JediMaster

A new cockpit would easily cost more than $1m per plane because of all the work to take out the old stuff, not just the new stuff.

It's money and politics. These are only semi-serious military decisions about what capabilities can be sustained and what must be dumped. The rest is just political jockeying to try and force Congress to actually DO something for once instead of bicker and blame everyone but themselves. The answer to "what will replace X" is "nothing". So when Congress asks "well what happens if we need X?" they can say "I dunno, maybe we can find something somewhere to do it, possibly" and shrug. I said the same thing Gen Welsh was quoted to say weeks ago when the A-10 proposal was first announced. It's far more cost effective to eliminate all the A-10s than to take out SOME A-10s and SOME F-15Cs and SOME B-1Bs...

Well, yeah, if it's at least 25 years old! They don't bother in the stuff "made for the net", no one cares anymore!

You have to wonder if any ever did any significant damage on impact, especially if they still held fuel at the time. I don't recall hearing a single story from any conflict about it, though.

Is the name "Royal Guard" just a holdover from the past or is it a literal description like the RAF/RN? My knowledge of current Spanish gov't is a bit thin.

In the future, then please end your posts with "this is a statement and I would prefer it if everyone would read it but NOT make any comment on it, even if the person responding is not responding only directly to me but is rather making a statement themselves for others to read, because it's ok for me to do it but not for them". That would clear up a lot of confusion. Or, you could simply NOT make the statement if you're concerned someone might reply to it in a way you're not 100% happy with. Because we all really want to know what YOU speculate is the proper path the "feds" should or will take, but obviously no one really would be interested in anything I might have to say. Again, my apologies for not doing things exactly the way you would like them to be, I know it's your internet and all.

How? It's easy. If you're former military you have a 90% chance of getting a job with a gov't contractor as long as you're remotely qualified. End of story. Medical history isn't looked at, just service history. If you're NOT former military, it's far harder. Forget getting a civilian job, of course. I think I knew maybe half a dozen civilians that were neither former military or a relative of one out of the hundreds I knew well enough to talk to them about their background. The deck is just stacked against you so ridiculously high you're not getting in. The US gov't doesn't hire the best qualified people, it hires the best qualified veterans...even if the vet spent only 2 years 15 years ago doing the job roughly equivalent to this one. The private citizen who's spent the last 20 years in the private sector doing that job alone doesn't get a second glance.

The reason the attack was on Dec 7 because it was a Sunday morning and the Japanese knew the readiness would be at its lowest ebb. I don't think 9/11 was picked for any particular reason other than they could work out the timing (if their luck held with weather and other possible delays) of having all the hijacked planes crash around the same time. United 93 failed because the timing was too late. The other 3 happened inside the reaction time. They also had surprise as no one believed a hijacked plane wouldn't be flown somewhere and landed and used for ransom of prisoners or money or both. After those 3 crashed, surprise was lost. Being lax is never a good idea, at least not if people know when you will be lax. If it's an unannounced stand down there's little time for an adversary to capitalize on it.

I'm surprised this hasn't been more of a priority for the existing teen series jets.

That may be the first pic I've seen of a 29 at night with the slime lights on.

It wasn't the first signal, but it was probably the first one with sufficient broadcast power that we can believe made it out a few dozen light years and was still detectable.

For those of you who didn't buy during Alpha or Beta phases (when it was discounted), Arma 3 is now out. Available at http://store.steampowered.com/app/107410/ The SP campaign isn't in yet, they'll be releasing it as free DLC later in 3 parts. However, full MP, both new islands, and single scenarios for single player are in with all the units. Seeing as the campaigns are historically the buggiest and weakest part of every release since Arma 1 (OFP's were actually good), I'm glad they're working more on them. If they were there, we'd have to wait for a few patches anyway before they'd be playable.

If it fades out and isn't rendered when you're not close, it shouldn't too much. I ate lunch at the top of that tower ~9 years ago IIRC. Very nice view of the area.

Of course, now the reverse has happened and the 33's are going to be replaced by the newer K's that were made for India.

The conspiracy theorists are idiots, plain and simple.

I read the power left is some fraction of a watt to transmit. They need BIG dishes with the gain turned up to "11" to still hear it.

I was thinking something like Sparks or Sparky.

What's really amazing is that for being 73 I've seen some people in their 50s that look older. Of course, Shatner and Nimoy are 10 years older and they don't look to be more than twice my age either. I'd say they were no more than 70 if I didn't know better.

I think the reason they never implemented some of those abilities like changing heading without changing direction or changing direction without changing heading were because of control difficulties...it's easy to tell a computer "slide my plane 200 ft to the right without changing attitude", but how is a pilot supposed to move his stick and rudder intuitively to do that? It's the same reason so few cars have 4 wheel steering despite the tech being around for decades now. I sure wish I had a "parallel parking mode" with 4 wheel steering.

Wait, "identificated"? What's wrong with "identified"?

There's an interesting story behind that Russian singer/songwriter and his conflict with his lyric writer that led to that song. Anyway, while we were watching Hee-Haw and Sonny and Cher and the Mandrell Sisters during the 70s, that's what they saw in Russia.

The one who flew Blue Thunder??

I also can have a problem with a real close-in dogfight, particularly in WWI sims where you're so close and turn rates are rather high, but in all of them really. I solve this by still using the padlock key when I'm actually tracking a single target. It basically just disables TIR for the moment (since TIR won't override it). If I break off from that target or down it, I revert to using the TIR for the rest of the flight. Best of both worlds.

The first place I would look is ED's own site at the user files link: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/ From stick config files to SP and MP missions and campaigns to skins and mods, all are available there. It's amazing that ED is really the first sim maker to offer this on their own site. 777 has something similar for ROF, but it's more limited in scope. There are also fan sites out there like us, I think lockonfiles.com was the big one for a long time, but I've not been there in ages or many other places for that matter so I can't say for certain.

Some patches will update the DLCs as well, not all are patch-independent. So you might get them to work that way, but it's possible one has a bug with the radar or cockpit or something and this method means you won't get that fix. Especially if the fix required a change to the core game files which an older patch version won't have. I understand the reasoning behind making everything consistent, and if the newer patches didn't mess with the mods it wouldn't even be an issue. It's just that these 2 philosophies run afoul of each other in some places like this.