Fubar512

There where no F-18s in the fleet back then...and by back then, I meant in 1980 when the film was released.

Are both titles at the same patch level?

Not for much longer

I take it that you weren't earning a living before, during, and immediately after the Reagan years. Because if you were, you'd have a decidedly different take on the matter.

We would you need to move it? It should be in there already, unless for some reason, you elected not to merge your sims (SF2,2V,2E, ad infinitum)

It sounds as if you did not watch the pertinent part of the video, Steve. The expert they brought in claimed that it was an AIM-9 seeker head, after he claimed to be a former F-18 pilot.

Watch the segment on the so-called "sidewinder seeker-head"..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfQRetYV8k0&feature=related I especially like the expert that they bring in, stating that it is from a sidewinder. Are they for freaking real? An AIM-9 is 5 inches in diameter.....about half the diameter of the unit they showed. My suspicion is that it's some sort of bench calibration test unit, created from the chin-mounted infrared pod (IRST), from an F-4B.

All figures range, distance, and altitude figures in this series are expressed in meters (m). All weights, in Kilograms (kg). The correct explosive weight for that weapon would be 44.0 kg, according to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_81_bomb. Oh, and the actual CEP of a Mark 81 is less than 5 meters (about 15 feet).

And buxon babes that may, or, may not require additional means of flotation (to keep them above the tangled mats of sargassm weed)

A terrain with just water? Also, FYI, the "Sargasso sea" is way east and south of the delineated area. It's just above the equator, between Africa and South America.

The "models" on the deck, are no doubt part of the carrier's .lod file, and cannot be deleted.

Paint.net accomplishes the same...and a whole 'lot more. Oh, and it's free, too.

Also, smoke effects are limited by view distances. One distance setting can be edited, the other, is hardcoded in the .dll files. You'll notice that when fly far enough away from a burning object, the smoke will disappear. If you then fly back and look for the same object, you'll see that the smoke has ceased. This is hardcoded (probably for frame rates). So, in this case, irregardless of what you set the eject time or duration to, the object will stop emitting smoke as soon as one gets far enough away, and won't start up again, even if you get within spitting distance of it.

It's not simply the DX10 graphics that make the SF2-series better than the first gen. There are quite a few refinements under the hood. The two that stand out the most are the multi-threaded coding (with the latest patch), and the improved avionics. The former bumps up frame rates quite a bit, and the latter includes both TEWS-RWR, and Vietnam-era vector-RWR displays.

My favorite Sidney Lumet film is/was/and always will be, "Prince of the City", a film that did not get the recognition it deserved, until almost a decade after it was released. "Q & A" was another Lumet masterpiece.

No, and it's also not available with the SF2 series. Perhaps the upcoming F-14 title might introduce this, though that's more than likely to be a new sim, altogether.

Try running the weapons editor from inside a .zip or .rar file.

It's generally a good idea to back up your mods folder before you install a patch. For example, if you modded any of the TW AI-only aircraft (the MiGs, for example) to be player flyable, installing a patch will result in them being rendered AI-only again, as the patches overwrite the aircraft .ini files. By backing up your files, you'll be able to quickly render them flyable again.

Wow....I first read Firefox about 2-3 years before the film was released, and read a few more of his novels, afterwords.

The Commodore 64 is back, and even boasts the same price it had...in 1982! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/commodore-64-is-back-with-hdmi-out-intel-atom-chip-blu-ray.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheTechnologyBlog+%28Los+Angeles+Times+Technology+Blog%29]LINK

Sorry, but I have you beat by over 3 decades.....I worked for Porkins, or rather, Porkins was one of the shift foreman at a job I started at in 1977.... The Autumn after the release of Star Wars, I went to work for a transporation company. As I was new (and therefore the lowest man on the totum pole), I wound up turning wrenches on the Midnight-8AM shift, and the foreman on that shift (a fellow by the name of Gary) was a dead-ringer for Porkins. He was like 6'1", 300 lbs, same scruffy red beard, and often wore amber-tinted shades (it was the 1970s, afterall).

In the bulletobjcet.ini, modify the following to INCREASE the tracer distance (and the lifespan of the round). [GunData] GunTypeList=GunData.dat BallisticData=G1.dat ArmingTime=5 MinBulletMach=0.3 <----Setting suggested by Stary, default is higher.

More BS from wacko alarmists. The cumulative radiation from cell phones held to one's ear (over a period of years) is many times more hazardous, yet you don't see anyone banning them.... A ferry boat captain once tried to sue the agency that owned the ferry boats that he operated, citing long term exposure to microwave radiation from the vessel's radar as the cause of various illnesses that he was experiencing. It was determined by the court (after consulting experts) that his lifestyle, not his job, was responsible for his maladies.

The AI in both generations of this series, will not (and cannot) use thrust vectoring. Until such time that TK fixes this (which is unlikely to occur), Gepard's solution is the only one.