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Top This One For A Speeding Ticket ... Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar. One of the officers was using a handheld radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill. The officers were, suddenly, surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour. The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset ... so, he turned off. Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had, in fact, locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet, which was engaged in a low-flying exercise near the location. Back at the CHP Headquarters, the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander. The reply came back ... in true USMC style: Thank you, for your letter. We can now complete the file on this incident. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and, automatically, sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down. Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully-armed aircraft had also, automatically, locked on to your equipment location. Fortunately, the Marine pilot, flying the Hornet, recognized the situation for what it was and, quickly, responded to the missile system alert status, and was able to override the automated defense system, before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position. The pilot, also, suggests you cover your mouths, when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high- tech. Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar -- it appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster. Thank you for your concern. Semper Fi

I set up everything through the game interface withe the exception of 1 "push to talk" key. If I don't load the profile my PTT key doesn't work. I used the left thumb button in the center of the trim wheel below button "D". Called the clutch button. Lucky you though, new software was just released with graphic interface. There's a thread somewhere here......got it http://www.dangerdogz.com/forums/index.php/topic,7128.0.html

After reading "Chickenhawk" I had a great understanding of helicopter flight. I would recommend it to anyone remotely interested in choppers. http://www.robertcmason.com/Books/chpage.html "About Face" - this is a leader of men. http://www.hackworth.com/usbookorders.html A Rumor of War - disturbing but it certainly left an impression. http://litsum.com/rumor-of-war/ Basic flight? Stick and Rudder simply CAN'T be beat. http://books.google.ca/books?id=CPdDju21zt0C&dq=Stick+and+Rudder&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=0cBEOaFwfZ&sig=sor_Lxx9Mh40sFr7V3Dsri-9IfQ&hl=en&ei=y3DuSYrrIprMMeqb-OoP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

LOL Love it. Dated a girl like that in school, never should have let that one get a way. I think of her every time I hear Kim Mitchels "Diamonds" She takes more whiskey than I wine.

Welcome Sweper, If you want some great background on flight there is a great book. Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche http://books.google.ca/books?id=CPdDju21zt0C&dq=stick+and+rudder+by+wolfgang+langewiesche&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=0cBEO8CAjZ&sig=SayzlJZo9OE52cqNC5yko8EHeoQ&hl=en&ei=qxjuSb-IFcTD-AagzIHGDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPP1,M1 You can read a bit of it there, I'm sure you can find it in your native language if you look around. Feel free to ask anyone for help in anything. As for overheating .... the engines need air to cool. Lots of throttle needs lots of air for cooling, either rad wide open or lots of speed. If you're going fast you may not need much rad open to keep the engine cool. If you're going slow (climbing) at full throttle you need rad wide open and at full throttle even that may not be enough in a hot or humid climate. Don't climb so steeply and you'll go faster = more air = more cooling.

I think I heard that 30% of the weight and size of a modern fighter is for the pilot. Avionics, survivability, redundancy(to get him home) ejection seats and all that. So without the pilot you're looking at an extra 30% ordinance. For decades planes have been limited by the pilot's limits of G force and endurance. How about a 20G fighter? Or more? Unlimited endurance. The Mk1 eyeball is obsolete anyway, radar, long range TV, FLIR are far better. You could have many sensors on the craft and a guy on the ground for each one of them, the equal of 10 pairs of eyes in each craft, watching every angle at once. The implications of the next part may be disturbing for some who have never thought about it ...... and is probably the biggest factor in the drive to develop this. The American public has only ever complained about 1 thing in regards to wars fought. Not billions in cost, not enemy casualties, not civilian deaths, not countries laid to waste. Only 1 thing.......... Americans in body bags. Keep the public sedated with American Idol, McDonalds and cheap drugs and we'll do what we want. As long as they have their SUV's and cheap gas they won't even care. Like the old Bush-Cheney joke: "The Iraq war will kill 3 million Iraqi's and a blonde with big boobs." "why the blonde?" "see....... I told you they wouldn't care about the 3 million Iraqi's". Ike was right about the M-I Complex

10 hours? I think any air cooled engine would seize the first time you reduced throttle from max.

FYI I still have on board sound and a rats nest of splitter connectors in back of mine for my 5.1 speakers, 5.1 headphones, line out to amp, line out to wireless remote speakers. The line out jack probably goes to 4 different functions via 3 splitters. And the headphone jack on your speakers probably has no place to plug in the mic.

One of the P5Q motherboards below that one will take an Nvidia card. That one says crossfire and I think that would be ATI(only?). If you can afford an upgrade on the CPU I would try to. That one is only 800 FSB. E7400 Dual Core Processor LGA775 2.8GHZ 1066FSB would be better but it's another $100 This would be my choice: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Dual Core Processor LGA775 3.0GHZ Wolfdale 1333FSB 6MB

IL2 doesn't need a super hot vid card as much as it needs a balance of CPU speed and decent graphics. I'm an old AMD fan but it's pretty hard to beat Intel's socket 775 bang for buck these days. Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Processor

Sort of off topic but hell I'm so proud of my Canadian Honour Guards brothers(and sisters) that I had to post it. You can read the rest of this at the link above but this part I had to post

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I thought I said not to quote me?

I think all RAM will run at the speed of the slowest stick but don't quote me on that.

Trimming just means you don't have to hold constant pressure on the stick(or rudder), you can fly "hands off" without holding back the stick in a climb. Fly fast without pushing forward on the stick. Rudder trim has a lot to do with throttle setting and speed. You can watch this with the slip/skid gauge(the curved glass tube with the ball inside) Flying straight, the ball is in the middle. If it isn't, you're not flying straight. Another thing about trim. Your elevator trim works just like a cruise control and is the most important aid to precise flight control. The guy bobbing around in formation is the guy who's always fighting the stick because he hasn't trimmed the plane. Elevator trim sets the SPEED your aircraft will fly at. If you get the plane flying level at 350K and adjust the trim so you can let go of the stick it will always want to fly at (or close to) 350K. Cut the throttle and it will go into a dive... and stabilize at around 350K. Add full throttle and it will climb ..... at around 350K. These are fighters and not designed for stable flight, they have huge engines trying to twist the plane in all kinds of directions at once so they don't react to trim as nicely as your passenger planes of today. Very handy when landing. Most beginners just chop the throttle, point the nose at the runway and get there at 450K. Not pretty. Get off the end of the runway at 700m or so, cut the throttle and hold the nose up, slow the plane down to your approach speed. 50K or so above stall with gear and flaps deployed and use elevator trim for hands off flight. Now you adjust your sink rate to the strip with throttle. If it looks like you'll be short DO NOT pull back on the stick, this will make you sink faster and fall even shorter. Just add some throttle. When you almost touch down then you pull back the stick to hold the plane off the runway(flare) and let the speed bleed off. When the plane is ready it will stop flying and drop the last foot onto the runway without the embarrassing crow hopping. I find in the game it's a good idea to add some throttle just before you flare, these planes are heavy and it makes the landing smoother. When you get some experience you'll know how far you have to be off the runway so you can glide in with your engine at idle.

Most guys here are mature, by that I mean slightly older, wiser, craftier. They would never insult you by planning a session where you know you're going to be beaten down. You will have your day of being bloodied when you least expect it. Do you want a hint? "Twenty seconds"

Free to play yes. The hardware upgrades are only about $2000 a year......... OK not quite.... the current version plays fine on my current 2.6 Core Duo.

All of us in CHG are waiting for America's Army 3 to come out. Following some of the updates and Dev notes. This will be amazing. Our threads are in America's Army News here: http://www.canadianhonourguards.ca/messageboard/

Should work. When you open the old editor there's a drop down menu for whatever stick. If the new one uses the .pro file then it should work. My biggest problem was what button I was programming. Finally a 3D view again. Here's a list and yes the X45 has been added with the last release. http://www.saitekforum.com/showthread.php?t=16643

This is where it's very handy to have a second HD with an OS installed. Boot off the second drive and you can still access all the data on the first drive with the corrupted OS. You could pull the HD out of another computer, use that as your primary(boot) and the corrupted one as the slave. If you can get it fired up, copy important data off the corrupt drive (assuming you have any access to it), and then you can reformat the corrupted drive.

GIMP is free and is more capable than this user. I'm sure I saw the layering thing in there. I played with it for a while but the learning curve was overtaken by something else.

Although it's mostly just a showpiece you can't take away the amount of time and effort that must have gone into it. I wouldn't change my short joystick. Long sticks are just leverage for high forces you need to apply to the controls. Once you're fly by wire (F16, IL2...) you're better off with an elbow rest and short side stick, like the F16. Unless you put external stops on the stick you'll probably break it with all that leverage. Must have been tons o fun rewiring it. I got this in the mail, what a cool cockpit this would make in the basement. The Most Economic Car in the World will be on sale next year Better than Electric Car - 258 miles/gallon: IPO 2010 in Shanghai This is a single seated car From conception to production: 3 years and the company is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Will be selling for 4,000 yuan, equivalent to US$600.00 Gas tank capacity = 1.7 gallons

Electronics like clean, steady power. That means get a quality name brand PSU and never let it get to the point where it's supplying it's peak rated power. I calculate power needs and add 50% (or even double if I intend to upgrade later). Try to make sure it's the PSU before you go buy one. I seem to recall getting the same kind of errors when a USB device(rudder pedals) was shorting out the port. Unplug extra stuff and see if you still get the problem

Won't much matter, almost nothing else is.