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No, I mean you put this in the WoE/WoV/P1 forum. Did you honestly expect any different result than that you received? I know this isn't true across the board by any means, but I don't post to the forums of games I don't enjoy. And while there are things in any game I wish were improved or changed, if I think it has serious, fundamental flaws, I won't enjoy it.

I think the place you posed this question has greatly influenced the result.

Yes. Multiplayer would be s**t if it was just F-4s versus other F-4s (for example). And with different variants you can show how each side adapted and improved their design to stay ahead of the other.

1. F-4 2. MiG-21 3. F/A-18

An earlier campaign has already been made.

Could you possibly upload the Korea terrain then?

...and I've noticed something. It's really, really underpowered. Loaded out with nothing but A/A missiles (two R-60s and four R-73s) it can't break Mach 1 at 25K at full afterburner. Climbing at any angle higher than about 25 degrees, it can't maintain airspeed. Granted, I don't know anywhere near as much about Russian aircraft as I do American, but damn, I'm pretty sure that isn't right. It seems odd that the aircraft that is (arguably) the best WVR fighter in the world has such a lack of power and speed. If I'm wrong though, feel free to boresight me on this issue.

OK, I just found another minor issue, which affects my FM testing somewhat. The airspeed/machmeter combo guage doesn't appear to be calibrated correctly. I've looked high and low for a tutorial or guidance on how to work gauges, but it doesn't seem like any is out there. Any help?

No joy, just the campaign which specifically states I need the terrain. Man, what I would give for a few "all-in-one" campaign downloads and a mod manager like JGSME.

I tried to use the mod, but it won't work without the Korea terrain and I can't find the terrain at column5, Combatace or Checksix.

Speaking as someone who had to actually deal with the Tomcat's *ahem* idiosyncrasies ("Lost the radar, but we still have IFF!") on a somewhat regular basis, I'd pick the Hornet every day of the week and twice on Sunday. And going into the merge, quite a few Tomcat drivers would say the same thing, especially the ones pushing -As.

The question I have is regarding modifying 3rd party aircraft. I've been playing around the MiG-29A Fulcrum-C created by wpnsgt and modified further by Typhoid. I managed to tweak (with a helluva lot of help from other posters) a few things I think are unrealistic with the aircraft and I was wondering if it was considered alright if I tried to get the original author to update their uploads with the fixes? Or should I just go out and make my own MiG-29?

ROCK! That was exactly what I was looking for. I just got in a few MiG-29 books after scouring all over for something resembling a performance mark. And I FOUND ONE! I've already started testing and revising the data.ini. Which was the reason for my other thread. At sea level, everything is pretty much smack-on. I'm doing the high-altitude testing now. BTW, could a mod combine these two topics? They are pretty much regarding the same thing.

Interested.

Well, I added in a different pit as well, an original one and something I didn't do.

I can't think of many worse of going than those associated with a boiler accident. My condolences. It probably won't win me any friends, but stuff like that happens to just about every ship over the course of it's service. That isn't to say there aren't ships that I consider really unlucky, just that two incidences in about twenty odd years of sailing isn't unusual. I know of two legitimately unlucky/piece of s**t ships and both are currently acting as fish sancturaries. As for why it would happen so soon in Indian service... well, the US Navy decommissioned ships for a reason and the engineering plant is usually it. You can do all the overhauls and tearouts and upgrades you want, but bottom line is that the plant is old and old plants aren't safe. You could consider the engineering plant of a ship to be like an airframe. It just doesn't get any younger.

The Hornet is probably my second favorite and only for personal reasons. I was raised in Washington state, home to NAS Whidbey Island, which was basically the Miramar for attack aircraft.

A-6 Intruder! If you're not attack, you're support.

Who's an online ace? Doghouse. It took me (F-8E) and my brother (MiG-21PFM) working together over TS for about two hours to beat him (A-4E). Towards the end, he was 100% defensive from the moment he spawned in air, but it took about two hours of flying, dying, brief "lessons learned" and new ideas to get to that point. And even then, he flew about as close to absolutely perfect defensive BFM as I have ever seen and it was up to basically point blank range snapshots to kill him. Although at one I had him in a low speed, low altitude right hand turn for almost two minutes before, with flaps out, I finally got my nose on him and blasted him, less than three hundred feet away. He was literally filling my gunsight when I fired, which is one of my fonder SFP memories.

Dude, it wouldn't break Mach 1 loaded with ordnance, period. I could fly at 20,000ft for five minutes at full burner and it won't get faster than M0.93. I'm pretty sure something is wrong with that. I'm not saying the "fix" is necessarily realistic, but hell man, it's not like that uber-overpowered F-104 that could break Mach coming off the tarmac. It stays at about M1.2 (ish) low level, maybe M1.5 up high. This is after setting autolevel, 100% throttle, with an obscene fuel efficiency so I don't run out of gas, and leaving to go get a sandwhich. Unlike the default F-15A, which will bust M2 with a full load of missiles and gun ammo, * cough*bulls**t*cough.

Actually that is entirely normal. No bull dude, you will almost literally have to beat them off with a stick.

I am shocked and appalled that a sailor such as yourself hasn't been properly trained in Gender Recognition Techniques (Sausage Check). Seek out your TPO or LPO for training upon arrival in the 7th Fleet AOR. At absolute worst before your first liberty port. This training is CRU-CI-AL.

I've been to Hong Kong. I thought it was overrated. Malaysia was frankly a surprise (in a good way). Singapore was pretty much tops though. Although it's a legitimately nice place, so I'm reluctance to rape horses and steal women to the same degree as in a place like Thailand. Plus the SPGs weren't anywhere near as in love with "Chocolate Man" as the Thais were. Which, I'm pretty sure, is something Sidd would want to know. Strictly so he knows to beat them off with a stick on his way to building a new church for blind orphans, of course.

I was just making a half-joking comparison between the relative difficulty of the two scenarios. In one, I think to myself, 'how long before I win'. In the other, I think 'how can I survive'. Certainly on paper it's easier to employ a 9M vice a 9B. However, the relative merits of the aircraft to flavor things quite a bit. I honestly can't think of the last time I honestly lost to a -17 flying an F-4. And it's been quite awhile for the -21 as well. You can get closer than 1nm, as long as you are careful to maintain close to zero overtake. At least in my experience anyway.

I wonder that myself at times. If nothing else, it would be nice when flying something like a Tomcat to be able to hand control over of targetting to the backseater and concentrate on strictly maneuvering against the bandit. Kind of like an enhanced auto-acquisition. Datalinking is one area that has been covered rather well actually. I recall it being fairly well implemented in Janes F/A-18 and various marks of Falcon 4. I have to confess, most of my ATC observation comes from being stationed on a carrier, where they most assuredly do not execute a break during Case III (instrument) approaches. It's straight it from the marshall stack, twenty miles out. If they do it differently at air stations, I couldn't tell.