The ghost of Chester, asking why I left him behind in the Turkey to go to the single seat Bug:
(Well, duh! No F/A-18F or F/A-18D, so I couldn’t bring him along!)
A-10 that caught a AIM-120 from an Eagle driver. Thanks, guys!
(Well, duh! No F/A-18F or F/A-18D, so I couldn’t bring him along!)
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Those are obviously not DCS 2.5 screen shots - it was supposed to be in Where you are in photos 2019…
It is now.
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Can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought to myself how awesome it would be to have a F/A-18D with Jester in the back. I’d be ok with a F/A-18F and a fiction USMC skin to though…
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Seems like the whole multiseat thing is persona non grata for a lot of modules. I’d settle for an external mod of the F/A-18C alone.
A damaged @Franze expends some ordinance before heading back for repairs.
The Viper offers a much cleaner view for good old fashioned aerial reconnaissance.
After I took forever to finish topping up, @Franze rolled in and got the job done in one connect.
Working this time from the home office.
In war the light that starts a new day, cresting the horizon is often not that of dawn.
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Trying some lower-tech stuff with @Franze on our new training range mission that he put together. Multiple ranges with various columns of armor and vehicles of different strengths to practice on. The catch is the F10 view is limited to your own aircraft only, so you will have to know how to navigate and visually search for targets to find anything! (Dot labels available too.)
After a run with the Spitfire, I took a Mustang which was much easier to taxi and takeoff with. Franze was using the KA50, and swapped to a Sabre around the time that I parked my 'Stang.
The idea for the range is to have a place to practice taking the basics to a higher level.
For example, you can easily try a number of strafing runs, rocket passes, various cluster bomb employment settings, or iron bomb ripple patterns without being shot at, or running out of targets. Of course, you can work on the higher tech weapons too, but a column of trucks is more fun to engage with six browning 50 cals or a bunch of Hydra rockets than it is with a couple JDAMs from angels thirty.
Cluster bombs are very much a finicky tool to employ. The CBU87/103, 97/105 and 99/Rockeye all have tune-able parameters and learning to dial those in before getting into combat seems like a good idea. Currently, the dispersion of sub-munitions is partly tied to the pitch angle of the canister on burst. So a canister that is dropped higher will be more nose-down at burst time and have a drastically smaller spread.
Low-altitude, low angle CCIP or level CCRP passes work best with the 99/Rockeye series with the fixed height fuse we get in the Hornet, which is set at 1500 feet. The Harrier gets different fuses on these weapons, with a PRImary 1.2 seconds-after-release canister burst or OPTional 4.0 seconds-after-release, leaving you to estimate time of fall which will be the main factor - this fuse is not high altitude friendly. The 87/103 and 97/105 of the Hog have the canister pitch, ejector rpm and canister burst altitude all playing into the results - which can be as small as a MK84 crater to looking baseball diamond sized.
Look for the aptly titled No Effort mission running on Hollo Pointe North!
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Hi everyone. My name is Andy, and I’m addicted to how good the Tomcat looks!
Not sure whats going on between Jester and this Hornet pilot, but Jester was mean mugging him the entire time we where sitting there.
P.S. Sorry for the dump!
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Don’t be daft! It’s an amazing collection of screens! 
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Viggen fam flight in jet #57…hope I don’t break the servers with my pics. Too many good ones to sort through.
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Impossibly good! 
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Made.
My.
Day.
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If I may- what weather settings did you use for that?
I’d like a Huey flight in there!
I used one of my Dynamic Weather profiles: this one. Then changed the ToD to 15DEC, mission start 0930 for the sunrise. Trying to recall my fog settings off-hand, but visibility was I think 6000ft and density somewhere between 200-500ft.
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Thanks mate!
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Welcome to the club! We have Tomcats and cookies (in the shape of Tomcats, of course 
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He’s feeling sorry for the poor sod who has to fly the puny little Hornet. “Hey, get a load of this looser!”
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[Narrator]
The American pilots formed the famous ”Eagle Squadron” during the Battle of Britain. They also formed the lesser known ”Falcon Squadron” in the later part of the war.
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1944 (Colorized)
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