JediMaster

Made in a bassamatic?

Mmmmm...that's great bass!

You must cut down the tallest tree in the forest with...a herring!!!

Man, do I hate stuffed cabbage. The stuffing is ok, but the cabbage!

When I was young and thinking like a young man thinks with all of the maturity I could muster, the Auburn University (Alabama) campus was the MOST target-rich environment on the planet (I visited most of the other SEC schools too). It had then and has now the best crop of FINE southern ladies available. Did a four year recon mission and picked the one to suit my fancy. 35 years later she is still a southern beauty in my eyes. Did the education thing too, but all of that best educational institution stuff is a bunch of bunk anyway. You get what you strive for in college, regardless of the institution or it's rep. Three years out of school nobody cares what your GPA was or where it was from. Might as well attend a school with a good football team so you can act like an alumini and dress up like a fool every Saturday.

 

At the end of the day, it's all about quality cheap beer and the results of that intense recon mission.

Amen to that. Almost 15 years after my graduation no one cares where I went or what my degree was in. That only matters for your first, maybe 2nd jobs, out of school. After that it's where you worked and what you did that makes the difference.

I first saw the trailer months ago. I think it will be a good funny flick like MiB was.

Malpractice insurance, driven by the malpractice lawyers, is what has made healthcase unaffordable in the US. Every person and place needs it, from nurses to clinics to doctors and hospitals, and because the lawsuits are always so big they pay mega $$ for the insurance.

I remember a DECADE ago my father telling me his hospital paid $1000/bed/DAY for malpractice insurance ALONE. That's $365k/year per bed just for that facility.

You know, 100 years ago if someone died or was screwed up in the hospital it wasn't a license to print money for that person or their next of kin or their slimy lawyer (who always takes half--if they're lucky).

You must have been here very recently then as Mission Space isn't that old a ride, although it's no longer what it was. Thanks to the deaths it's now a pale shell of what it used to be.

Patrick Warburton is good in Soarin, but it's still just sitting there and watching an Imax film.

Of course, they'd be dead before they saw it.

The deal isn't that it was done, it's that the Russians shouldn't have been involved with it and are trying to claim it wasn't them.

My guess is they didn't think the drone would be able to film its own demise.

Which is why the AAA needs a firewall...

Oh yeah, the line for Soarin is totally out of proportion with how good the ride is, frankly. I liked it well enough, but not to stand in line for an hour plus!

5/22 release--I will be seeing it opening weekend!

"You're a teacher??!?"

"Part time."

Yup, it's on the news now and then.

Jedi,

 

Configure the aircraft for landing at 2000 feet and slow to approach speed or whatever your best guess is. When the aircraft stalls, note the speed and add 20 knots. You're in business for an approximation of final approach speed for any aircraft. Usually final approach speed is a function of the aircraft's weight and configuration. Bye the way if you change the configuration (e.g. leave the flaps up) you'll end up in the same smoking hole. Alternative is to let the autopilot fly the approach and all you have to do is watch and note the final approach sped. Configuration matters, weight matters. Don't bring home a load of bombs. It is an insult to dirt movers everywhere. Don't forget the flaps, speed brake or landing gear. If you land gear up, it takes a lot of power to taxi.

This is the AP that's having the trouble. As soon as it's approaching the next-to-last WP the throttle cuts to zero until the airspeed is like 120 kts and the thing starts dropping like a rock, then the throttle kicks back in to like 15%. I've got a long weekend coming up (taking Wed-Fri off!) so I'll try and delve into it a little more. Flown manually I have no trouble with it, but I believe the AP and how AI flies the planes are linked, so solving one will solve the other.

Only thing I DID work out this weekend is that the Gripen's exhaust nozzle animations were reversed--it was opening when it should be closing and vice versa! Compared to it to several other FMs out there and saw what numbers to change (mostly making 1.0 into 0.1 and vice versa) and now it looks right. That did take over an hour to determine, though!

"They are holding Marcus in the belly of that steel beast..."

I just hope it's nothing like Blazing Angels...

 

BA had only stunning visuals...apart from that it was a total disaster, IMHO...

 

It's hard to believe that the same company that created the IL-2 series came up with BA!!!!

 

Well..being a Tom Clancy game there should be at least some element of realism...I think....

Well, that's like saying the same company that came up with Star Trek came up with Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC).

Ubisoft published both BA and Il-2, but Oleg's 1C in Moscow developed Il-2 while Ubi Bucharest, I think, made BA and now HAWX.

Chelsea is campaigning, what else would she be doing?

That's why I always say don't be surprised if a rocket fails at launch, be amazed when it makes it!

I thought this was going to be about "Heroes."

It's funny how appropriate "KUB" is for a Russian plane...a baby bear!

It depends on what you want from the flight profiles. Props advantages are longer endurance/less fuel burn. Turbojets/fans lets you go faster and higher and can prove less fatiguing to the crew, depending on the type of engine.

Besides, it's still a jet. The ONLY part that is different is the front. Instead of a prop, you put a far smaller diameter fan or series of fans inside a duct and you get more thrust for less effeciency. Piston engines are relegated to only the very small planes now, like the ones that hold 6 people max.

“Sir, since the former VP is such a VIP, shouldn’t we keep the PC on the QT? Because if it falls into the hands of the VC, he could end up an MIA, then we’d all be put on KP…”

I'll have you know the weather is NOT always the same here. In fact, today is two degrees cooler than yesterday.

My "refly" button has the texture worn off of it from repeated clickings. I might be on the THIRD mission of the campaign now.

I've noticed that (for the Gripen at least) there does seem to be some oddly slow speed set. Not only AI will crash during landing, if you try to let the autopilot land your plane you'll find yourself stalling into a hole well short of the airfield. Is the landing speed some multiple of cruise speed like 1/3 or 1/2?

Oh, forgot to mention I think I was working with the original FM, not the beta FM, which I have yet to try out! I'm also working it with WOE (obviously without the latest FM patch) and not WOI, with or without patch.

Looks like I'm the only one who's voted "other" so far! In addition to my Exp 1 version, I have a 2nd FE install that has neither the patch nor the Exp Pack but all the mods as of a few months ago, the last time I added stuff to it. That has all the myriads of planes in it. I won't patch it until I'm sure I can get all the mod planes I've got in there working with the patch!