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They are excellent helicopter sims, but I alway find myself playing something else. I am not sure I have heard of any mods. I'll have to re-install and poke around a bit to see if they lend themselves to that. They did some good stuff to overcome the problems with flying a helicopter with only a monitor as your window to the world. The "DOWN" view and auto-hover can be a real help when landing. They also put out an Apache sim that, while good in the FM dept, was kind of an arcade game in terms of weapons and missions. Again, nothing really compelling about the title to bring me back to it.

And this is how WWIII starts...........................

I disagree with it from a philosophical standpoint, but I have had 0 technical issues with the download version.

I thought one major reason was that the terrain is modified so that standard SFP1 campaigns and missions will not work.

Reminds me of the dropship from Aliens. Actually, anybody done a dropship?? "Express elevator to hell!!"

Agreed. I just installed in on my XP laptop and it worked fine. I think I did read somewhere that you should uncheck the MUSIC option when you do the install on XP.

Check the F-22 Total Air War forum over at www.simhq.com Have you tried running it in compat mode?

Sweet! Thanks.

How do you get that very useful display???? Sorry if I missed the memo.....

The other option is to simply delete this entry from the HUDATA.INI. None of the TW sims have an issue with doing this.

A couple of us have hit some minor bugs with the Korean Campaign. 1. The USS Oriskany does not appear to be included in the download but is referenced in the campaign files. Tends to make for a short flight when trying to start from the carrier 2. Error in the Korean War_DATA.ini [AIRUNIT025] AircraftType=Au-1 <------------- change this to F4U-4 to get the carrier based corsair Squadron=VF-53 StartDate=7/1/1950

Nope. It's all good at this point. Thanks.

http://www.simhq.com/_air/air_055a.html Not sure if this will help.

WOE. I have all of them and this is the one I always come back to.

Jazz and Blues, mostly, but I have an eclectic taste in pop. I care less about the artist these days than whether I just like the music or not. Listen to streaming jazz and jazz mp3s most of the time I'm at work. I like Hearts of Space (google it) for its very interesting musical offerings.

Agreed. My apologies.

I will not spend any more money with ED. Period. I have plenty of other sims to keep me busy and I don't have to muck around with sound settings to get them to run right. I could go on and on, but I've burdened others with my tale. I will leave it at this.

AFAIK, there is no way to do this. While the aircraft carrier has some properties of an airfield I don't think the sim considers it as a start point regardless of the aircraft type. Question: Do you have WOV installed as well? It has a carrier take off mission you could use. Otherwise if I was at home I could whip up a quick mission that would do what you want. The bottom line is you will have to build a mission to do this. Not hard as they are text files, but it will take a little effort.

It's fairly easy to look at a new campaign as an entirely new game. Given that, when you look at how many "games" have been generated using the TW engines we are getting quite a bang for our buck. I absolutely agree that you can eat up a lot of disk space, but I would also wonder if the majority of that space is "new" material (aircraft, etc.) specific to that campaign so even a merged install would not buy you that much. Probably depends on the campaign. Anyway, in the last week or so I've gotten a free Harrier sim and a free Korean war sim. Disk space is a small price to pay IMHO.

Woohoo!! Who's working on the avionics? Be interesting to see if we can adapt the A-10 TV display to this bird.

I believe it would be then end of the universe as we know it.

This might help.... http://www.helis.com/types/gunship.php Good synopsis. Vietnam is really where the gunship came into its own. This is pretty good, too.. http://www.korean-war.com/KWAircraft/index.html

I'm in as well. I am having a blast with all of the TW sims and have just started poking around with minor modding. (Trying to build a side by side cockpit for the Skyknight....) The TW sims have let me fly planes I only dreamed of: F-100, A-4, A-6, A-7, etc. This plus the fact that I have been very frustrated with other modern aircraft sims and TW will get my sim dollars going forward for some time to come.) (Just wish TK would accidentally release the avionics DLL for the F-22......)

Oh. I do, too. It's just I stumbled across that fact that the lastest weapons pack would not work without the lastest greatest patches. I did not have an issue with the KAW mod, per se.

TW has rolled up some of the earlier service packs into a single patch. Go here. http://www.thirdwire.com/downloads_sfp1.htm There are basically now just two patches to bring SFP1 up to speed. (As I understand it.) I had the same issue trying to get the Korean Air War campaign up and running.