JediMaster

TVC was not part of the ATF specification. The F-22 didn't HAVE to have it, LockMart put it in anyway to make it better. NorthGrum went for extra-stealthy and didn't. Keep in mind that from what I've read BOTH planes satisfied the "plane" part of the ATF competition. The F-22 wasn't a "better" plane than the F-23 to any significant degree. Instead, LM won on the other parts of the competition. In short, the USAF believed LM was more likely to deliver the F-22 as advertised, with the least troubles, and cost growth and so on. They had less confidence in NG's ability to execute the F-23 program to the same degree. Actually, I think it safe to say that had NG been the one making the F-22 and LM the F-23 that in that case the F-23 would have won!

The amount of money being spent lately is literally staggering.

How do you know so much about swallows?

According to Xfire, I played around 80 hrs of GRAW, mostly MP, so I'm content to give it a breather for now!

This is an awesome game.

There is no engine off key. It's a limitation that TK has yet to resolve. Some people have complaints about the stock flight models, but it's not the game itself as the 3rd party planes often have very good FMs. As for what it took to be a pilot, you can watch a film like Blue Max or Flyboys and see some of that.

Anytime TK patches one of his sims you're never sure if mods will work as is or not. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's not. As you say you have CFS3, another option is the (massive) OFF Phase 2 WWI mod for it. The amount of work that went into it is staggering. I've seen some people say they love First Eagles and hate OFF, I've seen some say they love OFF and hate FE. I've also seen those who hate both, but they must be little whiners. One should get you what you're looking for, although it's safe to say neither are what RB3D was 10 years ago.

I don't have FSX myself, but I do have a TIR4 that I use in every flight sim and a few other games as well. I take it the blue light isn't going on? Do you have the latest software version? If you have an older one it may not recognize FSX at all.

I'm gonna guess no and no.

Afterburner, Star Trek (welcome aboard, Captain!), and Star Wars (Red 5, standing by!) were the trio that took 90% of my time. That said, I never spent too much time on them. We had a 2600 and later an Atari 800 that I played most games on.

50?? OMG! I hope it gets plenty of fiber.

Don't forget...this is the same guy who made Pearl Harbor. :warning2:

Do not taunt Easter. If Easter begins to emit smoke, back away immediately.

I spend more than half my PC time racing, RTSing, or FPSing, so I'd say yes!

My personal dream is that one day TW will get large enough...to have a 2nd full-time programmer!

Use the Knowledge Base, Luke! Let go of your frustrations!

I'm sure 90% of the reasoning was to reduce costs!

It's the only way I've ever shot down MiGs as an F-111...fired an SRAM at an airbase that some MiGs were flying over...

I'm great with Mavericks in LOMAC, I still don't have the hang of them in F4! I do better with unguided AG weapons, actually.

There's the setup of someone who only flies!

Yes. Not only an ejection seat, but the rear prop was jettisoned first, too.

The F-16N wasn't capable of carrying weapons, and actually had its gun removed IIRC. Perhaps the addon one is modeled that way too.

Do they come with Wagner-playing speakers?

You're right, that is a good deal! Less than 40hrs/week!

The bane of the U-2 pilot!