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Speaking as a trained observer and one who appreciates good art, I think you are definately onto something. Let us know about any further progress you get with those tweaks.

Especially after hearing how a scientific study had assessed that a person hasn't fully developed the portion of the brain that deals with judgement skills until after the age of 20. All good and well to know although I personally can attest that at least half the population doesn't use good judgement until after the age of 40. Something about age and wisdom I quess...

Actually, I'm thinking more in the line of virtual reality goggles. Like this... Anybody ever try something like those?

Here is my take on historical accuracy, immersion, and the mythical 100% accuracy goal of all flight simulation games. If I could afford and buy TrackIR I'd use it probably religiously. I have listened and read of some oficionados who spurn the padlock option as if it were some sort of cheat. Let me remind you that you're sitting in front of a monitor and can't feel movement, inertia, or see the sky above and earth below. You probably don't have the sight advantage of some of the better fighter pilots. To compensate for some of these disadvantages there was the padlock view given to you. Which is what pilots would do with an adversary or target. Hence the term of target fixation that can be a tactical death sentence when you've lost all situational awareness and the other guy gets you. You padlock your head to your target while your body remains straped in as part of your aircraft. Your aircraft is then an extension of your body while your mark one eyeballs track potential targets and threats around you. The padlock helps accomplish this action while you sit limited to the tunnel vision of a 19 inch or so screen. If you want total immersion and 100% historical accuracy then you'd better go buy your own plane or go back in time to become an actual pilot. That's my own take on the padlock. I accept those aficionados who spur it for themselves because it spoils their immersion factor and quest for 100% historical accuracy in their gaming experience. But when you start bad mouthing my padlocked view like it's some kind of cheat you've crossed that line into sounding like you've entered the fanatic realm of an elitist gamer.[sarcasm] And I'll only retract that last comment when someone buys me a TrackIR or any set of high definition virtual goggles.

The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930) Although I liked Flyboys (Widescreen Edition) (2006) if you cut out all of the luvy duvy parts.

Well, darn it! I had to delete everything due to lack of disc space. After spending a lot of time looking for answers I've decided to just waite another day when there is a download that has everything needed on it to make the puppy run. There seems to be way too much information to go through to find what is needed at that website. I'm an adherent to the K.I.S.S. rule of Keep it Short and Simple. Life is too short and other priorities will preclude any addons for now. This is just like when I tried out the Orbiter Space Simulation freeware. After the game crashed for the fiftieth time and disk space was running low I had to dump that one too. After saving to a CD disk of course. Oh well, maybe someday.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and conjecture it another case of sudden jihad syndrome.

Nope, just a static.ini file and nothing else.

I must be missing something since it requires adding info to the air.ini file. After registering, downloading hundreds of megabytes of files guess what? There is no air.ini file. Got the AC_INSTALLER_v3_3.exe, unified installer downloaded, and no air.ini file. An hour on this and I'm still searching... if anyone has a working install of this I'd appreciate some help in what I'm missing here.

So I go over to flying legends to look for some skins and I see skins for the F-86 Sabre jet and Sea Fury. What gives? Nothing about where to get these or when you can get them. So now the hunt begins...

24. Passenger on a space shuttle mission. 25. Passenger on the first return mission to the moon. 26. Find a futuristic rocket pack and fly everywhere with it. 27. Join an astronomy club. 28. Obtain pilot license for fixed wing and helicopter.

Thanks for the video, Nesher. As a fervant student of history I appreciate the full perspective. I'm sure there were plenty of Germans who were victimized by their leadership from 1933 to 1945. That's why there is the ten percent rule. You know, that ten percent that ruin it for the rest of us. There are always the innocent victims that will be forced to pay because they have no choice. It didn't stop us from destroying our enemies by 1945 and nothing has changed in warfare except that we tend to kill fewer "noncombatants" then our enemy does. A fact that seems to be ignored by too many people these days.

Todays reality: North Korea launches their "satellite" which can reach the state of Alaska. The US responds by cutting development of their missile defence shield in Alaska. While Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, China, and Russia are either developing, expanding, or modernizing their nuclear weapon capabilities, the US vows unilateral elimination of theirs. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. As to cuts in military modernization programs? The F-22 would have actually saved money over time by elimination of other expensive older aircraft required to do the same job. Over time it would have saved money by lowering the number of aircraft needed to do the same job. Which was one of the goals for its procurement. This doesn't save money; it only scores political points. Which is why these programs are being cut for politically expendient reasons and not financial ones. This 44th President has already promised to spend twice the amount that all preceding 43 Presidents had already spent, combined. So don't think this is to save money. I don't find my strength in ignorance.

I prefer this combination for tactical paint schemes: Specular=0.440000 Glossiness=0.150000 Reflection=0.330000 Not too flat with some reflection.