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Okay my second DiD... Again NF4 but this time its the + Version SFE2. Pilot 2nd LT Tony "Scooby" Franklin 23rd TFS Spangdalm Aircraft F-4G Mission Weasel Well been on base for around 2 weeks, introduced to my bear Major Chuck "Berry" Schmidt and how the guy gets in the back is beyond me the guy is bigger than most football players and he ain't wearing the padding, and done a couple of Famil sorties. Thankfully my bear knows his way round the back seat like he knows his own hand... Well it was a good morning today and was ready to go for my first look round the local area on land instead of in the air, as we have been on alert since I got here and what happens the Red's go nuts and decide on taking on the rest of the world... and there was me thinking the politico's are out to save our hides... How the first red air strike missed our base I don't know apperently they got zapped on the way over by 24 F-15's running block on them... Well I got my first sortie thrown at us even though it should have been routine anything with Fulda in it isn't going to be routine... Me and another Newbie got tasked with flak suppression over the gap taking out gun's... Loadout was 2 Harm's 2 Maverick's Centre Tank 3 Sparrow and the boss made sure we had 4 winders each in other words enough to cause trouble for anyone... Take of was straighforward and we headed for the area at .9 mach and 10000ft as we got nearer (seemed like second's to get there) we picked up a zip gun near a factory transmitting so I got 2 to take it and dang that Harm sure is pretty coming of the rail... and down goes one Zip gun me I was worried about SA-10's but thats how we agreed to play it anyway 2 goes down to work over a gun site and the Bear locks up a SA-13 and I shoot that sucker dead with a Maverick. Just as we are getting into our stride all hell broke loose Mig's all over the sky Su-25's coming in to drop on Friendly ground Falcon's and Eagles running top cover I manged to line up a Su-25 and shot him dead with a Sidewinder glad I was carrying those... broke back in to fire my remaining Maverick and to use my Harm's when a Mig-21 shoots past after my number 2 so I reefs round and nail's him with a second winder. Number 2 now breaks into another attack with a Maverick on a gun and kill's that... Me I have lined up and killed another Zipper gun and extended out of area when I head my wingie shout he's getting shot up and he's punching out... He made it but is injured his bear made it as well and is not injured thankfully for the both I turn back in and we loft the 2 Harm's at a pair of targets killing a SA-2 Fan Song and another SA-13. We where cleared home but it was looking bad down low and I was pretty confident of by dogfighting abilities so I turned in to help a pair of F-16's who where trying to lay the hurt on some Russkie tanks... Which garnered me with 3 more kill's 2 Mig-21 and a Mig-23. Then the creme de la creme turned up and pointed it's nose in my direction and the pucker factor went through the roof... here's me a rookie and a bear against the red devil Su-27 he pop's a missile at me but the chaff and flares decoy it away while I pop one at him from below and its perfect even an Su-27 can't fly after being hit with an AIM-7F from below, I noticed he was pumping out chaff but it looked like his plane was masking it... Anyway after that I headed home at 50ft down a road between the tree's with an Su-27 chasing me... The 2 F-16's I helped out earlier came back into picture and dealt with that guy for me... so we made it home okay after that after flying for 25 miles out of the battle area popped up to 5000ft as advised and landed back at base... The bossman thinks I am nuts but all the bear say's is "yup you'll do at least you listen..." Sorry no picks was too busy flying the rhino...

Nope not enough buttons for the women... and it needs an extra keypad with attached keyboard...

The scary thing is old chap on this one sounds about right...

Some of the Saitek sticks are now designed so that they can be reconfigured to left handed... I use the Saitek Cyborg X Joystick not sure if this can be converted over to Lefty yet as I have only had it a few weeks... Last stick I used which I had for 5 years and still works great is one of these Saitek Cyborg EVO Joystick (It can be converted to Lefty as well comes with instructions) and it is very accurate for flying. If you don't want to go down the whole full flight stick etc...

Yeah thats what I was thinking of as well but with NF4+ life is very very interesting as you have a whole setup of Air Defence weapons... from SA-2's up to Su-27's the SAM's I am not too worried about but the Flankers I am... But saying that I am thinking that a pure recce mission is too much so am thinking of going Weaseling instead...

Congradadulations...

Hi I am disgusted at the thought of this whats next ??? Scrapping the Red Arrows!!! Just checked the link and its incorrect I have re-created the link :- http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BBMFCuts/

Welcome to the happy house... As to XP only accepting 3.5gig... you can get XP to accept more but it requires a transfer of files from 2003 server if I remember rightly someone advised me on it years ago on what needs to be done... I maybe wrong though... its midnight and the grey cell's are requiring a rest...

Cheers it was fun but dogfighting Mig-29's or Su-27's in a Tornado is only for those who are certifiably insane... Right as I don't think anyone's done one yet well not published here I am going to run with a Recon Rhino... No shooting and no dropping bombs... how hard can that be... NF4+ I have to be mad pal raving mad...

Thanks for this as I dont watch TV I would have missed this and that beautiful Aeroplane is the one of the reasons I joined the R.A.F. and everytime I see one or hear one it brings a lump to my throat as Widow said... and for this Gentleman to be able to fly again after 60 years is a wonderful thing for him... Long may we remember their sacrifice for what they did for the world... And your right Widow on the shocking behaviour by the RAF against Dowding in fact the day before the official start of the Battle Dowding was told it was his last day on the job as they trying to get rid of him and it was only on Churchill's insistence that Dowding was given is Baronetvy in 1943 a year after he had retired from the RAF...

Better get the barbie ready then mate...

Laptops aren't the greatest piece's of kit for gameplaying. Me I would buy a Desktop as you already have a decent Graphic's card as above build it yourself as you also know what your putting in it and to upgrade its a lot easier for example if your HD in your current PC is still in decent shape you dont loose too much data swapping it across and you can update it later as well or add a new HD when you build your new PC.

Now thats some Voodoo photo's

Flt Lt Graham or should I say Squadron Leader Graham has completed his 19th and 20th Sorties successfully... Well today was the last 2 sorties and the diary simply states Survived... Well Sortie 19 was simple straight forward fighter sweep 8 of us of the survivors of the Squadron took to the skies and wiped it clean and then some more the Red's where thin on the ground or should that be air... We pounced on what looked like an entire Squadron of blasted Floggers well it was very soon a Squadron of smoking holes in the ground... all 12 of them... Without loss to our 8 which was a surprise but the 2 flights where made up of the Squadron killers and survivors... So out and back and collapse... 2 more Mig's to the Tally for the price of 2 Sidewinders... Sortie 20 was my standard fourship fighter sweep over the enemy lines not looking for much trouble as apprently its supposed to be all over but a 4 ship of Mig-23's came up to play and down they went 1 each we resumed course for Berlin as the orders stated even though GCI said we where cleared to RTB we stayed up as we where all still fat with fuel and weapons and there was a flight of A-10's without cover dealing some damage to a Red Army Tank battalion. This was ideal as 4 Mig-31's came screaming at us before I could order attack I had tone and promptly shot all four with face shot Sidewinders... After this we where given recall orders back to base once we landed we where told that the Red's had surrender we had stopped them but at what cost... Now its just a case of sitting and waiting the launch order the boss lady has declared that we have 4 jets on alert in case the Reds pull a fast one... This was the final tally of all our losses and our kill's Well that was it it did get a bit boring sometimes I will admit just going up and shooting at Mig-23's but thats what I signed for as I know the Tornado F-3 very well its all Air to Air Interceptor... But at the same time it was fun... I think my next one is going to be in the NF4+ flying a more attack orientated Jet or maybe even a Weasel... Hope this has kept you entertained...

I have both and ever since I purchased IL-2 Pacific Fighters I have not touched my CFS2 disks as IL-2 Pacific / 1946 (Which I now own) beat it hands feet everything down...

http://www.shiftmetal.co.uk/video/83/VW-Polo--Banned-TV-advert If easily offended dont watch.... This made me laugh...

I used to work in a Department at what used to be the LATCC at West Drayton... and we used to see the odd school group wandering round under supervision (not where I worked)... It's like anything you need exposure to something to know if your going to do it... I could understand if the kid wasn't supervised but the kid was being supervised its typical of today's society oh my god someone's doing something under supervision but they are too young... lets shove all the people who complain at this onto a desert island and see how long they last... This sort of thing annoy's me...

Any ideas on what the front cover looks like?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Concorde-Farewell-collection-final-flights/dp/B0001DI57G/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1267551778&sr=8-6 Could this be it Dave ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/7294353/Wing-Commander-Bob-Doe.html

Yup your right on the Fighter Sweeps etc even in something fairly Modern like the Tornado Pilot DiD I am running at present I am itching to kill ground targets which is why I am getting fairly relaxed about what I am doing and the kills keep racking up...

Flt Lt Graham is still flying though how is my next question 75 kills for 18 sorties... Anyway last sortie was to provide close cover to Bison flight... 4 Tornado's Full weapons and tanks Well take off was as expected into the early morning dawn god I hate mornings... Cruised up to 10000ft and went looking for our charges when the Yanks popped up with there 2 flights of Eagles... found our charges where 4 A-10's looking to cause some trouble as Nato is pushing for Hamburg, now that we have slowed the red's down. Anyway as we approached the target area all we got from the Eagles was Fox 1 Fox 1 what they where firing at was a flight of 4 Mig-31's going the other way fast and they where about 30 miles away... leaving my flight to watch over the A-10's. The Reds had also sent a flight of Mig-27's into the fray which where duly dispatched by our flight 2 for me both with sidewinders and 1 each for 3 and 4. We reformed to orbit at 5000ft over the area when the Eagles started screaming turns out those Mig-31's led them into a trap of 4 Mig-29's and 8 Mig-23's by this time the A-10's where heading for home so we went to help out the Eagles after running on burner for 3 minutes we got into contact and I took out a 29's that was causing an Eagle more trouble than it needed... it was about this point that number 3 was lost no-one saw it or heard anything so we valiant 3 took on the Mig-23's just for fun I think somedays attacking those crates... it's fast but it dogfights worse than the Tornado. Anyway got 2 with Skyflash and 1 with gun making it a 6 kill sortie when everyone started calling bingo... So we trooped of home mission accomplished and me having a bottle awaiting me at Bitburg in case I have engine trouble and need to land there...

Olham old chap had a good laugh at that... Brits with no sense of humour totally unheard off... But we do get slightly miffed when you shoot down one or two of our chaps...

Okay who's doing the Barbecue ???

Yeah I have that book as well Lexx and its one of my favourite reads have had it for about a year and must have read it 5 times...