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I do like to hear. The old "fly the airplane" seems to be getting lost in all the technology, glad you have the chance to practice real flying. I saw an episode on TV where a flight crew spent so much time trying to figure out what the warnings and incorrect instrument readings meant that the jet flew itself right into the ocean. I don't think they ever took it off autopilot.

Looks like an easy way to loose a finger or two.

Tiny little things, one flower head about 4" across has over a hundred, mostly seeds. One plant might have 30 flower heads. Takes about 1.5 billion to make a small pie. You take an entire head of ONLY ripe berries, the green ones are poisonous(as is the rest of the whole plant), work the whole thing into your mouth and pull off the berries with your teeth/lips, trying to leave all the stems behind. Chew to get the juice and pulp and spit out the lump of seeds. Was coming home from the cottage today I had about 10 elderberry heads, a handful of wild apples and a wild rosehip.

Yes just starting to change. Elderberries are just getting ripe.

I loved any of those huge outdoor maps in AA2, maybe not Farm Raid so much. Trout's favourite was Sandstorm. Not much like them in AA3. Almost all CQB stuff.

Losing parents is very difficult, no matter how well you think you've prepared yourself. Good luck with it all.

Yes there were some issues before patch 4 came out about 3 weeks ago. Honestly though in it's current state I couldn't recommend the game anyway.

The one good thing about all America's Army versions is that the full version is free and they don't use the respawn feature. The rounds are short but once dead, you stay that way till the round ends. Cuts down on the idiot Rambo punks. I see quite a few people are still playing AA2.

We, [CHG], played AA since about 2003. Even though dated it had excellent gameplay, very smooth and fluid, required skill and teamwork to play well. If you didn't aim carefully you hit nothing. I tried Arma before but thought the gameplay was ... awkward. I can't really explain it any better than that. Then AA3 came out and it seems to be the same as Arma ... without the cool vehicles. 2 days after the release it was a disaster, the Army fired most of the development team. Hoping it's even possible to fix it but it's so full of bugs .... Once you get more than 10 in a server it gets laggy as hell and crashes out a few rounds later. They can only try to improve a bad system. They've spent way too much time and money to change directions now. It desperately needs more than the 5 maps. Every day I see more people giving up on it.

We're playing America's Army 3 now but I have to admit it sucks as bad as ArmA.

cool On the same page I found MP3 gain. It equalizes the volume of multiple tracks.

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When you have toys that big there's always interesting leisure time. We landscape, BG relocates mountains. Was it spoiling your view or something?

Lockerbie bomber 'set free for oil' http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6814939.ece The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdomâ€

I know we all love it but does she share our approval?

Cheers to you both.

I gave my daughter a Browning .22 just like that last year. I think the Fish got to shoot it a bit too.

I can't seem to put it in the vault. Mail me your address and I'll send you the DVD.

I found the P51 gyro sight a great teaching aid, amazing how much just a few G's will do. In a fight where you're not staying on the bad guys 6 I'll often pull my nose through his flight path and let off a stream for him to fly through. It doesn't get the quick kills that sure gunnery does but it does get a few damaging hits.

That work thing really screws up my flying too. We don't fly enough with one person to really get involved with the wingman tactics but just one or two simple guidelines at a time won't be like working at it. It will be like having fun, with style.

The one thing you have to accept about all online games is the level of proficiency some people will have. Do you notice when you go to play online there are the same 6 or 8 names there? ALL the time. How many hours a week can you put in? 5? 10? 30? Some of them are putting in 30 hrs a week and more. Kids off school? Double that. The stability of your internet speed has some function too. Faster speed today and you lead the target less. Learn to shoot offline and you relearn when online. I'm not nearly good enough to get right in the cockpit with the other guy before shooting but that is the best way to deal with the lag. In my opinion the biggest assets that the Dogs have aren't being used. Teamwork and patience. Mature folks have patience and judgment that only comes from experience. The Dogs don't spend any time developing the teamwork skills that would give them a huge advantage over any single opponent. That isn't intended as an insult in any way, just saying that my own gunnery and general performance is directly related to the time I spend on an opponents tail. We have the potential to even that up simply by starting with some very simple guidelines. 1. Fly with a buddy, line abreast, about 1 km apart. 2. If one is engaged or shooting the other does nothing but watch and report. That's all, simple. It becomes second nature. We do that for 6 months and we'll end up going home for fuel or ammo most of the time.

I have the download, why can't I send you the file somehow? Or send you a DVD in the mail? Can you get an authentication code is the question?

Delta!! Your avatar?? I loved that clown thing After all the info I've heard about business influencing government policy I would think that would be the most likely reason for his release. Someone wants a favour. That just makes someone just as dirty as the bomber.

Special thanks to all who followed the thread and helped out with the problems. ~S~

Standard spin recovery for most every plane is Full opposite rudder Controls neutral Engine to idle when the spin stops, allow some airspeed to build so you don't start a secondary spin, throttle up and level out. Only a very few have special requirements.