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Greetings All, Hiya CoolHand29!, I agree 100% with ya that, it takes researching and practicing to not get flamed most times from just SAMs. I've found turning down into 'em, going knife edge head on, then popping flares/chaff like crazy while extending full flaps, keeping the same track and air speed goin' up and at the last moment, killing the throttle and pulling that stick back right through ya, seems to work around 75 to 80% of the time. You don't slide into 'em as fast during the un-powered turn, your air speed dosen't decrease very much as you're in a dive angle, and the flaps help to lift you away faster from the SAM, giving you greater distance from the darn things when they blow. Recovering altitude and speed ASAP is key as, the second and possibly third pole is on it's way up to greet ya already. Also, never fly alone on missions. Use those program generated wingmen as "SAM bait". Go in a little behind 'em and let them take some of the pressure off your aircraft. {HEY! IT'S A SIM! THEY'RE NOT REAL! } This boosts your survival rate up to around 90%. If you set up a second air group to fly "Ironhand" for ya, call base ops and tell 'em to draw a cold one for ya. As for the air to air stuff, that's a whole 'nother world for me. I strap on a hog, not a fighter so, I can dodge the 1st shot no problem, most times the 2nd from a wingman. By then, they're close enough to send over my AIM9s and/or use my gun. If they put up a set of two fers, FOR GET IT! I just pull the handle and say good bye to my beautiful perfect plane, long before they break it on me. "Memories; of the way we used to beeeeeeee." :cray: Again, using your program wingmen. . . er. . wing persons { GEEZ!} and another air group as pawns, is a good tactic. There really is strength & safety in numbers. IMHO, I think many folks forget it is a sim we all "act" within, not "play a game" in. They're in too much of a rush to increase their number of kills and in these "gamer's" cases, one can read that to mean get a bigger "total game score". They need to be reminded it's a "sim", NOT a "game" and the ultimate object of sim pilots is to take off, fly to a specific area, "do their thing" and/or attack a primary objective, either air, ground, or both, and come back alive with your aircraft intact and land it safely. NOT just run up a big score in a hurry. { Gamer = Nuckledragger = glorified high tech Pong & Space Invaider arcade game player. Simer = excellant, trained & fine tuned, experienced actor. } I wonder how many persons perchased the original ubisoft LOMAC sim disk, had this mind set, became discouraged, bored, and hate it because, it was too hard for 'em, and their LOMAC sim now sits on a shelf somewhere gathering dust? Just as my A-10 and I "go low & slow", I'd suggest anyone and everyone, to take their time, put themselves in "IMMORTAL" mode even, no matter how good they are at acting in the sim at the moment, use the fast battle planer, and train, train, train, and train some more. I do it all the time! Even "Old Guys" need to keep their acting skills up and polished too! Otherwise, specially NEWBIES out there, you're just gonna be fresh meat and/or easy pickin's for the bad guys! {Anyone read "Bounder" 's post about what happened after a long absence from LOMAC? Smoked right off the bat!} OK. That's enough long winded blah, blah, blah from me peoples.

Greetings All, MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY! Virtual pilot going down! There is a person who is an actual existing member of the real and existing 110th Air Wing who, is having problems with getting and using LOMAC on his computer with Vista installed! He helped me out of a rather stupid error I made and I have advised him of what little I know about LOMAC and Vista problems which, was not a whole lot of information, as I run XP with Service Pack 2 on my 5 year old Pavilion tower. { HEY! DON'T KNOCK IT! IT WORKS FAST ENOUGH AND VERY WELL! "If it aint broke, don't fix it." } Can't anyone here. . . ANYBODY!. . . geeks, gurus, or computer know it alls, spare a little time off from siming and/or posting and give this actual U.S. volunteer patriot a helping hand? He wants the diversion and wants to be part of the LOMAC sim community/brotherhood. He messaged me saying, "I'm about to just quit.", this very afternoon and that's a dam shame! Somebody, help this good guy out. . . PLEASE! Message him at: GodLovestheUSA73 , right here on this forum. THANKS MUCH PEOPLE!

Greetings All, Can someone please help out a wannabe newbe from the real existing 110th Air Wing, set up LOMAC & LOMAC FC on his Vista computer so, he can get the sim off the ground and running? I've already given him some wrong info by mistake because, I run XP. Please message him direct. GodSaveTheUSA73 THANKS

Greetings All, Ruggbutt, Would you, could you, please give this guy a hand with setting up LOMAC & LOMAC FC on his computer that's running Vista. I run XP and I've already given him some wrong info by mistake. Please, message him direct. GodSaveTheUSA73

Thanks gwar. Send it directly to him please. GodSaveTheUSA73

Thanks Bounder for the rapid responce deployment. PLEASE. . . message the guy direct: GodSaveTheUSA73 He's needs to be taken by the hand and lead thru the LOMAC & LOMAC FC programs intallations and patchings "mine field" one step at a time. "With windows Vista you can not use the current patch 1.01. , or 1.02. . . " <---- IF these are the patches for the original ubisoft LOMAC, I've already given him some wrong info. OH MAN! He's been FUBARed by friendly fire. :( You got smoked!? But, I thought it was supposed to be "like ridin' a bike", etc.?

Thanks much Paul, The more people that learn about the guy's problems, the better the prospects he's going to get help.

GREETINGS ALL, There's all kinds of "FU"s out there. Oh yeah. Just add an: MOS, rank, first name, gender, civie job title, whatever comes to mind. You'll have folks "ROLF"ing, when ya tell 'em what you mean. :yes:

GREETINGS ALL, GEEZ TROOPER! Is this girl. . . like 13 or 14 years old or what!? She looks way to young to be flying anything. Maybe a kite but, least of all jumpers. Perhaps it's just me. Time to get into a wheel chair & buy a bottle of geritol I guess.