JediMaster

Still no word on what the 3rd installment will be. All that's been said is "popular American fixed wing plane". So we know what's it NOT, but not what it IS.

Ah, a carbon-fiber and aluminum alloy rain, quite nice on bare skin!

Is that a punctured ball at the base of the pile?

Even if the computer doesn't control flight ability, so you don't have to worry about crashing, what about the other systems? What could be worse than a mission into hostile airspace and your radar, RWR, and ECM switch off and won't come back? My feeling is that while a manned plane will likely have fewer problems than a UAV/UCAV, when a fatal problem occurs in a manned plane it's 10x worse than losing an unmanned one.

Yes, it's the OFP/Arma guys doing it. I'm not sure what the game itself will be like, but if you have arma 2 there was a demo of sorts that let you fly the a helo in arma2 using the FM TOH will have. It sounds like MSFS helo edition from the Arma guys, so I'm going to wait for others to get it and try it. I'm not much for "flight only" sims (I prefer combat flight sims!) so I may skip this one.

I have nothing against Jobs or what he was able to accomplish. However, I have a dislike for some of his more rabid fans. Some of the anti-PC rhetoric they spout is so stupid it's no wonder people think "Apple is for stupid people" because it's the dumb fans that are the most vocal. The smart ones, well, they don't go spouting off about it because they know it's not better, just different, and some things are better suited for it while others are not. It's like a presidential candidate being endorsed by the KKK or something...I'm sure Apple privately wishes those people would stay quiet. I don't care for the products themselves because they require certain concessions to giving up control that I don't like, like converting all your music to their own format first, or being locked out from digging into the OS.

I run stock 4.10.1 in widescreen no problem, you just have to adjust the conf.ini manually as stated.

Cool, I'm glad this is here.

I don't know how simple or complex a thing it is, but the interior reflections have always contributed highly to the immersion I feel in a cockpit in the sims that have had it.

He lived for like 7 years after he got cancer the first time, I guess it just kept coming back.

Look with your nose.

Wow, German helicopters. Rarely see those.

Likewise, if you re-DL any of the DLC you'll find it's all sept-update level required for install.

The 1998 one. I got it just for the Foo Fighters song and some others. There are only 2 songs from the "score" itself.

That was only in ST:TMP (nerd data alert!) Robert Wise, the director, wanted the deflector dish to indicate warp speed or not and this guy modeled that. At sublight speeds (leaving space dock and impulse power) it's "off" and yellow/orange. When it goes to warp, it lights up blue as it's on. The idea behind the deflector is what it sounds like---a force field in the shape of a cone in front of the ship, independent of shields, to deflect anything in space like dust or ice or whatever that at high speed would smash the front of the ship. You'll notice the warp engines light up blue at the same time because it's "at warp" at that time. This idea was followed faithfully in TMP aside from I think one scene where someone made a mistake and it was either blue when it was supposed to be yellow or vice versa, I forget which. This idea was then dropped in ST2 (you only see it orange in the footage reused from TMP) and every other film thru ST6 where it was just blue all the time, even if sitting still. Only when the ship was shutdown it would go dark, but the yellow was gone. Too much for them to deal with I guess. As for the music, I've been a fan of SF and some fantasy film soundtracks for over 30 years, since my uncle bought me the ESB soundtrack in 1980 on LP. I've owned the soundtracks to many of these films since before CDs were available, although others like Alien and Back to the Future I only bought recently with special editions. That's why my ear picks this stuff up so fast. My collection: All 6 Star Wars films All 11 Star Trek films plus several of the original series episodes All 4 Indiana Jones films The first 2 Jurassic Park films The first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films All 3 Lord of the Rings Back to the Future Alien Aliens Armageddon Godzilla X Files 2001 Fantasia Superman E.T. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind Stargate Dune Hunt For Red October Battlestar Galactica (new series) all seasons Some others I can't recall right now...

I don't mean "take one skin and then dynamically add stuff to it". I mean, say for example you have a skin from a particular battalion. You just make like, I don' t know, 4 versions of it, each a bit more weathered than the first. You fly the first 5-10 missions, you use the "cleanest" one. Then you get assigned the next skin for the next 5-10 missions, and so on. In other words, you just make multiple variations of a particular skin (by starting with one, weathering it a bit, saving, weathering it more, saving again, etc) and then tell the campaign to switch which skin it uses as you go instead of making the skins user-selectable (which I think is ok for single missions, but not in a campaign). You don't change it in the mission itself. It's really no different from having a campaign where you change squadrons or bases or carriers or whatever and then having a different skin there, it's just that instead of going from a skin with one tailcode to another, or silver metal to camo, you go from "slightly dirty" to "pretty dirty" to "worn and filthy" by campaign end.

I built that model, it uh...doesn't look that good. However, I disagree with his music choices. It's the Enterprise from ST:TMP-ST3, but he uses the them from ST8 aka First Contact (a TNG film) and then he uses the "Enterprise leaves space dock" theme from the NEW ST and not TMP? This thing would've been a lot better if the theme from the opening credits of TMP was used first, followed by the leaving space dock music from TMP.

I still think the roundel should just be a red bullseye over Ghaddafi's shocked face.

Will the skins change dynamically? In other words, at the start of a campaign it should be a relatively clean one, but as time progresses it would get worse and worse. I don't know of any sim that does this, of course, just idle thinking. I know Cliffs of Dover does have a "weathering" slider you can adjust, but I don't know if it's done automatically during a campaign.

One thing is that if it had been truly external, the chance is high that you wouldn't have been able to reload anything...the drive would've been unusable. Low-level data on a drive isn't touched by a format, but an external mag wipe hits it just the same. Without that data, the BIOS/EFI can't talk to the HD.

Um...

Well, I would say by definition that any airline still around today is a better airline. Actually, Pan Am went out of business twice. There was the main one, then a few years later they returned with limited service...and failed again.

Anything's possible I guess.