JediMaster

Only other sims with the F-15 I remember were Israeli AF and USAF, and Fighter Anthology, all by Jane's/EA, and the F-15 Strike Eagle series by MPS.

I believe the 1% site has its own forum where its devs hang out. You should probably look there. I think it's avhistory.org or possibly at sim-outhouse.com.

Of course, the famous part is McD said the plane couldn't fly that way, then were astonished to see it did.

Bo shuda...

Mmmmmmm...girls....

I honestly haven't tried the AV8 yet so I don't know what it can or can't do in game. However, I see that it's the AV-8B+ version with the F-16's APG-66 radar vs the AV-8B Night Attack which has a laser in the nose, so maybe that pod gives it back the abilities lost by the radar-equipped version. Whether it designates or seeks-only, I don't know.

It's possible there are wingtip rails in development along with the underwing pylons for "post-zero hour days" sorties when stealth is no longer as important and a larger weapons load is. I've just not heard of any so far.

Short answer: SOME planes have a mappable control for canopy open/shut, SOME do not and never will. Engines will not shut off unless TK patches the game to do so, same thing with bailing animations.

Really? From the news you'd think it was all ice cream and laughter over there. Always good to be home.

Sassoon!

The new Enterprise was never the series' weakness. Although I was disappointed it was basically just an inverted retro Akira (with nacelles high instead of low), it still has great lines.

I like ones with great music, too. Amok Time and Doomsday Machine are great in that regard. I also love the "voted #1" episode City on the Edge of Forever, as well as Balance of Terror. Let's not forget the classic Space Seed!

Oh, done that one in Red Orchestra and OFP/ArmA many times!

Not as far as I know. All have SF. The Achilles heel of FC. Not to say there aren't cracked versions floating about the net, but I've not seen them.

There are massive mountains on the eastern shore of the Black Sea--the Caucasus. By default a lot happens in the Crimean Peninsula or across the straits to the east, but that is flat. Look at the "detailed" terrain on the map (where it's not just flat green) and you'll see it on the lower right of the map.

Well, that IS the most important thing, right?

To be honest, I haven't visited Frugal's since I got my Cougar, and then I was only looking at that part of the site, some 18+ months ago. Before that, I last visited looking at some F4 SP4 stuff at its release. Just never felt "at home" there, although I don't think I ever posted.

That would be the loading screen from LOMAC when flying the F-15, although I don't recall the crew chief being female... Of course, that's an F-15C not a 15E like most sims have done.

It's been awhile since I did it, but I don't recall anything in particular unusual about the install. Sometimes there's more than just the aircraft, though. Check the readme carefully. There may be weapons, pylons, etc that need to be placed in other folders other than the aircraft folders.

Well, those are the ugly successful planes. There were plenty of ugly unsuccessful ones!

Nothing more satisfying than watching a turret fly off.

All of it is in the game, but not all of it is straight forward to use or access. Designators, for example, are carried by ground troops to lase the target for the fighters to fly by and drop the bomb onto. The A-10 actually doesn't have a designator, although that's for LGBs only. Mavericks self-designate of course. There are many missions where you get attacked by mortars or artillery, and a few where you get to use them yourself. Some of these things are better illustrated in 3rd party missions you can DL around the net than in the stock ones with the game.

I think the main problem was when DS9 first aired the character development took too long. You didn't know the characters well enough. Now already knowing the characters, going back and watching S1 it just seems a lot better. I'd say that while the last half of TNG's run was probably the best top quality eps, DS9 overall was the best series because it had fewer weak episodes than even TOS. Maybe I'd rank TNG S5-S7 on top with TOS S1 and S2, then DS9 S1-7 and Enterprise S4, then TOS S3, TNG S1-S4 and Voyager S1-7 mixed in with Enterprise S1-3.

I'm playing ArmA regularly and it's still getting better with patches and stuff. JO's problem is it's dead as far as NL is concerned. I really don't know WHAT happened there. They released that expansion less than 4 months after the original game...then NOTHING.

AFAIK, there is no way. I've never seen this in the almost 6 years I've been flying coop Il-2.