To: (Falcon3 Mailing list) Bcc: falcon3-outgoing Subject: Falcon3 Digest V1 : I22 Falcon3 Digest Volume 1 : Issue 22 Fri Oct 23 17:49:37 PDT 1992 Send submissions to "falcon3@onion.rain.com" Send add/drop requests to "listserv@onion.rain.com" For an index of back articles that are available, send a message containing the line "send index from falcon3" to "netlib@onion.rain.com" Also, the archives are available via ftp from onion.rain.com [147.28.0.161] Today's Topics: rumors John Long Subject: rumors int766m@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (S Malnovic) was overheard saying: >I just heard from a salesman that there is a new version of falcon3 >out. He wasn't too specific about it, other than saying it had >something to do with A10 tank killer (or something like that) A salesman... The salesman was saying: "I don't have Falcon3.0 in stock at the moment, but we have an order in..." There is a fsim called "A-10 Tank Killer", but if you like falcon, you won't like it. It is not by SH. The flight model is a crock. The HUD is a joke. You get to look at a pretty picture of the instrument panel, but none of the instruments work (xcept the HUD, whch barely). Having non-working instruments on the screen is so Mickey Mouse it is downright insulting. Too bad, the A-10 is a neat plane... SH supposedly has plans for both an A-10 and F-18 sim, but you'll have to wait. Rumor also it that their F-18 will be out sooner. Trouble is, having Falcon kind of spoils you. >Any one know anything more, or want to comment. I suppose if some >one from SH is reading this news service, then they would be most >qualified to answer Yes, but rumors are free publicity. -longjohn ------------------------------- From: adams_g@jdola.lanl.gov Subject: Re: Falcon3 Digest V1 : I21 > There was a mission on the last day that I consider to be the >one responsible for my victory. What a mission! The assignment >was to bomb the very well-protected airfield on the island in the >N-NE. It was surrounded by SA-2's and everything else. I had >the standard two flights of two planes each targeting the hangar >and runway respectively, a flight of two for SEAD, and a flight >of two as fighter escort. I would have liked more of everything, >but you know that eight-plane limit... . Well, we had no >trouble except for SAMs. The mission would have been a washout >if not for the aggressiveness of one of the wild weasel pilots. >I had tried to weave through the two SA-2's that were in the way, >but one of them had us in range and was giving us major trouble. >SEAD-1 got shot down without firing a shot, but then I saw his >wingman shoot 2 HARMS and 2 Shrikes in the space of about 5 >seconds and that SAM was *toast*!. Mission success... Same here, almost (see below). On the last day I had the same mission. Maybe the Russians got real *scaredy-cat* (re: Cheers :) and decided that the Kuriles weren't worth the ire of Gavin "Boo Boo" Adams coming after them :). For my mission, we were to escort 3 FSX's making a bomb run. Flight #1 (my flight) was 3 aircraft, basically configured for escort and CAP. I say basically, because my load out was 2 ARAAMs, 2 HARMs, 2 SHRIKEs, and and ECM pod of course. Flights 2 & 3 were configured as pure SEAD flights of two aircraft each, and flight four was a SEAD flight of 1 aircraft. The waypoints were set up so we all flew together until we were ~40 miles south of the southern peninsula of the enemy island that was going to be bombed. At that point, flight #4 was to fly ahead and take out the long track radar and SA-2 launchers. He would then turn around and fly home. Flights 2 & 3 did the same; they would fly with us until we got close to radar, fly ahead, SEAD away, and fly home. Everything went fine until the 1st waypoint. :) Flight 4 didn't see anything (even though the long track was emitting enough radar to cook a turkey), turned around and flew home. I went AB5 and locked on with my HARMs. At ~25 miles out I launched the first HARM. Tracking it in missile view, i got within 1 or 2 mile before it ran out of fuel and blew up short of the target. My next HARm took out the radar and 2 SA-2 launchers. We flew into the island, picked up lots of intercept flights which my wingmen and I prosecuted, while the other 2 flights had SAMs and zilka's for dinner. After it was said and done, 1 escorted aircraft was able to bomb the airfield, and 1 of my wingmen returned home. Overall that was my second most memorable flight (after a 'lone wolf' attack on the Iraqi biological plant). >>Day 3: Hmmm. Why did they move me from my original base to the >>one in the corner? After 2 "Attack the Fleet" missions, the >>Russians are now sans an aircraft carrier and a destroyer or >>two. > > Can you give any advice on how to determine which blip is the >carrier? Also, have you ever seen Harpoons explode harmlessly on >a ship? Is this supposed to be a tough ship, or modeling of >close-in gun defense systems? I pretty sure it is the brightest intesity blip on the SEA radar. I also found out about the F1 and F2 function keys. Once you lock onto what you _think_ is the brightest blip, use the F1 (F2?) to zoom in. You can do this a couple of times. At this point, the 't' key will only select targets within this area. As for harmlessly exploding Harpoons, what do you mean? I've had them sink a ship (back end drop under water and the bow sticks up at an angle), do some damage (some superstructure looked exploded and 2-3 bright yellow 'shapes' appear). Of course, I've also had them miss completely (many, many times). They probably follow the same rules as large land structures -- x amount of ordinance is required to destroy them. --- Gavin Visualize Whirled Peas! ------------------------------- From: EADIE5295@iscsvax.uni.edu Subject: Hello??.vcr I uploaded two more vcr files. The first one is Hello76.vcr, in which I find an IL-76 sitting on the ground in instant action mode. I fly over him at low altitude, doing an aileron roll. The lowest point I reach is 24 feet (I believe). In the second file, hello25.vcr, I find an Su-25 sitting on the ground. This time I gradually descend from 700 to 5 feet! I hold my altitude, fly right over him, then climb out. That whole time my altitude was 5 feet. --Trent [Jeff's note: All files are moved from the incoming directory in to the proper location. Pictures are currently in the "misc" directory, but if there are more of them, I'll create a pictures directory. It's interesting to note, that nobody has uploaded any missions... (hint!) -Jeff] ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 1 : Issue 22 ]]