daddyairplanes

off to the beach...

its always about the oil.....

what he said

also, what bombers are you using?

BUFFs of course do stand off work now, but did do low level airfields strikes at the beginning of ODS

Bones also did some mass bombing (refineries and airfields in Serbia)

post 2000 and youre pretty much using PGMs period

go the other direction in time and the B-47s used LABS and the idiot loop to throw their nuke onto the target (iirc, the aircraft download features instructions on how to do that in game)

but if youre looking at WW2 style 4 4engine bombers, Stary's sight will be your best bet

aaaaand this pops in my mind

oooooh, shi-neeee 

new Marine D models would be rather cool though. 

Cold Warriors pt 1

presuming stock birds? 

if there's any modding of the a/c at all, best to pull a stock data ini and compare notes

as it was, the F-4D(78) i used to check had much funkiness going on. most corrected (still only loads 1 stock Mk82 centerline) so thank you for that (wouldnt have realized without checking things for this thread). i was a bird that i'd both added some other ANG skins into, as well as my modding for Creek Klaxxon

but it was not missing pylons with whatever i did.  the Thud was straight throughout my checks too

stock F-4D in my israel install was totally fine as well 

long way of saying check the data ini against the original

1 hour ago, Wrench said:

(now, if I can just figure out how to mount the dual JL100s ... be a good SEAD/CAS machine (albeit short ranged)

would be great for airbase perimeter defense 

practicing the flat show due to weather

2 hours ago, ravenclaw_007 said:

the aircraft is about 95% done the Templates onyl up to 50% , still have to add a lot more details to them including textures for some launchrails

lots of major differences from the previous edition or mainly model tweaks and 4096 skins?

meanwhile over the Gulf...

@CSomers611 your forgetting screenshot thread etiquette my man

DO add a screenie when commenting on another post

DO NOT leave the pics in quotes. you can put the cursor into the quote and delete them easy enough

mando screenie (see how thats done? )

damn, gonna have to update the one off thud skins again. went to show mine off with a euro 1/desert mix formation and realized i didnt have decals. ah well, that was like 14 years ago. i got a little better

meanwhile, back at the ranch

Angry birds over west Texas

MiG-23? hah, nothin's faster than a scared Thud on the deck fool....

8 hours ago, Wrench said:

mind you, there was marked improvement, but still with issues

well Ed did retire from modding, so it may have gone back downhill  

besides, 90% of the last 3 years releases have been rehashes of stuff available here, but Temu version. im frankly surprised if they dont release an ODS All Inclusive. 

in 8 parts of course. instant banishment if you DL two in the same day

well that gives me an idea......  

more from todays recce kick

56 minutes ago, Erik said:

You don't get 20 monkeys in a room and toss in one banana and expect that there will not be problems. I just try not be the banana, best I've figured out so far. 

true, theres even beef's in our happy lil home. we just tend to do better at keepin em to a minimum, or having admins squash them when needed

DAT's big difference is capun does it all himself it seems. makes for a harder life, and less popular choices

that said, it occurs to me: what do all the folks that were complaining about CA download limits have to say about DATs? misreading a clock was the reason for the first time i was banned...........

2 hours ago, Gepard said:

In a close dogfight a modern air to air missile, like R-73, AIM-9X, Phyton 4 or IRIS-T are agile enough to curve with a fighter plane, that tries to escape. So the answer, whether a missile is chasing a plane, is: when fired on the enemies tale, yes.

true, but not in the spirit of the original Quora question (ive seen it, pretty sure i made my ACME joke there too)

it was asking if theyll follow like in a movie or cartoon. to which the answer is no

and even your named missiles are less likely to succeed if the motor is burnt out and theyre coasting into target. more common for a RL engagement at distance than a Hollywood engagement where the opponents see each others faces.

not impossible, but if the pilot is aware he was fired on not a solid 100% PK either

it is, but he was a Vietnam vet, and that war is almost a full half century behind us. its odd to see the Nam vets now looking like the WW2 vets did when i was a teenager. but then again this OIF/OEF vet is looking like the Nam vets did 30 years ago. time moves on

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if you like going through Quora, try following Dave Tussey. he was an A-7 driver and was at the Pentagon when alot of the decisions about todays fleet (F-22, NATF, A-12, B-2) went down iirc. a few others pop up here and there as well 

theres also this dude Kevin U that shoots his mouth off alot. says he's an amatuer historian 

21 minutes ago, ravenclaw_007 said:

although i would like to see a picture of a real F-15E with 12GBU-12D

hell, i'd like to see a Mud Hen with a symmetrical load 

iirc, when i modded up some Es i changed out the loadout from its front/back orientation to a left/right orientation. cant get every combination that there has been on there, but alot better than it was on the original Eagle packs

4 minutes ago, 48___aviation said:

Yeah the problem is that I cant decrease the amount of bombs to fix it

 

you will need to go into the weapon station in the F-15E_data ini, and edit it out in there. easiest bet would be to remove "LGB" from the CFT stations that you dont want them on

this is not something you fix in the game drop down menu. time for some basic modding practice

welcome rookie members, to the great feud that is CA vs DAT.

DAT has some things that are not available here, its true. but once you get some of their stuff, you realize thats about all thats great about it.

there are some mods here on CA that support DAT work. but you do still have to have the original file from DAT (lod at minimum) to make them work

as for there, well he hasnt even seemed involved enough to ban me again since covid timeframe. although with a recent release on 17 Feb, they are still doing something over there

2 hours ago, GKABS said:

By John Chesire

Former Fighter Pilot

his material is great on Quora. unfortunatly he passed away a few years back

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his answer of course discounts the top secret work done by ACME. 

 (Sonoran Desert freedom fighter on a dinner logistics run)

or more recently the hijacked shipment used to down Owen Wilson and his pilot in Behind Enemy Lines 

5 hours ago, Wrench said:

yawn.

same of discussion over and over and over for the last 20 years.

  yup

4 hours ago, streakeagle said:

 That fact that TK never finished his Win10 update that began with a failed GoFundMe campaign should tell you that updating the code will take some effort.

brings me back to my $10 Million estimate.

i doubt anyone seriously offered the man 7 figures for the IP

then, even if you did convince him, you'd need to get folks to work on it. i usually daydream a mix of college students and modders from here. 5 figure annual for the kids, 6 figure annual for the older heads. plus new rigs and monitors for all involved 

i mean i could sit on it and let one or two hack away for funsies. but if you spend 1-5 million on something, you probably want some sort of return on investment.......

and yes. if i ever win the lottery, Erik will be first to know. followed by TK. followed by several here at CA