ShrikeHawk

Nice pics, SoulFreak! So what the heck is that funny-looking missile launcher on your "Tonka" screenie?

I just installed a Chinese J-7II and it's totally terrific except for one thing...the pilot is AWOL. Probably out drinking and playing Mah Jong somewhere... So, I went into the data.ini file and found the line for "pilotmodelname=" (which had no parameter) and I put "Pilot_PLAAF" in there. I figured this would work since I do have the PLAAF pilot LOD in the aircraft directory that works just fine with my SU-27SK. That didn't work. So what do I need to do to get a pilot to show up? ---Next Thing--- I have installed the Formosa Strait terrain in a copy of a WoE install. It works fine and looks great. But I have occasionally noticed enemy aircraft blowing up without having been hit. Is this possible or are my eyes deceiving me? If it is happening, what would cause it?

I just discovered it last night and am anxious to give it a try.

I just love Drakkens! But maybe I'm just biased because I'm part Swedish. Still, it's a blast to fly in WoE. I, for one, am not much impressed by the Cobra Maneuver. It looks impressive, the way trick shots in billiards look cool. But just like trick shots, you need a perfect setup for it to work. The opportunities to use such a tactic in real combat would be so rare that the cobra maneuver is a non-factor. If an Su-27 is flying so slow in combat that it "could" do this, then the Flanker becomes easy meat for missiles and roving Eagles. A good pilot wouldn't let that happen.

Yup! Counting leaves at the start of the engagement is working out just fine. Works over water too. I got good kills in the F-15, F-16, and F-18 and...actually survived! Thanks much for the assist, all!

Thanks, guys. I'll give that a try. And Brain, I've counted around 20 missiles fired at me alone when I checked the log. So I know how that feels. I guess as the player, you're a high value target! I generally prefer flying the 50s to 70s too. At least in that time, a dogfight was still a dogfight.

Hey All, Lately, I've been trying out much newer fighters than I'm used. 90% of all my sim time has been in props, so I'm not so familiar with combat tactics with an enemy I can't even see. This is BVR stuff is just killing me! I've tried: - Opening up my radar range so I can detect enemies sooner - Firing off a sparrow or AIM-120 as soon as I have a lock - Remembering to activate jamming if available - Employing liberal amounts of flares and chaff - Dodging a lot Once in a while, I actually manage to survive these engagements, but not many. I've been getting kills but they're often ending in mutual destruction. Questions: -Are some tactics to use that give you even a 50% chance of survivability? These Su-27s are just murdering me! -When launching a sparrow from an F-15 or SkyFlash from a Tornado, do you need to keep the target in the aiming reticle as with the F-4? -Is it possible to see these missiles coming or am I just blind? -How do you evade an enemy you can't even see? -During these fights, I rarely have any targets on radar once maneuvering begins. How can I track the enemy with my nose going all over the place? Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated. Cheers!

Great-looking plane, Spinners. It looks like a plausible planform. I almost expect to see its like someday.

Whew! Good thing they weren't hollow points...

haha! Saw this one before and it's still good. I wonder if she had any trouble opeing the orange "concentrate" juice container...

Splash one Mig!

RIP Patrick. You'll be sorely missed.

Ooh! Okay, I gotta try that now... Is that Turkish terrain?

Got it working! Thanks for all the encouragement and help.

I'll give this a try tonight. Thanks for the support!

No France, Germany, Italy? Are they still qualifying too?

Okay - I'm clearly missing something for the "FLA-MG". I didn't see anything like that in Capun's site. So where would I get it?

Hey Kevin, Here's the display from the error. Looks like there's a ground object problem after all. I did install the ground objects that the readme calls for from Capun's site. I just hope I got the right AAA gunner. The only one I found was for First Eagles, but the object call looked the same. Should I have installed ALL the gunners in the package? Did I goof?

There must be a certain "pucker factor" in working on that ship...

Found the problem! I needed to update Java...Duh!

Thanks, Oswald. It's an nVidia GTX 260 896Mb. After drooling over the great shots of some other people I cranked up my AA and AF to 16X (forced)

Hey Kevin, The error is the far less useful "SFG has experienced an error and needs to close..." blahblahblah. So I guess this means do it over again with WoE?

*sigh* I've checked my midway.ini file and it's correctly pointing at the desert.cat file. I edited the options.ini and singlemission.ini with the different startyear and endyear I updated the flightengine.ini with the new graphics settings. I can fly the corsair over the regular desert terrain in SFG with no problem. Still crashing at the loading screen... What now?

I am using Firefox. There are some that I can get the image. They show a little gray box with the text, "Resized to 54% Was 1280x1024 Click for full size". When I see that, then I can right-click and save the image. But there are others like EricJ's F-18 over Afghanistan and my own posts (all on this page) that I can't get to. Right-click expands the image (Note: a new window or tab is NOT opened). Right-clicking after that does not include "Save as" in the sub-menu. AND you can only close the expanded view with the little "Close" gif on the expanded window. Is there a way around this? I'm getting most of my desktop wallpaper from the screenshots thread.