Perfesser

If you play a lot you need good stuff that will last. After having done this in the wrong order I'll give you my advice. Before any of your other equipment comes into play you have to SEE the bad guy. Track IR or Freetrack. Step 1. Get a joystick, nothing fancy. If you can afford it get a good one like a CH and just add the throttle later. Freetrack (if you can change a light switch, you can make one) Rudder pedals. The war goes on but I prefer the Saitek over the CH Step 2. Make this rig better with a HOTAS, CH or Saitek

I installed both Game booster has 1 screen with all unnecessary processes clearly defined, better for the inexperienced user. 140,000 downloads Alacrity has many options but if you don't know exactly what you're doing ...... less than 500 downloads

I installed both Game booster has 1 screen with all unnecessary processes clearly defined, better for the inexperienced user. 140,000 downloads Alacrity has many options but if you don't know exactly what you're doing ...... less than 500 downloads

Yay Canucks We still get fireworks yes, portable explosives no.

Yay Canucks We still get fireworks yes, portable explosives no.

Don't reject the Freetrack option. It isn't rocket science by any means. Might cost $20 or $30 and works just as well.

Don't reject the Freetrack option. It isn't rocket science by any means. Might cost $20 or $30 and works just as well.

With all the hours that goes into creating the campaign, setting up the server, running the stats would it be so much to ask each pilot to sort out his own time? Just use GMT and be done with it.

With all the hours that goes into creating the campaign, setting up the server, running the stats would it be so much to ask each pilot to sort out his own time? Just use GMT and be done with it.

But we see this all the time. Our kids aren't being taught to deal with failure or disappointment. We just don't let them fail. We let them whine their way out of everything. Kids go all the way through school and some CAN"T READ, most certainly can't write. First time their girlfriend dumps them they kill someone. We don't let them touch anything(oh no Johnny, too dangerous), never let them crash their bike, pile that ATV into a tree(hey man, that sh*t HURTS, maybe I'm not indestructible!!!) and then we're surprised they crash the car the first time they're on their own. Um yeah kid, no "replay" in real life. Let them fall down while you're still around to help em get up, teach em to deal with failure (well bud, you gotta take the time to learn and get better), teach them to be responsible(sorry kid, if you don't finish what you have to do, I'm not letting you do what you want to do). My 15 year old kid is more capable than a few of my grown adult neighbors. He was going to call a contractor to cut a branch no bigger than my wrist. I told him to just cut it off and forget it. He doesn't own a saw. When I gave him my hand saw he almost cut his own thumb off. And his father never taught him anything? Moron. Thus endeth Perf's "Dad's rant".

No destructive power tools?

Oh man I'm so curious. Hack a big hole in the back of the monitor case and shine a light in?

Poor guy, judgment call there. Apparently you need waves to break the suction of the water on the floats. They say to taxi around the lake a few times to make some waves. I haven't seen that many water takeoffs but it looked like he was nose high and never really "up on the step". Notice right at the end (too late really) he tried to lift one float out to break some drag. They slow down mighty fast when you kill the throttle in water ..... next time. Hit refly I guess. Now that I saw it again you notice has plenty of room but doesn't bother to line up into the wind and use all the water he could have. Maybe just showing off? Either way....... Pilot error.

That link has thousands of articles but that one caught my eye. I stumbled on it by accident while looking for some info on an old ammo box I found when cleaning out Dad's shop after he passed. It's about 10" square and maybe 3 ft long and says

Delta I have run Arma with the same system you have without problems. 67500 with an 8800gt 2G RAM Don't like the game though. America's Army 3 is out but a total disaster, I heard the army sponsored development studio was shut down the day after the release.

Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!" Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!" ************************************************************************* Tower: "TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees." TWA 2341: "Centre, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?" Tower: "Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?" ************************************************************************* >From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: "I'm f...ing bored!" Ground Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!" Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f...ing bored, not f...ing stupid!" ************************************************************************* O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock , three miles, Eastbound." United 329: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this...I've got the little Fokker in sight." ************************************************************************* A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your last known position?" Student: "When I was number one for takeoff." ************************************************************************* A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after touching down. San Jose Tower Noted: "American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you are not able, take the Guadeloupe exit off Highway 101, make a right at the lights and return to the airport." ************************************************************************* A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich , overheard the following: Lufthansa (in German): " Ground, what is our start clearance time?" Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English." Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany . Why must I speak English?" Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war!" ************************************************************************* Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7" Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway." Tower: " Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact Departure on frequency 124.7. Did you copy that report from Eastern 702?" BR Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern... we've already notified our caterers." ************************************************************************* One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee. Some quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said, "What a cute little plane. Did you make it all by yourself?" The Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by, came back with a real zinger: "I made it out of DC-8 parts.

"Tactical and Technical Trends" was published by the U.S. Military Intelligence Service in WWII from June 1942 to June 1945. http://www.lonesentry.com/intelbulletin/tt_trends.html One from Malta The heavy and persistent air attacks on Malta have rightly earned for that small Mediterranean island the description "the most bombed place on earth". Because of its importance to antiaircraft artillery, a brief review of the aerial tactics used by the enemy is presented here. All heavy attacks were by day, with a few light raids by night. The Germans never employed straight, high-level bombing. Full use was made of the sun and any available cloud cover. The practice of feinting was used--starting to dive towards one objective and then turning to attack the real target. Until the middle of March, with one exception, only JU 88's were used by the Germans. Later JU 87's were also constantly used. The JU 88's approached between 12,000 and 18,000 feet and came in at angles that varied between 30° and 60°, releasing their bombs at 6,000 to 9,000 feet, sometimes pulling out as low as 4,000 feet. Generally, the JU 87's dived very steeply, pulling out at the same height as the JU 88's. The early attacks were by successive waves all approaching from the same direction and attacking the same objective. As the attack developed, the tactics varied, and synchronized attacks by waves of bombers approaching the same objective from different directions were common. The synchronization became markedly better with practice. Alternatively, heavy attacks were made simultaneously on two targets, the object in either case being to confuse the defense. Later "wingers" would peel off from the main attack to make individual attacks on heavy antiaircraft gun positions on the lines of approach or close to the target, or small formations would make deliberate diving attacks on gun positions, synchronizing these attacks with the main attack. After delivering their attacks, bombers took violent avoiding action, turning and changing height until clear of the island, and did not normally come low enough to make good targets for light antiaircraft guns. They did not attack light antiaircraft gun positions. Bomber formations were always strongly escorted by fighters. After a raid, some of the latter would machine-gun British dispersal areas, gun positions, fishing boats, or fighters about to land. Bombers were preceded by a fighter patrol and always followed by reconnaissance from a great height. ME 109's often carried bombs, which were dropped with accuracy from a height until special Maltese spotters (who have remarkable eyesight) were established in observation posts to identify bomb-carrying fighters so that the guns would engage them. At least in the bombing attacks on Malta, Germans showed the trait, observed in the last war, of doing the same thing at the same time every day. During the heavy raids it was normal routine to receive an attack of about 75 bombers soon after breakfast, a second at lunch time, and a third at about 6 in the evening. This regularity was found to be a great convenience.

Sigh, unless I win the lottery I'm stuck with the 1:48 scale version. Like a TV commercial for Greenpark Homes used to say. Yes, we can afford to build it at the same quality and price but it will only be this big. (holds up doll house)

Wow, I thought the 787 was on hold from lack of orders.

Ahh so it's a real windmill, not the Mickey Mouse ones they sell today. They couldn't even fathom the thinking that goes into MTBF philosophy back then. I think the new ones I see all over aerate. Wouldn't take much to run an air pump.

Just how well does the windmill work?

I had no problem with the E button. Just went to WEP power and bound it. The clutch I did play with, it's bound to F7 in my profile above and I use that as TS transmit. If you forget to load the profile it doesn't work, sometimes I jabber away for minutes before I clue in.

I bound almost everything in-game, about the only thing I had to bind was my teamspeak transmit key(the "clutch" button, center of small wheel, left thumb) Another extra:

Send our best wishes to Mom

I did see an overlay is integral with the program which would probably function as a web page display if the server also has the overlay.