Moon Rise…
And now, for something completely different…
Moon Rise…
And now, for something completely different…
If I may take a moment to pass on some mournful news: Jeff “Rhino” Babineau, the founder of the 209th Virtual Fighter Squadron, “The Delta Hawks” has died from a long illness.
He may not be familiar to most, but he is a distinct part of Falcon History. Since 1994, Jeff with the help of like-minded friends gathered once a month for LAN parties to test fly a little known flight sim known as Falcon 3.0. Their only desire was a “longing for missions where the wingmen actually had skill”. As I understand the story, this evolved to Spectrum Holobyte bringing them on as full fledge Beta Testers. They grew in size, status and technology being the first to use online communications by means of a Shoutcast server. And thanks to co-founder Dan “Crash” Crenshaw, gave us “How to Live and Die in the Virtual Sky”.
For those who do remember Rhino, you know of the wild accounts in the basement of his Stockton, CA home known to all as The Bunker. Catch a glimpse of what that was like in my previous Youtube post above. https://forum.falcon-bms.com/post/367152
In RL, Jeff attained the rank of Captain and served with distinction as a tank commander in the Army National Guard.
He is noted in the exit screen credits, along with other members of The Delta Hawks gang and memorialized among the photos in our Logbook as graphic M_W_3_18.
I don’t know that he had much family outside of his Falcon family, so a simple request from the remaining Delta Hawks is, during any future Falcon LAN party, please honor Rhino’s memory with a pint.
A few of the remaining Delta Hawks. On the left: Maestro & Tango. On the right Godwerb. And in a Zoom call was Shockwave.
Cheers,
Jolly
A few screen shots I took over the past few months…
This is probably a superfluous post. (I mean really, who among us needs any F-16 based motivation??) But if you need a quick and easy F-16 fix feel free to reference it here.
I’ll start off with this video from the Hill AFB’s museum’s YT Channel. If you ever find yourself in Utah (it’s not really a major vacation spot) try to find your way to the “Mecca” of F-16 here in the U.S.
Until then…enjoy the video.
Cheers,
Jolly
And more of Gilman Louie (circa Falcon AT Days. His interview starts at about 5 min)…
I’ve posted this video elsewhere, but it deserves to be here. The 209th Delta Hawks in all their glory…
<p>@Razzamattaz Possibly another option for you. <br /><br /><a href=“https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/21078/foxvox-free-voice-control-software-for-bms?_=1647705025651” target="blank">https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/21078/foxvox-free-voice-control-software-for-bms?=1647705025651</a><br /></p>
This is a known bug. It…should have been fixed for Update 4.
Not sure whether you’ve flown in the latest Balkans theater, but its creators have done a wonderful job redesigning the airports/airbases…TO Include civil airliners on the ramp!
Other than that, there is no real reason to have airline traffic over a combat zone! As proof, I direct your attention to the empty void currently over Ukraine.
This is a known bug. It…should have been fixed for Update 4.
Unfortunately back in the 1990’s turning the volume down on the internal video clips was as easy as turning the volume knob counter-clockwise on the external speakers plugged into the sound-card’s 3.5mm audio jack. An option that is not necessarily available in today’s “modern age”.
I would suggest just pressing the ESC key to stop the video. It is there mostly for show and not necessarily all that informative.
Just to confirm: IS Falcon actually Falcon 4.0?? And did you install (vs. “Activate”) it??
Unfortunately the F-18 isn’t a high priority at this time. While I agree this model needs some serious TLC, the Devs have indicated that the current priority is to improve upon the overall game experience. To that end, we probably will not see improvements in the F-18 until 4.38.
Yes, there is an on going issue with AI wingman. No one has been able to reproduce these actions on a regular basis, so it’s a bit difficult to fix the issue with a clear causal factor to investigate.
Personally, I have given up on flying anything greater than a 2-ship in any Air-Ground rolls due to this issue.
My suggestion is create a Save Day before entering 3D and if it occurs again, re-fly that mission to see if you can make it happen again.
To reiterate what @Icarus stated, feel free to join a Virtual unit. You will learn more from a human than from your own trial & error. I rejoined the community in 2015 and was amazed at the learning curve from the Falcon “OG”/AF days. And it’s been a steady climb ever since.
A few screen shots I took over the past few months…
@sniperpr1 said in How to exit mission:
If you are not seeing a window pop-up which states [Exit] [Resume] & [Discard] then your Escape key may have gone bad.
@manish-coder Sure about the pitch & roll? Are you looking in the Alt Launcher? I believe you can make the arrow keys or really whatever you wish under the “Keymapping” tab.
@fegeleinn In the ATO, confirm that under the “Command Control Communications Intel…” header in the ATO and look to see if you have any AEW/ABCCC. If you do, look to see what the TOT (On-station time) is. AWACS won’t answer you unless it’s on-station.