Weasel Keeper

Well, when you eventually get to USAF squads...the 87FIS (Fighter Interceptor Squadron) is about to be reactivated from the inactive reserves soon (c'moooon Lomac!). :D Web link to be posted soon...stay tuned. :twisted:

He flew Wild Weasels for a short time, so he can't be all bad! ;) Welcome aboard Mr Mudd! <S>

You've got mail yaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

I have an x-plane acct. If you want to email me your file I'll host it for you. Weasel87fis@ao(hell).com *Drop the hell for "L"* ;)

I actually think of those three I would vote for Larry Flynt. He knows quite a bit about the law due to a few heated legal battles...that he usually came out on top. I wonder if the Miss California beauty pagent would become the next Beaver Hunt? :shock:

That'll be the "Heritage Flight" at Dayton 2020!

My all time favorite intro was for Longbow 2! It was cartoony but most excellent, and I felt bad for the gecko sitting in the tree when the tank rolled up and fired just under him. The longbows pop up over the hill and lay waste to the tanks who are attacking the compound...HOOAH!

Most likely they meant Para Rescue or Jumpers (PJs). These are the boys who go in and rescue downed pilots in places that only a SF member would go...which makes them a SF team. The AF also has Forward Combat Controllers who also go in deep behind the lines.

Bump to keep all the airshow threads together. ;) This is the one I'll be at. :D

Man Fates, those WOW (weight on wheels) switches can bite ya. We have one set of WOW switch tools with RBF streamers, but we usually have at least three planes a night for overnight mx and inspections. Part of our LC2 includes tricking the WOW so we can check the AOA stall stick shaker. If we can't get the tool when we need it, flat tip screwdrivers work just as well...but luckily most of the guys know where their tools are when we finish inspections. There was an incident in Bedford MA I believe where one of our technicians left his screwdrivers in the WOW switches and the aircraft ran into the grass during a taxi. I think the nose wheel steering doesn't work with WOW. BTW, Fates knows me but for everyone else, I'm a maintenance technician for Shuttle America Airlines. We're a small regional airline flying Saab 340 turbo props for US Airways Express. http://shuttleamerica.com/ I was also an F-4E/G and F-16C crew chief in the Air Force. One cool hangar story... I had just helped wing walk one of our Saab 340s out of the hangar. We have to have our planes to the gate at least an hour before departure and I think we were running a bit late this particular morning. A technician who has taxied many times before fires up the plane and has a new guy riding left seat (we have to have 2 guys to taxi). This guy forgot to set the parking brake and also forgot to make sure the hydraulics were on (we turn them off in the hangar for various checks and so we don't hear the damned hydraulic pumps running every minute). I glance out to the ramp to see the taxi light on and hear the props come out of feather...no biggie, we do it everyday. Next I hear strange prop pitch sounds, see the light coming right at the hangar, and then CRUNCH! right into the hangar door. Without hydraulics you have no nose wheel steering or brakes. They were just along for the ride. The prop pitch change was his panicky attempt to throw the props into reverse which might have saved the plane from further damage. Luckily only the NLG door was slightly damaged and we replaced it. It flew later that day after the investigation...lol. Moral to the story...NEVER hurry and ALWAYS do your checks. :shock: Being kind of new to this aircraft I now have approx 50 hours taxiing and about 50 hours worth of engine runs. We taxi our aircraft from the mx hangar to the terminal ramp on the other side of the airport and vise versa. I learned from that guys mistake and always make sure first thing I do is prime the hydros and set the brake before I start up. :)

Maybe F5 will have realistic "bugs on the windscreen", clickable seat belts, piddle packs, bird strikes. Or better yet for total realism, cold starts...15 minutes of preflight (post start up) ops checks, breathing exercises (grunting), wait 10 minutes for wingmen to be ready to taxi, taxi to EOR and spend another half an hour waiting for EOR crews to pull your pins and do your last chance ops checks. After take off, ingress for about 45 minutes to an hour to target, kill the bad guys, catch Shell on the way home, do 10 minutes of post flight ops checks prior to shut down. Total time from cold start to shut down...approx 3 hours. Add an extra half hour in case your Falcon doesn't start and you need to grab the spare. Nothing against F4 or F5...just poking fun.

Too bad they don't have the woman in this version...she's kind of hot. I think she was supposed to be in the single player version. Another cool thing I found out is you can record your missions. It has a built in recorder, like Janes USAF did, so you can watch your game after you play it. I haven't tried it yet though. I've been having a lot of fun playing this, and I've been quite lucky to find the majority of servers are pretty good. It's a very stable game and even on my old-tired P3 500 it's running pretty smooth.

I posted this in the TAC Sim board, but I'm so excited I figured I'd throw it in here too. :o Those of you who played RTCW awhile back may remember they were working on an expansion pack (Enemy Territory) that was going to cost extra. Kind of like BF42's Road to Rome expansion pack. The project was cancelled, but they're releasing ET for multiplayer for free! It includes 6 new maps that you can play seperately, or two campaigns that have three of the maps each. The good thing about it, you don't even have to have RTCW...ET is a stand-alone game. Engineers can build MG nests and bridges now. A new class is "Spy". You can switch uniforms and infiltrate. Engineers can now lay mines. :twisted: Pretty hefty download at 257.8 MB, but it's pretty cool and did I mention free? :shock: http://www.fileplanet.com/files/120000/124800.shtml

Those of you who played RTCW awhile back may remember they were working on an expansion pack (Enemy Territory) that was going to cost extra. Kind of like BF42's Road to Rome expansion pack. The project was cancelled, but they're releasing ET for multiplayer for free! It includes 6 new maps that you can play seperately, or two campaigns that have three of the maps each. The good thing about it, you don't even have to have RTCW...ET is a stand-alone game. Engineers can build MG nests and bridges now. A new class is "Spy". You can switch uniforms and infiltrate. Engineers can now lay mines. :twisted: Oops, forgot the link. http://www.fileplanet.com/files/120000/124800.shtml Pretty hefty download at 257.8 MB, but it's pretty cool and did I mention free? :shock:

Sorry I'm late...Welcome aboard InVader. Impatience and frustration is pulling at everyone around most message boards. Some folks are frustrated by the long wait and missing features, while others are frustrated by liking the sim and hearing all the negative stuff...because we hear it a lot on other boards. Anyhoo, glad to see everyone calmed down because this is a great site. :)

Which as a multiplayer, this is a good thing. You wouldn't want to be flying stock F-4E against a modded F-22 or something. ;) I've already been there with Janes USAF and it wasn't much fun. Or the same with CFS2...flying a P-38 vs an F-15 someone added. Although as squad based MP it will also be good if everyone on your squad has the same files.

Have to agree that I also liked SPR and could watch it over and over. Just like I've watched BOB over and over and even read the book. :)

I got the box set for my birthday back in November and have watched through it twice...and also watched it all twice on HBO before that. :) It's great on surround sound. :shock: Checked at Walmart and Blockbuster...$89.00.

http://simhq.com/_air/air_055a.html An article written by Andy Bush and Leon "Badboy" Smith about weapons delivery in SFP1. Very interesting and a great tutorial. http://simhq.com/_air/acc_library.html Many great general air combat techniques and information. :)

The way I do it: Have your picture online in a web space. Type this...without the spaces I put in and include your picture's URL instead of mine: [ img]http://www.yourpicture.blah[ /img] :)

The biggie solution with sound is to make sure you're not set up for surround sound when you fly. SFP1 doesn't support surround sound. I have my speakers set up in Windows as "Desktop Speakers" and all my sounds work great and are in stereo. This solution may be different in your case, so like Nightshade said, let us know your sound card and info. :)

Jeff, I wasn't around for the first few weeks of AAO...mainly due to the fact I still was using a Voodoo 3 video card...which is not supported. :( After I got my GeForce4 MX 420, I reinstalled it and it ran like a dream. This was probably three months after it was released so I haven't had hardly any server problems. I've been lucky when I have the time to spend upwards of 6 hours playing on the servers without even having to reboot. Be aware there are a couple of patches out since the initial release that can be found on the site. I'd suggest giving it another, serious play time, test. It's hellafun! :)

I know this is a "SIM" site, however with the state of recent sims, along with the realistic "sim-like" play of some of the FPS's out I think it would be good to add them to the forum. I consider AAO (America's Army Online) pretty much a SIM because it is very realistic. Watching the recent war coverage on TV, I recognized many of the weapons and their sounds due to this game. Pointing to a guy on TV firing a SAW, I'd tell my wife "oh yeah, I fire that weapon all the time"...lol. Did I mention AAO is absolutely FREE? http://americasarmy.com/ By far one of the best FPS Teamwork games/sims out. :)

Yeah, kind of bad when the Americans who are all "commiting suicide" at Baghdad airport just helped yank down a huge statue downtown. And the airport that we don't hold now bases 7,000 troops as a coalition airbase with 20,000 more suicidal troops to be in place very soon. Iraqi people are kissing these...these...American criminals. ;) I know it's not over, but it sure does feel better! :D

Kind of a cool sidenote. My dad was an aircraft refueler on the USS Bon Homme Richard for 4 years during Viet Nam from '63-'67. He had a buddy who was on the brand new Kitty Hawk and got to tour it while in port back then. Dad's ship circa 1965 (CVA-31). He calls her affectionately the "Bonnie Dick". :D