JediMaster

The Sep patch log explicitly states this has been fixed.

Well, I'm taking the plunge, hope I don't regret going so soon!

Yup, CTD as soon as you click loadout on starting a carrier based mission.

Well, this topic is probably a week early, but I was at work that morning, as I'd been for a couple of months at a new (and lousy) job, that luckily I was out of in another few weeks. My last job before the one I have now that's lasted 9.5 yrs, actually. We had no TV. We had no radio. We had VERY limited internet. All our info came from people talking to other people on the phone about the attacks. First the call "a plane hit the WTC!" Then a 2nd call "another plane hit the other tower!" That's when people said oh S%*#! Without TV, the first just sounded like an accident to us. The 2nd proved it wasn't. Then came the phone calls about the 3rd plane hitting the Pentagon and the near simultaneous crash of the 4th plane and the groundings. At this point few people had their minds on the job, aside from our stupid managers who couldn't understand why some people were asking to go home and couldn't do their mind-numbing boring job of supporting this lame financial software to used car dealers for loaning money to people with bad credit while the country was under attack for the first time in 60 years (you'll recall I said the job was lousy). My wife was in RI, having just flown there the night before for training at her company's HQ. She and the rest of her class managed to get the last rental car in town, and then she and they drove from RI down to TN, dropping off a couple of people on the way, where she then took an Amtrak down to Orlando (where I picked her up) while the last guy drove on to TX I think. She drove right past Manhattan (the road doesn't pass thru it, that's not the way to go fast up there) and saw the smoke from the south end, but wasn't ever up close. So until she got back, I was nervous those 2 days, despite having to go back to work the next day to Hell Inc., and couldn't rest. No one knew if it was truly over or something would follow soon after. Oh, I'll just add I had a cousin working in the 2nd tower that morning. Despite assurances from her manager and someone from the building that the trouble was next door and they were in no danger, she and many in her office decided to leave. She was down on the ground, leaving the building, when #2 hit. She ran.

Unlike wars of yesteryear, the conflicts of today have little to do with who holds the capital or who runs the country. All you need are two sides armed with one side able to resist being easily wiped out.

Guess your definition of "ultra high" computer is pretty low. ROF runs great on a PC you can build for less than $1000. If you think $1000 is "ultra high", you're in the wrong hobby. I used to spend $2500+ for a PC when I started out, so buying a video card or CPU that blows stuff out of the water for less than $350 each seems like a bargain to me. FE2 blows away FE Gold anyway.

Freddy Mercury didn't like Star Wars. Remember, he even put it into a hit song. "All I want to do is...bicycle! Bicycle! Bicycle!"

None, really. I'm not a mover. However, songs like Superstition or Higher Ground are great to make you nod in time.

It all depends on the power of the jammer and the power of the radar trying to burn through. There are no quick and fast answers. The MiG-25 for example had a super-powerful radar. While it's detection range wasn't particularly notable, it was capable of getting through noise jamming at greater ranges than its contemporaries. A plane like the F-16 with its small radar I would imagine would have to get closer to a target than the F-15 to burn through. On the flip side, I'd imagine the F-16s jammer to have less power than the F-15s, so an attacker could fire on the F-16 from farther out. If it was the EF-111 or EA-6B, you'd have to get probably in IRM range anyway, so why bother using the RHMs anyway? Deception jamming isn't as susceptible as noise jamming because the idea is the attacker doesn't know he's being jammed necessarily and will fire weapons at the wrong (inaccurate/misplaced) target. Then there are the towed array decoys, whose job isn't to be noisy, but a form of deception in making the plane look like it's well behind its real position. Those have yet to be faithfully modeled in a sim, although some attempts have been made by 3rd party modders for SF.

It was a no-win situation. The people are being oppressed by a dictator that for his own sake is anti-al qaeda. So those forces are part of the rebellion that rises up to take him down. You either support the oppressor, and earn the ire of the people, or you support the rebels and help al qaeda's position. The only hope is that the people will be smarter than al qaeda takes them for.

I bet all those guys who pulled intercepts kept a wary eye on those tail guns.

I'm at 11 of 11.

I preordered the pair of Spad VIIs. I'd like to see more early war planes too.

There's a reason they don't make space sims like that. For the explanation, consult your copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..."

Mustard gas goes great with liquid hamburger.

No, that's what would be printed on an old Scottish sword...claymore? Get it?

Go for Logistics!! Moving crap from point A to point B, moving it back again, figuring out where the hell it went because it was SUPPOSED to go to point B but it sure as hell didn't go THERE, so where DID it go?

I always thought the Nimrod looked like what some aerospace engineer THOUGHT a jet should look like after a night of too much booze and old Buck Rogers serials on TV...

"You must think 'oh, s%^&!!' in Russian."

Don't forget Andrew was a late-August first-of-the-season beast that did a ton of damage and single-handedly reformed Florida building codes. That's why now when Florida gets hit by something like Irene we don't bat an eye. You get some flooding and downed trees and power lines and that's it. Other states don't get hit often enough for them to mandate that kind of construction. We use CBS for homes and businesses here, the only exception being 2 story homes may have frame upper floors (although I personally wouldn't go that way). It may cost a little more, but it lasts!

I think it was just expected that the F-15s would take care of BVR and the F-16s would only have to deal with those that "slipped through the net" and take on WVR. It was never seriously expected to send a bunch of 9s-only F-16s against Floggers with Apexes and Flankers and Fulcrums carrying Alamos, certainly not vs Amos-carrying 31's. As mentioned, the advent of AMRAAM meant the F-16's role was expanded to air superiority/dominance/whatever you want to call it in a small area (since their range was still smaller), but it was never going to be the first line of defense. The Eagles would do that and the 16s would have to take care of those that got through.

He didn't use AB for fuel saving I guess (no external tanks) so naturally the roll would be longer. Also looks like quite a warm day and I don't know what the altitude of that base is.

I loved Wings of the Luftwaffe and Wings of the Red Star, especially with Peter Ustinov's narration. I remember the New Year's Day marathons they'd do with those. Those channels are nothing but a shadow of their former selves. A&E was once called "The WWII channel" unofficially because of all the great stuff they'd have...now they just suck.

I'll probably get this, even though I'm also mostly a single mission guy. I've started many campaigns over the years, but usually never finish them due to patches, loss of data due to reinstall, or general lack of interest (some planes aren't interesting enough to fly in a campaign, they're better suited to a single mission on occasion). I do mean to spend more time on them, though...especially if I'm out of a job come Oct 1.

Redownload which now?