JediMaster

I've had both in several sims. Other than maybe 2-3 times for novelty's sake I've never much cared for IFR.

Carrier landings I've done a lot more, especially back in Aces of the Pacific, 1942:PAW, and F-14: Fleet Defender. Even all the way back in F-19!

I still have TK's sims, Il-2, and LOMAC with carrier ops, although I admit I rarely land...but I do takeoff all the time!

You can switch to expert and to easy modes in flight pressing Ctrl.

 

The funniest thing is that F-16 carries A-A missiles that can lock on up to 4 targets at a time.

That's directly ripped out of Ace Combat!

So, anyone with expectations SoW will be out this year...prepare to be disappointed!

At least ED released Black Shark.

As a guy with a 6 month-old at home, I totally get where you're coming from Laton!!

Severed Dreams was an excellent episode. I just recently rewatched the whole B5 saga, all seasons of both series and all TV/DVD films. Makes me sad that Legend of the Rangers, the one-off in 2001, was the last thing aired and that The Lost Tales, another one-off to DVD in 2007, was likely the last thing we'll ever see.

Red Storm Rising and Hunt for Red October. Both must haves!

I don't know, even against zombies I'll take the 3 round bursts. After all, you have to hit them all in the head!

I saw a write up on it in one of the USAF pubs, I can't remember which. It was sitting on a table on top of other issues!

They got a lot of help from the USMC in making it. It was written by the character that Bacon plays.

It would work IF no one else did either. The problem is many others do keep talking to them.

Actually, that's not too bad. I mean, it's like calling an F/A-18E an F/A-18C or vice versa.

However, it was announced a few years ago that Clancy had sold his name to them 100% and would have no further input at all in their future releases.

Besides, in The Bear and the Dragon he made mistakes of his own, like saying the Apache had a 20mm chaingun!

I hadn't heard the Gorshkov was renamed Vikramaditya. At least that's a 3rd name!

The odd thing is how many old carrier names we don't reuse. There's no CVN Langley, Saratoga, Ranger, etc.

It totally bombed. They didn't screen it for critics, either, which means the studio had no confidence in it.

I also never recall seeing a single ad for it, so they didn't spend on promotion!

I've never seen an airliner that didn't dip just slightly on one side when ditching. Even if one engine had hit the water first it could've cartwheeled.

It really was amazing flying with a healthy dose of good luck!

We should officially tell NK we don't care about them anymore and we refuse to talk to them, and no one else should either!

Is Russia looking more at ground attack secondary while India is thinking of it primary then?

With planes like the Mirage 2000 and Su-30 I don't think India really needs to worry about the AA side as much, anyway. Multirole/ground attack is where the older planes are at.

So it's going to be called the Vikrant? Has every Indian carrier been named Vikrant or Viraat? I mean, I'm sure you want to keep some names in use for tradition sake, but it does seem to be a little repetitive to use the same 2 names only!

Right, a change in .ini's isn't a major thing, I just figured some of the planes would be a little wonky with the latest patch without them.

I've not patched my NF1/2 install yet for that very reason.

I installed (onto my pre-Exp Pack install, to clarify) some terrains and tons of planes like the early war stuff TK skipped over. He focused on 1917-18, but the air war started in 1915 and there was a lot happening in 1916, so you don't want to miss those!

There's no all-in-ones like NF or ODS for FE though. Closest is probably Firecage's campaigns that require a ton of planes and such to be installed manually, one at a time. Then you have peter01's new FMs.

You know that I meant 352 individual kill markings.

 

 

As for kill marks, reminds me of the story of the EF-111 which was credited with a kill of a Mirage F1 during Desert Storm... quite a feat these days for an unarmed plane! I bet that plane has a kill mark on it!

I think it's in the boneyard in AZ, so who knows?

For stealth you want as many edges to align as you can to minimize the number of directions radar returns are reflected. You'll notice the leading edges of wings and stabs are the same angle, the trailing edges are the same angle, and panels and doors and even the cockpit may have their edges aligned that way.

I think the ideal is to have only 4 "spikes" at like 2, 4, 8, and 10 o'clock (or roughly at those bearings).

To be clear, this list is in addition to what's already in NF1/2, correct? Will there be updates to those planes' .inis for the new patch?

Or is NF3 going to be a total redo with NF1/2 out?

GFWL is just a nightmare. MS tried to make a competitor to Steam but is nowhere near there yet. The usage of BOTH by some games is just baffling. It should only be one or the other.

I don't like the idea of having to buy more planes. I don't mind the expansion pack model, where you pay some amount and you get a batch of planes and maybe new terrain to go with it, but I don't want to be nickel-and-dimed to death with tons of separate planes.

How many will the original release let you fly?

Striker...

Striker Striker Striker Striker Striker Striker STRIKER!!

Ted Striker?

I remember Joe Piscopo doing his Paul Harvey bit on SNL...25 years ago when he was already old!

I think it's because the benefits don't justify the costs or other adverse results.

Someone COULD make an FSW fighter, it just hasn't been proven to be the best idea yet.

For that matter, VG wings have many positives, but after a brief flirtation with them for just over a generation, no new VG plane has entered service since...the Tu-160 maybe? I forget which is the most recent, it probably isn't the B-1B.

Then it seemed like the canard + delta configuration was the new rage, from the Gripen and Rafale through Tyhpoon and J-10, but the newest planes like the F-22 and F-35 have ignored that.