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Fubar:: Orion... Yeah its NASA data. I always "meant" to ask if he'd send the data for me to fix, or find where the error is in the file and a correct value so he can fix it. I never got round to asking him. Not a big deal really. But it had to be THAT star lol.

W:: Its correct as of Patch 2005/6 or something back then. czech it out , scroll down ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2257 However, TK never modelled the apparent rotation of the moon. In the pic, the SF Moon is "horizontal" -- so to speak. The true west/east limbs of the moon should be oriented more toward the vertical in that shot. But that's a rather small detail compared to correct moon phase and position for any date. TK Rules!

Really thanks. Nice pics from the bomber pits. Another... The Russian Front 1941-1945 through the camera lens of German soldiers... ~~> http://www.user.dccnet.com/russianfront/mainpage.html

czech the link for details, I tweaked Kesselbrut's pit a bit. If you like it, I'll look up the rotations and stuff I made.

In AircraftObject.ini you can raise the LookAroundHeight value. This controls the change in view when you look around in the cockpit. This simulates pilot head movement or pilot lean which can shift your view inside the cockpit. Below, the F-106 is *exactly* on runway centerline, and I look left and this allows some view forward and I can see the white stripe on the runway directly in front of the plane. Its a challenge learning to fly like this, as it should be. I made the classical era junkpile above the radar by rotating the gunsight since I don't use it anyway in gunless early Darts. LookAroundHeight=0.08 below. Details here, scroll down half way ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4410&start=168

Yea now that's the idea. Okay, how about targeting aircraft? One thing at a time I guess.

Yea but they flew in there, and (I guess) flew out, so ... hehe. Flying carpet too.

Jedi:: uh NOT. From John Fredriksen's The B-45 Tornado...my shortened words, NOT his... He quotes a paragraph by Lt. Neil (47th BW). He was forced to land his B-45 unannounced at Randolph AFB, and they were welcomed with jeep escort which directed his bomber to taxi to base ops where a line of blue suits and red carpet was laid out just for them. The B-45 crew were met *inside* their airplane door and congratulated. According to Neil, the whole base thought it was their first B-57 delivery, but apparently they beat the B-57 a bit early. "They didn't even know what a B-45 was -- none of them." (also describes combat flight simmers, and The Sims developers too ) So there was this like total UFO just sitting there on red carpet, right in front of base operations. Also the best reason I've seen yet never to claim civilians are "ignorant" hehe.

Also don't forget J-32 Lansen by Timmy, here at CombatAce. Also J-21 over at the A-Team's place. SAAB J's are some of the most beauty-birds in all SF. If you haven't seen it, now you have: 1960s pre-ABBA girl Agnetha and SAAB Drakens... ~> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yINoi3zS6VU

They use optical jammers. They won't let anybody get a solid pic. I see, on the larger of the two shapes, at its upper right edge, is a shiny spot. Canopy reflecting in sun...?

Wow nice. The flag shot. Do it again at sunset. Also find a spot somewhere the low sun glances of the snow. The low sun can make a surreal image of sunlit snow and the shadows it throws on itself in the setting sun....or rising sun in the morning. Something like that anyway.

It helps to think of Education Industrial Complex. But also, State propaganda, and the Pharmas profiting from the school meds. They all feed on each other. And ezlead is right: The Parent Industiral Complex is to blame as well. Maybe Huxley was more right than Orwell, corral the sheep with *too much* trivial information, trivial make-work homework in this case here. For Uni students paying their own way like I did, not going into debt, the Textbook Publishing Industrial Complex is a particular sore spot.

HUD MFD lol no I wouldn't go near it. Maybe F-102 or Hunter simulator, then yea. Why is TK the *only* one of these sim guys who can think independent?

Looks like a hanger full of B-45 Tornados. That's how they did it back then. Well angling them through the doors anyways. Hangers too small. pfft another reason I'd rather have Antonov An-2. Leave it in the snow, and fly it from backyard. Ask wife for takeoff clearance. Mow the lawn first.

And no thread left behind. Its that time again. Its NOT my fault. My IBM Model M has a bump key.

Dogzero, that pic is game box hyperinflation gone wild. Over the years, this is what I played. A few others I tried were quickly tossed without comment. When I do a game, I focus on one, so I would spend 200+$ on a BIG game box once every 6 years lol, provided the games were complex enough. SFP1 alone is not, but unlike the others is moddable, and TK and the modders together make it complex enough to keep me interested. Master Of Orion I Su-27 Flaker 1.0 IL-2/FB/PF Strike Force Project 1 At times I still plug in my old DOS 6.22 hard disk (400 MB) and play MOO-1. I still get amazed an old game from 486 cpu days works peachy keen on an AMD Athlon X2 250 system I recently put together. I just realized.....1 small size stick of RAM now is way larger than my old hard drive. Yikes

Fubar:: Sorry mate, I was thinking of simmers in general. I lobbed that quote in your direction to fire up the idea that "feels to slow" is how combat flight simmers deal with sense of scale in the only way they know how. Pushing all that 3D stuff that surrounds you onto a small 2D screen way out in front I'm guessing is the problem. Any ideas there?

Coming from Mississippie (don't edit that spelling mod Dave) I'll say the Paddle Rules! Or it did at one time at least.

Ah thanks fellas that's it.

Very nice rscj thanks. xclusiv that link (at top) said its not real (the snub) but it sure looks like it. Opinion?

The Annie Glenn and LBJ Incident comes to mind. Several versions of that event, all of them good enough to lock the doors. No hand shaky.

Randomizer Something I was thinking about for simulating operating failures. Tweak or add semi-functional things to the data.ini and make their hit boxes really large, as in SUPER large. Then setup an AA gun or guns around the terrain that have astronomically poor accuracy but when combined with the large hit boxes of the tweaked systems, could hit the aircraft in those boxes and cause damage. Something like that.

Fubar:: "Looks too slow" is a common complaint about flying low in The Sims. I think one reason is everything that should be around you is instead concentrated inside the monitor way out in front of you. Say you play THE SF with 90 degree field of view, and that is compressed to about 30 degrees in front of you on the monitor. That has to make terrain pass too slow. About the contrails. They were first noticed late in World War 1, and may have been predicted before then (not sure though). Very interesting accounts I'll see if I can find some of them.

That looks great. I always wondered if the old board games (SPI's Air War) would be waaaay better with manually set cockpit panel guages like in that Jimmy Jet, than moving little square cardboard counters on paper sheets. The boy under the tree: Fubar LeMay? Give that kid a cigar.

Dave:: I call it U.S.. And don't edit that out either lol. Toy gun hehe... I'm surprised the article didn't call it automatic weapon. I'm also stunned that .gov didn't keep the...automatic weapon™. It could be worse. In UK they probably would confiscate the kid as well. Just a toy. Not even a toy gun. That's why I don't read "the news" or watch TV anymore.