Dave

JM I will buy you a copy of FC3 when it comes out. I am not to hurt by the price of FC3. I got Lock On (2 copies) for free. I never bought FC1 or BS1. I got Lock On Platimum for $19.99 and that came with FC2. So another $39.99 is no biggie. I have bought all the DSC series and that is well over $100 now. TK needs to a unlock the stuff because I hate to break it to him his stuff is unlocked by a few people anyway. If he chaged they code they can adapt it in minutes. So he is spinning his wheels. The SF2 series got a boost with NA, new items under the hood and new capabilities etc but even now thats gotten old. TK needs to up his game big time or tell us he is done so we can press on ourselves. I am not buying a tablet version of SF.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3638132/ That F-15 looks bad ass.

There was words with that AAR? I was too busy looking at the screenshots to notice.

Navigation training with my home unit.

Its amazing to see those old crates flying.

Got my first big medal. Also have 4 A2A kills.......in the A-10C!

The best scheme ever.....

Im not bugging out but I am doing the DCS/FC3 thing. IMHO 10 years is enough for me. I need something else and the DCS/FC3 is perfect for me. I will always have SF2 on the table but the whole lets lock out all this crap because of piracy is weak.

Watch that first steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppp....

Here are the rules: You have to make your own up, none can come from here: http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/ Violations will get you a roundhouse in the face by.............. Chuck Norris.....and you'll like it. Here is mine that I haven't found anywhere. Around the World in 80's Days is the true story on how it took 80 Days for the Earth to get around Chuck Norris.

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=753873 With Labor Day this weekend I think I am going to declare it Jame Bond movie marathon weekend.

Connery = "From Russia With Love" Moore = "Moonraker" Brosnan = "Goldeneye" Craig = "Casino Royal" I really liked Dalton as he was a close verison to the books until Craig came along. George Lazenby did a great job. I wonder what he would of done if he had been given other opportunites to continue playing Bond.

Heading home.....time for bed.....

It’s been an incredible 10 years with all our Flight Sim fans, and I would like to begin by thanking all of you that have made this website the great place it has been for the last 10 years. Past CombatAce began as a much different site known as BioHazcentral.com in 2002. The site was originally created by MadJeff as a flight sim enthusiast site centered on Lock On: Modern Air Combat (LOMAC). It quickly expanded to include other popular flight Sims of the times, including the Jane’s Combat Series, and the Falcon Series. I came to know MadJeff from the LOMAC forums and we spoke about his creation of Biohaz. Being that is was a new site, and I was a huge fan of the Sims, I became one of Madjeff’s first staffers to help him with its creation. I worked on site graphics and moderations, but I also introduced MadJeff to the Strike Fighters series.nThe Biohaz site lasted for several years, but the cost and time consumption on one person to run everything truly became a burden. The Site was soon sold to our current owner who is one of the world’s biggest flight sim supporters. We had an incredible staff, but have expanded it even more as the site has grown over the years. Present Biohaz became CombatAce in March of 2005. CombatAce was bought by Mk2 and Erik who are huge supporters of the flight simming community. At the time we only had a few hundred members. I was brought on board with Fates to help get the site up and running and to work day to day operations. The site now caters to everything from flight sims to first person shooters. The membership has grown from that few hundred to over 61,000 members from over 150 countries making this a truly international site. Column5 ~ Participate in many Internet gaming forums and one thing becomes clear: communities founded with the intent to bring together like-minded people to enhance the enjoyment of a game are often overrun by those wanting to complain about the injuries--real or imagined, but mostly imagined--they have suffered at the hands of evil developers and blind fanboys. From its beginning as Biohaz Central and continuing into its 10-year run as CombatAce, this site has consistently avoided that trend and now stands out as the best example of what can happen when real fans of a game, simulator, or anything else come together simply to have fun and, indeed, make a good product better through the generous donation of that most valuable commodity: their own free time. I can't think of a better place to come to talk about aviation and flight simming and I have no doubt that the second decade will be as good as the first! CombatAce's biggest draw is the Thirdwire series of flight sims. Most of the posters we have here migrated from SimHq when it was decided that we needed a place of our own that we could regulate ourselves. We opened the download section in 2005 and the first series of Strike Fighters sims alone has generated 5372 files with 3,366,601 downloads! In 2008 the second series of Strike Fighters went live in 2008 and has generated 1560 files with almost 500,000 downloads. We have also hosted files from the LOMAC community, IL-2 community, Naval sim community, you name it, we host it. Bringing our totals to 9201 files in 387 Categories with 798 different authors! Totaling 4,639,475 downloads! That's an impressive number. CombatAce has also over the years hosted orphan sites that were a big part of a flight sim community but for whatever reason or another were not able to continue to operate under their current agreements with the respective site owners. In 2009 we picked up the hugely successful Over Flanders Fields community that had falling out with their previous site owners. Since coming here that has almost doubled the traffic at CA and they are moving along nicely. We also added a few forums for the payware community to keep in touch with their latest mods and developments. Jeff "ST0RM" Stoermer ~ Wow, 10 years? Well, I came over here when things turned south over at SimHQ. Dave and I became friends via the net while I was stationed over in Germany. He asked me to move over and add some additional military perspective. Since then, I've been mostly active in the Strike Fighters series forums and have added some minor mods and skins along the way. Occasionally, I contribute to the Photography/Military Aviation forums where I can. Although I've met only a few people on the boards in person, I consider several as good friends. They've always been very supportive of me during my many deployments. CA has evolved from a small group of gaming enthusiasts, to an all out game mod factory. The amount of high-quality freeware work coming out of here, rivals any purpose-made company. It's that good! I look forward to the next 10 years here and will welcome the 20th anniversary in 2022. The Future What does the future hold for CombatAce? That remains unknown, there are many ideas being tossed about but currently we are running at full steam and we aren't going anywhere anytime soon. The members make that all happen. The posters, the modders, the lurkers even the stalkers make this place truly unique. It's been a blast the last 10 years and it continues to be a blast. I can say this. the future looks bright for CombatAce. Michael "Fates" ~ I would like to personally thank Erik and MK2 for everything they do in supporting this community. I would also like to thank every member for their support in keeping this site a lively and exciting slice of the Simulation world. Cheers~

While SF2 has the advantage of the ease of modding and the vast number of planes, the FC2/DCS series currently has things what we always wanted in SF2 and more. 1. Drag chutes 2. A2A refueling 3. Great terrain 4. Ejection sequence The more part....... 5. Scalable complexity, (one that is little higher than the SF2 series) i.e. you want to just be able to lock and shoot like SF2, you can do that. If you want slightly more complex avionics, you can change that and be able to slew the AGM-65 seeker head or adjust the radar on the F-15. Or if you want to go balls to the wall and do the A-10C start-up sequence, you can do that. Those are just a few examples. 6. In Combined Arms, you can be a JTAC and call in airstrikes or be an M-1 or T-80...you can even be the M163. You can be a mobile SAM like the M48 Chaparral or check this out, eject from your plane, hop in a ground vehicle and drive it! 7. Multiplayer.......yep our old want, with the DCS series I can be on the ground and be the JTAC while you can fly the A-10C, while another is leading his tank formation.......yep.....or if you have Black Shark 2, you can fly that while someone is doing all the above too. 8. There are tons of mods for them too. 9. Also the DCS P-51D...yep it doesn't fit anywhere in the time frame of the DCS series, however its is freakin beautiful. It is so much fun to fly or even go after Mi-24's in. Or go train busting....not sure why it was made by ED etc but I got it and its worth it. I have supported, modded and played SF series since day 1, ten years ago. But for me it has gotten long in the tooth and I think I may be done with it. FC2 and LOMAC are cheap as hell too. I like not having to mod it to get it where I want. I will keep the SF stuff on my HD though. I will fly it once in awhile too, but I have found a new world in the DCS and FC2 sims. So just food for thought if you are getting bored with the SF2 stuff, this would be worth a look.

Make him bath in pork fat first...

I say after they hang him, they hang him again, then put his head on a pike and put it in a public square.

That was F/A-18's.....and the F-15's record stands for it itself. Well if there is a way to tweak them for individual or squadron use. I am not playing online with random morons. I either play with people I know or I am not playing. I have been to the public games and its full AMRAAM spammers and script kiddies.

Rugg is there a way we can tweak the performance ourselves? No offense to the ED Russian team but their bias for the Russian planes and weapons is obvious. They just can't bare the thought that US tech is about 15 to 20 years ahead of theirs. A flight of F-15C's would mop the floor up with Mig-29's any day of the week. The SU-27 wouldn't fare much better. The F-15 is a better plane and the biggest advantage we have over the Russians is the amount of training we get. They only get a 1/4 of the training time we do and that number is on the high side.

That is the YAP RF-8G with a skin I did for it.

There is no way to put 2500 at one time. They havent invented a system yet that can handle that.

Fellas I was not promoting this to be a mines better than yours or anything like that. As FC said it isnt the 2nd coming. Being part of this community for as long as I have, I was just passing info along. I am not saying abandon TW sims either. My point was to say hey Im having fun here with this, check it out. i.e. in addition to TW sims, DCS is cool too.

I have it and talk about a new level of playing the DCS series. Going to need to get CB34 over here to teach me how to be a tanker.

File Name: European MLU Vipers File Submitter: Dave File Submitted: 03 May 2012 File Category: F-16 F-16AM/BM By the Viper Team. Pit by ravenclaw. (Another master piece and he isn't done yet.) Models by bpao, modified highly by Jat and ravenclaw. (You guys are one hell of a team) Skins templates by Migbuster (Went back and made even higher res skins...because he could) MFD panel glass by Stary (Did you know he does terrains and clouds too?) Units skins by Jat and ravenclaw (Ok, Jat got me this time and did you know Volker paints too!??) Weapons by ravenclaw and GrinchWSLG (Masters of disaster) Technical adviser, Sony Tuckson (If we got it wrong he cracked the whip!) Avionics by Jat and Crusader (You cant get anything past Crusader, the best MK1 eyeball in SF) Brain32, for FM, Avionics work. (He found that Mach 1 is FAST.) Crash test Dummy, Dave (Thank god he doesn't have a usable brain) CrazyhorseB34, ini work (and the other dummy) To install: Drop into your C:\Users\xxxxxx\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters XXXXX This project started with a little mod here and there to make the Vipers more modern. FastCargo started the PM thread on 28 Jul 2011 and here we are 10 months later we have this. This mod is dedicated to Oli (bpao) he started us on this journey and I hope, I really hope, we lived up to his expectations. Click here to download this file

Next to keys to start the engines.