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With friends and family, the hardest part for them is NOT man-handling the controls... Because the input reaction is delayed, they tend to slam the joystick and throttle around, over compensating when it gets a bit squirrelly... ... Once you folks get a functional cocpkit with guages to cue off of, it will make things a little easier.

Just out of morbid curriosity... Have any of you Osprey down-loaders become proficient in handling the bird in VTOL mode? I ask because I've been giving thought to also creating (or having some one create it) a "VTOL Playground" terrain... One where there would be plenty of places to take-off and land on... Think: Small Helli-ports, buildings with Helli-pads, the odd oil-rig... Personally I'm to a point where I can pretty much take-off and land anywhere I please.... I guess I've spent way to much time playing with this thing. Just bouncing ideas and checking if anyone is flying this thing.... Oh, and BTW... a cockpit update is coming soon... keep an eye out!

Well... to be honest? I think the Giants have a substantive opportunity to knock off Dallas. With out TO the Cowboys become far more defencable as they can man up on the wides and the tight end.

..." One time... at band camp"... If you don't know the line or the movie... it's a lost cause.

I think... it was "all of them". http://www.packers.com/history/record_book...ds/favre_watch/ Looks like he's only missing the Consecutive Games Started record...

sacrilege! How dare your speak ill of our most reveared QB... A thousand curses upon thee!

Oh my poor...poor delusional friend. Your paper-tiger Seahawks are in for a rude awakening in Greenbay.

Many-a-year ago I wrote an article for Combatsim.com regarding the fidelity of flight models of up coming combat sims. Long story short, what I ultimately determined was that a flight sim needn't be 100% accurate, so long as it "felt right". IMHO there is way too much time spent pontificating over whether or not this sim is more accurate or that sim is. Reality is since we are not taxed with the physical demands of flight and we have no real fear of the repercussion of flying beyond our airframes limits (read: dying in a fiery death)... what good is a simulation that is dead nuts-on in the flight fidelity if we don't honor it? Yes...yes... I know there are some dyed in the wool gronards who have the discipline to fly like this... but really, for most of us, what fun is this? By in large most of us just fly by the seat of our pants, focus on nothing more that getting a viable weapons solution, toggling the pickle on some hard target and keeping the bad guys off our ass... From a fun stand point, isn't this all we really want to do?

Capun.. wrench... All you .ini gurus look the same to me. My apologies for my mis-identification. I'll make it up by sending you the mother of pearl collectors case with your chip.

You guys are flipping brilliant... I spent days futzing with paras and finally just gave up. Wrench I owe you a one-of-a-kind blue wooden nickle in a hermetically sealed case to keep that freshly painted smell...

Me? Hell, I got the obligatory socks and underwear... A new briefcase as my old one was toast... oh and a new coffee maker. HOWEVER... I have been given free reign to go buy a new video card... now I'm torn between snarfing up something now or wait till the dust settles for early 08'. ... Oh and the wife and kids got spoiled rotten as usual.

...Oh, now your showing off. LOL! I'll take any color.... and.... oh, say 24 paras?

I messed with the para with my Osprey... No matter what I didn I could not get them to show... I've got a wooden nickel for the first person to get paratroopers to work with the Osprey! (and let me know what I've been doing wrong)

Alright... I admit it I'm bias. My fav is the F-86 Sabre pit. (Which will be soon suplanted by the Osprey pit)

[singing] ... I don't wanna be a lion, because lions play to rough. I don't wanna be a tiger, because a tiger aint the kind you love enough... ...I just wanna be your teddy bear. [/singing]

You can have my XP when you rip it from my corpse... Vista is a perfect example of trying to do "too much with too little". The fact that MS shoved it down our throat doesn't make it any more endearing... I've aways wondered why MS didn't go the other way and make a gaming OS? You know... remove everything that gets in the way of gaming... make the link between OS and hardware as pure and simple as possible... an absolute speed OS. I mean looking at the amount of money a typical gamer will shell out for hardware... and the cornucopia of shareware/freeware programs promising gaming nervana... I think a dedicated gaming OS would be snatched like gold pieces! (Sorry... didn't mean to hijack this thread)

Your first mistake was assuming your smarter/craftier than your wife... Reality is we men/husbands are so predictable, she knew what you were going to buy before even thought to buy it. (I'm serious... they are omnipresent that way) Second mistake was to assume since you bought jewelry last year, it should not be bought this year. Reality is, even when they say don't buy my jewelry... they really mean buy me jewelry. "Diamonds, that'll shut her up"- Ron White <- No truer words have ever been spoken. Good luck my friend and keep that gift receipt handy... chances are your going to need it. I'm in on the post Christmas poll... I've learned my lesson already. I now just ask her point blank what she wants. While doing this, I also remind her what kind of presents she got when she made me guess... That usually puts the fear of God in her.

For me it's: WoE WoV SF I dunno... I realize all three are built from the same code and are essentially the same post patch... But for some reason WoE runs the smoothest and gives me the least problems (knocks on wood) ... I can only rationalize some errant bit of code etc. Meh?

F-86 Sabre (Like you could not have guessed?) To me the Sabre is the automotive equivalent of the Boss Mustang... Sleek, low slung, it just has that appearance of being coiled and ready to sink its teeth on your ass... Aesthetics aside... to me it's the first... and some would argue the last of the pure dog fighters.

.... and I still have a really massive EEL.

Knowing how this bird UV unwraps (especially around the intake)... I'd try doing it with decals. It could be done with textures, but it would surely be an act of fustration...

Bah! You have an excuse for everything...

... And some of us modders want hugs because we have massive EELs. Thus the huge egos.

While I have a hard time believing earth is the only planet to support life... I have a an equally hard time believing that if there were other sentinel beings we would not have been introduced to them already. (Well... knowing some people I do... they may be choosing not to interact with us.)

I've seen object in the sky I could not identify (I guess that is truly the genesis of an unidentified flying object eh?) I recall one late evening in my youth... lying on the front lawn with a couple of buddies (No alcohol or drugs in use FWIW)... All of us observed two glowing objects at a high altitude flying directly at each other on the same trajectory path. At the point where they intersected, there was a momentary glow (We thought they collieded)... however after the initial glow, one glowing object continued on it's original flight path... Never could figure out what we saw. Another instance just this summer while Walleye fishing in Superior Wisconsin (way up nor't)... My wife and I watched a non-decrepit glowing object dart about the sky... If it weren't for the speed transitioning from one direction to the next, I would have quickly written it off as a jet aircraft... but the sudden changes in direction and the speed in which it did it... I can say for a fact it was no jet aircraft.