nice
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Wow! it’s the Ex-AvioDev, yes?
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¡Si companero!
Now THAT’s nice to hear.
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I am really looking forward to the F1. My favorite Mirage (sorry @miRage).
I know it will be a Spanish variant, but as a stand-in for the early Iraqi F1EQ (there should be very little difference) this will open some cool setups. Iraqi F1 and MiG-21bis vs. Iranian F-14A and F-5E with everyone using rear-aspect heaters.
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I’m still waiting for my Iron Eagle Campaign…
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Do you have your Walkman still?
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and my DIO Cassette
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It’s okay. I understand.
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Actually my favourite mirage is the 2000, but I love all of them.
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I’m tempted to make a joke with the concorde but it would be of poor taste…
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Saw one of those “in the flesh” so to say in the muséé de l’aviation de chasse in Montelimar, france. It’s a right huge motherlover. La gloire de France indeed!
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I am a sucker for a good advert and bought the Persian gulf campaign for Both the A10-Cs after seeing the video.
Looking forward to trying it out but first I have my F16 loaded with 2x2000lb LGBs to drop on Calais, payback for the kicking I got in the early 80s at a pub/cafe in Calais off 7 dockworkers. So I will imagine I am dropping on their house’s entente cordial be damned
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- Sir Humphrey Appleby : [talking about nuclear fallout shelters] Well, you have the weapons, you must have the shelters.
James Hacker : I sometimes wonder why we need the weapons.
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Minister! You’re not a unilateralist?
James Hacker : I sometimes wonder, you know.
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Well then you must resign from the government!
James Hacker : Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I’m not that unilateralist! Anyway, the Americans will always protect us from the Russians, won’t they?
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Russians? Who’s talking about the Russians?
James Hacker : Well, the independent deterrent.
Sir Humphrey Appleby : It’s to protect us against the French!
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I’ll be your wingman for the Calais strike. I hate detest and dispise every single thing about that place within a 30 miles radius. Including Dover.
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Bah my AI wingman crashed on T/O Biggen hill is a bit short 
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Link to the video of the campaign
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In anticipation of the Mosquito a couple of guys in my squadron are preparing a re-enactment of the Amiens prison strike (Operation Jericho). So far we’ve done two test runs with P-47s (which will be stand-ins for the typhoon escorts once we get the Mosquito and fly it for real) to learn WWII navigation at low level. All we have is a stop watch, a map, and a flight plan. F10 map view options are all disabled.
For the first run last week we didn’t account for magnetic variation and were about 10NM too far north-east by the time we reached the French coast and everything went downhill from there. I was also in a Spitfire which simply doesn’t have the range required for this mission, even with a drop tank, and we only found the Prison by climbing to get our bearings (we were in Arras by the time we should have reached Albert and when we didn’t find the road to Amiens we climbed).
I ended up landing in a field just north of Dieppe with 2 gallons of fuel left.
Today we did account for the magnetic variation and the results were much better but still off by too large a margin to be able to hit the prison as planned. We were a couple of minutes too late and only got back on course once we found the road to Amiens near Albert which leads straight to the Prison just east of Amiens.
I feel that having a navigator who is constantly checking course, time and speed is a must to fly this mission precisely and hit your landmarks. Flying and navigating at the same time is just too much for an armchair pilot like myself^^
Even though we did find the road to Amiens today, it was only because we recognised a landmark just before we got to Albert and could correct by extending a leg of the Mission from 30s to about 1:30min. Flying back over the channel we drifted too far west during the crossing but we found back to Biggin Hill eventually.
Our flight lead did record the whole shebang today, here are some snippets:
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