SDirickson

samdirickson@yahoo.com Can't wait to see the screenshots. BTW, will you be able to model the built in rocket pods? It'd be pretty neat to be able to use them.

Oh, I can take a MiG-19 in a head on pass. The problem is getting on the MiG's tail, and staying there, especially at high altitudes. If the 19 driver decieds to start a climbing turn, there is no way in the world you can catch up with the F-100. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only thing the MiG-19 pilots want to do. Is the F-100 really supposed to bleed speed as bad as it does? I can understand that it is a proportianatly heavy airframe when compared the thurst of it's engine, so accelerating back up after a turn may take a little bit. Its seems kind of axcessive, though.

Thats awesome! Do you have any cockpit images yet?

Those are the aircraft used in 'Hotshots' right? Man, they're tiny.

I went to the Wings OVer Houston Airshow back in October. They had some MiG-21's on display from the Colliers Foundation, I think? Anyway, it shouldn't be too hard to find some civilian owners of a MiG-21, although they may not know too much about dogfighting with it :).

Well, I learned something valuable tonight. Do not go against a MiG-19 with a Super Sabre. I couldn't, for the life of me, get behind the MiG, or even in a favorable position for a missile shot. The F-100 just wouldn't keep it's energy, and the MiG-19 had too much energy. This completely kills any attempt at dogfighting with the F-100, at least until the patch. I consider myself a pretty competant sim driver, so I do not think it is too much pilot error on my part. This is just absurd.

The lock box is showing up for the hard difficulty settings? That shouldn't be happening.

I wish they still sold the Suncom HOTAS. I kinda want one. Seems like its a bit better than an X-45. If I get rudder pedals, of course.

Yeah, the just the Iceland story would be good. I would love to see the tank battles in Germany, especially with the Hinds and Tornados.

It seems, once we get all these nice new aircraft, the only thing left will be to add rice paddies, jungle, mountain karsks and a Rolling Thunder campaign. My only regret is that it will probably be impossible to add forest textures on par with Il-2.

Will do!

Can't wait for it. I just hope somebody figures out how to do more types of terrain in the same package.

Man, AT-37 Dragonfly's rock. I never thought about adding those to SF!

I've had some problems with my X-45 in XP. The drivers aren't fully supported by Saitek, but there are some 3rd part drivers available. Maybe its just me, cuz for a while I did have my X-45 working, and programmed, but then it went kaput. The stick worked, but I couldn't program it anymore. So.... in my opinion, the X-45 is pretty nice, especially for those sims that allow in program controller asignments, like Il-2. But, if you run XP, you may have trouble programming it. TOo bad they had to retro out the 45, though. I liked the military look of the 36.

Is there any way to increase the numbers of tilesets in SF? Right now we have what, five? Water, desert, farmland, city, and mountain. Can you add to that amount in order to create a much more varied environement? Also, is it possible to create multiple transition tiles, so terrain no longer has that pixelated look when viewed from very high, or in the map?

They should mix Hanukkah and Christmas. I mean make it a real mix of the two. Eight complete days of feasting and gift giving...... Sorry for being shallow :)

Oh man, Denzil! You haven't read Without Remorse? If you loved Rainbow Six then you're in for a treat. John Clark is one bad-ass dude. As for a six hour Red Storm Rising? If they did it with a ten hour Band of Brothers (Which I just got done watching on VHS, again), then I certainly think WWIII deserves its own monolith of film. I can't understand how anybody doesn't enjoy good suspense / action / thriller novels. Unless they go in for actual history... In the words of Homer Simpson, "Ahh, the Luftwaffe. The Washington Generals of the History Channel."

Can't wait for the patch to be released. I've been really disappointed with the F-100 so far. I'll be checking out this fix first though :). BTW, thats one advantage with having no trim. You don't get any asses assigning it to a slider for MP.

I like the way SF doppler shifts the sound until its real close to an actual sonic boom.

I haven't had problems installing it, just getting the configuration program to work. I downloaded the new beta drivers from Saitek's website, and the installed proplerly, and the stick works right in Control Panel, but I can't program it. Its too bad, really. It works fine for Il-2, and other sims that allow you to configure the stick in game, but for everything else....

And remember, the higher your altitude, the lower the actual airspeed of sound. So, at 40,000 ft, you can be going much less than 675 knots and still break the barrier.

Yes. More planes = Merry Christmas.

Yeah, the F-100 is pretty bad. Anybody in a MiG outclasses it so bad its not even funny.

I personally like the padlock system SF uses. I have the snap forward view set to my pinky switch, so in dogfights I can quick checks forward, then turn back to maintaining a visual with the target. Its a great system, and I certainly hope they don't change it.

But, can you tell me how to do it? I want to add some SUU-23's to the O-1. Imagine the recoil, :twisted:.