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i haven't been up in about 5 years. renting a cessna is just getting too expensive.

also.....this is the writeup for the FSO that starts next friday....... http://www.ahevents.org/fso-setups/37-pacific-theatre/966-the-battle-of-the-coral-sea.html it kind of gives you an idea of how we set them up........

i think FSX has some civil air patrol type missions in it, and skins for our aircraft. i almost got a yoke, and a multi- throttle quadrant for extra realism since i normally fly a p-38, but decided to go with the stick, and single throttle. there's really not enough advantage in the game to differential throttling. yessir, we have voice comms, and text. voice comms can be programmed onto your buttons. i have "general" mapped to a button on my throttle, and "squad only" mapped to the "T" on the keyboard. additionally, we(the 325th) use teamspeak, which i have mapped to my keyboard too.

yes, they are, and i for one am VERY thankful for people like them.

i thought that the NJFID was for purchasing only?

the revoking of FID cards........isn't that on the order of what they did in scotland? revoke, then make people turn their stuff in?

oopsie.....you're almost programmed.

dam, i am soo sorry dude. i truly hope that this line of conversation is not bringing up bad memories for you, as that was not its intention.

13 outta 13. they almost threw me with the "are you male or female" and age groups. i'm an auto tech.

they won't be doing just camden, although that's the original reason we were told for this force. i got a letter that we in lindenwold may end up using them too. talking to a customer that's a prosecutor(and thinks this is a bad idea) he says there's nothing we can do about it.

these were from a milk run. i was RTB when a lone 109 found me..... these are actually a couple of my favorite shots.....no pun intended......

almooooossssstttttt...... BINGO!! that entire fight lasted less than three minutes.......and even though i was sitting here in my nice safe home.....my palms were sweaty, and my heart was pounding.

from an encounter i had....me in p-38g vs me-109......... spotted the bogie, jettisoned my tanks..... on merge, i had "E" over him, so i went up....you can see him just off my left wing going away.... this guy was good....it was all i could do to keep him basically in front of my 3-9 line.... finally some hits scored.... on the following pic, for reference, if the wingspan of a 109 fills the outer ring....he's 200 yards out. he's a lot closer here.....

i hadn't known that about o'hare....... in the fso i talked about.....we've got friendly fire on. meaning that if you accidentally shoot a friendly, he's taking damage. of course it's still just a game, and the real guys it was life/death to them....... but in the game, a fight gets hectic VERY quick. kind of like........fly an hour, bored outta your skull, monitoring instruments, maps, etc.....then suddenly all hell breaks loose...... we did a "battle of britain" setup a few months back. i was in a spitfire mk1. i dove in on a ju88, and was walking my fire in from his right engine to the fuselage, to take out his rear guns, when my squad co flew right through my sights. i dinged him up, but didn't take him down. one of the coolest things, is in one specific arena, i think i mentioned.....axis vs allies. in there, there are no icons for the aircraft. those that mentioned that they've flown know what i mean......in that arena, you need to use your gunsight to know the distance of the enemy, and you really don't know what you're about to merge with till he's just about past ya, so that makes it a bit harder yet. i gotta find some of the screenshots to put up.........

that'sd hot dude. not many people do novas anymore.

i never got an invoice..........ah well.........

yes, and THAT is what makes these men and women more amazing to me. while we get to get a very slight taste in our cartoon world, they did it for real, and when i've talked with them, not a one of them thinks they did anything special. like sitting in an aluminmum cigar tube at 22,000 feet, dealing with temps below -30, then trying to defend themselves against crazy men in fighters doing 200mph and up as they attack, then flying home in the same conditions for 8+ hours, and all of this with a mere 2 minutes of total firing time per gun........to me that is VERY special.

yep. and the second highest scoring ace, tommy mcguire has mcguire afb named after him. marge is just inside the security gate, although we all know there's no way it;s the original one.......

if i'm not mistaken(and i may be), the 38 is the only allied pursuit aircraft to serve in virtually every theater of operations, and from start of war to finish. she also produced more allied aces than any other allied pursuit aircraft. she was also capable of going into germany with the bombers long before the pony came on-scene. i still don't know exactly why they weren't used in that capacity though.......

know what's the most amazing thing about those guys? not as single one of them thinks that they did anything special. yet they are the reason we are all free.

thank ya sir. i'm gonna shout out to the state pd tomorrow.....then if i get the same as you, i'll call/email mr van drew, and also rob andrews, as he's kind of local to me. i'm going on 4.5 months, and lindenwold pd has been nothnig short of disgustingly nice to me every time i've called....but it's still to the point of being ridiculous.

this number is state pd? and that's the guys email? if we're waiting for a fairly long time(going on 4.5 months here) we should email him? along with our senators?

yep. winter over europe, at 22,000 those poor guys flew in -40 and colder.....i can't even imagine that.

i think the last time i got out there was about 5 years ago. their black widow was almost half way done. i think they'd just hung the cannons under the belly...........

dude, that's awesome!! don't worry 'bout derailing. it's good conversation. can you pass on a thanks from a middle aged geek?