Dave

It was canned but someone finally came to their senses.

Yes its possibility. I am going to do the EB-52H which is being reconsidered as a very potent ECM platform.

I use hard fuel consumption, oh yeah you use fuel. LOst track of how many times I glided into base in my F-100.

My friend, it can be done but you are talking apples and oranges to get it done right and the amount of hoops you would have to go through would be even worse. You would be better off rebuilding the FM from the ground up.

Fellas a couple of suggestions if I may. Make sure even though TK didn't, each aircraft have serials that show. Even if you have to make them. Many planes are showing up with only a nose serial but no tail serial. We made sure in the DS mod everything had a serial number. Also the VC squad and the US one have some on make some high res skins. Or pm Diego and see if there is a way you can use some of his stuff. Worth a shot.

My friend there is a Knowledge Base just a couple forums above this one. There is a thread that tells you how to add weapons. That Knowledge Base will tell you from A to Z how to do anything and everything we have learned since 2002. I HIGHLY recommend you start reading.

There just isn't a case I can think of where someone said, we have too many Buff's over the target.

That looks damn nice. Logitech seriously upped their game on this one.

Just some random pics.

Dave, Just finished up a four day visit to Yokosuka and Japan. Lots if interesting things to do, food to try, and I was able to knock out a whole bunch of Christmas shopping while in town as well. To start with we pulled in on a Monday, and I had to work as standby duty until about 5pm. Standby duty is where your not really in a duty status, just working to help the duty section get ahead of the work schedule. After I got off, it was too late for me to hook up with anybody and head into town. Instead I went over to the Navy Exchange on base and bought nearly all of my Christmas gifts for the upcoming holiday season there. The one thing that I wanted to get but didn't think the wife would have approved was a replica full size samurai armor set with swords for about five grand. Instead I did the usual of buying some cotton kimono style robes for my in-laws, a couple small curio's for the wife, and some decorated chop sticks. After bringing my treasures back to the ship I went to the base club and grabbed a bite to eat followed up by gong to do my laundry. That was about it for my first day. Second day went out with a bunch of guys to downtown Tokyo. The first thing to do when traveling in Japan is head to your local train station. From there you stand in line trying to figure out where you want to go. At each automated ticket center there is a sign above you telling of all the stops from the lines serviced by that station. You just need to find your destination and next to that is a price. Pick what type of ticket you want and then put in the right amout money. Trying to figure that out and get to some of our locations was an adventure in itself. I am positive that are some people out there that has some words of advice on how to travel by train in the Tokyo area. After arriving in Tokyo we navigated around the Ginza district to start with which is one of the primary shopping districts in Tokyo. All upscale and out of my price range, waist line, and coolness factor. When ever you see the classic shot of the lighted signs, that is part of the Ginza district. After realizing that we couldn't afford anything in Ginza we got on the subway over to Roppongi district and tried to find the Tokyo Tower. It isn't that hard to find as much as hard to navigate to. On the way over there we ran across the Zojo Buddhist shrine. This is a shrine built and financed by the Tokaguawa shogun about five hundred years ago. After the Tokaguawa shogun fell out of favor in the region the shrine became a national park. It is still an active shrine and there are Buddhist monks there and people still come to pray. All around the walls of the shrine were these little stone statues. These are called Jinzo statues and they are basically the Buddhist saint that protects children and helps them navigate through the demon world to heaven. People put clothing and stones in front of these little statutes as a way to pray for their children who have passed away. Passing on through the shrine we also saw the monks come out for a photograph while chanting. It was very interesting to watch. A number of us foreigners were obviously unsure of what to do, but watched as thirty or so monks came out stood on the steps; then the head monk in orange came out sat down had a couple of photos taken and the whole thing broke up. We then walked over to the Tokyo tower. This is a combination observation and broadcast tower. I forget how tall it is, but the observation deck is up there and you can navigate around it pretty good to get a decent view of the city. At night the place is really light up nice. For dinner that night we came off the Tokyo tower and went into Roppongi to find a place to eat. We found a little restaurant kind of back in a corner with no body really in it. We couldn't read the menu, but it did have pictures so we picked a couple of things. I picked this item, can't even tell you its name, but it was composed of a hot plate with cabbage and onions in it, had a plate of bacon meat cut like prosciutto bacon, and a bowl filled with what tasted like miso soup broth. Basically you dropped a couple of pieces of bacon in the onion broth let it boil and then taking that out you dipped it real quick in the miso broth and ate it. It was great. Thinking about eating all over the place in Japan there are drink vending machines. What is really cool about them is that in the same machine you can buy a hot can of coffee or a cold soda pop. Most of the drinks weren't much more then 150 yen. Part of me wants to figure out how they are able to pull off cooking the cans of coffee so it is scalding hot when it comes out and yet able to keep a soda ice cold. My third day in town went over to Obadio island. It is a man-made island has a bunch of shopping malls on it, the home of one of the national broadcast stations (Fuji TV), a few museums and a couple of parks. When we got there they were in the process of tearing down a full size replicate of a cartoon robot called Gundum. It was built as part of their bid for the summer Olympics in 2016 and to talk about how it has been thirty years since Gundum came out in Japan. All that was left as I walked around was the feet. Walking around on Obadio island we went to a shopping mall that also had a Toyota museum attached to it. On one level was what Toyota is doing with car technology. Things like small one person automated people movers, to small four people cars that rolls the door up and swings your seat out to the curb. On another level was the history of Toyota racing and finally a level talking about how Toyota is leading the way with hybrid cars in all sorts of categories (like racing, passenger, suv). Really interesting stuff. After that we checked out the Tokyo Maritime Science museum which talks about ships from the earliest tied reed boats to the latest supertankers. Then got on this Ferris wheel that hello kitty themed. After spending time on the Ferris wheel. Myself and a few others went to a sushi place and ate a large platter of sushi while drinking down a bottle of Sake having a good time. The only thing that really marred our trip was in Yokosuka was at the train station every day till about three you had to navigate past the anti-nuclear carrier crowds. They had a boat escorting us in with a large electronic billboard in both English and Japanese expressing their displeasure and then there was a street protest. The only thing in my mind was how these street protests were very civil and except for a guy with a megaphone very quiet. Petition takers asking real respectfully for signatures and people passing out pamphlets. For sure a change from other places that I have been and there have been protests (both in Europe and the states) Sincerely, Charles

WHAT DID YOU SAY? I CAN'T HEAR YOU BECAUSE THERE IS THIS DAMN MV-22 LANDING NEXT TO ME!!!!

I hear it very often in WOI.

Padlocked - Informative call indicating aircrew cannot take eyes off an aircraft or a surface position without risk of losing tally/visual. So in other words by coming off his target he risks losing visual and that is dangerous because that frees up a bad guy to come after who ever, even you.

They all take off the same in each sim.

These are the ones wpnssgt, Sundowner and I did using a max file from a friend of ours.

Thanks Enrico.

Wow I didnt know that.

Happy Birthday my friend.

Thank you Jug for agreeing to do this interview. Can you tell us little about yourself? Born in Virginia, raised in Tennessee, undergraduate at Auburn University, AL, where I lettered in varsity football and varsity wrestling. ROTC to pilot training and graduated UPT in 1971. 20 years in USAF air operations, MS from Southern Cal, 84 grad of the Brazilian Air Command and Staff College, Assistant Air Attache US Embassy Brazil, returned to school upon retirement and now I am a computer programmer working these past three years with Joint Special Forces Command (JSOC, Ft Bragg, NC), III Marine Expeditionary Forces (IIIMEF Okinawa, JA) and Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA Ft Belvoir, VA). I hold two copyrights for software and program in C#, Sharepoint, and ASP.NET. What all aircraft did you fly and how many hours have you accumulated? Spent most of my USAF career in SAC. I was a 'plowback' instructor in T-37s (1000 hrs) at Columbus AFB, MS, and then went directly to the aircraft commander seat in a B-52G (2000 Hrs) at Loring AFB, ME. Flew Buffs for four years as instructor pilot and standardization pilot and then volunteered for the U-2 program. I have 80 hours in the U-2C model and first soloed tail number 680 which hangs in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum today. The rest of my 1100 hours in type is in the U-2R and the TR-1 out of Beale AFB, CA, and RAF Alconbury, UK. Was dual qualified in the T-38 (600 hours) at Beale so I was invited to fly F-5Es (35 hours) with the Brazilian AF while stationed in Rio attending school. Was the Embassy instructor pilot in the C-12A and have about 450 hours in type and have flown the BAF Mirage IIIEBR (4.5 Hrs) out of Annapolis, BR, while stationed in nearby Brasilia. I also have around 500 hours in light aircraft (Cessna 172/150). When you were in SAC, can you tell us what it was like then? SAC has been from its concept a very serious business. It's main mission was nuking the then Soviet Union back to the stone age. When I joined up with SAC, the bomber force (third strike) was relegated to clean up crew to the submarine (first strike) and land-based missile force (second strike). It was not something to dwell upon and most people just put their heads in the sand and prayed fervently every night that it would not happen. If you thought about it too much you could go off of the deep end and some did. I sat alert in a cold lonely miserable location way to close to a nasty mission. It was the best tour of my career, because I really learned what it means to be a professional. SAC did not communicate very well with the rest of the commands and did not participate very well with the other commands. It's primary position in the US defense structure made many enemies, but SAC was always ready and fully capable to do its mission. Loss of focus was not tolerated and I have been through three commanders in as many days. There are no rewards for second place. Looking back on it, we did a good job and I am proud of my time and my contributions to SAC. The Russians never found the opening they were looking for and when our forces and theirs stood down from daily alert, it almost passed without notice. I can tell you that it was a day of celebration for all members and former members of SAC. I imagine the Russians crews felt the same way. High altitude reconnaissance is one of the most difficult and lonely missions on the planet. Armed with sensors and imagery equipment, flying in a hostile environment, usually with a host of people and equipment who earnestly want you dead and gone arrayed against you, far, far away from anything or anybody that can help you if you get in trouble, for long periods of time, with little communication with your loved ones for extended periods of time, and no rewards for a job well done is not exactly what every pilot's dream job consists of. If anything went wrong, it was and is an international incident. Most people do not realize that the U-2 is still flying. U-2 pilots receive very little recognition, medals, or the normal stuff that goes along with the military flying business. No news is good news and any news at all is a bad thing. That is the one and only rule of engagement we have. Be quiet and bring home the bacon. We used to call it the Beale flying club. There are only about 35 U-2 pilots at any one time that are operationally flying the bird since 1955. Missions are tasked by the NSA and inspectors usually do not have a high enough clearance to inspect recce operations. We never saw the dreaded surprise visit of the KC-135 filled with SAC inspectors that visited other SAC bases saw every six months. Virtually all of the birds are deployed at various locations around the globe, so training command gave us some T-38s and some instructors for us to play with and keep currency requirements when we were at home. I think one of our contributors in this forum was a T-38 IP at Beale. What was one of your most humorous moments? What was one of your hairiest moments? Most of the missions I flew are classified even unto today, so I cannot go into detail about my hairiest nor most humorous mission without breaching that trust. I may return to this subject since hairy missions and humorous events are not limited to aircraft type. What was your favorite and why? My favorite is the Dragon Lady. She is just like your favorite party girlfriend. Lovely and graceful dancing in her high thin environment, painfully eager to get there, and a real bitch when it comes time to go home. When I take my last flight, it will be to the sound of that Pratt and Whitney J-75 thundering in the background. I gave my heart to my wife and family, but I gave my soul to the dark lady known only as the 'article'.

Dude this is sweet. I love it. Worked good the first time too.

Dels does it AGAIN!

Pulling G's

I didnt make it, Erikgen did. I just helped out. The line means there is a hole in the model that needs to be filled. Only Erikgen can do that.

Just start downloading F-16 stuff. Its over there. I just can't tell you where right now.

Any of that stuff at Avsim that I dod can be uploaded here. I think with the exception of Crapuns stuff, all of it can be here. I was the one who go tthat section started when I was writing for them.