JediMaster

Also in the real world the jammer isn't as ineffective as it is in the sim. Yes there are circumstances where they are defeated, but by and large few modern fighters have been shot down by SAMs.

All the mods like RV and OF and such have included manuals in PDF form I believe. Just browse thru the directories. The original manual is relevant to the generic stuff, but specific switchology and procedures may be incorrect/incomplete with the mods.

Yeah, I heard about that. Thanks for the link.

I seem to recall a B-52 dropping one off GA as well as the one off Spain.

Yes, I don't recall if it was a low pass that got out of control or if it was a genuine landing attempt and he raised the gear because he (correctly) believed the gear down would result in more damage than a gears-up landing would.

LOL, yeah. Things like facts and figures are usually not high on the list of accuracy for any media agency.

While I was on alert in the NEACP E-4B (747-200) we launched on a Presidential Support Mission to accompany "Ron" back to the White House. As we climbed through the clouds we had one of those "Blinding Flashes of the Obvious" and all of our electrical systems went dark........

 

Quick reset of everything brought it all back on line and we all "reset the heart circuit breakers". Then executed a precautionary landing back at March AFB to check out the plane. We couldn't find anything and re-launched a few hours later for home plate. Speculation was the lightning didn't hit directly but was close enough to surge all of the systems and caused us to reset (about a 30 second evolution).

 

Got all of our attention and made a believer in thunderstorm avoidance out of me!

LOL, doesn't speak well to hardening for EMP, does it?

Right, and that's why in LOMAC (where I could alter things) I changed it so I just see a label at long range, then I see its ID when it gets much closer. That way I see something is out there first and I see WHAT it is much later, as it should be.

LOL, all my sigs have been movie quotes pretty much, including the one I have now!

IFR is one thing I've never been comfortable with in any sim. I just carry tanks or land and refuel.

Great, now we're never going to hear the end of how right he is!

The original 60GB model and the 80GB model that replaced it at the same $499 price point both support PS2 games. The new lower-cost 40GB model was cheaper by virtue of the fact that backwards emulation is one of the things left out.

Thanks C5,

 

J/M...you seriously never noticed that when the game says "cool, here is a medal", that it never shows up in your pilot record? And do not even mention ejecting in this game to me...how long did that take to implement?

 

 

cheers

No, honestly! I saw the medal awarded to me, and thought "Ok, cool." I never recall trying to look it up later! The only stats I cared about in my pilot log were kills and deaths and hours flown.

I admit that despite my years of flying this series I don't have nearly as many hours as some other people here. I can go a month or longer between bouts. So I'm not necessarily as intimate with the workings of this as others here.

I'm still a "light" modder--I put in the planes and terrains and have done the weapon .ini dance, but I've never done things like add planes to campaigns or alter single mission files or whatever.

The J-10 appears similar to several other planes, but it really is a separate design. It's a bigger "Lavi" in the same way that the Su-27 is a bigger MiG-29 ie not much at all! The J-10 had a very long development, and while the Lavi might indeed have been the starting point what has entered service as the J-10A is very different.

The canards on the top design ruin its stealth. It also has a TINY radar. Look at the size of that nose!

I don't think the last one Erwin posted can fly, either. Even if it got off the ground it looks like the wings would break under g load!

Yeah, but the J-10 started more from where the Lavi was and moved on from there. It's a bit bigger than a Lavi, too.

That's usually because Sony keeps the format to themselves ie you want to play a Beta tape or MD you need a Sony player.

With BD they're not trying to keep it all to themselves and that's helping.

As for confusion, here's a story that illustrates it--I was online Saturday at BB holding the Panasonic BD player I was getting. The woman in line behind me sees the box and comments to her son, "Oh, the Bluray player is hi definition just like you said. It says it there on the box." The kid responds with typical pre-teen "I TOLD you! I TOLD you!" So, there are at least some people out there who grasp that HD DVD is "HD" but NOT that Bluray is.

Probably quite a few. However, for exercises you don't really use them anyway, so it's moot.

On the flip side, I'm guessing some US planes won't use their radars either. The AESA-equipped planes especially.

There's multiple types of jamming, but flight sims always simply model "noise" jamming. As a result, all it does is prevent lock on until closer and burn-thru occurs.

Deception jamming would be nice, where the jammer fools the attacker into thinking you're somewhere close to where you are, but not really. Fire a missile and it appears to pass harmlessly through you because you're really miles from there!

However, the whole classified nature of it means we can forget a realistic sim of it.

Which is why I have no qualms about flying with labels on in most sims! Not only is there the size issue, but the human eye is good at picking out movement against a background and a monitor fails to show that correctly.

That was the YF-22 that had the PIO in the approach and suffered a hard landing due to lag in the FBW system. No F-22A has crashed to date.

I don't think that Sukhoi was designed for production, any more than the F-15 MSTD or whatever it was called that had the canards on the intakes was. It was a tech demonstrator based on an Su-27, that's all.

I used to work for NorthGrum at the site where the JSTARS stuff was installed. They had an old E-8A outside that was being cannibalized for the E-8C they were putting together. They flew them in "green".

Not certain. However, that's a pretty simple thing to say makes the system more complex!

The difference is the USN is in full-scale production of the Super Bug right now. Getting 2 dozen of them should NOT cost that much based on procurement alone. Once again there's some background accounting going on that the news doesn't give you and thereby skews the story.