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KickA**!!! looking great wrench Thanks for giving this terrain the attention it deserves.

Just skimmed the article... I agree they are talking out their A**es.... and no one like's a braggart. I grew up as a huge Metallica fan and was totally bummed when they became what they have been for the last 10 years. its funny to hear the Slipnot boys talk about not even having recorded their answer to the "black album" because that was the album that marked the beginning of Metallica's slide down the slippery slope of commercialism a move that catapulted bands like Pantera to the top, while causing long time Metallica loyalsts like me to stop buying their albums. Slipnot's last album was weird... it had balls out metal/deathmetal songs mixed with poppy radio"new rock" crap. The few heaviest (death metal) songs on that album were actually really good with awesome drumming and nice guitar work... but the radio rock crap was awfull. My advice to them.... show some respect to the bands that paved the way 20 years ago, and think before you speak.

Wow this is looking great, lots of attention to detail. To every one involved in this mod... Thank you.

Happy birthday Veltro... and thank you for all of your awesome contributions to this sim.

Just my opinion, but if the carrier is the midway in 1986 it would be a shame not to include VF-161 as they deployed alongside VF-151 for something like twenty years .

She's beautiful, great job guys!!!

:ghey: - "Rainbow" Eh?

So modest... your f-4S is still sierra hotel!!!! I freaking love the thing... with TK's new flight engine with the new patch your killer S just needs a little love. ultramax check out this for some skin ideas for your midway ops "> from afterburner decals: click> LT. Richard Head RIP

Wow Crab.. having you look at this is a dream come true for me as this is my favorite aircraft bar none in this series. The flight model needs a little love to bring it up to date with latest patch level and I seem to have a weird shadow issue that persists on the right slat...this is with the latest ferris skin I will try some others to test that. I love this bird!!!! And lets here it for more Ferris schemes VF-302 is under represented they had some of the coolest markings in multiple shades of tactical grey/blue with that yellow stallions ND tail code. The Marines had a few ferris phantoms as well. ">

Most people here are ferociously loyal to TK and that is a good thing. I love his games, and in them I can see a huge potential. TK has a vision and like many creative people he is focused on his vision. It took me personally a long time to realize as a creative mind (Music, songwriting ) that the things that I liked were not necessarily what others liked, and that if I wanted to reach a wider audience I would need to be open to input and make some small adjustments to my vision. If I were to offer a suggestion for improvement it would be a customer/modder input thread at thirdwire... give people who buy these games and spend countless hours playing and modding them an area to make recommendations, then review those ideas for development feasibility.

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very nice, great looking model. I'm going to have to read up on this one.

I shot myself down with the stinger missile.... more than once.... if I fire it pulling any G's at all I get to Eat it. The AI pilots must have laughed all the way back to base.

lemissioneur allows you to start aircraft out of thin air at a pre programmed time- at what ever time you select the flight will apear where you want it and follow the coordinates you set. I would suggest that as a second option for the trans atlantic flights of long range bombers allong with a couple of captured canadian basses, and a couple of aircraft carriers to operate strike aircraft and fighters with the red side gaining more bases/ cities if they are sussesfull in the first wave of attacks.

The Backfire is among the most needed aircraft in this series. It would round out the soviet strike package nicely

this is a great idea that just cries out for some NORAD intercept missions on a massive scale. now that we have the F-101b, F-106, the F-102 on the way and finally the TU-95 has joined the badger and blinder, it's all coming together. You know a kick but map of the eastern seaboard could really use some new high res buildings - landmark skyscrapers like the empire state building, authentic bridges, the statue of liberty, Washington monument .... lots of detail. just my opinion but I think that flying in defense of my homeland in a high immersion environment that has the detail to put you in those city's we all recognize... the land marks... the monuments.. that would be one of the most exhilarating Flight sim experiences imaginable. It would be a ton of work but wow what a map it could be of the right people got on board to build the objects.

Yes it is an idea whos time has come, would love to se e a new model with the features you describe. There is alot however that can be done with the existing models, for instsnce lexx_luther has a method of importing instrument pannels or pehaps parts like mfd's into other cockpits; id like to talk to him about this. Many of the other aspects of the upgrade are simple ini edits like the PW-1120's and a new Hud/ avionic upgrades that I am using now in a Super F-4S.

In my mind it is a contest between the A7E and the A-4M/(which we don't have yet) or the slightly less capable OA-4M. It's a hard choice for me, I love them both. For now I am going to go with the A-7E because It caries a heavier load and puts it right on target. If we had the A-4M however I would accept it's reduced load capacity with out a care do to the fact that the scooter is such pure joy to fly and it weapons system was deadly accurate. Triplethr3at's OA-4M is one of my favorite planes now and I have been bombing the crap out of everything with it . I am really looking forward to flying an A-4M in this sim in the future.

What level are your games patched to? What mods/terrains are you using? My guess is that you are missing something. I have so many sams and enemy bvr missiles comming at my flight that many times my AI squadron mates jettison all of thier bombs and tanks well before the target zone, if they did not have Chaff and Flares none of them would make it to the target. Set the enemy air defence to heavy, do the same with enemy air activity. Also in game you might want to do some F7ing to verify how many and what kind of Sams AAA and radars the game is placing on the map. One thing to might be adding a few 0's to all of your aircrafts "detect range" for each aircrafts data ini.

Had that problem too, weapons show on my loadout screen of my 8/06 patch install but not the new patch install. look at the data ini for the voodoo, Erikgen put some missile specific data in the code. so what i did was put a few// before the missile specific code- two different lines per bay if I remember correctly, and it worked fine. I also slightly lengthened to bay to accommodate late model Aim-4 and aim-26 advanced/ nuclear falcons.

I'm pretty sure NATO fighters is incompatible with the new patch. Do a fresh install with the 8/06 patch and add the uber AI mod. If you go with a separate 8/06 install you might want to check into Lexx Luthers High altitude Siberian sky/sun/cloud mods. That install will have a much different type of immersion than the stock sky ... then you can switch back and forth between it and an install with the new patch depending on the mood you are in .

Merry Christmas to all of you outstanding bastards and bastettes and a happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or what ever the heck our wide range of members choose to celebrate at this time of year. This December marks my one year anniversary as a member and I wanted to thank you all of you ( especially Wrench and Dave) For putting up with my noobness the first couple of months . Big thanks to all of the modders who take this sim to new levels.

You have been a loyal customer who has supported TK with your hard earned $, you have a right to speak your mind. You just used a word that was perhaps a bit harsh, it is not a "con" job but perhaps a bit of a rehash. I hope there are some new functions "under the hood" as well, it would be good to see this sim grow a bit. The new air to air AI with the last patch was most welcome, heres to cranking up the realism with the AI mud movers!!!!

It is a work in progress from Blackfly flight productions. And it looks sweet .