With demographics the way they are over here, i’ll probably be a vegetable before I get to retire…
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Same here @sobek absolutely bloody pointless planning for retirement here. There is not a single chance in hell I’m gonna make it to 70 and then have a life after.
Sounds fatalistic but its realistic. We have agreed to pay off the mortgage and enjoy the hell out of the time left. The kids can sell the house and split the money when the time comes
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We’re lucky in that respect. When we got our mortgage the interest rates were about what they are now (4.75% at the time) and when they dropped to next to nothing we overpaid our mortgage by 50% every month and ended up paying it off 2 years ago when it originally would have run until 2026.
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That’s how I view me and my ”wife” too… We’re not married, as such… Just been engaged to be, for 23 years and a couple since 2 years earlier.
I don’t know why that is, but sometimes I wonder if she’s secretly holding out for somebody better…?
No, not really, but I do wonder how I got to be with this awesome girl. What was it she saw in me, all those years ago? What is it she still see in me?
I do know I got the better deal… 
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You aren’t alone there. My standing joke (that I’m only pretending NOT to be worried about) is when she realises what an utter tit i am and leaves me.
I am very lucky indeed.
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Concerning retirement: being married with a large family, the thought process all along was to work until the fellas came into the office and saw my dead body slumped over my keyboard…
That slowly changed with the wife passing years ago (■■■■ cancer) and the kids growing up and leaving to find their own futures. Last year I got covid, and it kicked my ass for a while. Short time later my good friend just up and died. And I’m thinking my warranty has probably expired too so why not. Worked for 46yrs so decided I wanted some good years (healthy) to have some fun.
Although I have found plenty to keep me busy, I really miss software development (it truly is a mental disorder) and will prolly start contracting out soon. Weird huh?
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God Bless Brother 
And I am very sorry for your loss It’s not weird at all….We all still need a reason to get out of bed in the morning…maybe you could Inquire about working for ED? Or one of The third party developers?….speaking of which….what ever happened to The second party?? 
Gratuitous Phantom video to stay on topic 
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keep up the positive spirit piper. and as Phantom88 mentioned, the sim devs are always looking for some good coders.
plus some on topic RED FLAG oc
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You, the customer, is the second party 
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But I’m No Fun at Parties
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Tease of F-4E Radar
https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/142qrhn/first_tease_of_the_radar_for_the_f4e_module_map/
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The Strike Eagle is out. And now the countdown begins to the next E model.
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I keep forgetting to watch all the Beagle videos they’ve put out!
Well I’m going out of town tonight until Saturday, so I will watch as much as I can while I’m away.
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From Facebook
“ Developing DCS: F-4E has been a uniquely challenging experience, as we’ve undertaken a complete rewrite of our entire technology base in order to increase fidelity, realism and stability. Approaching every facet of the F-4E through the lens of physical modelling - beyond anything we’ve done before - has been a core tenet of the first of our next generation aircraft, and while this has meant a more difficult and longer development journey than expected, we’re super excited about what this means for the future of Heatblur and our aircraft. One key element that has been directly relevant to the F-14 too, has been the RWR (or RHAW).
In 2019, we broke new ground through our simulation of the ALR-67 RWR in the F-14. For the early -A and its ALR-45, we’ve wanted to go a step further, and developing the ALR-46 for the F-4E was a great opportunity to leverage our latest technologies in a way applicable to both aircraft. After a few tough iterations, which have made delivering the early -A take longer than expected, we’re excited to finally be completing the major elements of our new, next generation RWR model!
Our work has primarily revolved around creating a new signal environment model, which will far more accurately inform the RWR and other sensor devices about various emitters in the world. This model enhances the existing radar warning receiver tools of DCS by performing a simulation of each of the radars in the game to produce their signal at the point of the aircraft. Each radar has information defined in a schema, some examples being:
• Antenna Gain
• Antenna Speed
• Carrier Frequency
• Pulse Repetition Frequency (Search and Track)
• Peak Power
• Search Pattern (if it has one)
• Tracking Pattern (whether the radar is conscanning, mono-pulse, or sweeping like the fan song for example).
• Beam width and height.
This simulation happens only when the radar warning receiver is being irradiated by a given radar and requires no additional information from DCS to be synchronized between modules that use this system.
Further simulation includes everything from antennas and their placement, bands and associated processing (including e.g. slow signal processing in dense signal environments) and track correlation for multiple pings and associated emitter identification tables.
And perhaps best of all, together with our partners at Eagle Dynamics, we hope to contribute our simulation of the signal environment and associated schema to become a core part of DCS, making it available to both first and third party developers for use and extension. A rising tide raises all boats, and we’re excited to contribute to the core platform in a way that will be beneficial for the EM environment and RWRs’ across the entire simulation.
Finally; with this new model in place, we can begin finalizing features for the ALR-45 in the early -A, in particular the very accurate and important sound synthesis, and this is also one of the final building blocks to fall into place for completion of our upcoming DCS: F-4E!
Stay tuned for far more in depth walkthroughs of this and other systems we’ve built as part of our Phantom journey, we can’t wait to show you what we’ve built and to finally launch the early and IRIAF -A! 
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Oh man, I’d love a -4G, but the back seat alone could be its own module.
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Listening to Starbaby talk about it makes my mouth water…
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Speaking Of……
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That guy is a FANTASTIC narrator.
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