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ervani, from what I'm read of the Falcon4 A-10 it's just and F-16 with a Hog pit. The CCIP mode uses the A2G radar in the "background" and you drop bombs just like you would in a Falcon which is not right. There is no duel-engine support, and It has LGB and laser pod capibilities which a few A-10s have in RL but are far from being the norm in today's A-10. The damage model is a long way from simulating and A-10 and ground troops can bring down the Falcon Hog with AK-47 fire. This is just a few items I know of and don't mean to "slam" Falcon4 but just saying the A-10 in Falcon is not built from the ground-up to be an A-10... it's built on an F-16 sim.

Falcon4 is the best F-16 out there but LOMAC will be the best A-10 anywhere! Falcon's A-10's FM is not up to par with LOMACs and a lot of the A-10 avionics in falcon are off the mark also.

You know what's the sadest part, I should be spending my day-off looking for things wrong with LOMACs A-10 so people can get the best Hog possable but, looks like I will spend the day on the forums..who loses in the end...all of you because, there may have been something I could have found today to make the A-10 better but I spent it on the forums!

I will watch for his IP on sites I mod...ranger you're a POS...nuff said!

Info on the demo from Carl... http://forums.ubi.com/messages/message_vie...mac_gd&id=zweme

Man looks like I have some catching-up to do this morning! Seawolf, The A-10 does have Bitchin' Betty which came with the LASTE mod of the early 90s, there is pull-up, AOA, and speedbrake (off the top of my head). IN fact here's a email the System Program Director recived (and passed along to me) during OIF.... Most every aircraft has a different person as bitchin betty depending on who built the aircraft and when it was built.

Yes it's a bit strange because it's obviously working in the beta versions. maybe they removed just a little to much files for the demo ;) You're right, when they remove large chunks of the sim to make a demo it affected the config file data base. You have to understand a sim is so intergrated when you mess with one part it affects all the other peices. Carl is only talking about the demo not the beta itself, that is still being de-bugged and worked.

Hi, everyone nice to see you guys here. It's a little quite here sometimes but it's also less BS than on the UBI forums.

With all the LOMAC screenshots, videos, and war stories I thought it might be time to go in another direction and get back to the roots of why we play sims. I play sims to place myself in the shoes of real world fighter/attack pilot and try to get a small taste of what it’s like to fly these powerful aircraft. I’ve taken 7 minutes of video from a USAF video, produced each year, called Firepower or Capstone and converted it to Windows Media Player so you guys can view it. This footage is taken from the 2000 Capstone and centers on the A-10 (of course) performing as FAC and CAS. It includes cockpit footage, radio coms, and external clips, which you may have seen but, they were incorporated into music videos or mixed with LOMAC clips. This is the footage as it should been seen and shows how the A-10 performs it FAC and CAS mission in a way I feel will really get your blood boiling! There’s one A-10, call-sign Rifle, who is acting as FAC, a flight of three A-10s performing in the CAS role, call-sign Hog, and two F-16Cs, call-sign Snake, loaded with two 2,000 pounders who will be called-in to support the mission. Lets take to the skies and follow Rifle as he calls-in strikes, marks targets, and de-conflicts the aircraft in the target area….lets do some Warthogin”! 12.1meg http://www.warthogpen.com/bs/firepower.WMV

I know there has always been the debate on who uses flight sims (like Falcon4) in the real world and just how useful they are to real pilots. I don’t know a real pilot would have to answer that question but I can tell you what a sim like LOMAC can/will do for the maintaince community. We are very specialized in the USAF and as such don’t cross specialties very often. Myself as a crew chief knows very little about the weapons and avionics of the aircraft we work. And the weapons and avionics troops know very little about the airframe itself. All of us on the ground know very little about the pilot’s job and what happens ones he/she pulls “out of chocks”. I will use LOMAC to give me a better feel of what the pilot’s job is and how the systems I work affect the mission. Helping with LOMAC has taught me a lot about weapons and avionics and how they operate to put “iron on target”. I think each A-10 unit could use LOMAC to give the maintainers a better feel for the overall aircraft systems and how they work to complete the mission. Also, as some of you know, I work in the A-10 System Program Office and we get a lot of new officers and civilians through each year. 50% or better have never touched an A-10 and have no clue about the aircraft itself or it’s role. I think along with a good aircraft intro LOMAC can be used to give these new troops a good feel for the A-10. I mean let a new guy take the Hog up for a spin and get some AAA and sams fired at him while trying to hit a target with a couple of MK-82s! If his system is say…the RAW… he will get a small taste of just how important his system is to the pilot! This is a few ways I see LOMAC helping the real USAF… and we get a little play time also!!

IntelHog, I'm at the A-10 Depot at Hill AFB UT and I'm APG (Crew Chief) on the Hog. I work for HQ/ACC along with Depot on all the work done here, upgrades, and all the 100 other dayly issues to keep a 25 year-old airframe flying! :D BTW-be sure to hit my website at http://www.warthogpen.com

I don't know if it's been pointed out before of not but all the RPMs read incorrectly. The F-4E/G ran at 64%-66% at idle and incressed to 100% then to afterburner. I know it's a small thing but it sure bugs me! :(

It's sour grapes spilling over because they have been baned everywhere else so they come to the english forums to contune they crusade! :roll:

You know MJ I think UBI and Eagle should just clam-up and stop all screenshots, movies, and everything else until release...the community is getting like a pack of wild dogs!! :(

I've asked for someone from UBI to please post something on the LOMAC forums...all we can do is wait.....

Please be carefull and don't repeat what happen on SimHQ...this should be a preview and not a review of a beta sim. I know you know what you're doing MJ I just don't want to see any "bad press" for Biohaz like SimHQ recived. :(

.. escort some A-4s on a bombing run and it was cool! This may be a nice sim as I learn it. :D :D BTW I got one Mig but lost my wingman with no A4s shot-down.

..and can't find crap, hit crap, or even get my missiles to fly TOWARDS the MIGS...but it looks like it will be fun! :D :shock: Only got the jump into a couple quick missions without the aid of a key chart and fly around shooting missiles, which fly everywhere but where they are meant to go, and shoot the F-Es gun at a couple of Migs. I will ready Andy Bush's bit on SomHQ tomorrow and print-out a chart and try again. I do love the F-4E and F104! :D

Well I finnal got time to play a little today and boy am I having a blast! Still can't hit crap on the ground but I'm getting the hang of A2A! :D I love the sounds in this sim, the bombs sound just like they did at Capstone last year and the flyby in my F-4E in burnner..love it!! Well back to the sim...no house-work for me today! :shock: 8)

Hope you like them... Rolling in on target going north at night Poppin flares Somebody got a nice flag from OIF LGB drop

No Chief I have an A-10 pilot friend who was stationed at Al-jabber with the F-18 operateing from there.

It's in the free section so no sign-up required... http://www.combatsim.com/htm/2003/07/lomac-pre/

PCPilot, I wish we did that in the AF more but we are so specialized now that I could never do an avionics or weapons troop's job! The SPD (O-6) is very much behind the idea so I may get to play LOMAC and get payed for doing it! :D

There will be no NVG/LANTRIN system in this sim. The A-10 being modled is an early 90s LASTE 4.0 aicraft which means they were not NVG moded at that time. Of course the F-15C is an A2A aircarft with no NVG capibilities.

It's not up on LOMAC's main site yet but you can find it here.... http://www.pcarena.com/previews/lomac/trap/index.html