firehawkordy

Not too much aviation but Dr. Strangelove. Slim Pickens riding that H-bomb at the end, classic!

I'm am not directing my comments to anyone whose language of origin in not English, it is not an easy one to master considering how many words are "loan" words from other tongues. Who my remarks are aimed at are the English speakers who by their posting are proud of their illiteracy, they display it well, it is obvious by the construction of a sentence whether the poster is accustomed to writing in English, the line from Firefox comes to mind "think Russian", an English writer will use certain words and phrases that are unique to the location and dialect. I mean no offense to those who do not speak English as their primary means of communication, I am more upset with the kids who go to school and know better. And thank you to whoever gave me my very first negative rating on a post. You must have been one of the ones I targeted. BTW, the Mods can lock this I have had my say, my fun and I did get my apologies to those that deserved it. Everyone else, don't you have home work to do?

There have been two topics on adding sounds for certain events, ie; popping Chaff/Flares and Jetting external stores. It has been pointed out by those much talented and probably more even tempered than me that the sounds are coded to a specific event and those two were not coded. I am all for a realistic experience, however, as an Aviation Ordnanceman with 20 years of working on different US Navy platforms let me share this knowledge with you all. 1 Jettisoning stores / releasing weapons- Having done countless Jett checks from inside and out of an aircraft the sound you think you want to put into the game is not the sound that I or any AO or Aircrew would hear. How we would do a check would depend on the rack, if it was in a P-3 the releases were done by solenoid so those were cocked by hand and then tripped in the cockpit, what we would hear would be a rapid series of very loud thuds, like the sound of a cars rear hatch being released by the remote only louder. We would also feel them releasing too. If the racks were CADed as on the A-6, F/A-18, actually most tactical aircraft, we would just do the release and control checks through a test set. To actually fire a CAD on the flight line is a bad thing that will get you DE-CERTED and end your career as an Ordnanceman in a New York minute. The pilots I have talked to stated that the only way they new a store was released was by a shift or change in the aircraft's weight, the would feel it as opposed to hearing it. Look a pilot is sitting at least five or six feet ahead of the racks, the engine is running, he has a helmet on, sometimes has earplugs in his ears. The comms are going off in his headset and there is the wind noise outside, you think that a cartridge about a quarter to half the size of a 12 gauge shot shell is going to be heard in that environment? Not likely. As to a P-3, I have been on a Torpedo Exercise a long time ago as well as a MINE-EX, I never heard the racks release, but I sure felt them, I have heard the CADs that launched the Sonobouys fire off but I was standing right next to the launcher. Sounded like a nail gun from a couple of houses over. 2 Popping Chaff and Flares- The cartridges that deploy counter measures are smaller than the CADs on the bomb racks and the dispensers are placed somewhere inconvenient for the Ordies to load, most of the time on the belly behind the intakes (F/A-18) under the tail between the exhausts (A-6) or on top, in the tail or somewhere else the engineers can think of sticking them to make our lives more difficult, but I digress. The point is that you can't hear them go off, if you do it means your engine is off and you are not moving. Even when I was riding hH-60H's we could never hear the ALE-39 fire, it is on the tail boom in blister looking things, you have rotor noise, you are wearing a helmet and ear plugs and the ICS is constantly active. Add gunfire and other noise, well you get the picture. The point of all this, and I do have a point, is this, don't worry about adding a sound that you would not normally hear in real life. You want to play with sound? find or make a good WAV file for the smaller helicopters, the Allouette and Gazelle use a generic file, the engine produces a higher pitch that is a louder screech than whine, and H-6 series is a unique sound of itself. Make a file for those and the helo guys would be grateful. Okay enough of my ranting for today.

I work at a Medical Center that is also a training facility and we get Doctors from all over the world as well as a few nurses. It never fails that every year one of our residents will use the wrong idiom or totally misunderstand what was said. My normal smart ass reply is " don't worry Doc, we know you understand English, you just have to learn American. Watching a doctor from Europe trying to talk to a Mexican patient through an interpreter is just painful. It's like a New Yorker talking to someone from Alabama through a Texan, each one is looking at the other like WTF?

One more thing, would it be too hard to use proper grammar, composition and if nothing else, spell check? This is a forum board where most of the senior members have an education above the sixth grade level, this is not a chat box or IM program. I am at the point that my impression of some members here, based on their posts went to school with Jethro Bodine, google it, how one expresses one's self sets the tone of any responses you will receive. It is "you" not "u" and "you're" not "ur". Speak either the Queens English or the Yank equivalent, don't make us look more backward than we are. Time for a double Glenlivet, who's with me?

Try this..... http://combatace.com/files/file/11907-decal-tutorial/

You gun pod is going to fire 90% of the time when you pull the trigger on your joystick, in my case button #1 on my X-52. You may have to cycle through your A2G weapons until the pod is selected. Try loading up just the pod and hitting the range, try different button configurations until it works the way you want it to. In my experience the pods have always fired when I pulled the trigger, I've never needed to set up a secondary gun group.

How about making a sticky regarding the B-1 and B-2 so the board is not spammed at least twice a week with the same question? It's worth a shot but I guess the sticky will be as ignored as the search engine. And yes I did not have my afternoon double Scotch,single malt/neat, which is why I'm cranky.

Bienvenido, Helicópteros Cobra y Chinook se puede encontrar en la página A-Team, usted tendrá que buscar a menos que uno de los moderadores aprobar la publicación de la relación. Sin embargo, hay normas sobre el acceso a sus archivos.

As an alumni of HCS-5 I thank you sir, it looks as good as I remember the last time I saw any of our birds. One of the Airframers I am still in touch with made all the West Coast Choppers Maltese crosses while they were in the desert, the crosses had a different phrase and overlay for each bird. Scurvy will be happy to know that his "art" is now immortalized in a game. Once again I thank you.

In WoV I use the Ground and Air mod, if you fly helos in the South it's not SAM's that you have to worry about, it's small arms and .51cal ground fire. If it's just small arms I stay above 1000' and dive into my target, any bullet larger than 7.62 then I have to be constantly changing heading and altitude as well as speed to spoil the AI's aim. If you haven't done a helo mission do a CAS one. Since I fly in the South I set my enemy aircraft to "light" as well as the air defenses. Don't let that fool you I lost two pilots to 7.62mm ground fire their first flights out. Also set the year anywhere from 1968-1971, the flight to and from are painfully boring, the 15 minutes in the combat zone are...interesting.

JB, I'm using the A Team Foxtrot model right now, did an ini edit so it would take Hellfire, also the M134 gunpod and rockets. At the time I was in HCS-5 the running joke between the Command Master Chief and rest of the squadron was that he was going to have my crew of crazies mount a minigun on one side and a rocket pod on the other. I never said otherwise and just let the aircrew wonder if we were serious. At the time of my retirement we were just getting Hellfire online and had not yet mounted that R2D2 looking AAQ-16 pod. I may look into getting the Gen2 games, but I'm not sure my PC could run them very well, thanks for the info and even if I can't use your bird, the Hotel should be made, the Firehawks and Redwolves ran plenty of flights during their deployments, most of which will never be public.

Happy Birthday brothers

Ding Dong, Candygram, Who? Pizza delivery who? Land Shark!!!!!!!!!!!

Never have been too keen on flying a campaign so this time around I set a goal of 25 missions or Rank of 0-5 all to be flown in one airframe. For SPF1 and WoI it's the HH-60F in in Timor and Afgahnistan flying anti-ship and armed recce and and in WoV it's the UH-1B HA(L)-3 Seawolves doing armed recce, CAS and once in a while a strike. Even with both threats set to "light" it has not been easy in a helo. In A2A the only thing in a Huey you can do is fly low, do sudden direction and altitude changes and hope the NVAF pilot overshoots and hits the ground it has happened a few times. Also I use a doctrine form HAL-5 turn head on 2 seconds of mini-gun and punch a couple of 2.72" rockets, sometimes I get lucky and get a kill. In the 60 I just turn on the jammers, pop the ALE-39's and turn into the attack. If I stay low enough or lurk in the hills the bad guys will have a "controlled impact into terrain". I don't get the kill, but they don't bother me anymore either.

Happy Birthday! Here's to another year behind you.

Thanks for the info, the reason I asked this is that I used to maintain and arm the HH-60H model a few years ago. The Hotel and Juliet models have enough in common in real life that we the maintenance pubs were the same in both birds. I was hoping that the Hotels could be modded, especially since there are questions on making SEAL Teams for the game. The HH-60H's were purpose built for Navy Special Warfare and at one time the only units operating the Hotels were HCS-4 and HCS-5 both Reserve units whose missions were supporting the SEAL Teams and C/SAR. here's a link to HCS-5's last airshow appearance before our Decomm..... http://www.dpdproduc...airgallery.html You'll need to scroll down but you can see that our birds were unique. We did the same C/SAR and SpecWar missions that the AF and Army did with less manpower, fewer airframes and a higher up status. After I retired they did four tours in combat with no loss of Aircrew or aircraft to enemy actions. The thing that most don't know is that the HCS squadrons are direct descendants of HA(L)-3 from Viet Nam. I have to admit that I love the HH-1K above all other birds but the HH-60H is a close second to my heart. I had the pleasure and honor to work in both a HAL and HCS squadron, it really is hard to explain feelings for an airframe, you had to have been there.

Is this bird compatible with the first gen games? I notice that the core files are from A-Team and those helos work in the first gens.

Forgot, the proper term is either Jettisoning, "jetting" or "punching off" external stores, fuel tanks are not weapons, not ejecting that's what pilots and aircrew do. And by 3rd gen fighters I mean F/A-18 and similar.

You have to understand that in real life the doctrine for almost all air forces is to punch off the external stores with the exception of A2A weapons. The reason is that until the third gen fighters came online fighter-bombers were either or, either you were a fighter OR you were a bomber, the weight and drag of external stores precluded a maneuvering fight. The game replicates this as close as possible, it may not be convenient in the sim but it's a frustration you have to master or work with.

Have to check this series out, need something new. Thanks for the heads up BTW, tell Henrietta to quit shooting at me

I don't know if these will work in this game but there are some oil platforms available in Flight Sim 2004, if you want I could look at what I have downloaded for that game and see what the EULA says. Some times you get lucky and the author includes the GMAX of FSDS files in the package. BTW, I'm using this terrain set at the moment and even though you state it's still a beta it is a fun piece of the world to run missions in. I'm also running ops in your Afghanistan 2010 package another work of art.