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They're never gonna let those two hop in an A-10 ever again. How exactly did they crash? Was it on Vatsim? If yes, that is quite hilarious.
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| # ? Dec 4, 2010 09:40 |
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Yes on VATSIM.Not really a quote posted:The NTSB reports the probable cause of the incidents as follows: 
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| # ? Dec 4, 2010 13:09 |
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Could someone try and give me a complete idiot's guide to dive-bombing in an SBD Dauntless? I'm trying to play Aces of the Pacific from 1992. Edit: VVV 
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HoldYourFire posted:Could someone try and give me a complete idiot's guide to dive-bombing in an SBD Dauntless? I'm trying to play Aces of the Pacific from 1992. 1. Climb high 2. Point nose at target 3. Drop bomb 4. Pull up
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| # ? Dec 4, 2010 16:46 |
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There's a new expansion for Strike Fighters 2 series of games. It adds an awesome English Electric Lightning in various flavours of variants, a bunch of new variants for the awesome Hawker Hunter, some more Super Sabre variants, a new European campaign set in 1956, a mission editor which looks pretty neat but simple, and some engine optimisations for multi-core processors. I'm having a blast with the '56 European campaign, blasting through MiG 15's and the like in my Hawker which is a loving brilliant plane. Also the multi-core stuff seems to be doing the job as I can run the game on 'unlimited' graphics without a problem now.
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| # ? Dec 4, 2010 17:14 |
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Wait, a 1st generation jet fighter sim exists?! drat my lack of a working joystick/TrackIR/money. 
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| # ? Dec 4, 2010 17:42 |
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Wait, a 1st generation jet fighter sim exists?! A couple of 1st Gen, some 2nd gen, a bunch of 3rd gen and one or two 4th gen of jets! Also a couple of props. Check out this list of awesome planes you're not flying.
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Megadyptes posted:A couple of 1st Gen, some 2nd gen, a bunch of 3rd gen and one or two 4th gen of jets! Also a couple of props. Where does one start with Strike Fighters stuff then? Is there an easy/cheap way to get it all bundled up? Or is it a case of buying each of the games separately? edit: Is the best bet to get all of: Strike Fighters 2 (2008) Strike Fighters 2 Expansion Pack 1 (2010) Strike Fighters 2 Expansion Pack 2 (2010) Jiblet fucked around with this message at Dec 4, 2010 around 18:20 |
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Jiblet posted:Where does one start with Strike Fighters stuff then? Is there an easy/cheap way to get it all bundled up? Or is it a case of buying each of the games separately? Also there's poo poo loads of mods adding in new planes and campaigns and graphics and whatnot. Perhaps TK will have another bundle for sale for Xmas this year, if so I recommend grabbing that bitch. It's not a super serious sim, nor is it an arcade game. Feels a nice little niche which nobody else seems to bother with these days. Plus the campaigns are dynamic, nothing like the insane detail of Falcon 4.0s campaign but nothing is set in stone scripted and your actions in the air can affect the outcome of the war quite a bit. The guy who's behind these games worked on some old classics like European Air War, Jane's Longbow and Jane's F-15. He's pretty much a one man team and churns out these awesome light sims, expansions and addons like some sort of crazy machine. Since discovering the games last year I've become a huge fanboy of his. Fake edit: jsut saw your list, naw if you want it all I'm afraid you're gonna have to shell out for all the SF2 titles  or wait and see if there's a bundle deal like last year.Another edit: I guess the best thing to do if you don't want to shell out or if he doesn't release another bundle is to check out the product pages of the games here and find one that has the planes that most interests you. Each game has its own campaign/map, usually about 3-4 campaigns, Vietnam has Rolling Thunger, Linebacker I, II, Europe has various fictional cold war gone hot scenarios set at different years over Germany mostly, Israel has the Six Days War, Yom Kippur War and Lebanon War, and the stock SF2 game has some wars set in a fictional middle east country with the option as playing as a mercenary force in various campaigns. Expansion Pack 1 is mostly for Israel, adds the Suez Crisis and a couple of early jets and the Spitfire and Mustang, the second one is for Europe and adds the Lightning, an early Europe campaign and mission editor. You can merge install everything so that no matter what .exe you run it's all pretty much the same, can chose any campaign in any theatre and any plane that's available for the date. Also I should note that there's no multiplayer. It doesn't bother me that much as I'm not much of an MP sort of guy but I know some might be put off by it. Megadyptes fucked around with this message at Dec 4, 2010 around 18:36 |
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Are there any flight simulator games where two or more people can control the same plane? I don't know much about flight sims (or air planes in general) but I remember playing Air Warrior a loooooong time ago and a group of players could control a bomber. One player would be the pilot, another the navigation, and yet another the gunner, etc. Does anything like that exist that lots (?) of people still play?
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| # ? Dec 4, 2010 18:38 |
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HoldYourFire posted:Could someone try and give me a complete idiot's guide to dive-bombing in an SBD Dauntless? I'm trying to play Aces of the Pacific from 1992. If you have IL-2, the Straight from the Farm tutorial does exactly this. I think you have to go through the THIS IS THE THROTTLE exercises first, though. Roughly, as I recall, it was: 1. Climb hella high and position over target 2. Extend airbrake, drop throttle to nil, flop over on your belly, pull stick until target shows in your sights 3. Peer through the bomb droppin sight thingy and keep target in sights 4. Drop bomb at just the right moment 5. Retract airbrake, open throttle, pull head out of bomb sights, pray your bomb detonates when you're far away enough and that you don't get shot to poo poo in the interim Will this have any drat thing to do with Aces of the Pacific from 1992? No idea, but it's a drat rush in IL-2. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at Dec 4, 2010 around 20:22 |
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doctorfrog posted:Will this have any drat thing to do with Aces of the Pacific from 1992? No idea, but it's a drat rush in IL-2. Works pretty much the same in Aces of the Pacific. One of my first flight sims  Dynamix made some great sims back in the early to mid 90s.
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doctorfrog posted:If you have IL-2, the Straight from the Farm tutorial does exactly this. I think you have to go through the THIS IS THE THROTTLE exercises first, though. Thanks. I do remember doing the Il-2 tutorial, but it was a while ago.
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Refind Chaos posted:Dynamix made some great sims back in the early to mid 90s.  I made a quick video of me messing around in the Lightning F.53 in Strike Fighters 2 Exp 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emDTBKJsU1A I love how the rocket pod deploys from inside the fuselage.
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HoldYourFire posted:Could someone try and give me a complete idiot's guide to dive-bombing in an SBD Dauntless? I'm trying to play Aces of the Pacific from 1992. Step 1: Uninstall that junk. Step 2: Install "1942 The Pacific Air War" Step 3: Do what the other guys just posted before.
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Megadyptes posted:A couple of 1st Gen, some 2nd gen, a bunch of 3rd gen and one or two 4th gen of jets! Also a couple of props. Wow, points for having the Crusader and Kfir (didn't expect any game to have the Kfir). However, docked points for not having the F-86.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2010 05:24 |
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Well, the 1.016 update for Rise of Flight finally hit, and that means Handley Page bombers!    
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Man I really want to get Rise of Flight but I'm also a stingy bastard who refuses to fork out what they are charging for all the extra planes. 
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I'm moving this week, so I won't be around much, hopefully be settled in by the weekend, so see you guys then!
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| # ? Dec 5, 2010 20:13 |
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I love how the gunner progresses in those pictures from him looking like he's ready to shoot someone down to thinking "gently caress it I don't even care anymore."
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| # ? Dec 5, 2010 20:29 |
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anyone know where the biggest DCS a-10 community is? Like where would be the place to go to if you wanted to jump on teamspeak at any given hour and find a dude to fly a mission with, when no goons are around?
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| # ? Dec 5, 2010 21:19 |
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Someone convince me to buy DCS: A-10 even though I dont have track IR. how horribly gimped would I be if I did get it? 
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Blistex posted:Step 1: Uninstall that junk. Good call, this is much better.
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pixelbaron posted:Well, the 1.016 update for Rise of Flight finally hit, and that means Handley Page bombers! Haha, that guy doesn't give a gently caress. Just chilling at the very front of the plane with his moustache, he won't even look at the enemy!
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Someone convince me to buy DCS: A-10 even though I dont have track IR. how horribly gimped would I be if I did get it? This depends. How many monitors do you have? With two or more monitors, you can stick the MFCDs or other bits of the cockpit onto other monitors and not have to worry so much about having to move around to see what's going on. It's certainly playable without TrackIR, Quincy has nothing and is passable as my wingman . I'd still plan on getting one.
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It is me - I am the one who has nothing
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| # ? Dec 6, 2010 00:42 |
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I swear, I need to get around to Strike Fighters 2. Someday. If they have the all-in-one-bundle this Christmas I am so in.
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So I just installed and tried FlightGear . . . and would I be correct in stating that getting it free is still paying too much? The thing played like crap, I was skidding diagonally across the ground, everything looked horrible, the interface was horrible for 20 years ago, and the sound was worse than 1991 era "PC speaker sound". Is this a fair assessment of FlightGear?
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You're being too nice.
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Blistex posted:So I just installed and tried FlightGear . . . and would I be correct in stating that getting it free is still paying too much? The thing played like crap, I was skidding diagonally across the ground, everything looked horrible, the interface was horrible for 20 years ago, and the sound was worse than 1991 era "PC speaker sound". On the topic:  Buyer Beware According to flightsim.com, ProFlight simulator is a disc containing the freeware "FlightGear" simulator. Flightgear I guess is just repackaged as proflight, but proflight actually costs money. 50$!!! http://www.proflightsimulator.com/index4.html
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also: http://www.flightgear.org/flightprosim.html
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That poo poo keeps popping up in my facebook, its really annoying. How they can ethically sell somebody else's work baffles me but I guess its legal under GPL. The best freeware flight sim is YS Flight IMHO. Check it out but good luck trying to find a server.
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Daimo posted:That poo poo keeps popping up in my facebook, its really annoying. How they can ethically sell somebody else's work baffles me but I guess its legal under GPL. Along with Orbiter, for all your space needs.
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Lord Commissar posted:Along with Orbiter, for all your space needs. THIS. Orbiter is a hardass game to master (especially interplanetary flight) but successfully flying the Delta IV from Cape Canaveral to FUCKIN MARS is extremely rewarding. The best part is when you fast forward between trajectory burns and the little x speed indicator on top reads "120,000x". One day I will do a flight to the moon in real time....and will never get laid again For the guy earlier asking about Orbiter mods, I know a while back I encountered an Apollo 11 add-on which had good things said about it on their forums. Also, how many people on here play F4: Allied Force? I think I've been spending too much time on simhq because I've been thinking a virtual goon squadron would be awesome...but I'm assuming anyone interested would be too busy crashing in DCS: A-10.
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This would be the thread to ask it in. Joysticks. So all those fancy stick makers in the OP are loved by various people. But I'm not one of them. What I want, what I would sell my soul for, what I need to fly decently, is what 'Game Controllers' in the control panel refers to as a '2 button - 2 axis' control stick. You know how 10 years ago you could get crappy little 15-20 dollar made in china joysticks. Life expectancy one year. Does anyone know if anyone anywhere is still making them? I've tried a poo poo load of these fancy modern sticks and I hate them all. My current beast is the Saitek AV8R, and its far far to stiff for fine flying. Which is a common trend I've noticed with any stick that mounts the spring above the base, ex. Cyborg. Although it makes sense from a durability stand point, I invariably end up bob and weaving all over fighting the strength of the spring. Logitech sticks have always been the other way for me. Far too loose. My planes keep veering off in strange directions because the stick won't even pretend to stay centered. The big mass of buttons is invariably too heavy for the springs to keep it upright. I really loved those cheap piece of poo poo sticks that use to be everywhere. Light cheap plastic so it would stay upright with springs weak enough I could pull back from a dive with two fingers. I could probably find some old used ones on eBay, but I'd rather find a current manufacturer so I can buy replacements. I figure if they're still being made, someone here would know where. And I'll love you forever.
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Megadyptes posted:Man I really want to get Rise of Flight but I'm also a stingy bastard who refuses to fork out what they are charging for all the extra planes. Well, unless you're a completionist, you don't need to fork out money really. All aircraft are included in the game as AI, so even if you only own a handful of planes through their store you can still go up against planes you don't own in singleplayer or multiplayer. Paying for individual planes sucks, but you won't be handicapped because of your stinginess. They've also just added an option for the newly implemented mult-seat aircraft where someone that doesn't own said aircraft can at least jump into supporting roles as gunner/bomber in multiplayer. For those that don't know, there is a demo, and you can upgrade to the Iron Cross Edition which includes the SPAD XIII, Fokker D.VII, Nieuport N.28, Albatros D.Va, Fokker DR. 1, Pfalz D.IIIa, S.E.5a, Sopwith Camel and Nieuport 17. pixelbaron fucked around with this message at Dec 6, 2010 around 15:42 |
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Fuzzysocksucker posted:Stuff about old joysticks I seriously doubt anyone is still making anything of the sort. And if you were to find one somewhere (ebay/craigslist/etc.) it'd likely be a Gameport controller rather than a USB controller, and I'm not even sure if there are gameport controllers for Windows Vista/7. Good luck!
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Essobie posted:I seriously doubt anyone is still making anything of the sort. And if you were to find one somewhere (ebay/craigslist/etc.) it'd likely be a Gameport controller rather than a USB controller, and I'm not even sure if there are gameport controllers for Windows Vista/7. Could pick up a Gameport>USB converter off eBay for pennies. Worked wonders for me
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quote:Contributing to this incident were the pilots' inadequate preflight, resulting in an insufficient climb rate from the airport in a mountainous area, and a lack of safety alerts issued by ATC. I can understand loving up a landing but it is not hard to take off at all 
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Fuzzysocksucker posted:I've tried a poo poo load of these fancy modern sticks and I hate them all. My current beast is the Saitek AV8R, and its far far to stiff for fine flying. Which is a common trend I've noticed with any stick that mounts the spring above the base, ex. Cyborg. Although it makes sense from a durability stand point, I invariably end up bob and weaving all over fighting the strength of the spring. I didn't like the tension on the AV8R either, so I used a couple twist-ties to partially compress the spring. A little tweaking of the tightness, and a touch a lube around the rim of the bucket and I found that it performs much more smoothly.
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