Fubar512

Oh oh..........

Someone who's skilled in the use of a hexeditor should open up the the aircraftobject.dll and see if TK has added radar frequency and rwr entries (check for keywords such as VECTOR or TEWS). If so, then you will have access to some the advanced avionics features of the SF2 series.

If my 1968 Chevelle SS 396 could not overpower it's silly four wheel drum brakes, how is a 4 or 6 pot toyota with half the torque output going to do so with massive (by comparison) four wheel disc brakes?

I would imagine that some training and test rounds are left smokey on purpose, Lexx. The AIM-9X and AIM-120 are supposedly completely smokeless.

All external tanks in SF1 or Sf2 feed equally. There's no way to select tanks, or sets of tanks.

The default Third Wire aircraft have them all compressed into the objectdata.cat file. You must extract them and place them in their respective aircraft folders, for editing. You can use either of the two cat extractors that we have in our SFp1 downloads section, under utiliies/editors. Directions on how to use them are in the Knowledge Base.

To the best of my knowledge, AIM-9Ls and 9Ms leave a minimal trail, at best. Watch the sidewinder launches and intercepts towards the end of this video: http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/Guest/5/

Perhaps they were illegally parked, hence, they were ticketed and towed by the Third Wire Parking Enforcement Bureau.

What patch level? I've even started to see Veltro's Beriev A-50s parked on Soviet airbases with the June 2010 patch.

In that situation, he doesn't. He just gets shot down.

As it was a green laser, it was purposely done to incapacitate. The human eye is most sensitive to shades of green, and makes little or no effort to block green light. All "dazing" weapons are green for that reason http://www.laserenergetics.com/dazerlaser.htm

Your RWR entries are fine. You must learn to accept the fact that the MiG-25 is not a dogfighter. It is an interceptor. Every airforce that's made that error, has lost MiG-25s.

Corn...........................used to be a buck an ear......................

The AA-9 was semi-active homing. And, unless TK "hid" something new in the various avionics.dll files of the June 2010 patch, the answer's, unfortunately, no.

Really? What about the AIM-54 (Phoenix)?

Are you sure that your OS is installed in 64-bit mode? This line, "Total Physical Memory 3.25 GB", suggests otherwise. A 32-bit OS has that limitation. Also, the maximum physical memory that a 32-bit application (such as any TW game) will utilize, is 1024 mb, and that's irregardless of whether it's running on a 32-bit, or a 64-bit OS. EDIT: I stand corrected, a 32-bit app can only utilize 2048 mb (2 gb) of physical memory under a 64-bit OS, not the 1024 mb / 1 gb that I had mentioned earlier. Perhaps this article may be of some assitance to you: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/vista-workshop,1775-7.html

There is no such thing as an "air-to-air" or "surface-to-air" missile RWR The acronym "RWR" (Radar Warning Reciever) itself should provide a clue as to what its function is. And that is, obviously, to warn the aircrew of the presence, and the mode of, any radars in the area, whether they be ground-based, or airborne. You're undoubtedly getting shot down by IRMs (InfraRed Missiles), which one must acquire visually in order to avoid.

High Flight, Lufwaffe style....

It appears that there are certain conditions that have to be met, first: Your flight must be engaged, the enemy must have a numerical or tactical advantge over you (you're outnumbered, or you've lost members of your flight through attrition. Your flight is tasked with a strike or a bombing mission, and is not loaded out for A2A).

Wrench, The last time I recall seeing "High Flight" was during the Spring break of my freshman year in high school...easy to recall, as by then (1973) the NYC-area network affiliates (ABC, CBS, NBC) didn't sign off on weekdays until after 3:00 AM To those of you who weren't around during the 60s, most networks signed off for the night between midnight and 1:30 AM, except on Fridays and Saturdays, leaving one to stare at a test pattern, like the one below....

I've always thought that the USAF made a mistake in not ordering a few for further evaluation.

Nothing beats an electric leaf blower for blasting crap out of a PC case

#4. soundlist.ini entry

The YF-17 was a beautiful concept. Re-engineering it into the carrier-capable F/A-18A added so much weight and complexity onto what was originally such a light airframe (for a twin-engined fighter). "The first prototype (tail number 72-1569) was rolled out at Hawthorne on 4 April 1974, and made its first flight at Edwards AFB on 9 June. The second YF-17 (72-1570) first flew on 21 August. Through 1974, the YF-17 competed against the General Dynamics YF-16. The two YF-17 prototypes flew 288 test flights, totaling 345.5 hours. The YF-17 attained a top speed of Mach 1.95, a peak load factor of 9.4 g, and a maximum altitude of over 50,000 ft (15,000 m). It could attain a sustained 34° angle of attack in level flight, and 63° in a climb at 50 kn (58 mi, 93 km/h)." Let's compare the specs of both variants: YF-17 Crew: 1 Length: 56 ft 0 in (17.0 m) Wingspan: 35 ft 0 in (10.5 m) Height: 16 ft 6 in (5.0 m) Wing area: 350 ft² (32 m²) Empty weight: 17,180 lb (7,800 kg) Loaded weight: 23,000 lb (10,430 kg) Max takeoff weight: 34,280 lb (15,580 kg) Powerplant: 2× General Electric YJ101-100 afterburning turbofans, 14,400 lbf (67 kN) each Performance Maximum speed: Mach 1.95 Range: 2,990 mi (4,810 km) Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m) Rate of climb: 50,000 ft/min (250 m/s) Wing loading: 66 lb/ft² (320 kg/m²) Thrust/weight: 1.25 F/A-18A Crew: F/A-18C: 1, F/A-18D: 2 (pilot and weapons system officer) Length: 56 ft (17.1 m) Wingspan: 40 ft (12.3 m) Height: 15 ft 4 in (4.7 m) Wing area: 400 ft² (38 m²) Airfoil: NACA 65A005 mod root, 65A003.5 mod tip Empty weight: 24,700 lb (11,200 kg) Loaded weight: 37,150 lb (16,850 kg) Max takeoff weight: 51,550 lb (23,400 kg) Powerplant: 2× General Electric F404-GE-402 turbofans Dry thrust: 11,000 lbf (48.9 kN) each Thrust with afterburner: 17,750 lbf (79.2 kN) each Performance Maximum speed: Mach 1.8 (1,190 mph, 1,915 km/h) at 40,000 ft (12,190 m) Combat radius: 330 mi (290 NM, 537 km) on hi-lo-lo-hi mission Ferry range: 2,070 mi (1,800 NM, 3,330 km) Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m) Rate of climb: 50,000 ft/min (254 m/s) Wing loading: 93 lb/ft² (450 kg/m²) Thrust/weight: >0.95