EricJ

A Ukrainian AF pilot fires at at Taliban Stinger Site while conducting operations in Southwest Afghanistan, 2010.

Not yet, I tried working that this past weekend and no joy.

Well still turned out nicely

Playing with the USAF toys

Well lets not get into the hijinks of the USAF now... but considering I'm still running November 2009 (I like my stuff to work fine, and it's good for now ) I'm good to go. Hey we actually work, so a little lazines is earned

Indeed, no more needing to raid the SF1 section

You can download a filter for Photoshop, called "Night Vision"

Still pretty cool, that just an ini edit or?

Thanks!

It's in the TextureSet.ini of each skin, the values are there, the higher the values, the higher gloss and such.

Believe it or not, you don't need a profile for your stick. Simply go in to Options>Controls and customize your setup. In the controls folder is your options.ini file that you can backup and that is your profile

True enough and that's why we fly how we do. I know when to bring a wingie and when not to, so agreed

Two F/A-18Fs split upon recieving coordinates for Taliban insurgents in Northern Afghanistan.

Iron bombs so far no... it's the guided variety they seem to want to level the whole Earth with, so no bombas for them. I don't take them on strike missions due to well, lack of ability to handle terrain of the mountainous kind (which has been a whole theme in my sim career). I have seen AI bomb drops of the continous kind in the Afghanistan from SEAD missions but that's about it.

Well usually you have to target the enemy, using T (or R if Red Crown calls it for you). Once you got him "targeted" you can send your wingie after him and hopefully dust him off. I've had a Mig-35 on my butt in Iraq and I was trying to get him, I think I was Winchester or something) and he wouldn't engage, after repeated "Cover my six" calls. If you use them right they can work for you, it's just getting used to their idosyncracies is sometimes frustrating. Thats why on CAS missions I give my wingie Mavericks, so he doesn't miss and expend all of the bombs on one pass. Sometimes he's got a JDAM left over due to distance missions, but overall missiles are more useful than bombs. I just don't trust my wingman with them.

Lt. Cater is a good expert on wingman management, but I tend to use wingnuts so far for CAS missions only and sometimes... I want to hit Y and smoke him myself... But on the whole I tolerate them for just that mission and Armed Recon. I don't need much intelligence, just enough to hit a target so I can get a success and RTB. I wish TK would improve that aspect. Alot of people swear by them, I just swear at them.

Well I got hooked on that squadron ever since I saw the Lions Head on an F-14D. It's for some reason the coolest nose art ever. Also the wonderful brothers and sisters who'll help you out when you're getting shot at for real, my hats off to all of them, or beer mug... @Slartibartfast Actually Slartibartfast I pulled off a strike mission an hour ago in the AmericanNW map, blew up the hangar, and didn't even get locked on, or fire an AAM. I tend to also stay away from a BVR fight... but I have been known to shoot first and worry about it later

The problem with the addons is just solved by digging in the SF2 portion of the KB. After ten minutes you can have an SF2 compliant addon, but even then you can run old SF1 stuff on it, just none of the "cool" features that SF2 allows you to do. Reason most people don't convert much is that it seems hard, which it isn't. Another thing, which admittedly got me, is that sheer number, so every so often I'll drop it in SF2, and adapt it as I go along, and been lazy on uploading some of them.

That's always good to hear

I tend to fly USN for the most part. Got hooked on VF/VFA-213 and just got stuck on that squadron, so I'll fly other squadrons, but mainly that one. But as far as other countries? Not particularly care, just as long as I got "SJ" on the Mud Hen when I fly it.

No problem!

lol Afghanistan is hardly the vacation flight but hey whatever floats your boat

Click on Create Mission, select your bird, year, mission (Strike), terrain (Range) on down, and then at the bottom right, click "Accept"

Well... looks isn't what I care about her to be honest with you Was going to title "Bringing the Pain" but I nearly got spiked by 20 Stingers so it'll be A Flying Pain.

Probably, as an Ensign in the US Navy is a 2nd Lieutenant in the USAF.