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dude I thought copa cabana was a song...

Heck...that could be it since I was gone for like 9 months...thought it was from all of the "WhineHQ" jokes that I made...

ah...I thought he meant the ADV...not one currently available as far as I know...

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Didnt the original F-15E game not allow you to "fast forward"? Hey, it used to CTD when you ejected, so this is rocket science now... How about a frakkin FAC-A that does his Frakkin job instead of lying to me? And I concur with the pattern work...it is crucial Personally, I would like the game on the so-called "hard" settings to MAKE YOU FILL OUT THE LITANY OF FORMS AND PAPERWORK to include the weight and balance and maintenance forms...then your @ss has to sit in pre-briefings, intel briefings, flight briefings, mission commander briefings, debriefs, intel debriefs (those are different by the way, then it depends if wing intel wants to sit in, which they will do and not at the same d@mn time either), shot-vals, strike-vals, mission commander summaries, and then more forms...then you have the maintenance forms to complete, the tapes to watch, the vault-time, and the E/OPRs waiting on your desk when you get back...and God forbid there was a frat...because now no one is going home until tomorrow... Man, SH3/4 were a lot of fun in the "crew management-lite" category for me, they helped add realism...how about when the game "promotes" you, you fly less and have to go off on a damn staff tour and wear your Class-B uniform because General Whatshisname is coming to get yet another stupid briefing about briefings... Yeah, realism is awesome! Wait...how about maintenance issues? Have not seen a game model that yet, either...or Tower making you wait on some d@mn Cessna that went NORDO 18 miles away so you cant launch yet...want "hard" settings now? "Three, Four...the FCR just went tango-uniform again" "Rrrr...did you cycle the breaker?" "Twice...but the TO says--" "Do it again" "Still bad...wait its working...now the oil pressure gauge just went to 10" "Son of a motherless goat...hold on...One, Three, we are RTB high...I said we are...stupid Have Quick...he cant hear me...I can frakkin see him right there and the d@mn thing...well, he will figure it out and call us on Guard...Four check 320...whats the gauge reading now?" "It stopped spinning at least..." "Son of a motherless goat..." ...stupid realism

dude that looks like fun!

please also remember something important about modern jet fighters... max speed is kind of like the "cyclic rate" of an assault rifle...it is the "lab fire rate" So, like the vaunted F-15 can go Mach 2+...if you think every Eagle in the fleet can just put the throttle in the "go really fast position" and off you go like Halley's Comet...then you bought propaganda. Real jets take a while to spool up...even still...not as bad as before, but not like in the movies...and once they spool up, they like to stay there...you slam that throttle around like Tom Cruise and you will most likely hear a very nasty "pop" and a sudden lurch...welcome to compressor stall...do it again, and you may be explaining things to an accident review board It is far better to change pitch than throttle to seduce a different speed in a hurry...and the "boards" man never throw that thing out there unless you just like waiting a day and a half to get back the energy you just threw away...the game lets you throw your "speed brake" around like beads at Mardi Gras...real life is different Energy management is huge...no, it is the only thing...fail that and you die...still want realism? Hey ask FastCargo what he does to students that rack the throttle around during 'forms...gentle...gentle... Man, my first approach turn stall maneuver and I put my boot on that throttle...yep and a banshee from hell itself erupted from my IP...never made that mistake again...gentle...gentle What am I saying? A dirty (as in pylons, weapons, fuel, low to the deck) MiG-29C will not kill the Easter Bunny with its acceleration nor will it fly Mach Snot after you shove your throttle to 100%...it takes a while But, this is a game, and if you want to play X-Wing, go ahead man, have fun that is why I enjoy this game, it is fun... Like in MSFS 2K4 I was tooling around the pattern in a Mirage 2000-5 and as I pushed the throttle past 35% I was doing like 500 KIAS at 100 meters...no no no...whomever made the profile for the game was like it goes Mach Snot so 100% throttle must equal Mach Snot...Now the Mirage 2000-5 is a super sweet ride, yes...but it cannot come off the tarmac and before I have to squawk ident peel the paint off the tower... So, before anyone goes off throwing wild numbers in the ini to make the jet "feel" like a modern fighter, be careful what you ask for, seriously...

Why call it sandstorm? Have you ever been in a sandstorm? Not frakkin pleasant at all...

uh...about the hollywood effects...did you read my suggestion? Look at the values in the files, compare that with the default files...then since those are moved to the "right" to make them more spectacular...move the values in the back up of your default files to the "left"; in effect, lesser values in order to reduce the amount of "particles" the game code is telling your PC/GPU to produce Was not suggesting to use it, as since it enhances the values it makes them prettier... DIVERGENT HEADING: of course we know that real explosions do not mirror what hollywood has shown us...now sometimes explosions are spectacular, then again most are just the dirt/dust moving

Did the Aardvark have a CCIP? found this http://www.ausairpower.net/82WG-Ops-1983.html but I think they used other means...by the by, if you ever feel down / out about your ability to hit anything with slicks in this game, just remember that real life was not as hard as this game makes it...for starters they were trained how to do it with the equipment at hand...unless I have been missing the tutorial section of this game for 5 years (must be next to the medals section in the pilot's records)

I like it! And, being a huge fan of the Okinawa map, it is a real hoot to strafe these bad buys. Oh, any chance to have some semblance of ground crew (yes, I am evil and they deserve to die)

poop...

you could just wing level until you began maneuvering...

Moldova? you made that up...just kidding Remember "Have Donut" besides the bast program name ever?

I read in GFW that a new "pricing" system was being experimented with (different company)...maybe this will be EA testbed for a new pricing concept

there is a tutorial on it here also

anybody remember this one? http://www.mobygames.com/game/tornado Heck, I played River Raid on the Atari...does that count? Dave, a C-64? Remember the Amiga? or the Coleco?

I know what you are thinking...there are 32,000 planes in MSFS and your favorite one is there and you found this really cool plane and want to drop b-words with it...welcome to my world

Hey Dave, are you guys considering a v3 ?

"limitations"...you call that limitations? come on man...we are just now (five years for some of us) getting native support for airplanes parked on a silly airfield...welcome to "Chuck Yeager" except like 14 years later "limitations" So, have another Mountain Dew and bag of Cheetohs and enjoy the fun of strafing trucks...

nice...didnt know one could reset the cat stroke...was trying out the F-14D and saw it get hurled like vomit on a "dollar draft nite"...

wait...did any one tell him that the game does not accurately model "range rate" either?

Yep...very interesting program too... http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/x-29.htm http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/sys...rcraft/x-29.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_X-29 http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/Fa...S-008-DFRC.html

what aircraft did you select? were you using an add-on terrain? what modifications did you make since the last time that it worked?

Yep...it is also a nickname of a young lady I know...oh wait, wrong forum...