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Im not exactly pleased with the way our President has went about preparing for this war. I would have liked to see more of a concensus built like his dad did prior to the Persian Gulf war. However, I wonder why it isnt clear to so many the danger Saddam and his kind present to all of us. Saddam has been the aggressor in the Middle East, not the Americans. We didnt start the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam did. We didnt start the Persian Gulf war, Saddam did. Saddam was only a few months from making a nucleur weapon when the Israelis demonstrated the guts to destroy Saddams' plant back in 1980. SAddam has gassed his own people, not to mention his enemies during HIS wars, killing 10's of thousands. Dictators like saddam want nothing but power, the kind of power that comes from complete CONTROL of other humans. He takes peoples dignity. Since he isnt over here, so many feel he isnt a threat. They make excuses for him. Does anyone here really beleive what he says? Ask the people who used to live over there before you condemn this war. Ask an Iraqi-American what he thinks. Ask a Kurd what his opinion of Saddam is. Ask a survivor of Saddams occupation of Kuwait and his torture what he thinks. These people were there and endured his terror. Your claim of big oil and our thirst for it is simplistic, naive, and myopic. You say that we used to support Saddam and so we did. So that makes it ok now to allow his evil to continue? If I suffered from drug use in my youth and say nothing when I see a young person starting the habit, I am wrong bottom line. Just because I used to do drugs, doesnt make it ok to not try to save someone from the same mistake. It doesnt make it ok for them to do drugs just because I used to. The same idea can be applied to our past relationship with Saddam. If anything, we know he is a scumbag even better now. Its time to take him out. DOWN WITH DICTATORS!

Speaking as a former Marine and Sailor, ship movements and locations are generally classified. While anyone with a "Janes all the worlds ships book" and a good pair of binocs could easily determine which ships and their class are here in San Diego or any port, you'd hafta be here to find out. Family members have an Ombudsman for that info. Im sure our freind Dutchy isnt a bad guy and I am aware the Netherlanders our among our most cherished allies. Yet I would tend to be averse to diseminating a major ships' movement or location over the internet. Bad guys ears are everywhere and when it comes to the safety of our lads overseas and our nations defences, its best not to take anything for granted. Those lessons were learned at great cost during WW2. My humble opinion, no offence intended.

Always liked ole charlie, glad to see he's still given 'em what fer. Ditto FE bein back, glad ta see it. :D

That makes sense, thanks ranger...

Looks like a real good start crab. It'll be another fun aircraft to fly. Thank you... :D I always liked the French aircraft...now if I could say the same for their politics...hehe.

Found this at SimHq, a little blurb from tk on the status of the second patch. Im glad to hear he is still alive and working on it...http://www.simhq.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cg...c;f=55;t=004458

This is a fair question, so I'll answer it...I wouldnt be surprised at all, at what youre saying, considering the rate of support the game seems to get. I have to say that the anticipation of a new mod or plane is what keeps my interest going right now, not the news of a new patch or addon or some other useful bit from the developers and publishers.

Thanks fellas for your input. Looks like my second machine will have the VooDoo. I always liked that card too.

This is just plain cool! Man, am I jazzed...what a great weekend for addon aircraft, hehehe. Feel like a kid in a candy shop..."Hey Mom!, can I have that candy apple red P-51?" :D

I have enough spare parts to build a second computer. I have two video cards, but cant decide which is best. What do you guys think? I dont think the voodoo is DDR vidram. They are both AGP. Which ever card isnt used will simply be stored as a spare. I know the second computer isnt too strong, but I have a lot of games I can play on it networked to the other one. The second computer will be a celeron 566 w/ 320 MB PC-133 RAM.

That is a very cool plane. I was gonna sound all wise and say it was an Italian plane, which it turns out, is correct. But then i knew someone would ask which one...hehehe. Is this sim gettin better or what? :D

Take a look at this fellas, posted at SimHQ... http://www.simhq.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cg...c;f=55;t=004392

Im not eating so many beans these days...

Hehehe...know the feelin'...thats why I never became a ballerina...hehe.

The new sky definately looks better, even real. Good job as usual Dueces.

I agree DB, both of these campaigns sound real good. lookin forward to 'em. Chief, I was on the Indy too...1977-79, 4th Div in charge of the fantail, then went to boats in the 3rd.Div. Made a Med cruise on her. Went to Rota and Mallorca, Spain, Suda Bay, Crete, Hiafa, Is., Toulon and Marsielles, France, Palermo, Sicily, Athens, Greece, and of course genoa and naples, Italy. My son was born while I was away. Never forget homecoming and seein him for the firsttime... Kept singin "gotta see the lights of Tucson" all the way home to the states...

A pal of mine had CFS3 on his 'puter. it seemed to run ok, but I didnt care for it much. IL2 had it beat I felt. Now with FB comin out soon, there's no way Ill go for CFS3. Il2 for ww2, SFP1 for 50's and 60's, lomac for modern. All i need now is a decent ww1 sim.

Glad yur doin better Eagle. I grew up and became the man I am today thanks to all those anti-biotics I took as a kid for pnuemonia. Germs dont even come close to me anymore... Just do what the Doc says and REST. The squadron will keep runnin more or less in yur absence. Then, when yur over the illness, you can chew out all the dopes that screwed things up while you were away. That always made me feel better, hehehe. :D

I think what Ranger is telling you is you need to set the command line "DEBUG' to TRUE. Like this... [Debug] DisplayDebug=TRUE It is part of the HUDData.ini file in the flight folder.

Oh! I forgot to mention, this sim does a pretty good job of modeling your explosive death if you drop bombs from 500 feet or lower. I recommend not any lower than 1000 feet unless you have snakeeye. Havent tried a real low attack with the rockeye, not sure if the canisters were hazardous that low or not.

MJ, I'd like your addy too for a kitty-kick-in...and one of those mugs sounds pretty good too, hehe. Dang, "MJ's Biohaz Emporium", Fly and Buy at its best... :D

Id love to see an F111 in SF. I have the Time Life series on the "Vietnam Experiance". One of the books talks quite a bit about the F-111 and its use in 'Nam. Jag is correct about the structural problems. A lot of planes were lost, I think the book said half of the original contigent, because of a failure in the swing wings' pivot pins. They were actually pulled out of service for awhile until the problem was figured out. Apparently, planes were going out and not coming back, lost in the jungles somewhere. Once the problem was cleared up, they returned, I think the book said 1970 or '71. A standard large airstrike was usually followed by 2 or 3 single F-111's attacking just after the all clear was given. The NVN's hated it. By this time the plane had the laser designators and were very precise in their attacks. This would be VERY cool to model in the game.

To add alittle to hedu's post on Dive bombing... I find it is the easiest way to get bombs on or near target. I will generally appraoch at around 10K feet, chop throttle and drop the airbrakes as Hedu suggested, then dive. I usually drop the entire load of bombs at around 2k, then retract the airbrake, and hit the throttle, zooming out from the target, weaving, as fast as possible. If flak is heavy, Ill drop lower and zoom right above the ground out from target. The lower you are, especially following terrain, the harder it is to hit you generally. Putting buildings and trees between you and the flak gunners helps your survival with the gunners, but you best not hiccup... :shock: :D I dont usually drop flaps if there is a lot of flak becuase it takes awhile to slow and going that slow just makes you an easier target. If I find I have missed the target, then I will try a follow up with rockets and guns if I have them, often using the same approach technique. The best thing I can suggest for level bombing is to get used to using the same altitudes and speeds when bombing and just practice your timing at dropping the ordnance. Once you are good at say, 2ooo feet, going at 500knots, then practice at 1000 feet going 750 knots. Dont want the enemy to know your exact alt. and speed do ya? :D Good Luck...

:shock: WHOA! I guess I wont be modeling any Flight models...hehe. You know, Im not even sure there is such a thing as a FM Editor. If there is, I hope TK will say so and release it for public use. If there isnt, then he sure had a chore doing the FM's for all the release aircraft. WOW!

Im sorry to hear that. If this is about the row with Thurber, then I guess its a reminder that our behaivour can influence those around us for good or otherwise. Speaking for myself, if I offended Leon, my apologies...