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+/- how much Magnitude 3 attacks this, and that's completely variable and they do have other things to do, the next trick is to create the .lua to make up for all the missing controls. Might get started on that this weekend, but I'm not the foremost expert; that would be @LeCuvier

I have never been an ensign, but I successfully took off, flew around a while, then landed without scratching the paint or being eliminated. FM is obviously too tame Anything else I noticed I chalk up to EA. Love my Corsair!

If you haven't made it there yet the Royal Military Museum in Brussels is a must! You guys are a few years late, but it's going to be cool to 'fly' out of the same airfields my dad used during the war. I wasn't there, so no commentary on accuracy. Maybe that's why you're late

Are you suggesting we should stop cluster bombing the airshow crowd and render everything but the -97 and -105 completely pointless?

Blue water container ships on the Rhine...if my CVN isn't going to squeeze under those bridges at high water they can't go there either! Kidding aside, I have to agree with focusing on airfields. I don't know enough to know what I don't know or even be particularly confident about things I do so I'll leave most of that to the people who are much smarter than me. What I do is restrict operations to the south even if I'm drawn to water because the airfields seem to be missing. Plenty of civil airfields I use in a pinch, though, and East Germany has been kind enough to let me fly NATO planes from their bases now and then. Very reasonable of them.

Took 632 years to build Cologne Cathedral. Until you stand next to it it's hard to imagine how awesome it is, so I'm very glad someone stuck with it and got it finished. Some things aren't about instant gratification.

I'm forced to fly SP only and have the A-4, massun people, some Navy/NATO ground objects for atmosphere at bases, then TacView for figuring out just how bad I am. I avoid mods to the extent possible. If DCS has better object libraries I'd go down to TacView as my only mod.

I was surprised at how stiff those profiles are. Torque at the joints is the only enemy and used 1010 at the end of the side arms (and gusseted connectors) to manage that; not much load, but they keep the whole assembly rigid. The robotics frame in building 9 at JSC in Houston is pretty much room sized with an overhead crane and still made out of mostly 2040 IIRC. Extrusions are a brilliant solution to simpit frames, but expensive. The bits and pieces and connectors and plates are worse than the profiles!

For what it's worth I used 1020 for the frame on my simpit. A quick look at the specs tells me I can park both cars on the side panel supports and get less than 2mm of flex at the center because I end-posed it. Based on what I see if you're using 2020 you could park your house on that. 2060 would be enough to park an aircraft carrier. Maybe two. It's going to be a lot of money for overkill, but if that works for you then awesome! <edit> For fun I did a 350mm span fixed both ends with an evenly distributed load on 2040 horizontally. Okay, maybe a carrier was an exaggeration, but with a 100,000kg load (more than a typical house) there was about 3.5mm of deflection in the middle of the span. Two 1800kg cars parked together deflects it just over 0.15mm. The same span in 1020 will have 1.65mm of deflection under a 3,600kg load. All of this was because I got the idea from monster mounts (or whatever that is) and thought they were using far, far, (far) too much aluminum for the job, then I did the math. Pretty sure their choice was all about marketing, not engineering.

I ran into one accidentally. Heliport, tank range, urban assault ranges, pretty large training base. Park a helo at 'H FRG 51' and look around north-ish.

The deck crew used to have a little motivation, even without Vulcan. Makes me feel a lot less bad about throttling up on turns, though. Blow a few over the side and maybe the rest of them will start to move a little quicker.

They permit Navy squadrons, should have Navy ranks. Got a medal of honor for aborting a mission because I realized I hadn't set the altitude on a waypoint. Wish they generated a citation. "For showing intrepidity (they love that word) above and beyond the call of duty by being too lazy to change the WP data on the fly at great personal risk..." The purple heart was for doing touch and goes. Not an enemy unit on the map, unless you count the plane captain who probably hurled sharp vituperation at me for the damage being done to her aircraft. When I did the cold re-install all my logbook data was lost, so my new pylote got all those medals again. It's oddly disturbing to me, honestly. Don't mind the rank, they should let us flag out the medals, though. None of it really means anything anyway.

Well...until then I have a power shell script to fix all the fixes that get unfixed with updates. This was added to the list. I know there's a mod for that, but last time I looked my way was easier, at least for me

Now if we could just get that changed on the default file! Thanks for the fix!