JediMaster

That's easy...ever bought any buns from Oscar Mayer? Or any hot dogs from Pepperidge Farm?

I think he bailed out. The game doesn't have a bailing pilot animation or pilots in chutes, but it does model it non-visually.

Is the 86D's FM updated to work with the latest patches? I've never seen an undamaged plane lose control unless there was some FM compatibility issues.

I never flew CFS2 myself, but IIRC full flaps are only used for landing because of the high drag. Try setting them in an intermediate range. If it's one of those rare planes with only 0% and 100%, then try no flaps at all.

Well if the jet is over the river and the building is on the river, they may well be only a few hundred feet apart. However, I agree that appears to be taken at range with a long lens.

I got into this discussion once with some random person while at an airshow, of all places. An older couple approached my group as we were photographing the show. They asked if we were professional photographers and we explained that we were Air Force. Long story short, the older lady asked if I had been deployed. I said "yes, many times." Well she went on to tell me that she was for the troops, but against the war.

 

I didn't say it there, but it got me thinking. Can you be for the troops, but against the war? What we are doing in this war is our main job. To fight. So if you are against the fight, then aren't you really against us?

Quite easy, really. It's another way of saying you disagree with the administration that sent them there. To say if you don't support the war you can't support the troops is a little like saying the NRA is wrong and you can't just blame the person (President) you have to also blame the gun (troops).

Besides, while a soldier is trained to fight, to say it's the main job implies a time of peace is a waste for a soldier. The job is to defend the country, and if that defense takes the form of being such a scary badass that no one wants to fight you, you've done the job superbly!

After all, combat in the first place is an acknowledgement of a failure by those at the top to prevent it. That's THEIR job, the troops by themselves can't prevent a war, they can only win one they're told to fight.

Well, personally, I don't care that MJ died, he could've died 20 yrs ago for all the difference it would've meant to me as that was the last time I really listened to anything new of his. Thriller sits on the rack with other classics like Dark Side of the Moon, Tommy, Sgt Pepper, Nevermind...history on disc.

That said, it's human nature to care more about those we know than those we don't, and with these stupid celebs people feel like they know them even if they've never met them. Anyone remember when John Lennon died? That surpassed this by a big amount, and he was still making good music at the time.

So while the celebs deserve far less than they get and the soldiers far more, it will never change.

That's what it looks like driving around the Cape during mating season. Damned things are all over, along with the walking speedbumps aka armadillos.

There's a couple of really BIG ones at the Cape, too, but they don't move much.

Will they lose? Yes. What will that loss cost them? My guess is not much. It's obvious the girl was being a ditz, she wasn't seriously hurt, and her family has come off as looking to make a quick buck. If they're smart, they'll take whatever settlement the lawyer can get them and not bother going to trial as they'll likely get less that way.

Maybe in a year or so there will be some kind of comprhensive package that will be attractive to those of us who aren't diehard WWI fans. I'd pay $50 as long as it had at least 9 planes (3 from each major nation), good campaigns, good MP, and good single missions. The always-on net connect I'm not crazy about, but I have Steam already so I can live with it.

I didn't go with iRacing either for the same reason...I want a product that is full-featured, not "a couple of features done REALLY well."

I really can't wait for this to come out and get a good batch of reviews so I can decide what to do. My Cougar isn't holding up well and my RCS pedals are closer to 20 years old than 10!

Well that has to be outdated as they don't call it the F/A-22A anymore.

However, with under 200 planes I doubt it will get all these specialized abilities. I can see the ground attack role being increased as it has de facto replaced the F-117, including some limited SEAD/DEAD missions against the toughest targets, but it won't be filling any EF-111 shoes.

It doesn't matter if you brought up game B or not.

The truth is being condescending with a "don't fool yourself thinking that OFF offers anything close to a flight model that can be called remotely realistic" is classic trolling behavior. It adds nothing to the discussion, merely presents your opinion as if it's an undeniable fact (which an opinion by definition cannot be) and both insults anyone who believes different and dares them to prove otherwise (when the very statement indicates no such proof would be accepted).

While rabu has made lengthy explanations of why he believes what he does, your entire argument has boiled down to "the FM is wrong" with a single example. Unless you work for a 24 hr opinion network and see no problem with preaching to the choir with unsupported "facts" without proof and insulting those who feel differently, I would suggest you should take a different tactic in your discussion.

Oh, and disagreeing and/or pointing out statements made in the past are a far cry from attacks.

I've also seen it stated several times that FMs in OFF Phase 3 differ from those in Phase 1 and 2, so if that's true making statements about OFF pre-phase 3 have little bearing on the final product. You can't judge a 2009 car by the 1995 model.

286? HA! In my day, we didn't have these fancy x86 instruction sets! We had Pong with 2 knobs plugged into our TV and we liked it!!!

I played it on release, which I think was only up to 1.02 by the time I finished it, but it never did that to me. It would hit with the sound and blurriness, then the little pills icon would show up in the lower left until I took the pills. When I did, it stopped and went away. Every time.

As has been commented elsewhere around the net, the whole malaria thing makes for a good story but totally fails as implemented in the game. All it does is annoy you really. The most it contributes is the few missions you have to do to be given more pills.

Sucks if it's broken in 1.03.

Of course AEP predates Vista by a good amount, so I'm wondering if there's some detection routine in AEP's installer that's getting confused. Have you tried running the AEP setup in XP compatiblity mode?

Madagascar (and 2) aren't Pixar films.

The funny thing is we carry the much larger STS orbiter on the back of a much smaller 747. I think the 225 was overkill for the Buran. A modified 124 should have been able to do it.

Having 4 planes is more than 2x better than just 2. At least it gives some choice.

I never had that problem way back when I got AEP. Did you install FB into the default directory, or did you change it?

My guardian angel has a first name. It's O S C A R.

My guardian angel has a 2nd name. It's M A Y E R.

I forgot who once said "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story"...

Quick, someone pull up a thread criticizing Clinton about that Lewinsky thing...

Interesting that it's on wheels. Other than the SA-8, I seem to recall most mobile units are on tracks.

It's a good practice that all TW sim vets have been doing for years now. Especially as TK's patches tend to wipe out certain things breaking installed mods, it's best to patch the "clean" version and then copy the mods back in.

I skipped BF2 for that reason as well as others.

However, skipping past the argument about "unlocking" weapons or equipment, the argument for unlocking the ability to play coop can't be made.

I do not like playing adversarial. I quit playing that stuff 5 years ago when the online gaming community became a paradise for cheaters and teens with no life that play JUST THAT GAME for 80 hrs a week.

I like coop, like L4D or Serious Sam or many others, where you work WITH other people (that you know, no public servers for me ever) against the AI. I'm not going to play hours and hours of adversarial just to be allowed to play coop. That's just stupid.