Dave

I can't do anything about the black lines. The person who made needs to fix it. Or you can remove the shadow from the ini so it doesnt have one.

Being a recent convert from the Thrustmaster Cougar all CH Products set up I was very excited to hear about the upcoming Multi Function Panel. (MFP from here on out) I got into contact with good folks at CH and soon had an MFP heading my way. About a week later I received a knock at my door and there it was, in all its splendor and glory. It came in a nice little white box. I opened the box and there in its packing was the answer to my prayers in flight sim “avionics” programming. It came with a little box holding 25 little push buttons and a Control Manager install disk. The MFP itself is a black, flat, looking panel. It has a clear hard plastic cover that goes over the panel. This is where you will place those 25 little buttons. Speaking of those 25 buttons, each one is black and they are numbered. They stick to the clear cover by an adhesive. Some people might be alarmed by this, don’t be. What ever this stuff is made from it stays sticky. Just one catch, when you decide you want to move the buttons, DO NOT I repeat DO NOT try to just pull them off. You need to TWIST them off. You do it that way and they will virtually work forever. I only had one problem setting it up and that was button 25. I placed it on the panel and then I decided I wanted it in another place, but when I went to twist it off, the adhesive stayed on the surface of the clear panel. So I put the button back on tried it again. It came off on the second try. That was the only button that did that. Well a friend of mine showed me some background templates you can print out to put under the clear plastic cover. This serves a few purposes. 1. It gives you a reference on where you might want to place the buttons. 2. It enhances the overall look of the MFP. 3. And finally gives the end user the ability to personalize it. I made mine look like the MFD of an F-15E. I chose that because I am combat flight simmer. But if you are a Microsoft Flight Simmer, you can make something to go with that. It’s up to you, but let’s get back to the buttons. The technology behind these things is amazing. As I said, they sit on the clear plastic cover and never touch the actual surface of the MFP. Yet when you press a button the MFP knows it. It gets better; say you have button number 5. You can place it anywhere and it knows that it is button number 5. Like I said, it’s amazing. So I got it the way I wanted to look. Now to the install. Installation was easy. I plugged the MFP into one of my USB ports and dropped the install CD in to the tray. The whole process took less than a minute. No problems there. Ok now what? I need something to program into it. Oh my god, I have too many flight sims installed, where do I start? Which sim do I use? AHHHHHHHHHHH. “THUD” After passing out from sensory overload I awoken to a bright light. I heard someone in a loud booming voice “Dave…..Dave….DAVE…. GET UP! I jumped up startled. “Yes”. “Dave, go to the CH Hanger and get a CMC file to program your MFP.” “But which one oh simming god?” “Why LOMAC or Strike Fighters you twit.” Then he slapped me in the back of the head. And with that the light went away. Was I dreaming? Was that the Overlord of Simming? Did I maybe just have too much to drink? The jury is still out on that one. So I headed to the CH Hanger and got me a couple of CMC files to begin the mapping process. I decided to program my install of Strike Fighters. I am not going to get into the particulars of how to program it because you do that just like any other CH Product. It is extremely easy. I learned in one hour how to program it. “But Dave what did you program into it?” Well, I am glad you asked Timmy. I programmed the ability to turn my radar on and off, increase and decrease the radar range and the search, boresight and ground modes. Then I added the ECM selection. I also added weapon selection options. Separate buttons for A2A and A2G weps. From there I programmed the weapon release spacing for bombs and the ripple fire options for the rockets. Waypoints selection was added to another set of buttons. Next was the map key. To keep track of what you programmed there is a large set of dry rub decals that came with the MFP you can put on the buttons. There is a ton of them so you should be able to find what you need. I didn’t add any as I have a good memory. By the time I got done programming the MFP, the Pro Throttle, and the Fighterstick. I could now fly entirely independent of the key board. I jumped into the sim and it was amazing that I didn’t need to use the keyboard for the first time. Now that is immersion! But don’t think you can only use it simming. You can use it for just about any game you have. Right now I am working on a map for Age of Empires III. I am also going to make one to use with Photoshop for when I am skinning aircraft. The usefulness of the MFP can not be understated. With about 12,800 key combinations the possibilities are endless. I just can not tell you enough how great the MFP is. It was the answer to something I was missing in my 22 years of combat flight simming. It’s easy to use, program and takes up very little space. It is a must for every simmer. Even if you are not a simmer the usefulness of the CH Multi Function Panel crosses over to many other applications. I have done many reviews for Avsim and other sites. I have reviewed sims, games, hardware and aircraft but this review was by far the most fun. I would like to thank CH for giving me this opportunity to review the MFP. It was thoroughly enjoyable. You can get the MFP from http://www.provantage.com/ch~110CHPU.htm or http://www.chproducts.com/shop/usb.html#23

Its been there all along.

I got these from Charles and forgot to post them. It is when he stopped in Singapore.

Yep that is why I am not jumping through hoops to get all my stuff working. You all should wait or you are going to be doing alot of work for nothing.

F-111 over Germany

ALCM

Just some various shots.

Smoke em if you got 'em.

Thank you Silverbolt.

Oh we know, our safety guy is a former F-15 pilot. He said "not bad for a video game" I was speaking about how they just pounce on everything from BVR and wipe the skies clean.

+2 for release order. SF2/SF2:V/SF2:E/SF2:I

Please do not post in the Knowledge Base.

Please do not post in the Knowledge Base.

I like that song better Silverbolt.

Some moron will seed to a torrent anyway, even though I said in the readme not to. What can you do? For those of you who do not have a subscription to CA, why not pay for a month one for a few bucks ($6.95) and get all the downloads you can get. You get the downloads, and we get a little cash to pay for bandwidth. http://forum.combata...p=subscriptions

That was just stupidity. I give them morons no credit for anything. "Hey guys, I got an idea, we will fly our planes with our pilots into ships. What do you think?" "Are you going to do it?" "Hell no. I am needed to keep from losing the war."

The Doolittle Raid does rank up there but with the Operation Tidal Wave, crews pressed the attack when more things went wrong than right. The Doolittles Raid biggest glitch was they were spotted early so they had to leave early, thus creating problems down the road. The morale to the US public was overwhelming for as little damage they did. The amount of problems the Polesti crews ran into should of scrubbed the mission altogether. But somehow they made it work. 1. Lead navigation plane crashed into the ocean 2. 10 crews aborted mission 3. One squadron commander went the wrong way (which had the lead nav plane not crashed wouldn't of happened) 4. Train flak traps and airborne fighters ready to intercept 5. Strict radio silence made coordination a nightmare. 6. Axis forces knew they were coming With all that and more, they said to hell with it and attacked anyway. The Polesti Raid only took the lives of 310 crewman, with over 100 captured. 177 planes took off, only 88 made it back and well over 50% of these were battle damaged beyond repair. That price paid for only 40% of the oil refining capacity to be diminished for about a month, after repairs, it actually picked up a production increase. So far this raid still ranks amongst the biggest successful failures. Why I say a failure? The facilities were not knocked out of action for the war. Which was the goal.

Sure can Turtlehawk.

DAMN those Eagles are bad ass. They are just sweeping the skies of Russian/WP aircraft. I am flying in an AV-8B unit and I have yet to worry about any Migs. Just about every unit I have seen that is flying the F-15 now has a pilot with at least 2 kills. I watched after I left a target area an entire family of Mig-23's and 4 Su-27's, 12 planes in all just get wiped cleaned from the air. None of then even got a missile off. Makes you wonder what it might of been really like. Just dominating. Having said that, SAM's and AAA are my biggest problem. I am flying at tree top level in and attacking in a pop up. Well as soon as I pop up, dear god the sky looks like a Christmas with too many blinking lights. Needless to say I don't stay popped up for very long.

Not greatest in how well it went, greatest is how big of balls you had to have to even do it. You are misunderstanding what I am trying to convey. Those missions were good but the pucker factory was not there in the extreme like it was at Polesti. (Which produced 5 Medals of Honor, 3 of which were posthumously) Fly a Mirage in a sneak attack.......or fly low level in a B-24 with 4000 anti aircraft guns that know you are coming? Which one would you crap your pants more?

To be honest I do not know. I have always ran it with the 4 seasons. I think the capmaign dictates what season to use on what date. So my guess if it cant find the right season, it might crash.

I knew all that too.

Well to give credit where credit is due. C5 is the genious behind it all. All I did finish what he started. To even make that possible I had a hell of a great team to help.

How many new planes has everyone found? How is the install? Any problems?