daddyairplanes

she may be old, but she has frankly an even bigger third party support crew than DCS with over 5000 various mods to add to the stock games

to answer why get it in portions over the course of a year as you can afford it. maybe get SF2 Europe first, then Vietnam or North Atlantic to have carriers a few months later. etc etc its the route i wound up taking, and probably still would have taken as my mind and budget would have justified several $40 purchases over time rather than $100 at once

there's tons of pics out there of Reserve birds with Eagle "kill" marks from the mid 70s. but for perspective, the Reservists had all done time over Vietnam, while the Eagle crews were just learning their jets as well as writing the book on how to employ them. they engagements i heared about the most were DACT between VF-202 out of Dallas and Eagles from the training wing out of Luke. not so sure about the Viper, unless the pilot did something incredibly stupid (like try to fight with stores still on). it was a revolutionary leap all around, for instance with Viper teams taking top place in bomb comps using just the basic computer and dumb bombs. well before they got "smart" with the Block 40s and 50s. the only advantage the Phantom had at the time was long range Sparrow shots, but she was on the way out the door when the Viper actually started using Sparrow capability and fully taking in the Arizona sun when they got AMRAAMs cleared hell, B-52 tail gunners got lucky at Red Flag when Eagles tried for a gun kill, and A-10s have some cool gun camera phootage of all the teens when they'd try to get into the Hog's element (low and slow)

95% of people on this planet period are just trying to get along and make life a little bit better for themselves and thier families its the noisy 5% of the others that screw it up for the rest of us

actually for its original intended purpose (fly 250 miles from the base/carrier fast, launch missiles, kill bombers) it was quite well suited, and many of the short nosed Phantoms found themselves in interceptor roles in their twilight years now if you meant dogfighter, no. no it wasnt designed nor good at the turning fight. which is why the branch fighter weapon schools turned around and stresses fighting in the vertical, or keeping the speed way up during the engagement

the Battle of Topeka, in an alternate 1987...

which is what prompted the question

have the F-4D_78? i know Israel and Vietnam would be off the list, while Europe definately has it. what about the original and or North Atlantic?

thank you Allen, that answered the question (Europe only)

London Ontario, May '88 Dayton Ohio Jun '88. really, why did they change the Iranian flag to a Syrian one? watching the practice run on a Thursday, summer '88

if your using my tail num template, a good way to do door numbers is to do tail nums first, then turn off the "AFxx" layer and save the three digit num as the nose number. the Tinker Phantoms i pm'd you last week have the decal entry for that so you dont have to dance it around so much

i would venture to say no, as almost all were in training units or ANG units by 1984, and the focus was more on getting the next generation in, not upgrading the older one.

those jetliners seem strangely familiar meanwhile, here's a pair of Phantoms based a little closer to your Michigan terrain (note to crew chief: 554 is missing two red stars on splitter plate)

482d Tac Fighter Wing

again, sometime you gotta make your own patches

happy scene unhappy scene (with little green blobs for extra anger)

Tinker MiG Killers '87 Tinker SF2, 2025

huge thanks to the guys that did Nam Phantom skins back in the WoV era. made extending teh Hill 2 as a decal so much easier as im fond of saqying..... same skin

you know your ride might be cool, but will it ever be "has a Lou Drendel painting of its MiG kill on the door" cool?

Sierra Hotel...

the man is SF2 Davinci, this is true and i was just pointing out theres better gun nosed Phantoms out there already, as we wait for the newer ones he's workin on

sorry had to laugh react on that one. im pretty sure he's working on the whole bird, not just the pit but these might have to sustain you until the latest and greatest come along as well as a few foreign operators to boot some one once said, there's gold in that there d/l section......

so like Eams said about inception.... its perfectly possible. its just bloody difficult

true, but you have to either add dozens of very small patterns onto one jpg, or dozens of small patterns onto one huge jpg. either way can be time consuming i am guessing youre talking about Rends Germany not stock Gepard:vehicle traffic would depend on what your main use of terrain would be. for a future US-Canada war low traffic would be fine. but in and around suburbs and major cities, you'd want alot of traffic if it was peace time or long range war with Russia. take enough vehicles to boggle the European mind, double that then add three. thats how much you should have on the smaller towns yes we Americans love our cars and it would take alot IRL for us to give em up. but i fully understand if you choose nto to populate the terrain with them.