JediMaster

Should the plane have dual engines (and the sim allows it, I know Il-2 doesn't despite having a ton of twins), it makes it a little easier to control the plane in an engine-out situation or during start-up/shut-down procedures. However, 95% of the time you keep them together, so it's not that big a deal. I have it on my G940 and so far I've never needed to use it.

Of course, that's the same argument made about digital piracy. On the one side you have the rights holders claiming theft, but on the other you have no material goods taken (ie by the pirate's actions no one is deprived of the product themselves, unlike stealing an object from a store) only the nebulous claim of money lost IF the pirate had paid for it (when they just as easily might have skipped purchasing it and only took it because they could get it for free). Whether it was copied and enjoyed for free or passed by, the owner makes nothing, yet they'll spend obscene amounts of money on legal fees to prosecute someone who themselves made nothing off of it (and is likely incapable of paying back enough to even cover the court costs let alone the fines), thereby increasing their costs and the amount they need to charge to maintain their comfy profit margin. In fact, I think I read a report that the RIAA spent 10x more on legal fees than it recovered in those actions and other settlements, calling their entire process into question. Anyway, getting back to the original point, a claim made of "hero" status without an attempt to actually profit monetarily is indeed a sticky issue of fraud. Fraud usually implies money, but if instead all it does is get someone a table at a restaurant sooner or some hearty thanks that's undeserved, what is the fraud to be prosecuted? This law doesn't require proof of harm. This is quite simply a law against telling a lie, not against profiting or injuring others because of the lie, and that's the problem. I know there's a military version of this law that prevents service members from claiming to have done things or received medals that they have not, but a civil version of such a law can't be that broad.

I don't know what the stats are for the Hornet fleet, but unless it's a simple problem most catastrophic engine failures are likely to knock out the 2nd engine on the Hornet as well since they're so close. I've no idea how often a Hornet has suffered a single-engine failure and been able to RTB vs it resulting in eventual ejection. However, the F-16 has sold a lot better than the Hornet over the last 3 decades, so my guess is that they looked at its stats of reliability (not available in any quantity when Canada chose the Hornet) and determined it wasn't that big a risk. After all, the USN went with the Hornet instead of the F-16 originally because of the same dual-engined safety reason (despite operating single-engined fighters for decades like the A-1, A-4, A-7, F-8, and all those pre-Nam era ones that didn't serve past the 50s) but has also chosen the F-35C for itself.

No, the Tiger is an EADS joint Franco-German helo. You're thinking of the Rooivalk. Not that it looks very different: Denel AH-2 Rooivalk

I'm going to guess it will be $300 or so (which as it doesn't come with rudder pedals puts it at the same premium price as the Cougar, while CH and Logi you can get HOTAS + rudders for that) because I really don't know if they'll get away with more.

So...are they going to have to block potato imports to Gaza now???

I just call them people movers, because that's all they do. Warehouse 13 is a fun show, I really like it. That promo does capture the spirit of the show.

Is it me, or does it some like the marketing people's wells have run dry? Names like "Vibrant" really just seem uninspired. Looking at the names for phones, cars, and so on, I just get the feeling that they only approve familiar, dull, simple names. I bet we could pick a better name in this thread in one day than they did. Of course, we don't have the overpaid research department with all sorts of meaningless stats to back up our choices.

Yes, first is a Hornet and the 2nd is an F-16. I noticed the F-16 still has his underwing tanks on, so he's not pulling many g's.

Of all the campaigns, I think Op Arrowhead's is the best since the original OFPs. Arma and Arma2 campaigns were just meh. I haven't played the free add-on AH-64 campaign that came out for Arma2 with the 1.05 patch yet, though. As for mods of older tanks, I don't know. Unlike OFP's 1985 timeframe, Arma is current and the M60 just isn't really relevant now. That doesn't mean someone hasn't made one, though.

They made pedals before anyone else that I can recall. I have their original gold-anodized RCS pedals from the early 90s still for my Cougar. I never got the Elites. Until I got my G940, I'd never used any but those.

This is Boeing's attempt to keep its fighter division going along with the Super Hornet until the proposed successor program to the F-22 and/or F-35 is created...the so-called "6th generation" fighter, even though right now no one really knows what a 6th gen fighter would be defined as. Northrop Grumman dropped out of the fighter arena 20 years ago after the A-12 and F-14D were cancelled. McD had the F-15, but after it failed to make downselect on the JSF in the mid-90s it let itself be absorbed by Boeing...that was a literal make-or-break for them. Boeing brought some of their people over to their JSF effort, but by that point it was largely done so I don't know what if any contribution they made to the prototype program. I'm sure had Boeing won they'd have used them on the production program. Of course the funny thing is the Super Hornet and F-15 were both McD programs that Boeing inherited, Boeing itself hadn't made a fighter since before WWII! I also think Boeing had a bit of a leg up on LM for the JSF because LM already had a new fighter program with the F-22, so they were hoping they'd win JSF to keep both remaining fighter companies "healthy." To their surprise and disappointment, they didn't. So all they have is the old F-15 and F/A-18 going, while LM still sells F-16s along with the F-22 and then the F-35. They're really desperate to keep all the old lines going until something new happens. They want to sell more Super Hornets and F-15s wherever possible.

That's the Mi-35M, but I don't know if that's a retrofit program or it's only new builds. The funny thing is the Mi-35 used to be just the export downgrade model. Now the Mi-35M is the better version and Russia itself is buying a few dozen.

It apparently never got one. There were barely over 100 built in an age when planes were produced by the hundreds if they were successful.

Many planes are designed to recover themselves from a spin assuming neutral control inputs. Touching the controls can prolong or worsen it. Of course, go back in time and you'll find planes that didn't have such characteristics, but the good ones recover easily.

Ugh, I HATE the "greenhouse" of the Hind-A.

That sounds like a genuinely useful little app!

"Best commercial"? I believe that's an oxymoron.

I'm eager for the next millenium, myself. This one hasn't turned out to be what I'd hoped for.

US planes were behind the times then, that's the truth. Europe was rearming itself far sooner and Germany made good use of the conflict to refine equipment and tactics. Had the US been involved it's fair to say those lessons would've been applied sooner than they were historically and US planes at the start of WWII would've been better.

Boat racing? Interesting. If I still had rfactor installed I might try it, but I dumped it a while back and am hesitant to reinstall when I'm so swamped with other stuff.

I remember that Bud commercial. One of those rare ones that stays ok after repeat viewings. I miss the Shatner DirecTV one, that was funny. However, I will reinforce that local commercials are the worst. Whether for appliances, furniture/bedding, elections, or the worst of the worst...cars.

In the sky, blue wasn't a bad idea if you were above your adversaries. Anyway, while the Central America idea is interesting, I'd think a fictional US intervention in the Spanish Civil War would be more so. At the time we weren't really friendly with Germany or Russia, which is why we didn't get involved, but if there was some early rapprochement with Russia pre-Barbarossa I could see the US fighting alongside them against the fascists.

Right, the MiG-15 isn't a flyable so you've modded it somehow to get it flying and it sounds like yours has some FM issues. Try one of the other MiG-15 FMs uploaded here to see how it works for you.

Hind was made by Digital Integration, but I don't recall them making an F-16 sim. Of course, there were a lot of "also rans" in that area besides MPS/SH's Falcon 3/4 series that I can barely recall. I know Novalogic did one.