IguanaKing

You should probably hang onto it until you are able to upgrade your machine. You won't get much for it if you sell it, and you may have a hell of a time finding it again. Until you can upgrade your hardware, try Falcon 4. The Red Viper mod for that gives the 10-year-old Falcon 4 new life. Be prepared for an extremely steep learning curve though, because its an extremely detailed sim of the F-16.

Ironroad, I wouldn't worry too much about deleting your previous comments. You didn't say a thing that should have invited a political debate. I think you said it absolutely correctly, the media has no loyalty to anything but their ratings and the almighty buck. Its like any other trend. If bashing the military is in fashion at the moment, then that is what the media does, to improve their ratings. They know that the vast majority of their readers aren't going to know enough about the subject to call them on their inaccurate reporting. This is a bit of a problem, because "the truth" when its inaccurately presented, or deliberately distorted, tends to undermine the confidence the public has in the equipment our men and women are sent to fight in. Unfortunately, some of those uninformed masses are also among those who make decisions for our country...such as Senators and Congressmen. Irresponsible journalism can be harmful. Now that I'm in the civilian sector, I can tell you that the term "Lawn Dart" doesn't really have as much to do with a safety record as people may think. Lear 24s are known as Lawn Darts, and so are SA226s...and its got more to do with their shape than anything else.

Welcome to the forums!

Hehehe...I've still got an MA-1 with a TAC patch on it. Some of my customers get a chuckle out of seeing it, they say I'm showing my age.

Dave, just had to comment on your sig. Cool stuff my brotha...a D Buff, along with SAC shields? Now that is DEFINITELY old-school.

Roger that, Dave. I guess I'll quit my cryin' now and just get back into those projects I was working on for the LOMAC community. I'm actually more motivated than ever to finish those projects ever since this DCS decision was made, because I now know that I'm doing them only for the benefit of all my buds.

If these guys had told everybody from the beginning that the old engine wasn't going to support what they were trying to do, I think everybody would have understood. In fact, I think a few of us even asked that question (I know I did). We were concerned about the much higher level of detail being run on the same engine, since the existing engine was struggling already. We were told that it would work out OK, because those details would only be processed at extremely low altitudes in slow moving aircraft like the helicopter. Seriously, how long does it take to switch over to the new engine and get a significant amount of testing done on it? I'm thinking it takes a bit longer than a couple of months. ED could have avoided all of the hassle by being straight with us all from the day they knew they couldn't pull off what they planned. Also, we all understand that any time someone is running a forum that we have to play by their rules. This would be fine if those rules applied to everybody, but they don't. It is the inconsistencies in enforcement that most, if not all of us, had a problem with.

Thanks for the link! I have one of these magnificent beasts under my care. Its a P-51D that is called "The Crusader". I LOVE this plane, so well-designed and such a joy to work on.

Yup, and the advice of a Forum Moderator at that. Welcome, Gapman.

I'm currently building a 1/32nd scale A-10A. Heh...not much time for it though, I've been working on it about 3 years so far and don't even have the cockpit done yet. I ended up having to start over even though I had the seat built, painted, and ready to put in. My friggin' cat got a hold of the seat rails, and I haven't seen them since. So, I decided to buy another aftermarket seat from a different manufacturer which has the rails attached.

Welcome, Paulie! Nice to see you here, bro!

I'm on the banned wagon too.

Assuming any of them made it anywhere near their targets. ;)

I concur, wholeheartedly, with my veteran brothers. Once the first shots are fired, it has to be for all the marbles. If we can't commit to that, then we dishonor those who died. The right and wrong involved in how we got there is irrelevant. What matters now is finishing the job so that the fallen will not have died in vain. I'd like the prosecution of this war to be handled differently than it is now, but then again, I'm not much different than any other Monday-morning quarterback with military experience. Its a dynamic situation, and its going to take cast iron balls on the part of the US to see it through. I sincerely hope that we, as a country, have the intestinal fortitude this time around to gut this out and win.

Hi everybody! Heh...I registered here so long ago that I was almost convinced someone had stolen my screenname. Password recovery worked fine though. A big nod to my fellow outlaws. Who have we got on the dead pool so far?