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Yes, that's not bad, but this one would give it a run for it's money...

Niiiiiiiiice...

Didn't they say all they needed to with Bangin' Housewives 4: Bangin' with Mr. Cooper?? Anyways, I thought they were already making a sequel to Top Gun. Something about Pete Mitchell being a long time instructor and vet of several wars taking on a group of new generation pilots, or something like that. Sounded a bit Stealth to me. Now there's a movie that desperately needs to be forgotten...

Have a good one dude!

E.P.I.C.

I started (way back when) by just checking out some of the existing campaigns and going from there. It's an easy way of learning how the air and ground elements are organised. You can see what you have and add subtract units as you see fit. When you get into establishing or changing target areas, carrier stations and whatnot, that's when it get a little more difficult but not overwhelmingly so.

Jesus...

10 years ago to the minute... RIP to all.

K, I don't want to be that guy, but that looks a little photoshopped just at first glance... Ooh, I feel so dirty suggesting it may be 'fake'.

Just pathetic...

I was leaving my sister's place after finishing a shift at a pub I was working at at the time when the initial report was shown on TV (just an update they normally have around 8:30pm so nothing more than "a plane has hit a WTC tower). So I'm driving home and I call a friend of mine and tell her about how some apparently some idiot has flown his Cessna into one of the trade towers and we have a bit of a chuckle about it because, you know, what moron misses seeing the two GIANT towers in NY on a crystal clear sunny day, right? By the time I got home, there was blanket coverage on all channels and I think I walked in a few minutes before the second plane hit. Once that happened, there was no doubt that this wasn't a mistake by some amateurish pilot. I think my folks and I sat there watching the horror unfold until around 2am. It wasn't until I got to work the next day that the stuff I thought was debris falling off the buildings were in fact people... that sick realisation stuck with me for a few days. I got that again years later when I heard the Kevin Cosgrove 911 call.

Man... Pavol Dimitra, Igor Korolev and Alexander Karpotsev were on this flight...

Nothin' wrong with the people in Frisco...

Worth watching just for this scene:

This is a bit awkward, but I also find that deselecting your IRM, deselecting and reacquiring your target and reselecting your IRM can help reset undesirable locks with IRMs with high off-boresight capability. The number of times I've had a newly created fireball just out of view attract a second IR shot like a giant flare has caused me reassess how approach knife fights. It isn't always successful and sometimes you just have to deal with a wasted shot, but it has upped my kill percentage noticeably. Also, IDing any friendlies in your FOV before and timing the shot to avoid blue on blue is critical. You can never guarantee where an IRM will go if you fire in a direction with multiple aircraft, but you can work some of the variables out of the equation.

Sweet, that looks like the old ARDU scheme before they switched to the Fanta scheme.

It looks a somewhat awkward arrangement (because there are smaller dual racks out there), but it's looking pretty sweet. The J-10's a very sweet piece of kit!

Such a gritty movie...

Dammit, I've really gotta get off my dot and convert all my gear to SF2 standard!

Glorious!

The problem I have with the newer Discovery Channel documentaries is that they're nearly always on American aircraft or in the rare shows they do on others, it's a very American perspective. Don't get me wrong, they do some good documentaries (the ones on the F-14, B-52 and AC-130 spring to mind), but they miss some or a lot of the history when presenting Russian/Soviet aircraft. There's a Russian series of doccos called Wings of Russia that is really good that you might want to check out. There's an 18 part series that runs through the history of Russian aviation from a Russian perspective (ie, see how they present Viktor Belenko for example) that will have a lot of info and footage that you generally don't see in Western programs. There are also a bunch of episodes on specific aircraft that are quite good too, although I've found them kind of hard to find online. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI2g3iQvLAg

Yeah, unfortunately most space current shooters/sims are divided into playing fields and use the segue of Jump nodes or Warp speed during the load phase which is exactly what Freelancer does, but compared to many sims it hardly detracts from the immersion. Even Star Trek Online is divided into placing fields that require a warp/load when transitioning them (warping from Regulus sector to Sirius or Alpha Centauri for exanple). The last games I remember that didn't load between fights or systems was the later Wing Commander series (III,IV and V) and the later Privateers. You could fly manually between navpoints, but it would take something like 20/25 mins without burners sometimes and it was generally in empty space. Still, good sim styles distances though.

Yeah, Freespace 2 is pretty much what he's saying he doesn't want, although the scale of the ships and distances involved are pretty significant. Xclusive, have you tried Freelancer? You'll still use jump gates when jumping between star systems, but within the systems, the playing field is vast and filled with a lot of nebulae, asteroid belts, junk fields, moons and planets etc. Using your cruise engines (prolly equivalent to Trek's full impulse) some of the systems can take 10-15 minutes to cross. Otherwise, something like Eve would be closer to what you're looking for. The scale in that is truly immense! But everything takes place in real time, so it can take days to get to places. The only issue with it is that there can be a steep learning curve with Eve Online...

Except for the IAI part, That. Is. EPIC!!

Double check the actual TIALD lods are in the weapons folder.