Thoughts on a back seater.
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@Red:
There’s another one great memory
Simware FCX lan event (probably around 1997 something), 12 pilots in two team of 6 flying Flanker 1.5
We had a Mirage 2000 RIO with us (if I recall right) and we were capping an airbase which was under attack from the other LAN party shooting cruise missiles (6 guys, 2 cruise each)
We had 12 vampires inbound and the M2000 RIO which was not flying directed us 6 in sequence on each of the 12 vampire incoming
Not a single one made it through.Then we reversed role but the opposing party did not have a real life Mirage 2000 RIO to direct the intercept: A few of our vampires were intercepted, but the base was destroyed
This was my best EVER (including flying 20 years Falcon 4.0) Lan mission.
And given here just to illustrate the other side of the coin (and the horizon broadening thing
In the field of null modem or LAN memories, it certainly sounds more romantic than my F15 III story. I need to tell anyway
Panama theater, 2-ship strike. My father in hot on the canal, I’m monitoring the situation for him.
- Bandits above the canal, I’m locking him!
- I just got locked! I still have my bombs!
- Keep going, I launched a missile on him.
- I got a launch!
- Break!! Wait I got him!
- He got me!
Needless to explain. That was hilarious.
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@Red:
About the awacs call and broadening horizon
I was lucky enough to participate in a real life exercise in Holland, with hard core simmers taken as a 4 ship fighting together in a real KLU F-16 simulation room. With 3 other simmers. Seeing how’d cope
Within the crew in there, there was an Awacs guy who guided us like in real life, He made constant awacs call
At the end of the day, I wanted to shoot that awacs down, He was constantly talking giving Bullseye posit or BRAA call.So yes I’d think you would indeed soon turn it off and it’s not a question if the game engine can handle it, but rather if you can handle it enough to be still able to correctly communicate as a team through that
As for a human back or front seather: Anyday, I’m game? That would be a great feature. I also flew Strike eagle 3 and made whole missions from the bacseat managing these 4 MPDs. Great sim that was.
literally, why we need a space fleet to protect ZUMA and the anti normal polar datalink relays the NRO has lobbed up that will help the integrated warfighter picture. DARPA wants man portable CAS by 2050, that means the squadron can build it and ramp it up until the super swarm arrives controlled by a four flight of panthers.