IamFritz

I've flown Normal and Hard. I stick to Normal, but occasionally select Hard when I've been reading up on my ACM. I've found in Hard that AI planes get on your 6 much more quickly, pull higher G loads, and get on my six and stay there much more successfully. In Normal, I rarely exceed 6 Gs, but in Hard, I will fly the needle to 7-9 Gs regularly. Need to go vertical, snake, use actual ACM/BFM moves. Whereas in Normal, I can just keep pulling around 6 Gs nad I'll wind up on their tail. Also, In Hard I get missiles lobbed at me from farther away, and in greater number. Also, my flight model in Hard... is harder. Gs register sooner, and high AOA and stall behaviors match what I rad about in engineer books (for the F-15, -14, -16 and -18). I can't even guess how many Tomcats and Hornets I've leafed into the ground.

At high AOA the air curls/flats out on the top of the wing, sucking in the flares and their smoke, giving the appearance of the jet burning. Surprisingly, I just used my Maisto Su-33 and MiGBuster's above photos to explain this to my 7-year-old. And then he explained it back to me! He got it. My son, the future aeronautical engineer... >sniff<

Anadolu Press, Mainstream Press... Puh-TAH-toe... Poe-TAY-toe... They all missed it. Bottom line for me is Vipers : MiGs is still +1 : 0 Oh... about every other year since the 90's IIRC. They finally made it part of the routine. Seriously though- Russian Airshow acts put out the flares like nobody's business! Just Google their act and you'll see. YouTube, too.

The photo on the above BBC link shows a photo of an Su-27 performing at an airshow, and is credited to ANADOLU Agency claiming it's the MiG-23 going down in flames. Or else Syria got Flankers and the Turkish F-16 shot one of those down...

The shading on those clouds is gorgeous! What mod is that?

Just downloaded US Southwest terrain. Gorgeous. Took me straight back to my old Falcon 3 days! Just a different (better, IMHO) ride. I realize it's a mountain of work, and one I could only wish to have time to contribute to, but it would be awesome to be able to buzz "The Las Vegas Strip" . And are there any Easter Eggs? Thanks JSF_Aggie and all others involved!

I would love some kind of Naval Warfare mod with this sim. I know it's a big reach, but still...

Some F-35A screenies. Since it's coming our way, anyways. I'm just trying to acclimate to it. The flight model on this bird is a little too sluggish, from what I've heard of its thrust in interviews. And, it decelerates WAY too fast in a turn. Otherwise... if we could just figure out how to get the HUD to stay in front no matter what...! Probably my fault, but the images didn't upload in order. They should show the MiG-31s first, the birds we're up against. Then, my bird loosing an AMRAAM at them. Then the trail of smoke as I kill one, then my jet gunning one to bits. And some Eagle screenies... Turning to face the threat, then loosing 2xAIM-7s per target (since they've been kinda fussy on me lately), one of them about to poke the pilot's eye out, and then my jet returning to base while my wingie with more fuel follows the waypoints to land.

Stick, that F-16A with old `Winders reminds me of the old days flying Falcon (1) and living an hour south of Hill AFB.... Thanks!

I've sat in the cockpit of an F-15 and it's not that bright, if noticeable at all. I actually just went into the files and blacked it all out: It's less distracting, and felt much more realistic. I mean, isn't it enough that canopy bow gets so in the way?

OUt of missiles, altitude, abullets and ideas.

Hey FastCargo- I thought you might get a kick out of this... http://boeingspotter.tumblr.com/ Your -SE model was used to demo the F-15SE on a web site.

And bikers. Add bikers on side roads so I can strafe them.

Awesome! Thanks!

It's called the J-10. Israel helped China develop it.

Funky double vortex coming off the wingtip at 0:08. After all these years, it's still weird to look into the cockpit and not see a HUD.

I figured out I was installing the NF4, which was meant for SF1, onto my SF2 install. That's why it went south. I downloaded and installed NF5 and now Europe is all pretty and awesome. Next are the NA FPS mod, and the hires default desert mods. Which I had running before, but had to remove to fix NF5. Thanks for your post- It'll prove helpful as I mod along.

...aaaaaand crap. Now none of the mods are working. Once again, I can add planes and effects fine. But the theater terrain mods aren't working. I'm using Windows 7, how much of a difference does that make with the mod folders?

I got Germany to work, but the sky was wrecked. GRRR. Tryiing a re-install from the ground up.

Heh heh heh. Now I see what I did wrong. Embarrassing, not admitting to it publicly.

One of them did have that typo- my default desert one, and when I fixed it, it now works- thanks! But Germany still doesn't.

First of all, I know I get shot down sometimes... But if my wingman is still alive, he might get the bugger that downed me. `Cuz me and my wingman, we're tight. Here's my wingman getting a missile shot off. What damage modeling, I gotta say. Whoever did the F-22s nailed it spot on.

I understand the mod folder concept. I've added dozens of planes and atmospheric mods. And they work beautifully. I've even manually added Terrain folders and dragged and dropped as instructed but the game doesn't show the mods I drop into them- same old vanilla terrains. Look, I'm a veteran at this stuff. I was a professional Falcon 4 dancer back in the day. Back in the 90's I modded Falcon 3 using a hex editor to remove Su-27s from Saddam's air force and replace them with MiG-23s. I've tangoed around the floor with 3 iterations of LOMAC... in short, I am no noob. I'll pour over the above forum links and readmes in case there's any thing I missed.