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Terrific! That early 80s documentary audio groove sucked me right in. The voice of the British voiceover guy from Discovery Channel's Wings was in my head the whole time, outstanding!

Very cool! And the B&W Vipers are outstanding!!

For dark humor, there has been none better!

Two things strike me about this post. 1. Just yesterday I was jonsing to fly some Tomcat missions, and so I did. 2. While setting up the mission and loading I was remembering that F-14 Fleet Defender had a UFO mission ( "something was sighted, go check it out," but that was near Cuba). And then I was wondering how to create such a mission, or more better, an Easter Egg, of a "something" half buried in the "somewhere" in a map. In DBS there could be a crashed Hydra bomber, Fortress of Solitude, Preditor or Alien ship....something. I am not a terrain or model builder, but that kind of stuff would be neato. BTW, F-14:FD is on Steam for $6.99 USD (I paid $45 in 1994). On topic, I have no idea how to fix the tile set.

Is CAP's learning curve as high as DCS? I think they have a "lite" setting to make it more casual like SF series, is this true, because it looks awesome from the screenshots?

My X52 Pro is about 5 years old, and only 1 button has broken. The XY stick is wobbly inside, but I haven't taken the time to fix either one. I do not use the MadCatz programmer because there are so many options and most sims (except DBS) do not have as many needed controls as the programmable buttons have use for (I wind up with dead switches in each mode). Even when I did program it, it could take days to remember which mode and which button did what. I try to make IL2, ARMA3 and SF2 as close to the same as possible, and that helps, but it is still easier and more efficient to just use the in-game bindings. Cool review, that thing is majestic, as is the price, I'm sure. But until this one (my 3rd Saitek model after Cyborg, and 2 X45s) I will stick with the stick I'm stuck with.