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Oh what fun. Gives me the shove I needed to get started with skinning and it allows some time for us nubes to make an effort. Good luck to all. Thanks MK2

MK2, I am glad these things are in your hands. Thank you for sharing. You must feel a closeness to these men. I have a Rickenbacker and really appreciate it myself. I wonder if anybody has ever compiled a Sanke card collection to DVD.

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I enjoyed the show and learned something too. Ain't life grand? Thanks!

She Jane, you Tarzan? Really sounds like a great setup you are working on Lou best wishes with that. I am thinking along the same lines and would like to know(see some pics) once you are running with it.

Sorry but one more bit. It will soon become obvious that your views with the hat switch are very limited as determined by the original CFS3 engine. There are so many blind spots that you are in a terrible disadvantage. I know this because I fly OFF a great deal and as yet have not used Tir. I will be getting Tir soon and I know that it will level the playing field.

Tir will help with your situational awareness. It is of primary importance to know all you can about the situation around you. Shooting down an enmy is of little importance if you don't live to tell about it. With better vision you can anticipate the enemies actions and know where he has gone too. And what are his mates doing, Ther may be a target of opportunity coming up on your left althought the guy you were watching was veering to the right. Targets of opportunity is what it is all about IMHO. Let them cross your path rather than fixate on following because if you follw you too will be followed and then it is a matter of who goes down first.

IMHO these early planes were low tech. The gun sights often were ornaments. A pilot uses the whole plane as his gun and because of knowing his weapon in effect he could fire from the hip rather than take a long slow look down the barrel and have all day to press the trigger at a tin can sitting on a fence post. If you are fixated on your gun sights you are likely to get shot down. From behind I center the enemy plane in my relation to the forward view from the cockpit and then it is a matter of proper elevation angle. I use the tracers at all times time fine tune my aim. Now deflection shooting is more of an art as you are in fact aiming your shots for where you hope the enemy will be rather than where he is. You "lead" or fire in front of the enemy plane. How much lead you use depends on factors like the speed of the e/a, your speed, distance and angle of attack. So relying on a gun sight is a bad form of attack as I see and will get you dead pronto. Become one with your plane ,young skywalker, and in time you will not think about aiming but will know when the time is right.

Hey Gous, I'm so glad the freetrack is working so well for you, Very cool pics you snapped there. UK WM, very cool action pic you caught. If you don't mind it's going to be my desktop for awhile. Keep the pics coming guys your doing good work.

Looks like all sliders at 5 and high settings for AA. Looks like a powerful machine but what do I know. Push it all you want and then back off to get the frame rates you want.

MK2, I don't recall very much about the movie or how much flying there is in it. I saw it when I was maybe 6 years old one time. I can't honestly say it is good or bad or represents the man acurately or not. But I want to see it again. It's out there but I can't seem to find it. Captain Eddie, you know it's hollywood so there's got to be a dame in there.

Olham, high praise indeed from Siggi. I can say that on the whole I am proud to be associated with this very fine group. Ladies and gentlemen. Kind words (sharing) and thoughtfulness on this forum can make a real difference in somebody's day. And they have.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be taping it as I need a good copy. I wish they would show the Captain Eddie movie with Fred McMurray sometime soon.

I must confess, I got it bad. I'm going to loose what few friends I have. I search the skies too and find they look like the OFF skies. I see a lot of hot air balloons and want to bring them down. I used to have the feeling at work, in a large building, that the DOOM demons were around the next corner. Lock me up but please don't take my Off from me.

God knows I'm not cheating, only taking pictures. Good explanation Pol, thanks.

From what I understand the Vector expansion should do the trick.

Hi, I am not an expert as I am waiting my Trackir to arrive but I think you need the latest driver available at the Natuarlpoint website. Version. 4.1.0.36 or something like that. Good luck.

Beer30, I got the latest drivers at the naturalpoint website version4.10 something if you need.

The bigger the head the tighter the freetrack cap.

CJ, I love your account and the picks a re good too

That darn reality and responsibility thing man, it catches up. You gotta do what you gotta do.

I think we should have a "swap shop" sticky or whatever somewhere in our nice new digs.

Thanks Uncle, the Hadley/Page is what I had meant to say and no offence taken Cpt..

And some people (probably most actually) using a Logitech stick like myself have had no problem whatsoever with trackir or anything else for that matter "Catch" Thanks for that post Catch I had some concern from this thread because I just set up a Logitech Wingman Force 3D and am very happy wirh it and Trackir is on it's way. I thought I was having a wonderful experience before all these gear upgrades, it's Christmas and I'm a kid again.