Fjordmonkey

I know it for a fact that at least the Norwegian F16's has a 9g limit in a clean configuration (no external stores except the AMA on the wingtip and maybe a captive Sidewinder on the other). As soon as you start hanging weapons and fueltanks onto the wings, the limit goes down. Unless I'm wrong, the limit is (once again on the Norwegian jets) 5.5g with external 360gallon wingtanks, and 7.5 with a centerline tank on. Those were the numbers we were told when I asked about it. The reason I asked was because we had to spend some 5 hours removing access-panels and checking bulkheads on an aircraft that was Over-G'ed. (damn that flyboy breaking our aircraft....*grumble*)

To be honest, the opening made me look for the duct-tape to make sure my jaw stayed in place. Damn good stuff :D

Recently bought FC as well, and haven't been disappointed. I only curse my stupidity for not getting it sooner!

I know I'll be following this thread with Argus-eyes. I do get a fair amount of stutter when flying (mostly like to keep it at tree-top level and damn fast), so this is highly interesting.

Upside-down refueling? Hmm..that's a first :D Nice pics, though

Mercy comes in many forms. Sometimes in some premium, high-quality 30mm cannon-shells, other times as a nice, warm missile in the rear :P But too bad you didn't have any left :P Nice pic, though =)

Check out the full story =) http://www.gallagher.com/ejection_seat/ Quite an interesting read, yeah.

Also note that it's a penetrating hit, not a surface-blast. if it was a surface-blast, I severely doubt that the camera would have survived, nor would the crater have been THAT large from an On-ground detonation. Even with a Mk-84.

Personally, I find that Lock On fills my quota of Jet-fun. I've tried F4AF, and even though I've been a flightsim-fanatic since the good old days of F/A-18 and Knights of the Sky for the old Amiga-system, I still find that Lock On gives me what I need, which is quick, thrilling action without having to study a 450-page TCTO/flight-manual in order to take a jet out for a spin or two. If you want THAT kind of realism, I don't think there's anything else out there than F4AF. True, F4AF has unrivaled realism when it comes to procedures system-wise for the F16, and that their dynamic campaign and comms-system is damn nice. But I still find that I prefer Lock On, just as much for the fact that it looks nicer, but also because I can fly what I believe to be a fairly accurate simulation for russian military hardware. Given, though, I have never flown in either an F16 (flown an F16 MLU-sim as part of my discharge-bonus from the airforce, though, and I find F4AF to be lacking in comparison, especially in terms of how the aircraft handles) or anything russian-built, but as others have said, Lock On just feels better. In my years as a gamer, I've often seen a game with superior graphics suck majorly in just about every other thing. And I've seen games with simple graphics be addictive as hell, challenging and just insane amounts of fun. I think that in the flightsim-world, graphics do count for a bit, but it's by no means everything there is to a game. Not to me, at least. It all boils down to personal preference, really. What people see as fun is what they will play and defend. It's true as one said here that both F4 and Lock On-fans can be fairly fanatic about their sims. But hey, we're all Fuel-heads :D

Best damn balancing-act I've seen for a long long while :D

I haven't flown Lock On with Stereoscopic glasses, but I've done so in IL2. The general impression is that it's hilariously fun, but there is a few rather distinct drawbacks with stereoscopic glasses in games. For once, you will need to adjust your eyes to a new focus-point because of the 3D Depth-perception. Normally your focus when watching the screen will be directly, or just beyond, the glass plate of the screen. This focus-point will introduce something of a double-vision when you are using 3D glasses, as your focuspoint is much closer to the back of the screen case, or even the wall behind it, than to the glass plate. Takes time and practice to get used to, and you will most likely suffer from a blinding headache while learning how to correct your focal-point. Aimpoints etc will suffer for this when accuracy is needed, like in AA Gunnery (especially in IL2, no idea on how it will be in Lock On). There's also a set of criteria for your monitor with some, if not most, stereoscopic glasses. Your monitor and vidcard must be able to run at 100hz or above for the glasses to work properly. This might have changed with newer glasses, but older ones will very often have this as a needed thing. There is also a limit in resolution for many glasses, which sucks. Not fun having to step down to 800x600 just to get the effect when you're used to running in 1024x768 or higher. Lastly: ATI offers NO native driver-support for stereoscopic 3d vision with their graphics-cards as far as I know. I do believe that eDimentional has come up with a set of glasses that will let you enjoy SS3D vision on any card, but I'm not sure about this. nVidia does have stereoscopic drivers, but last time I tried them, they were quirky and rather hard to get to function properly. When SS3D works, though, and you've gotten used to the new focuspoints and such, it's insanely fun. Since you now have a better perception of depth, altitude and to some extent speed will become more notable. Doing a vertical dive from 12000 feet in an ME109 tought me a few things about Vertigo when I had the glasses on, so to speak. So much that I forgot to pull up, and made me make another badger-den in a russian hillside. Speed at low altitudes also become more noticeable. Thundering along at high speed in a valley suddenly became an adrenaline-filled thing.

Wooot! Way to go, ED!!! Can't wait to try it out :D

This one's definately going in and will be tested extensively when I get home from work =) Great work as always, D =)

I'm with Tracker on this one. I'd pay for the 1.2 update either way. Getting a new flyable, and especially the Hokum-A (which I just love), is just a bonus. And besides, I can think of some pretty wicked scenarios in multiplayer for this.

Here! Have some Whine! and don't forget the cheese.

Warm vodka? isn't that some sort of sacrelidge? :P I thought Vodka should be enjoyed while chilled :P

I should have a link to a site with an extensive archive to quite a lot of aircraft (especially russian ones) in black/white drawings with details (nice to use in 3DSMax when modeling). I'll dig it out and post it as soon as I get home from work (give or take two hours)

Good! have a Beer, a few shots of Vodka, and everything will be all right in the end. You'll soon be too drunk to be confused. Or is that too confused to be drunk...maybe you'll be locked in drunken confusion, or confused drunkenness. uhm.....yeah.

Damnit, Cali! Quit confusing me! But hey, let's all grab a few beers, a few bottles of ice-cold vodka, a few shot-glasses, and then toss down a few while we just chill out and wait!

I know that, GG, but it seems like other people doesn't. And as I've said before: I'd rather have things RIGHT than right now.

And you don't want it pushed back another week to SOLVE those problems so that you can actually GET the product?

What I ment was: Do people want a buggy product? Or are people interested in a product that might have a few less bugs because it got pushed back another week? I know what I want. Do you?

So you want a rerun of what happened when Ubi launched Lock On 1.0? Good to know.

Good one, Stormin :D

You haven't missed much :P