "Can do anything", I like that So the green bars were in addition to the red part, so in theory because the gunsight is part of the optical glass, it can stay red and the bars if part of the "hud" could be green, but am not sure that would work because they wouldn't follow the gunsight... unless. hmm thinking to do.

Thank you for that info Crusader, I noticed you upped the radar range in the avionics too, I was wondering to do that myself. One day, maybe we could have provisions from the game engine to build a truely representative hud for this most awsome of aircraft but in the meantime the one you made is just great! Thanks Do you have any pictures of the real hud sight by any chance?

Some pictures ilustrate better what I mean, the first shows final adjustment getting inline with the target (extra low and close for dramatic effect) you can see the gunsight wandering up towards the hud. Second shot I have pulled level to get a better spread of bombs and to leave time to pull up (only just still), at that point you are in a bit of a bother because you wont see the target as it will be below the field of vision of the cockpit which is where imagination really comes into it, I toggle cockpit off for that part and watch the pipper walk up to the target as I overfly the target or more often start the pull up thereby taking on the role of the fire control computer myself seeing as we don't have them modelled into the game yet. Granted my approach may involve a bit of a fudge but I just feel better having at least some kind of bombing assistance than none at all! The USAF certainly didn't waste billions of dollars on aircraft like the F-4 and F-111 so they could dive bomb with them! The last picture for me is the reason Thirdwire games are still after 5 years, my favourite. For me it's like one of my all time dreams come true to feel like I am flying in a F-111 and doing the business, of course there are limitations to any game that attempts to simulate anything from real life be it tennis, chess or arm wrestling, but all in all I am just so very happy that at 26 I have the chance to play out in these sims the dreams I had as a little boy. So kudos to all that help and support these sims and may the haters next tyrds be as hedgehogs.

Personally I have recently decided to use the games ccip hud function as a stand in for the myriad real life accuracy aids that are not yet modelled. I really enjoyed the MF approach with the ARN101 Phantom so decided on a similar set up for the F-111A, using MJ's latest gunsight works well, however I decided to add a custom flightpath indicator and centerline marker to aid with flying below three figures. I am not at all sure if there would have been provisions for such in the real thing, but for me it kind of stands in as a harder alternative to auto terrain following radar.

Just merged the new stuff into my jerry rigged ccip version, I like it even more!!

Very nice gun sight Crusader!

Seriously, I couldn't believe this email I had today, not the bit about the $20 bill but the first part. Can all that really be true? I am not usually a tinfoil hat kind of person but it's hard not to wonder sometimes. I know that probability and possibility are very different things, I don't for one minute think it is impossible for such coincidence to happen but still... makes my brain hurt! Anyways, for those of a Fortean bent, you may enjoy to read it and check yourselves the details in other sources, that is what I'm doing now. History Mystery Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can.. Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. Jo hn F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. Jo hn F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head Now it gets really weird. Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.. Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln . Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners named Jo hnson. Andrew Jo hnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Jo hnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters. Now hang on to your seat. Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford'. Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford'. Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater. Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. WHO FIGURED THIS OUT? INCREDIBLE 1) Fold a NEW $20 bill in half... 2) Fold again, taking care to fold it exactly as below 3) Fold the other end, exactly as before < /B> 4) Now, simply turn it over... What a coincidence! A simple geometric fold creates a catastrophic premonition printed on all $20 bills!!! COINCIDENCE? YOU DECIDE As if that wasn't enough... Here is what you've seen... Firstly The Pentagon on fire... Then The Twin Towers. .And now .. look at this! TRIPLE COINCIDENCE ON A SIMPLE $20 BILL Disaster (Pentagon) Disaster ( Twin Towers ) Disaster (Osama)??? It gets even better 9 + 11 = $20! Creepy huh? Send this to as many people as you can, cause: Hey, this is one history lesson most people probably will not mind reading! The pictures haven't come out but text was the startling bit anyway.

I really really really love what you guys did with this mod! I can't get enough of it! It got me thinking as well, if you could get the pipper to move with the ccip, but forgoe the usual green fall line and so on, why not add that to the equally stunning MF F-111A and FB-111, so I did. And now I am having triple the fun out of this series than I was last week. Thank you Mirage Factory! Keep it comming! And I am soo not a sycophant

The problem with the ARN 101 accuracy was that it computed the ccip in statute miles when the data being fed to it from the aircraft was in nautical miles. Why wasn't it ever fixed though is another question. This is a good link for info from an ex wcs group on what the Vietnam era Phantoms had to help get dumb bombs on target. http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3227/jargon.htm and http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3227/index.html

Champagne! Champagne for eve1ry one! I'm winking darling If I complain at times for the lack of fire control computations, that is not to say that these sims and the CA forums continue to bring me a lot of fun and I love you all, and gosh my ovaries are really hot today. :ghey:

And Stiglr drinks both