JediMaster

Hamachi is my tool of choice for TK's series of sims. Other than those, every other sim I play works 100% with direct IP: LOMAC w/FC CFS3 Il-2 F4:AF EECH/AH

Sounds like it does the same type of thing as EndItAll.

That plus there's not much protection for crew or flight systems.

The Flanker, like the Fulcrum, is an excellent airplane. Its effectiveness as a fighter depends on other things, some of which are known and others are not. Avionics? Always been a weak point in Russian planes. Armament? Since the R-73/AA-11 introduction, lethal in WVR combat combined with its good gun. BVR not so much because of the previously mentioned avionics as well as SARH/RH missile issues. Reliability? Never very good in the past, but getting better as countries with money like India and China pay them to make them better. The engines are the primary fault in that area, but are improving. Damage resistance/robustness? No one really knows. The East Africa conflict wasn't very big to really draw any conclusions. Most of the Flanker's adoration comes from its looks, its lines, and its flying ability. It's also one big mutha and makes even the F-15 look small. :)

The reason I think is they keep wanting planes to do more and more. It's not enough that it does what the previous one does, it has do to it all better. Then, it has to be able to do more as well. Then it has to be safer, then it has to be more survivable, then it has to be more lethal, then it has to more effective, and so on. Well, that stuff isn't free. You have to pay for it. Then Congress balks at building more. You can get 100 planes for $50 billion, or 50 planes for $35 billion...well, that saves us $15 billion! Uh, yeah, but now your unit cost has gone up. Penny wise, pound foolish, every time. The USAF bought the F-16 because they couldn't afford enough F-15s to do everything. We're buying the F-35 because of the F-22's price, but there are issues with the F-35. So the debate for more F-22s takes a different course...

I guess they fail to notice that in the US Hollywood is accused of being very liberal compared to the conservative gov't. The fact is not that there's any anti-Iran agenda, it's just that Hollywood has never allowed the truth to get in the way of a good story!

The thing is AFAIK the C-5 can fly with only 3 engines, right? Granted not full loaded, but it can. Yet if one engine is out it will sit there until the engine is fixed. If the zone is "dangerous" perhaps they're more willing to bend that rule.

That sounded disturbingly familiar.

Yeah, me too. I remember his bit about not understanding smokers wanting to light up after a meal. "Well, that was a great meal. Do I want dessert? Nah. A glass of wine or cup of coffee. No. I know, how about I light a big stinking weed on fire in front of my face??" :)

The A-10 is the plane I'm most proficient in. I'm most likely to evade incoming fire, I'm most likely to survive it, I'm most likely to rack up the kills.

Ah, last I played was F-22 L2 and that one didn't.

That is the smallest airbrake I've ever seen.

Wow, two more patches since I DL'd 1.0a, can't forget those!

It's possible if the wingtips didn't droop the range and top speed would've been adversely affected, but it still would've been capable of Mach 2+ flight for a good distance.

If you get YAP for WoV, there's a KC-135 in there. None that I know of for WoE.

The problem so far is the anticipated cost savings for UCAVs/UAVs has not materialized. Yes, they're cheaper, but not as much as hoped for.

Can't argue with disappointment in the delayed release schedule, but as we're not privy to all their internal goings-on it's hard to judge.

I see those pics, and I think of Harry Turtledove's alternate-history WWII and on epics.

I believe it supports panning and zoom only, right? Not up-down/left-right shifting in the cockpit?

I can't wait to try this, once I eventually get the files of course!

There were only 2 F-22 sims that weren't by Novalogic. One was iF-22, which I played quite a bit of. The other was F-22 ADF/TAW by DID. I don't recall a nuke in either of them, and not in Novalogic's either.

There are a lot of questions regarding the legality of this mod right now because it works on F4:AF and not just F4. As such, you won't find links to it easily, and certainly not here. Not until this is cleared up, anyway.

Yeah, saw that a few days ago. Only in the 21st century.

I don't know if any of these other than Damon are credible. I've been hearing these but they have the ring of repeated rumors rather than substantiated ones.