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I have not been in the military but I do have an odd relationship with SAC. I am a big Jimmy Stewart fan and one of my favorite movies since childhood is "Strategic Air Command". (The fact that June Allyson is a real cutie doesn't hurt either.....) The "landing in crappy WX with his arm going out" is STILL a compelling piece of film. My folks moved to Omaha in the late 60s while SAC was still in it's prime and that and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was what put Omaha on the map for most people. I actually had the honor and priviledge of visiting the command center once. The local air museum was associated (and located) at Offutt AFB for many, many years but has since been moved to a beautiful facility about 25 miles south of town. (Seriously, if you ever get on I-80 between Lincoln and Omaha you should take a couple of hours to check it out. It has one of the nicest SR-71 displays in the world and one of the few RAF Vulcan bombers in the US.) I actually helped restore the B-17 on display there. I still attend the annual Offutt Air Show/Open House fairly regularly (maybe every other year these days.) I have always the greatest admiration for the Officers and Enlisted folks (and THEIR FAMILIES) that work in SAC. A gawd-awful thankless job by all accounts but one that was necessary to keep the rest of us safe.

Incredible story. Still catching up on details.

Agreed. OFF1 was ok but I let it go when FE came out. I know these guys work their butts off on this stuff but $50 is $50 and YAP2 will be out soon (I hope). I need to watch my simming dollars these days. I will at least wait for a review.

I'll have to check again, but I do think my "store bought" WOV required the CD before the first patch. I recently reinstalled my TW sims and I recall hitting that issue. Regardless, I can understand "try before you buy" as long as you do "buy" if you intend to play the game going forward. My apologies if I came off a little harsh. I do not mean to imply illegal behavior where it is not proven.

Um. No can do, my friend. There are some mods available that allow you to REPLACE some of the aircraft with different visual models but that's about it. www.lockonfiles.com

Don't feel bad. I would have problems with the XB-70 paint scheme. :blush2:

Not to presume too much here but why are you both playing off the same disk? Legally, you both should have a copy of the game. As regards patches. www.thirdwire.com should have everything you need.

Some of our friends in the UK may have seen this already but being a WWII buff I thought it was a great story... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/416...discovered.html

If I ONLY had money for one I would get WOE. I think it provides a little more variety than WOI and I agree there are many more mods available. That being said, I got both. I do fly WOE more but I'm glad I have WOI to provide a change of pace.

I just have not had the time to keep up with all the mods but being an Eagle junkie my personal favorite was the MSIP F-15s released early in 2008. It is just incredible how many folks work on this sim and the superior quality of the mods. Bravo Zulu to everyone who has the time, talent and generous spirit to help make these sims the best I've ever flown.

I have a home office that is pretty much divided between work and gaming. I have my flight sim rig set up with HOTAS full time and a second desk with my work PC on the other side of the room. The wall decoration is mainly aviation posters I have collected over the years. I am going to put up a couple of shelves for my die-cast aircraft collection. I work in IT and have been lucky enough to "adopt" a number of stray computers over the years so I can really dedicate my gaming rig to flight simming.

33%. Sounds about right. Born in West Virginia, raised in Pennsylvania, worked my way westward to Nebraska. (The one interesting one is "creek". "Licking Creek" was pronounced "Lickin' Crick" by my PA relatives.)

Don't get me started......... ED has moved on. I have LOMAC running decently on my modest rig but I'm not looking for any help from the developers. I am saving my money for more TW releases and YAP2. FWIW. You might try poking around simhq.com. There are some folks that have done some modding to try to improve the graphics performance of the sim.

I here ya...... Just started a new position myself. Decided to get back to what I enjoy which is mainframe technical support. (No, they are not dead. We are the B-52s of the IT world. ) Don't let anyone give you any crap, Dave. Family and work (in that order) are always more important than playing games. Happy Holidays! Keep your stick on the ice.........

Karma works.

Sounds more like a graphics driver problem. Can you determine your system specs? Do you have the latest version of your graphic cards drivers and the latest version of Directx?

It can also get ugly if the relationship goes sour. I dated a young lady that I worked with and things didn't work out. It was a VERY uncomfortable situation at the workplace.

If you DO have MSFS there is a freeware one that has been released by Alphasim. I have not flown it myself but Alphasim usually produces a pretty good product. http://www.alphasim.co.uk/index2.html Click on the Freeware link.

1. It is well supported by the developer. 2. Easy to mod. 3. Graphics options that allow it to run on a wide variety of PCs. 4. Good community. Is it the BEST WWI sim? That's a subjective question...... Other than FE there really aren't a lot of other offerings. I thought OFF was ok but I kind of lost interest in it after awhile. I'm not exactly sure why. Rise of Flight may have potential but I don't see it being as moddable as FE. I may be wrong. I still fly Red Baron 3D on occasion but FE "fixes" some things I don't like about RB3D and finding a full copy of RB3D might be a challenge.

The idea being that most B-52 (for instance) crew members are far younger than the airframe they are flying?

I think if you approach it with the same attitude you need to watch the new Bond films you'll be OK. I don't see this as a further beating of the franchise to death but as a possible fresh start on things. I'll see it.

I did not get to see the actual show but it does sound like one of the most solid attempts at recreating the actual events I've ever heard of. I'm going to try to catch a re-run if it's available. I get a little weary of the fuzzy photos and fuzzy logic of most of the conspiracy theorists. Makes for good talk radio but we you push them for this kind of evidence they seem to scurry away. (Or claim all the evidence was destroy/covered up/etc.)

It's all kind of moot to me since I'm not really interested in anything produced by ED. I have, after much effort, gotten LOMAC (no FC, thank you) running fairly decently on my modest (but well within LOMAC box recommeded specs) rig. I really wanted this sim and I was bound and determined to get it running. Spare me the "never believe the specs" speeches, please. Been there, done that. ED can do anything they please. The market will judge whether the decisions were correct. They have not been, nor are they, the only game in town much less saviors of the genre. I, too, have had no problems with SF, but I'm just not a big fan of CP in any form. Pretty good discussion here.

ONE MORE FLIGHT...... ONE MORE FLIGHT....... ONE MORE FLIGHT......