Every once in a while you learn something new ... "I'm a dot!"
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@Wheelchock said in Every once in a while you learn something new ... "I'm a dot!":
Last night I was testing out a TE I made and was flying as number four. Flying as a non-lead in the flight helps to sharpen the wingman skills for me a bit, so I do it probably more times than I fly as lead. Anyone who is familiar with Falcon BMS knows it is deep and wide with regards to learning how to fly and fight in the Viper “in a simulator at least anyway”. This is also true of the code behind the miracle that is Falcon BMS.
Like I said, I was flying as number four. We were an OCA Strike flight slated to hit an enemy airbase inside of North Korea. Since I was doing some testing there wasn’t any real enemy to fight back so it was a pretty uneventful flight for the most part. We performed two passes and dropped our ordinance when I heard #1 (the AI lead) call out “We are heading home, I’m a dot”
I thought to myself, what did he just say? I’ve heard my younger son use the term “dot” before when throwing a ball, but I have never heard it in this simulator before. At least not until yesterday’s flight. It wasn’t until I did some googling to find out if that was some kind of BREVITY I hadn’t heard before. I stumbled upon this page https://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2670829/speaking-air-forcefully-im-a-dot/. How some of these terms are developed over time and used is just amazing to me and what is even more amazing this simple phrase is buried in some code within BMS that someone thought to put in. I searched the Falcon BMS directory for some reference to the term “I’m a dot” and I ran into a file called {FalconBMSInstallDir}/Data/Sounds/F4Talk.csv. Within that file are tons of sayings that I’ve never heard before, or maybe I was just too focused on the action to really listen. Well, I can tell you I am listening now. The more years I spend learning this sim (cuz your just never really done) the more I find things that are just so cool. I am listening now BMS, I’m listening now …
I see that out of curiosity you have been delving into some technical details about our simulator, if you want to be perplexed, enter the campaign engine only in some files that can be opened with the text editor and you will be surprised by how much mathematics is implicit in the entire process of Just make 2 battalions fight in 2D, if you are amazed by FALCON BMS, the best avionics and battlefield simulator that exists in many decades, let you see what’s under the hood.
here is FALCON BMS for a while.
GREETINGS.
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Not BMS… It’s from the original Falcon 4 sounds. With the separation of the AWACS in…4.34… many of these quips aren’t heard anymore since we aren’t listening to all the flights… Every so often one of these jewels shows up… and I smile…
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@Wheelchock
I’ve heard that so many times before, but that was because I was refusing to babysit the AI wingman so I would get him to RTB once we were en-route so I would get something like “2, I’m a dot!” -
Nostslgia for the oldtimer Falcon fliers.
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Occasionally, when starting an attack, I hear my number two saying “Two, going down the chute”… Every time it gives me hot and cold running down my spine - until I notice he was just meaning he is starting his attack run now.
Some wingies have a strange kind of humor. -
He gave the coincidence yesterday flying in the wing server trying to recover the east of the peninsula since the NORCOs are entering and are hitting us hard, I leave with a flight of 4 and the other wing pilots with a flight of 2, when I arrive at the work area I began the attack and I heard on the radio that one of my wingman said (I am become death, the shatterer of worlds) at the moment I recognized that it was a quote from J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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@VIPER-0 that is just awesome. It gives some real depth to immersion for me.
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wait until you hear, “just like beggars canyon, back home”
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@FreqiMANN Actually I’ve heard that one before.
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@Wheelchock …standard USAF talk at the end of the day, pilots and squadron support personnel would use that term as a goodbye announcement. Describes what a fast fighter jet becomes when it leaves your direct area…smaller and smaller dot.