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for the record, the Mirage pilot in the book was a Dassault test pilot trying to make a sale to a Saudi prince. (the encounter would be important later in the book) prob great at flying technique, but short on tactics. and my only diff is that i would engage after iron on target. them bombs and Mav's slow ya down at bit at the merge dontcha think. of course it would be easier with a 4th gen Viper or Hornet, more so with the Super Bug (4.5 gen fighter?) than in an old St Louis Slugger. but as long as i dont get fixated on a particular target it always brings me home...... just for your dont feel safe flyin an E comment will hafta find and post Manfred Reitch's comments on transitioning back to the Phantom after flyin the Hornet a couple of years.......

in all honesty WBS's work appears to be geared to those with SF2NA. if you cant work that then automactically you likely wont be able to use his boats spec'd out. that said data.ini edit for the different eras for the Essex would be a good idea (WW2, Korea, ASW ships during the 60's) and my final opinion for this post is that we still need Midway class boats!

wondering on you guys take on this but was thinking of a part from The Warbirds where Jack Locke gets invited to fly a stored F-4E against a Mirage 2000. he tools around in the weeds awhile flying a max fuel conservatio profile while the Mirage is looking for him. then when the Mirage is gettin skosh fuel he zooms up gets the gun camera photage and RTB. how workable is just such a scenario esp. when the opponent is far more advaced than yourself? i usually fly A2G myself and first thing when RWR is screaming at me is to get on the deck and go fast (usually 200ft, 450-600 kts depending on loadout and where i am in mission). i usually complete the mission this way and might even get a -23 or two on the way home. wondered how it works for A2A though esp for DCA.

what's some running rates on those games? with a bday inbound and a better system than i started the year out with i think i need to branch out from SF2. been thinking on OFF to have something different but any suggestions for a guy on a budget? oh and course, preferring more moddability than less

nuthin fake pilot-ish about Chico. just ini edits to the loadout and a bit of skinning or decalling............

we're alll rivet counters when pissed enough........

no straight TAC, although primary mission was to deliver a nuclear bomb somewhere over the FEBA........ then they went to nam and the internal bomb bay became permanant fuel tankage... now say somewhere over the FEBA but think of the Wizard of Oz

a whole package could be done on the Air National Guard. they were using them as hacks up until the 80s..........

learnin it the second half of this semester in my SGD 116 class. the first half was Photoshop CS6......

well if its markings that are whats messed up thats too easy to pop out a mod fix for. time to do the last two units are all thats holding up my USAF DLC mod but if he could add a new DECM he couldnt bring the old stab from the J? budget shall hold up my buying the N so i will gripe a bit longer............... (hey it is a soldiers inherent right to bitch) and stingray i'll take a look in my files tonight. have a BLN decal placement set for the noses, and think i have the sharkmouth included. if so i'll upload decal.ini and sharkmouth to this thread

i'm talking bout commentary in each thread for every DLC thats been released Macelena. such as white tailcodes on Euro 1 green fer example........... over all i like TKs work and try not to be too bad a rivet counter but some things do stand out esp when it your fav aircraft. and it not like the slotted stab has to be invented with a J and late E models in game........

well (based of commentary from other DLC releases) maybe his ad slogan is "Not accurate, but the same price and healthier than a 1/4 lb cheeseburger!" excellent shots Blade. however i do disagree, from what i read in Spirit in the Skies, and Grey Ghosts, those items didn't come standard on the B but rather were applied as aircraft came off the line and went thru depot maintenence. it also seems that most birds went PACFLT and to Nam after retrofit, as most (yeah not all but most) pics of such birds are somewhere round Yankee, Dixie stations or Miramar..........

Gen Yeager was 89 on his flight Sunday. I wonder who the oldest man to break the mach was? (betcha it was a passenger on the Concorde.....)

thanks Blade. VF-202 makes my project screwy now tho with full color and loviz...... oddly the CAG bird in those is loviz while the line bird is full color! prob just make em all loviz for that unit/skin.

yep looks like from their last cruise before the Tomcats. if you look closely says N above the BuNo. plus the B never got the DECM as a B, but the N and RF's got the longer DECM due to where they had to plug the cable on the basic B airframe as opposed to the basic J. still can't see a slotted stab tho! research (to include convo's on CA) sho that the J started the slatted stab, then was retrofitted to select B's, all N and select RF-4Bs that went thru the SURE upgrade. S had the stabs and DECM by virtue of being J's in 78 during the conversion (DECM was added in 74-75 timeframe).

i adjusted the skins of the F-4D DLC skinpack (Wraparoound, Euro 1 and Hill 2) to work on the F-4C_67, but the tanks defaulted to USAFGrey. figured out that while the DLC was in JPEG, if your gonna tweek it, change the tanks to bitmap. hope this tidbit is useful to somebody else out there. shot with tanks left in jpeg after i got sick of lookin at ADC grey on Hill grey.........

do you have pics, Blade, of the N TPS birds? not because i doubt but i sure could use em for reference! you are correct sir on VF-21 and 154, i based my info offa book from 85 but it wasnt at school with me this afternoon so i got it jumbled in my head. didn't know the Marines used TPS on their N's though makes sense as they used em longer. and as far as i knew drooping ailerons were retrofitted as part of BEE LINE. will look it up after dinner for sure..

how stock do we wanna consider stock? availibility for DLC or straight Full 5 merged? based on your work with the A-4Ls HF i would believe we are considering anything released by TW to be stock, which would be good for me with my Phantom projects.

from the screenie i'm seeing there's no slotted stab. is that true or am i seeing things? also only one sqn i can think of flew em in TPS and thats VF-151 on Midway around 83. TPS was mainly for the S. Then again in the navy skinpack only VF-194 flew straight Ferris scheme and with low viz markings at that. not tryin to rivet count but...... hell its stil a Phantom. i'll be buyin all the full aircraft ones for my bday next week.

well i know what i'll get on my new tablet (crossing fingers for next month) but me thinks it'll be the waiting room or in car distraction. are Phantoms available for purchase or do you work your way up to them? if they are buyable, i can throw TK a few more bucks that way. just give us a player flyable Viper rather than Netz is all i ask......

as noted in the DLC skinpacks, hangarscreens can also seemingly go into the skin itself for various A/C but the loading screen still goes in the main aircraft folder

oh so like this place but with blackjack. and hookers.

um, some explaination for the folks watching at home please......

F-16A?? TK's way of sayin kwitchyerbitchin? or hopefully a upcoming release in PC version...................

on hold due to weather................