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inkjet_lakes posted:F-22 Lightning (it wasn't named Raptor in the UK) #3 was great- turn off weapon limits, ripple off 6x B61, eject into the mushroom clouds & survive I used to do something similar with the F/A-18 sim in the mid-90s (can't remember the name), but you could put it in God mode and sit stationary on the tarmac, drop a B61 and be flipped up into the air by the explosion. The trick was getting your engines started (and going full afterburner as quickly as possible) while pointing in a vaguely horizontal direction. Then zip back and fly through the mushroom cloud. I think I remember doing weird stuff like shooting down a B-52 with the machine gun... It was nicely open-ended for a bored teenager.
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hobbesmaster posted:If you fly over oceans a couple times a year you'll greatly outpace your miles upgrade ability and won't have enough status with the airline for global upgrades (or whatever the gently caress delta calls them, idk how United's plan works). When I fly to Europe it's usually a vacation to see family or friends, and I either upgrade with miles or more often it's a straight redemption because I've got a bunch of 2-for-1 vouchers from BA. The point of having several hundred thousand Avios is so when I do need to fly back to Europe I can do it in Business class. Between credit cards and work travel I tend to finish the year with about as many miles as I started with. Work travel is domestic, and I don't honestly see the point in domestic business class. Also, my Avios are BA so it's a pain in the arse to try and use them to upgrade an AA or US Airways flight anyway. SyHopeful posted:Amen. I am also that guy that always tries to find the release for the aisle armrest. Makes getting in and out so much easier and it's surprising how many people say "I didn't know you could do that". Between attending conferences and giving talks at my day job, traveling to events for Ars Technica for that job, and going racing, I reckon I probably fly once a month on average. Which is still a lot less than a lot of people. drgitlin fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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hobbesmaster posted:One thing to keep in mind about ryanair - their longest flight is under 3 hours. In the US you can get stuck on an ancient 757 with 30" broken seats for a 5 hour transcontinental flight. No, Ryanair and other European LCCs with 30" seats will gladly fly you to the Canary Islands with the exact same planes they use on shorter hauls, and depending on where in Europe you are you might be looking at a 4.5h+ flight. Also, I've had the privilege of flying with a TUI subsidiary from AMS to Dubai in a B738 a number of times. Now you can't argue with that 275EUR return ticket in general, but the refueling stop in Vulgaria or Homania or whatever makes for a 8h+ return flight, since the plane just doesn't have the range when it's loaded up nicely. Not much fun in a Ryanairesque seat with _zero_ amenities (bring your own water). e: they pull the same poo poo with Cabo Verde, Banjul, and Dakar by the way: "European destinations = Intra-EU services" 
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benito posted:I used to do something similar with the F/A-18 sim in the mid-90s (can't remember the name), but you could put it in God mode and sit stationary on the tarmac, drop a B61 and be flipped up into the air by the explosion. The trick was getting your engines started (and going full afterburner as quickly as possible) while pointing in a vaguely horizontal direction. Then zip back and fly through the mushroom cloud. I think I remember doing weird stuff like shooting down a B-52 with the machine gun... It was nicely open-ended for a bored teenager. You didn't get nukes in F-117A, but it came out just after the first Iraq war. The Iraq sim allowed you to blow up Iraqi air defense HQs, Iraqi chemical weapon plants, nuclear power plants, and even "Baath Party HQs", AKA Saddam's palace. If you knew what a good weapons loadout was, you could set most of the evil parts of Baghdad on fire.
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RIP to those marsoc and NG blackhawk guys.  I'd swear the Marines get lawndart'ed by their brother services giving them a lift somewhere more than any of the others.
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SyHopeful posted:Amen. I am also that guy that always tries to find the release for the aisle armrest. Makes getting in and out so much easier and it's surprising how many people say "I didn't know you could do that". The headrests sometimes raise up too, depending on the seat model. Good if you're a 6'7" freak of nature. I work for an airline.
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benito posted:I used to do something similar with the F/A-18 sim in the mid-90s (can't remember the name), but you could put it in God mode and sit stationary on the tarmac, drop a B61 and be flipped up into the air by the explosion. The trick was getting your engines started (and going full afterburner as quickly as possible) while pointing in a vaguely horizontal direction. Then zip back and fly through the mushroom cloud. I think I remember doing weird stuff like shooting down a B-52 with the machine gun... It was nicely open-ended for a bored teenager. I think the Mac F/A-18 simulation had B57s, and the mission you were supposed to use them on was against a North Korean power plant or something. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Graph Sim made a couple versions for windows too.
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Mortabis posted:The average male American is I'm 6'1" and I've left airplanes with bruises on my knees WAIT THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT
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Godholio posted:I'm 6'1" and I've left airplanes with bruises on my knees WAIT THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT Hrm, that puts a new spin on "AWACS sucks"... 
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I'm surprised this didn't happen to me at an early age... http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19800707&id=APhLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xO4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2404,2617907
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McDeth posted:I'm surprised this didn't happen to me at an early age... On one hand a 7 year old firing a zero/zero ejection seat sounds like a sight to see but on the other, much larger hand the canopy glass makes this thought very 
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McDeth posted:I'm surprised this didn't happen to me at an early age... A few of my coworkers used to work on the Intrepid. One day during one of the open cockpits a kid pulled the ejection handle on the A-12. The people who put it there took out the motors on the seats but not the explosive bolts and steam launch system on the canopy. So now there's a canopy of a spy plane in the Hudson and a kid out there with a hell of a story. One of the many, many reasons why they no longer work on the Intrepid
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Spaced God posted:A few of my coworkers used to work on the Intrepid. One day during one of the open cockpits a kid pulled the ejection handle on the A-12. The people who put it there took out the motors on the seats but not the explosive bolts and steam launch system on the canopy. So now there's a canopy of a spy plane in the Hudson and a kid out there with a hell of a story. I think this requires many, many more posts then.
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inkjet_lakes posted:F-22 Lightning (it wasn't named Raptor in the UK) #3 was great- turn off weapon limits, ripple off 6x B61, eject into the mushroom clouds & survive One of the Novalogic sims (or it could have been one of the Delta Force games, I can't remember) had the demo for this, consisting of a single sortie to deploy a B61 to destroy a power plant. I played that demo countless times. Dropping nukes never got old.
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F-22 Lightning III had a campaign where every six missions or so you dropped a B61 on something. Probably every game in that series did, but this was the one I played. First time I tried it, I went for an idiot's loop. True to form, I died. I did get the target though!
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ya'll might have started with classics, but I started with the best http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_F/A-18 Super Hornet for life 
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Come on, I can't be the only one who played: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_(video_game)
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I can't the only one who played: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Skies_%28video_game%29 I used to dominate online on the ole Microsoft Zone back in the early 00s.
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Zochness posted:I can't the only one who played: Oh, I played it.
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xergm posted:One of the Novalogic sims (or it could have been one of the Delta Force games, I can't remember) had the demo for this, consisting of a single sortie to deploy a B61 to destroy a power plant. Bloody hell, I remember that, and I did the same thing.
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Back in the mid 90s one of my favorites was A-10 Cuba! Not because it was a fantastic sim, but the damage modeling was great. I'd come down hard just to watch the A-10 collapse the landing gear and cartwheel down the runway shedding parts as it went. Screamin' Demons over Europe was kind of similar in that way, but I never got into it like A-10.
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MohawkSatan posted:ya'll might have started with classics, but I started with the best 
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When I was a kid I bought a PC XT for $50 at tag sale, later on I bought a bunch of 5.25" floppies for like a dollar and this was one of the games. Don't know how many hours I wasted on that thing but it did teach me the basics of CLI so it was useful for something
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This Antonov at SEA looks so alien, even though I've seen it a couple times already.
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Ah poo poo, what was the one with the pseudo futuristic vtol F-14-ish thing?
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My combat flight sim of choice was iF-16, or I guess F-16 Fighting Falcon in some markets. Unrelated to the Falcon x.0 line, graphics wise it slots in between 3.0 and 4.0 of those games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Rt0WrDY-Q And the  intro, with only the best of 90s synth Top Gun knockoff buttrock.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqoclKzcP6c iF-22 was... also a thing. I had forgotten the almost Mission Impossible briefings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwc1G7AlXnQ
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Tsk tsk on the page number guys. Wait thats not right...  Oh no that went into production as the 720.  Wait thats a DC-9.
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I'm shocked and dismayed that nobody has mentioned A-10 Cuba! yet. Functional cockpit controls, semi-realistic-ish aerodynamics, reasonable damage modeling, and if I recall you could drat well near fly from one side of the country to the other. My favourite thing to do was to either fly slowly over some Cuban AA near Guantanamo bay or drop a bomb while flying real low, then trying to limp the plane back to a successful landing with one engine and half a wing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ByLSydXYQ
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mlmp08 posted:Ah poo poo, what was the one with the pseudo futuristic vtol F-14-ish thing? Thexder? On the Apple IIgs? It was a transforming robot sidescroller.
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A-10 Cuba! posted:It features an A-10 Thunderbolt II on a mission to defeat guerrilla forces at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. As in most war flight simulator games, the main objectives contain defending an airbase, destroying ships, bridges, tanks or buildings and escorting other aircraft.  I feel like Ace Combat games have easier suspension of disbelief.
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Slo-Tek posted:Thexder? On the Apple IIgs? It was a transforming robot sidescroller. It was Raptor: Call of Shadows. Also it doesn't look at all like an F-14. More eagle like.
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Niven posted:I'm shocked and dismayed that nobody has mentioned A-10 Cuba! yet. Functional cockpit controls, semi-realistic-ish aerodynamics, reasonable damage modeling, and if I recall you could drat well near fly from one side of the country to the other. I'm shocked and dismayed you didn't read 9 posts above yours. Fucknag posted:My combat flight sim of choice was iF-16, or I guess F-16 Fighting Falcon in some markets. Unrelated to the Falcon x.0 line, graphics wise it slots in between 3.0 and 4.0 of those games. iF22 was a huge disappointment. It had so much potential but it was such a clunker and could never properly run on any hardware of the era. Speaking of, I should try firing it up one of these days. I think I still have the patches for it somewhere.
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Slo-Tek posted:Thexder? On the Apple IIgs? It was a transforming robot sidescroller. If he's after a vertical shooter like Tyrian he's probably thinking of Raptor: 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i2_bBxQwzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGIAKKsNylU Syrian Lannister fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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slidebite posted:I beta tested iF-16 for Interacitve Magic (I still have my shrunk wrap courtesy copy here somewhere) and while it was "OK" - I could never get into it. I also hated the voices of the wingman, one in particular I was pretty sure was sampled from the same guy that did Redneck Rampage. It was also built on the old Hind engine which was already old when it came out. I still have my iF-16 disc laying around, but can't get it to run on modern OSes past XP, compatibility modes be damned. It's a cheesy as hell game, but in my defense I was 9 when I got it, so... Favorite thing was just to go into one of the campaign maps, turn off limited ammo and just steamroll the entire map arcade-style.iF-22, all I remember is it felt like I was fighting the menu half the time, and the flight interface was just clunky. I especially like the RCS MFD screen that showed all the radars in the area and their effective range, updating in real time (ie the radius would double when you opened your weapons bay doors to fire).
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Why has no one talked about Fighter Ace? It was on Microsoft Zone first and eventually split off. I think it was running up until a couple years ago even. This game had it all: highly accurate flight physics, excellent simulated damage, well done multiplayer arenas and a large selection of great aircraft. Just look at this raw aircraft carnage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD6NObLom2E
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 EF2000 by Digital Image Design. They used to build simulations for the UK ministry of defence and spin off some of the work as games. I still have a boxed copy somewhere, and the keyboard overlay I used to tape on. Despite many hours play, it was bloody hard just to take off. The operative word of that game being 'oh gently caress'. (Boom, crash). Edit: when I was 15 and that came out, if you watched some documentary on UK military planes and there was any computer work in it, DID did that. Hexyflexy fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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