Trotski

I wouldn't say it isn't. I would have to have a look see at it, and acertain if it is feasible, I would imagine as long as you add your Merc Squadron to the Squadronlist.ini it may enable the option, but like I say I would have to play around with it to see if I can get the option up and running, maybe the Merc option would also need to be added to the Nations.ini as well, and as I haven't had the sim running for a couple of months, I would have to fiddle around and see.......Do I not think the Merc option is compatible with Vietnam......hmmmm.....It isnt an option I personally would entertain, I would prefer that option in a hypothetical Middle East, or African scenario, however, far be it from me to criticise, you play the sim how YO?U wish to play it, and good for you mate ! I was merely curious, hence the question.

maybe the merc option is only on the paran Dhimari front then, I dont know as I have only ever used it on burning sands campaigns, just a query, why would you want to fly Vietnam as a merc ? also in the vietnam scenarios, they dont have any mercs set up in the Squadron lists or nations ini's so maybe if you add a merc squadron to the Sqadron list ini, it may work, like I said never done it outside of Paran / Dhimar as if I play Vietnam, or Nato fighters etc. I fly as the expected airforces.......Thats the beauty of Burning sands campaigns, you can pretty much do whatever you like, especially if you have a fully merged install, with North Atlantic so there are carriers available as well, I also like it because the default aircraft for Burning sands 1 is the super sabre, and I prefer to fly either Vampires/Venoms, or Hunters or even Meteors, I'm ex RAF after all, I got my pride ya know lol

hmmmmm.....dunno, try unistalling that aircraft, then re downloading it, and putting it back into the sim, is it always on that one skin ?

YES !! the campaign customiser, mission editor is just that, for editing single missions, please re read my previous post and go to Thirdwire, in the downloads and look for DLC 11 , like I said. it will cost you a couple of quid but thems the breaks, take a look at the DLC aircraft too, some of the skins and add ons on this site need certain DLC aircraft to work correctly, Mirages mainly, but if you have a few spare bit o' change burning a hole in your pocketsesssss, you may get them.....I have them all now worth spending the money.

it maybe the skin you are using is set up differently, the templates may be different, and do not work with the model you are using, or they may be named differently. you need to go into the skin folder for the aircraft, and ensure it is firstly compatible with the aircraft model you are using, and you need to see if the skins are named the same way as the default aircraft.....Sorry, I'm having trouble being clear, in a nut shell, some skins dont work with certain models, as they may have been made for an older model of that aircraft, or they could be a first generation skin for SF 1 so the format maybe different.

Yes mate that is correct, but the Campaign editor allows you to change your aircraft etc, you can even fly for the Paranis as a merc using it I assume you can do it in all of the different titles as well, not tried it to be honest, only on Paran/Dhimar campaigns, as generally those are all I fly

No its DLC 11 you need to purchase it from the Thirdwire site, called the campaign customiser, it allows you to change pretty much everything in the campaign setup, I must admit I don't know why it is a purchaseable item, in my opinion it should have just been part of the sim , the DLC aircraft I sort of understand, but this seems a bit daft to me, however there it is, grab that matey, and you will be up and running.

Aye you are most probably right

if you have the mission editor, you can fly as mercenary anytime mate

Hmmmm the sound of silence, I would have though more peeps would want to jump on the bandwagon here, maybe the sim is losing pilots to shinier and prettier stuff........C'mon guys 'n gals ( are there any gals ? ) surely more than just a couple of us want more from the sim here !!

My dream for the TW sims, is to port FE over into SF, I dont know how difficult it would be, certainly the FM's would need to be adjusted, as I have converted a couple of aircraft to work in SF, however the formation keeping and AI behaviour is a little iffy, not my sphere of knowledge, it involves mathmatiky voodoo and calculationz 'n other such arcane and heretical jiggery pokery, but I am sure it is "doable" a big job maybe, but one worth investigating maybe ? As for SF itself, it is super well served by campaigns, and aircraft, a few must have airframes maybe missing, or only available on the Arse Team site. The main problem I see is that the sim needs to be kept in line with up to date operating systems and graphics, but I am sure this has all been discussed elsewhere at some time.

I would be up for whatever keeps the series going, I still think the SF/FE series is one of the most accessible and enjoyable flight sims around, yes there are more accurate ones, such as DCS etc. but to be honest, as wonderful as DCS is, I dont enjoy it as much as these sims, half of the enjoyment here is the modding/skinning, and it will be sad to see it fade into oblivion.

You will find both of them in the maps and terrains section of SF2 downloads, not so much missions as terrain specifically for bombing and ground attack you just make your own missions to suit, it goes into better detail on the read me files for the 2 terrains.

Yeah Wrench has done a red and blue range , you will find them in the downloads sectoion

ooooh nice one, save me a job !!

Unfortunately the only one i know of is on the A-team site, I assume you need it for Armchair aces ? The only way you are going to be able to get hold of it, is by registering on Mr shitheads site and following his childish rules, as long as you dont step out of line you should be ok, just be aware he is a bit of a dick, and will ban you at the drop of a fleas hair, good luck !

Yeah I know THAT feeling !! I get issues with skinning sometimes when you spend gawd knows how many hours faffing, only to have it turn to dog meat lol........you know ya love it really !!

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can you not just adapt desert terrain 4 ?

Not seen any mate, would be pretty cool to have some though

FE/SF , Rise of Flight, DCS World, X-Plane ( not for some time though ) ..................I Want CAP, and OFF

As with SF the beauty of First Eagles is its ease of modding, I only wish we could port the whole thing over to the SF engine though, as the models look even better in SF, I have actually semi converted a couple of aircraft to work in SF and becaust you can uses higher resiolutions and JPG format instead of BMP's it just looks so much better, but that is just a pipe dream, I think maybe its never gonna happen lol

I love Swedish aircraft, Viggen and Draken are just beautiful aircraft, we need the SAAB 17 and a SAAB 105 to complete the SAAB stable in SF........