JediMaster

So to be clear, the only issue is changing the wingmens' loadouts, not yours? I'll try testing that out myself to see if any other 3rd party planes suffer from that for me.

Not sued per se, but IIRC the USG is responisble for compensation for damages. There was some treaty signed years ago that spells that out.

AFAIK, no one has detected a tachyon. Neutrinos are tricky, for a long time they were thought to be massless. If so, going FTL wouldn't be a big deal. They now believe they aren't, but are possibly the lightest particles that exist ie the only thing that weighs less are the massless ones. Anyway, Einstein's theory can be interpreted many ways. One way is to say that anything that is going the speed of light, c itself, that has mass would have to be everywhere. If there's no mass, it's not an issue. Another way is to say INFORMATION can't travel FTL, so there's no way to transmit knowledge of an event "through time" so someone would get a message before they actually saw them send it. I don't know that you could use neutrinos for communications, so I think it might be one of those things where it SEEMS to go FTL, but it has no practical implications because you can really only observe them, you can't USE them.

Perhaps that's why the retirement was only 2 years later.

I thought the one I saw had Vader saying "I've altered the original trilogy again".

Satellite to ground control... Satellite to anyone...

They're working on them, the problem is they only work for one right now. In other words, on a screen the size of the ones you see out there, maybe 30 people could see it? Outside the area where they sit the effect wouldn't work or it would be distorted or something. If you want to imagine how much THAT would cost per ticket...

I just can't understand WHY. I get why someone might not be able to kick the habit once they're addicted, that's not uncommon. These things seem a great solution for them. I just don't understand the reasoning behind the first time. "Hmmmm...should I have a snack? Something to drink? No! I've got it! I'll set dry stinking weeds wrapped in paper on fire and suck it into my mouth!" However, it's a great indicator. If you see someone today in college or younger smoking, you know they're an idiot. There's no excuse to start nowadays.

Thrust reversers let planes land where you might think they can't quite easily. As mentioned, though, taking back off is another issue entirely!

That's the thing that always gets me. I refute 100% the asinine statement "speed kills." No, it doesn't. AF447 crashed because it was going too slow. Most planes are lost at takeoff and landing, when they're going the slowest. A car going 100mph isn't automatically dangerous, a car going 10mph isn't automatically safe. If 500 mph is far too fast, how come planes worldwide fly that speed all day without incident? It's all about the circumstances, and anyone who tries to sum it up in a snappy little line is being an ass to push whatever their meaningless agenda is. Actually, that's redundant. All agendas are meaningless, to everyone but the one whose agenda it is. No one else cares. Of course, while the media is focusing on the deaths, I think it far more important to note those that did NOT die but are instead maimed for life. Apparently there are a large number of spectators who now will need prosthetic limbs. Something every volunteer soldier has had to think about, that you could live to make it home but not in one piece, but not something most spectators at a racing event probably consider. Of course, I don't go to any. I dislike crowds, extended periods of deafening noise, and generally being outside for that length of time period.

I'm sure any Marine would tell you that's what happens when you use Apache instead of a Whiskey Cobra! And the Zulu is on the way!!

Well, to be fair this will come out about 3 years after 7. Remember that used to be the scale. Win XP halted everything and it got stagnant until Vista, 5 long years. Win 95->98 3 years Win 98->XP 3 years Vista->7 3 years The NT releases were staggered differently. I know it was 4 years from NT4 to 2000, but XP was only 18 months after that. I forgot the 3.5->4 gap. The Jedi Master

That's because Inspector Clouseau is a mod here.

I think DX10/11 is worth it.

The AGM-88 is NOT the certified landing gear for the F-16!

I did that 14 yrs ago...crap, I can't believe that's how long it's been since the special edition release! I wasn't even married yet! Anyway, yes, it WAS worth it to see them on a big screen with an audience again. Especially the first film, the theater was PACKED for that. Not so much ESB and ROTJ, though.

FWIW, that wasn't the Muppet Show. It went off the air long before that song came out.

Actually, Stealth is a pretty good film...if you watch it with the sound off and listen to some other music instead of listening to what they put in.

Feb 2012 for Phantom Menace in 3D. I won't be bothering!

Well, OFF is a mod of CFS3, so...

Impressive. Most impressive.

Well, two things. One, it says (x86) which means you have 64-bit windows so you have two programs files directories. Next, is that the actual message? Because you wrote C:\Programs\Files(x86) when it SHOULD say C:\Program Files(x86)\ and that slash instead of a space will totally ruin everything. Beyond that, newer versions of Windows do not like games installed to program files most of the time. Try making a new directory in C: like C:\Games and then install F4:AF there ie C:\Games\Lead Pursuit\ ...

I think $350 is still too much for what you get, quality issues or no. I got the Logitech sticks and while they're not perfect they've worked for me ok. I wish they'd release another driver update, but in the meantime I can make do. The main mark against the Warthog for me was there were no pedals included. The 940 had them, and while they also are not great, they're better (now) than my decades-old (literally) gold-anodized TM RCS I was using with my FLCS and then Cougar. The idea that after spending all that I would STILL have to buy more new pedals...that would be $600 minimum?! At this price, that becomes $450, and that's still outrageous. I suppose if all the reviews and users agreed this thing was 100%, no flaws, best HOTAS ever with no reservations, I could see that $450 for stick, throttle, and pedals might be acceptable. However, I've heard people say they've had almost 100% out of CH's triple combo which comes in SIGNIFICANTLY below $450 (even though sold as 3 pieces) so why bother? TBH, I feel I perhaps should've gone CH instead of Logitech. The FFB is awesome when it works properly, but some sims are a bit wonky with it, but CH didn't have it so I got the Logi. If not for FFB, I would've just gone CH and probably wouldn't have had any regrets.

What about the Flogger defections to Key West? No one seemed aware of anything till the Cuban plane was landing...

I never got the story from her straight, in one piece, before. She was pretty reticent to bring it up and I only ever had bits and pieces. Had she not decided to get up and leave the instant the first tower was hit, she'd not be here today, as she was still only 2/3 down when the 2nd plane hit and IIRC her office was above the impact line.